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Daily Mail
2 hours ago
- General
- Daily Mail
AFL WAG Brit Selwood shares tribute to husband Joel's brother Adam - after he tragically died in the months following the death of his twin Troy
Brit Selwood has shared a heartbreaking tribute to her brother-in-law Adam following his recent death in Perth aged 41. The AFL community was left devastated when the former Eagles premiership player died on May 17, just months after the tragic death of his identical twin brother Troy. Now, brother Joel's wife Brit has shared a black and white family photo of the footy star alongside the caption: 'Rest easy Adam.' Brit included a broken red love heart, white love heart, and dove emoji in the message. The picture saw Brit and her husband Joel posing with his brother Adam and the footy player's wife Fiona, with whom he shared children Lenny and Billie. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. The family appeared to be enjoying a day out watching the footy at an AFL stadium. Police have confirmed Adam's death, which came just three months after his twin Troy passed away, is not being treated as suspicious. Joel, a Geelong premiership captain, took to Instagram following the tragedy to publish a series of pictures of himself and Adam and his other brother Scott. He captioned the post: 'Rest up, love you brother. Look after each other.' On Monday, the footy great celebrated his 37th birthday—and his wife marked the occasion with a simple post on social media. Brit posted a black and white photo of the family alongside the caption: 'Happy Birthday @joelselwood14. We love you.' Adam passed away a week before he was supposed to take part in HBF Run for a Reason, raising funds for mental health charity zero2hero in memory of Troy. On Sunday, a group of his closest friends decided to finish what he had started and complete the race. The group running included former players Drew Banfield and Quinten Lynch, as well as current stars Brad Dalziell, Travis Gasper, Sharrod Wellingham and Matt Rosa. The Eagles star had raised more than $21,000 at the time of his death, but that number has risen to more than $76,000 on Sunday. Adam made 187 appearances for the Eagles during his career and played a key role in helping the club win the 2006 AFL Grand Final. He joined the footy club in the 2002 National Draft and would enjoy a 10-year career in footy's top-flight competition. Adam mostly played as a tagger before hanging up his boots in 2013. After his retirement in 2013, Adam would continue to work in football taking up a role as a development coach with the West Coast. He'd later become the inaugural head of the Eagles women's footy side and was pivotal in bringing key AFLW players to the club. For confidential 24-hour support in Australia, call Lifeline on 13 11 14 Lifeline Crisis Text Service : 0477 13 11 14 Beyond Blue : 1300 224 636 13 Yarn (an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander crisis support line): 13 92 76
Daily Mail
2 hours ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
British dentist's cosmetics tycoon wife faces his patients' fury after he killed himself in Australia with £1.1m missing from his accounts
A British dentist's cosmetics tycoon wife has been left to face his fury after he killed himself with £1.1million missing from his accounts. Dr David Hurst, who was originally from Glamorgan, Wales, left the UK for Australia after admitting 69 counts of theft from the NHS - receiving a suspended jail term in 2012. Cardiff Crown Court heard he had submitted claims with forged patient declarations to steal £15,584 while he was working at Bridgend Dental Centre But after leaving the UK in 2013 he was able to set up his own luxury dental practice in the west of the country - Perth Dental Rooms. This was despite being barred from practicing as a dentist in the UK in 2014, WalesOnline reports. And when he died by suicide, aged 43, 132 horrified customers were left 'in limbo', after he insisted they paid upfront for their treatments but had yet to deliver on their procedures. Hurst is alleged to have taken £1.1million out of the company before his death - while untreated patients were owed a total of £1.6million. Now the dentist's widow has been left to step into his role as director and deal with the furious patients after the practice fell into liquidation shortly after his suicide on December 10 last year Clara, a 43-year-old mother of two, is herself a former dentist whose soaring success in cosmetic injectables has seen her become a high society figure in the Australian city. She owns the high-end Cottesloe salon Blanc and also co-founded prescription skincare brand The Secret, which offers customers medical-strength skincare by filling out a questionnaire of their skin type. The Secret hit $1million in sales in six months and net sales of $2.65million by 2021. Earlier predictions indicated the business would reach $7million in revenue by 2023. His widow has not publicly commented on her husband's criminal past nor the circumstances surrounding the collapse of his business - and there is no suggestion that she knew anything about his illegal activities. Taking to social media in December, Perth Dental Rooms paid tribute to their former director in a post where the comments have been turned off. Alongside assuring waiting patients that they would still be treated, they said: 'It is with a heavy heart that we share the news of the passing of our beloved principal dentist and owner, David Hurst. 'His unwavering dedication to our patients and the practice has left a lasting impact, and he will be profoundly missed by all who knew him.' Hurst insisted all of his patients paid up front, Australia's Sunday Times reported, with some forking out tens of thousands for expensive procedures. They now face losing their money after the company collapsed - leaving several with severe pain as they remain untreated. 'There are just victims everywhere you look in this horrible mess,' liquidator Bryan Hughes told the outlet. 'Drawing on patient prepayments in advance of earning them has left a very large financial deficit. That financial deficit is causing enormous personal suffering for many patients.' Cardiff Crown Court heard that Hurst had fraudulently made a series of the highest value NHS claims between 2006 and 2007. He paid back the full £15,584 to the NHS, alongside a further £12,991 in costs, WalesOnline reports.
Telegraph
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Lenny Henry, review: a rusty yet thoughtful return to stand-up from a singular British talent
After a 16-year absence from stand-up, Lenny Henry 's 'triumphant return' to the stage in Perth last night consisted, in reality, of a fleeting half hour of new material, followed by a looser, more engaging Q&A. There were glimpses of the comic dynamo he once was, but this was more warm-up gig than comeback special. Performing as part of the Scottish city's Festival of the Arts, Henry's set was a mixture of personal and topical reflections on the last few years. He joked about Suella Braverman, Ozempic, and the Duke of York. None of which were groundbreaking. He was most captivating when delivering a retrospective, verbal memoir: on how humour could disarm bullies in the schoolyard, or his forthcoming film role in Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly alongside George Clooney. Along the way, mime, songs and lively impressions of Tommy Cooper, Eddie Murphy and Denzel Washington reminded the audience what makes Henry such a singular talent. This was the 66-year-old's first stand-up outing since 2009, having spent the intervening years acting on stage and screen (as well as his charity work with Comic Relief). As he put it: 'I'd been doing stand-up since I was 15. By the time I was 40, I thought, is this it? I felt like I was slightly spinning my wheels.' Host Fred MacAulay warmed up the 1,200-strong audience, at one point asking if anybody present was under 30. There were no more than four lonely whoops. Naturally, then, Henry's quippy material about getting older – from the joy of weekend trips to the garden centre to the cuts to the winter fuel allowance – went down a treat. 'I'm usually in bed by now,' he joked at 8:15pm, met with knowing laughter from the crowd. Other material was a harder sell. 'Do you know the Jamaican nod?' was answered with a silence borne not so much from disinterest as unfamiliarity. Henry delivered his jokes using presidential-style autocue screens. Understandable, perhaps, given the long hiatus, but it robbed him of spontaneity. For someone who was once one of the most physical performers in British comedy, it was a weirdly static performance. Only three times did he step out from behind the glass to deliver terrifically surreal, well-oiled routines with the fire and pacing of old. The second half of the show, a sit-down Q&A with MacAulay, was much stronger. Between the silly questions from the audience ('Do you actually stay in Premier Inns on tour?') and baffling ones ('What have Lenny Henry, Michael Jackson, Richard Attenborough and me got in common? Answer: the same birthday!'), there were some gems. A question about whether he still visits Dudley sparked a thoughtful response about growing up near where Enoch Powell gave his 1968 Rivers of Blood speech in Wolverhampton. It was in these unscripted moments that we saw the old Lenny shine through. So, though not quite a triumphant return for this national treasure, a necessary first-step. And an answer, finally: he does indeed stay in Premier Inns. No further dates
News.com.au
5 hours ago
- General
- News.com.au
Longmuir proud as Dockers dig deep late
AFL: Fremantle Dockers coach Justin Longmuir spoke to the media following their round 12 victory over the Gold Coast Suns.
News.com.au
7 hours ago
- Politics
- News.com.au
‘Treated like a criminal': 16-year-old Hong Kong homestay student deported
A teenage student from Hong Kong has alleged she was 'treated like a criminal' after she was suddenly deported during her homestay in Perth earlier this year. The 16-year-old girl had been living with her host family for less than a month, according to reports by local outlet WAMN News, when she became engaged in a dispute with them on March 3. The student, given the name 'Andrea' by WAMN to protect her identity, said she was on a video call with her mum when the host 'started to knock on my door really aggressively and asked me to go out for her to have a chat'. 'But she yelled at me, like for an hour, and whenever I went to say something, she's just saying I'm being rude, disrespectful, and I've no manners,' Andrea told WAMN in a video interview. 'So I ran back to my room because she's … slamming the table, and I went back to my room and locked the door, and she kept knocking on the door … She asked me to open the door and I say, 'Can I have an hour to calm down or can you send (a message) through text?'' When the host refused to leave Andrea alone, the teen called the police, who arrived at the house soon after with staff from TAFE International WA (TIWA). In a secret recording of the clash, the host can be heard screaming: 'You are so narcissistic. You are so self-centred and egoistic... I'm giving you notice now.' 'Answer me. Yes or no. Do you accept any responsibility that your behaviour is affecting other members of this home... yes or no.' Andrea claimed police told her she was being 'childish' after demanding she open her bedroom door. The person from TIWA then told her she had 10 minutes to pack her bags, and that she would be taken to the airport and sent back to Hong Kong. The teen said she felt that she 'was treated like a criminal' and had been accompanied by five police officers when she was taken to the airport. After waiting at the airport for six hours, Andrea flew home to Hong Kong. Following intervention from her mother and family's lawyer, she returned to Australia two days later, and is staying with a different host family while she continues her studies in Perth. Despite her return, Andrea said she was concerned other international students could suffer a similar fate. 'I think they will do the same thing to other international students, like deporting them for no reason and not letting them come back,' she said. 'And actually, I know there's lots of homestays also being mean or abusing those homestay students.' Her story went viral on Reddit, where a majority of social media users claimed there had to have been a large gap in the student's version of events. 'So, there was apparently one argument that night, the police came immediately, bailed her off to the airport and put her on a flight that night?' questioned one skeptic. 'There is OBVIOUSLY a MASSIVE part of this story missing.' 'So police were called on the 16 year old, and (she) was immediately removed from the house being escorted out by police?' questioned another. 'I'd like to hear the other side of the story, because we're not getting the full one.' A WA Police spokesperson confirmed in a statement that officers 'attended an address in Morley on 3 March 2025, in response to a reported disturbance'. 'A representative from the Department of Training and Workforce Development also attended,' they said. 'The disturbance complaint was resolved without further incident, no further police action was required. 'The Department of Training and Workforce Development drove a young person from the premises to the international airport where the person was presented to federal authorities. 'WA Police Force officers followed the vehicle to the airport but had no further involvement in the matter.' Local multicultural advocate Suresh Rajan said the incident raised questions about the treatment of international students in the state, and the conduct of TIWA, who 'have treated her as a criminal'. 'TIWA said they were cancelling her certificate of enrolment,' Mr Rajan told 'When they did that, they would argue that she was no longer a student and her visa conditions would be breached. But TIWA have no jurisdiction to deal with the visa. – that is a Home Affairs matter.' Mr Rajan said he had 'been concerned about the treatment of international students for a long time'. '(Andrea) is symptomatic of a system that is only concerned for the fees paid by international students, and not for their mental health and related matters,' he said. Asked about the matter at a press conference on Tuesday, WA Premier Roger Cook said he wasn't aware of its specifics, but maintained the state welcomed international students. According to the Federal Department of Education, there were 90,829 international student enrolments in WA in 2024, out of a total 1,095,298 enrolments across all sectors nationwide. 'The message for everyone who's looking to Western Australia as a place for their son or daughter to continue their education is that Western Australia is a safe place to live, it's a great place to live, and it's a terrific place to get your education,' Mr Cook said. 'I don't know the circumstances in relation to that particular deportation, but I do know that parents right across Asia are now looking to Australia as a safe place for their kids to further their education, as opposed to other markets like the US.'
