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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
See What Ralph Pittman Revealed to a Producer About Porsha Williams: "I Had No Idea…"
When Ralph Pittman invited Shamea Morton to dinner on The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 16, he claimed to have anticipated a friendly one-on-one business discussion. But then — surprise! — Porsha Williams walked in unannounced. "Disclaimer: I had no idea Porsha was gonna be arriving at all," Ralph insisted to a RHOA producer in an Episode 10 confessional. Because Porsha had taken issue all season with ex-fiancé Dennis McKinley filming with Drew Sidora (i.e. Ralph's estranged wife), she similarly felt the need to defend the trio's on-camera outing. Phaedra Parks Is Back and She's Got a Plus-One in Spicy RHOA Midseason Trailer Drew Sidora Makes a Damning Declaration About Ralph Pittman: "It's Like a Nightmare" Ralph Makes a Major Declaration About His and Drew Sidora's Finances: "I Pay…" "I want to clear this up," she added in a separate interview. "I'm not hangin' with Ralph, OK? I didn't call him and ask him to come to dinner tonight. This is not tit for tat. … I'm just hungry." As it turns out, Shamea was behind the whole thing. Ralph had wanted to run a podcast idea by her, since they previously appeared together on Real Talk with Atlanta Househusbands Todd Tucker and Aaron Ross. Her reason for including Porsha? "It's very important to always have a witness because what I'm not finna do is be the person that Ralph went off with when he disappeared," she explained. "I'm not that girl. No, ma'am. And I know how this group is." Regardless, Shamea said she didn't think there was "anything wrong with meeting up with Ralph," adding, "Honestly, I don't know if Ralph had any ill intent in reaching out to me, but you know what, I'm a concerned citizen. And if [the] people of the United States of Atlanta want to know if Ralph's wife and Dennis are making hot dogs, it's gonna be gotten to the bottom of." Before Porsha even showed up, Shamea wasted no time addressing "the elephant in the room," bringing up his and Drew's "heartbreaking" divorce. When Ralph mentioned his ex's "situation with Dennis" Shamea added her opinion that their friendship is "so inappropriate." Related: Drew Sidora Intensely Defends Relationship With Dennis: "This Is the Thing..." (EXCLUSIVE) Even so, Ralph revealed, "Dennis reached out to me to get the blessing," adding that he appreciated the "respect" of him running their business relationship by him first. When Porsha arrived, however, she dropped the bombshell that Dennis had texted her about Drew supposedly "trying to sleep with" him, even though her ex previously insisted in Episode 9 that she was "interpreting that incorrectly." In a confessional, Porsha claimed she simply wanted Ralph to know that "Drew and Dennis had not had sex because he was basically telling her no." Meanwhile, Shamea asked Ralph if he believed that Drew and Dennis were "romantically linked," to which he replied, "I don't know. I thought she had somebody else that she was dealing with." RHOA newbie Angela Oakley spilled the tea about the dinner to Drew, but the latter was more concerned with Dennis' text message than the meetup itself. Plus, she and Ralph had already "ceased communication" three weeks earlier, following their contentious court hearing. At the very least, Drew was unbothered enough to still attend the May 11 episode's Pampered by Porsha event. "Things have been intense between Porsha and I for a few weeks now, but she did invite me and I'm gonna see what's up," she explained in a confessional. "And that's that." Porsha, for her part, told Angela that "even if there was a place to fix" her friendship with Drew, she still couldn't get past the fact that she "talked about [her] child," Pilar Jhena 'PJ' Mckinley, and supposedly said that she would be the one to pay for her college education someday. Related: Porsha Tears up Recalling Heartbreaking Story About Pilar & Simon: "I Couldn't Even Breathe" Later, though, Porsha expressed interest in keeping the peace — for now. "When it comes to Drew, at a certain point, you have to decide not to keep arguing with somebody who is dead-set on believing their lie or what they [are] telling themself or the narrative that they want people to believe," she added in a confessional. "I don't wanna argue with her [anymore]. This is what I call growth, OK?" As the drama plays out, don't miss how Dennis defended himself for filming RHOA with Drew "behind [Porsha's] back."
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Australia's Jackson Irvine ‘disappointed' by men's football's reaction to English ban on transgender women
Jackson Irvine, the captain of the Australia men's national team and German side St Pauli, says the lack of public support from men's football towards transgender women being banned from women's football in the United Kingdom is 'disappointing'. Earlier this month, the Football Association (FA) announced a ban on transgender women playing women's football from June 1. Advertisement The decision followed the Supreme Court ruling on April 16, when the UK's highest court decided that the legal definition of a woman would be based on biological sex. The FA subsequently amended its inclusion policy to exclude all transgender women from women's football, falling in line with other major sports in the UK. 'I didn't feel that there was much of a public display of support or allyship across the men's game, that was disappointing,' Irvine told the Sky Sports podcast Real Talk. 'We still have a long way to go in football, and especially men's football, to speak out on any social issues and especially when it comes to LGBTQI+ rights, where maybe players don't feel confident or supported to make statements.' Goal Diggers FC, a trans-inclusive grassroots team established in 2015, organised a march towards Wembley to protest the decision, which was attended by more than 100 people. Advertisement The Hackney-based club, which welcomes non-binary and transgender players, wrote an open letter to the FA with more than 1,600 supporting signatures, within it calling the Supreme Court's decision a 'stain on the country's reputation'. Around 20 transgender players are believed to be involved at the grassroots level of the game and are thought to be affected by the new policy. There are almost 5.5million women and girls are registered to play football in England. 'The small number of trans women who play football in the UK just emphasises how heavy-handed that decision was,' Irvine added. 'Most footballers would welcome any team-mate into their environment regardless of what they identify as. 'I think the game has taken strides for and generationally we are a more accepting and open space. I would like to see more people stand up whenever rights are taken away from our fellow footballers. Advertisement 'We want to make sure everyone who plays our game has a safe and inclusive space to play the game we all love.' Irvine, 32, has spent much of his career in the UK, playing for Celtic, Kilmarnock, Ross County and Hibernian in Scotland, and Burton Albion and Hull City in England. He has scored 14 goals in 78 appearances for Australia. This article originally appeared in The Athletic. Australia, Soccer, International Football, Bundesliga, UK Women's Football 2025 The Athletic Media Company
CBC
09-05-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Will Danielle Smith steer Alberta away from separation, or will this train keep gathering steam?
When Premier Danielle Smith speaks, she's still placing the Canadian flags behind her in among the Alberta provincial flags. As much as critics insist she's either a separatist herself or is opening the door wide to the Alberta secessionist movement by easing the rules to have a referendum next year, the premier herself maintains that she wants Alberta to stay within the country. "Acknowledging something exists is not the same as fanning it," Smith told the Alberta podcast Real Talk with Ryan Jespersen on Thursday. "My job is to make sure it doesn't get higher. My job is to make sure it gets lower." But if the premier is determined to sway pro-separatists and keep the Ottawa-wary in the Canadian camp, did she help that cause with this week's array of demands for Prime Minister Mark Carney to fulfil in the next six months? She's calling for easy access to extend new oil and gas pipelines to all three ocean coasts, a surge in new financial transfers and the erasure of many (if not most) of the Liberal government's climate policies "There's simply no way the federal government will be able to [do that] — it doesn't have the power to do some of the things she's asking for," said Feo Snagovsky, a University of Alberta political scientist who researches western alienation. "In that sense, almost from the outset, the federal government is doomed to fail." Snagovsky wondered if by setting "maximalist demands," Smith might be able to declare victory by reaching middle points with Ottawa in negotiations toward what she's calling the "Alberta accord." However, before the election she wasn't discussing compromise. After her first meeting with Carney in March, she set out similar demands and warned of an "unprecedented national unity crisis" if her demands weren't met. One may wonder if we're already in or on the verge of national unity crisis mode, given the strong likelihood of an Alberta referendum to break up Canada that Smith said she'd schedule in 2026 if enough petitioners request it — a threshold her government has newly lowered. David Cameron may want a word The parallels to 2016's Brexit referendum seem clear to Snagovsky: U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron scheduled a vote on leaving the European Union that he publicly opposed and didn't believe would succeed. Until it did, and he resigned in disgrace. Smith cannot assume the opposition against an Alberta exit holds, Snagovsky said. "It's equally likely that lowering this threshold for the number of minimum votes [to get a referendum] might increase this kind of sentiment, because campaigns have a mobilizing effect," he said. While Smith has firmly positioned herself and her party as federalist, it remains unclear from her statements this week whether she'd actively campaign on the "no" side of a referendum. Findings in a new Angus Reid poll suggest it could be in her political interests to leave the campaigning to others. It showed that 36 per cent of Albertans would definitely vote or lean toward voting to leave Canada in a secession referendum, but that number leaps to 65 per cent among supporters of her United Conservatives. "As separation rises in Alberta, the idea is bound to be even more popular within the UCP membership," said Peter McCaffrey, who has been active with the UCP since its founding in 2017, and now leads a libertarian think tank. He believes the party will have a "healthy debate" on sovereignty within its ranks. "The lesson Alberta conservatives learned from the Progressive Conservative/Wildrose split was that if you try to shut down debates on controversial ideas, the debates don't go away, they just migrate into a new party," McCaffrey said. (The Republican Party of Alberta has been vocal in the federal election's aftermath and is wooing disaffected UCPers, but it's unclear how much momentum they have.) It's entirely possible some UCP activists try to get the party to formally adopt separatist policies or principles — after all, in recent years Smith's party grassroots have pushed her to adopt new rules for transgender youth, an expanded Human Rights Act and a ban on vote-counting machines, and she's acted on them. Separatism's rise and an upcoming byelection in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills could also pose problems within Smith's political base. Insiders believe party members could nominate a separatist UCP candidate in that riding — or the premier could head off that threat and appoint a candidate, but that could stir dissent among her grassroots and give energy to a Republican Party candidate in that area. And there's a historical echo. In a 1982 byelection, the Olds-Didsbury riding rejected the governing Tories and voted in Gordon Kesler, with the Western Canada Concept, an openly separatist party. Smith has planned a panel to tour the province and hear federal-provincial grievances and solutions, like former premier Jason Kenney did before her after the 2019 federal Liberal win. Unlike the retired politician Kenney named to his Fair Deal Panel, Smith named herself to head this road-tripping summer panel. That could heighten the publicity and importance around it. Smith went on a listening road show last year to UCP town halls, where she fielded sometimes unorthodox questions about vaccine safety and chemtrails. But this year's panel would be public, and not a party-only affair, leading to the possibility that Albertans both inside her camp and opposed to her show up and speak out on other provincial grievances. Meanwhile, in Alberta After all, while the separation issue consumes much oxygen — as nationally existential questions are wont to do — there's much else going on worth scrutinizing in this province. Lower oil prices will threaten the economy and widen Alberta's budget deficit. RCMP and auditor investigations into Alberta Health Services procurement and the firing of its CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos continue to hang over this government's record — and its massive experiment in health system restructuring is unfolding in the meantime. A measles outbreak has been raging since February, and only this week did the government announce a big vaccination awareness campaign. There's a growing risk of potential strikes by teachers provincewide and unionized provincial employees. And the U.S. tariff threats and harm by those already imposed haven't vanished, though that's what premiers other than Smith are more likely to talk about. Alberta's leader told Postmedia this week that many disaffected Albertans see the threat coming from the east, like other Canadians perceive the threat from the south. "As scared as these people are of what Donald Trump is going to do to their economy, that's how scared Albertans are of what the Liberals are going to do to the Alberta economy," Smith said. And just as heightened anti-American feelings have risen broadly — including in Alberta — the separatist movement is aiming to transform the long-brewing anti-Ottawa sentiment into an anti-Canada sentiment.
CBC
03-05-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Pierre Poilievre will run for Alberta seat. What that means for the province
After losing an Ontario seat he's held since 2004 in Monday's election, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will run in a byelection for a federal seat in Alberta. Ryan Jespersen, host of Real Talk, breaks down what it would mean for Pierre Poilievre to have a seat in Alberta.
Middle East Eye
31-03-2025
- Politics
- Middle East Eye
White supremacy & complicity: How the West enables Israel's war on Gaza
In The World After Gaza, acclaimed Indian author Pankaj Mishra reckons with Israel's war on Gaza and its far-reaching moral and geopolitical consequences. He situates the onslaught within the broader context of western colonialism while grappling with a critical question: What does the world look like after Gaza? Mishra joined us on Real Talk to discuss the book's key themes, including the Holocaust and its weaponisation, as well as the world's response to Gaza - touching on complicity, decolonisation, and white supremacy. Middle East Eye delivers independent and unrivalled coverage and analysis of the Middle East, North Africa and beyond. To learn more about republishing this content and the associated fees, please fill out this form . More about MEE can be found here .
