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Metro
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Hollywood couple reveal plans to quit US for new life in London
A-list Hollywood couple John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are looking to swap Los Angeles for London in search of a 'colder place' to live. The music icon, 46, and TV presenter, 39, currently reside in Beverly Hills with their children Luna, nine, Miles, seven, Esti, two, and Wren, one. But they could be looking to make the big move across the pond after celebrating Christmas in London for the last couple of years. Legend opened up about how the family 'loves' the city, and would 'definitely consider' relocating to the UK. 'We love it here. Chrissy loves it, and the kids love it. We spent our last Christmas here, and two or three Christmases ago, we were here as well,' he told The Sun. 'We like to be in a colder place. We don't like to be in Los Angeles for Christmas. 'We always talk about the possibility of moving to New York or London. Those are two cities that we would definitely consider living in. We love walking cities.' It comes after the All Of Me hitmaker revealed his wife was looking to move from Los Angeles permanently over the risk of wildfires. Wildfires that ripped through the city earlier this year saw thousands of people displaced from their homes, 17,000 buildings destroyed, and at least 29 people killed. 'Every time nature shows its wrath, we wonder if it's time to head back east. Who knows?' he told The Wall Street Journal. He added: 'When the Sunset fire began to expand on January 9, the danger felt too close for comfort.' They wouldn't be the first major US celebs to move to the UK of late, with Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi relocating to the Cotswolds following President Donald Trump's re-election. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video American Ferrera and her family also revealed they had made the big move to the UK, while Sophie Turner also moved from the US back to the UK, saying she felt unsafe in the US. Comedian Rosie O'Donnell moved to Ireland with their child Clay following the US election, claiming the President 'has it out for her.' More Trending Sharing the news on TikTok, the 62-year-old raved about the 'loving, welcoming' reception she had been met with in her new home. Appearing on the Late Late Show, she explained: 'The President of the United States has it out for me and has for 20 years, when I told the truth about him on a program called The View – where it was my job to talk about pop culture, politics… 'I mentioned his bankruptcies, I mentioned all of the sexual assault charges and I mentioned that he was not, in fact, the businessman that everyone thinks he is because of the show, The Apprentice, where they sold a bunch of lies to America for over 10 years, and half of America believed it. 'He was very angry to say the least, and he hasn't let it go. And he uses me as a punchline whenever he feels the need.' Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Justin Bieber sparks fresh concern over latest photos with baby son Jack MORE: Renee Zellweger, 56, forced to make rare statement about romance with British TV star, 46 MORE: Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'repeatedly sexually assaulted' his former assistant of 8 years
Los Angeles Times
6 days ago
- Los Angeles Times
Walking all 15.5 miles of Pico Boulevard in a day revealed hidden parts of L.A.
We took about 37,000 steps forward and one step back. For the fourth iteration of what friends and I playfully call our annual big walk, we embarked on a considerably easier quest. One year after delineating our limits by walking all 28-plus miles of Western Avenue, two years after surmounting all 25-plus miles of Sunset Boulevard, we settled on perambulating Pico Boulevard this month. It lacked the grandiosity of our past pursuits. But Pico's 15.5 miles presented plenty of opportunities — to chat, to consider, to explore, to linger. We met at 9 a.m. on the outskirts of downtown and finished about 9½ hours later on the Santa Monica sand. Along the way we ran into friends, made new ones and reconnected with welcome parts of our collective home. Our guiding principles are simple. After selecting one long Los Angeles street that ends at the ocean, we start walking at its other terminus. Ideally, there's some sort of special marker there. While Western has the Fern Dell Stairs, Sunset's start is unceremonious. Wilshire Boulevard, the site of our first walk in 2022, has eight out-of-place palm trees, perhaps planted as a hint of what's to come. Pico wins with a giant Coca-Cola bottle, outside an entrance to the company's storied bottling facility designed in Streamline Moderne architectural fashion. We started there and never turned. Two miles in, at Pico's intersection with Union Avenue, we took over the street itself as part of CicLAmini. The car-free event put on by a local nonprofit was just beginning, so the street almost felt like ours alone. And we've walked enough to know how rare a public restroom is in Los Angeles, so the portable toilets were appreciated. Eight miles in, we stopped for lunch in Pico-Robertson, where options abounded. Pico, of course, was the street on which the late, great Jonathan Gold once set out to eat at every restaurant, and Pico-Robertson was the neighborhood where he resided during that pursuit. We didn't have that much time. We did, however, split up and sample an array of restaurants: a lauded Tokyo- and Neapolitan-style pizza place called Pizzeria Sei, neighborhood classics Factor's Famous Deli and Jeff's Gourmet Sausage Factory, and the Rooster, a newer addition. We would've loved to eat all together, but there is a remarkable dearth of green spaces near Pico, throughout the city of Los Angeles. Public green spaces, we should say, for we soon encountered back-to-back golf courses covering more than a mile. Pico proved pedestrian-friendly, at least compared to our past pursuits. Sidewalks exist for almost every step of the way. And, for several stretches, they have history built into them. Surrounding Bonnie Brae Street, in Pico-Union, there are a number of Victorian houses, modeled after actual nearby houses, engraved into the sidewalk. In eastern Santa Monica, information about the street and surrounding area is at several locations painted into the sidewalk, forming a timeline as you approach the Pacific. Just don't try to veer to the north or south. Between Arlington Avenue and La Brea Avenue, there are several gates visible from Pico that block both vehicles and pedestrians from easily visiting nearby neighborhoods. The gates, funded by neighborhood councils, date to the 1980s. They have remained a hotly contested issue in recent city council races. And don't accept every apparent office building at face value. At neither the Packard Well Site nor the Cardiff Tower, about 1½ miles apart, did we stop and take notice of the strange, tall facades shielding us from something. If we had, we would've realized there were no windows. There are not offices but massive oil derricks and rigs inside. As part of a 2015 survey on historic districts, the Los Angeles Department of City Planning called the Cardiff Tower 'significant as a rare remaining oil production facility located on a commercial corridor.' Los Angeles! Pico only calls two cities home, L.A. and Santa Monica, which is rare among our long streets that tend to snake between many cities. But double-digit Los Angeles neighborhoods include the street in some capacity. It feels like a relentless parade of new neighborhoods. At the northeast corner of the intersection with Fairfax Avenue, there are even signs for two neighborhoods that somehow start in exactly the same place: Wilshire Vista and Little Ethiopia. At the Daily Pint, where we sourced sustenance for our final leg, the bartender could tell something was up as soon as we all walked in, sweaty and setting down our backpacks. Just the week before, she told us, a similarly disheveled man came in on a solo journey from downtown to Pacific Palisades. It was his punishment for coming in last place in his fantasy football league. We told her we were just doing this for fun. She didn't say anything for a few seconds, then asked what we wanted to drink. Soon enough we were on the beach, admiring the last of the day's sun with the Santa Monica Pier as our backdrop. Pico actually meets the sand in a way that we have not seen with any other long streets. At its last intersection, with Appian Way, there's a little valet circle for a hotel restaurant, and anything resembling a typical road ends. Then there are eight steps down and 100 feet of connected S-shaped sidewalks guiding pedestrians down to the beach. That's still Pico Boulevard, according to every map we consulted. It's like an artist's last, tasteful touch. This was our largest group yet: 22 starters and 19 finishers, including one fearless 4-month-old. January's Eaton fire displaced four of our walkers, two of whom remain marooned far from home for at least a little while longer. Everything still feels a bit different here, obviously. The downsides of Los Angeles life might be a little more top of mind. All that, combined with blessedly less mileage to cover, gave this walk a different feeling than in years past. Less delirious, more contemplative, with more time to notice, to share memories with peers. Most of us have been here long enough to remember old iterations of spaces. One nail salon used to be a coffee shop, where a few of us first learned about Ethiopian coffee ceremonies. Catch One, now a club where bottle service with Jack Daniel's sells for $400, used to be Jewel's Catch One, one of America's oldest Black-owned discos and gay bars. The iconic Papa Cristo's Greek Grill, at Pico and Normandie, just closed, its building now for sale for more than $5 million. Some spaces continue to reign. The Mint, the music venue that once hosted the likes of Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder, has been around for 88 years. The Apple Pan is not far behind, at 78 years, long outlasting the Westside Pavilion across the street. One thoughtful walker brought along a book of Mary Oliver poems and slowly flipped through it during lulls. She asked others to stop her whenever they felt like it and read the resulting poem aloud. Toward the day's end, we happened on 'Yes! No!,' which was first published in 1994. 'How important it is to walk along, not in haste but slowly, looking at everything and calling out Yes! No!' reads one portion. 'Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.' We were not perfect. But on this day, it is fair to say, we completed our work. And what a luxury it was to do it once more.
Daily Mirror
7 days ago
- General
- Daily Mirror
Tomatoes will grow 'anywhere' in garden with Alan Titchmarsh's technique
Tomato season is currently in full swing, and to get the best growth from your at-home plants there's a quick trick that Alan Titchmarsh has recommended. It's prime season for your homegrown tomatoes to begin flourishing in gardens, and Alan Titchmarsh has dished out a top tip to help you harvest plump and luscious tomatoes. The seasoned British gardener and television host swears by one simple technique to boost your backyard bounty. Starting off young tomato plants in a growth bag is standard practice, and it's ideal for those who are tight on space. On an episode of Gardening With Alan Titchmarsh, the green-fingered guru said: "There is nothing more satisfying than biting into a sweet, juicy, sun-warmed, home-grown tomato. And I'm going to show you how to grow your own, whether you've got a large garden, a small garden, or no garden at all." He added: "The beauty of a grow bag is it can go in any garden or no garden at all. So if you've got a balcony, a terrace, a patio, a yard where it's concrete, this is your man. Because just lay it on the concrete, plant into it, and you've got an instant pocket border." Grow bags offer incredible versatility and can bring life to balconies, terraces, patios, or anywhere—even without a traditional garden. But here's the kicker: not everyone realises that pairing them with grow bag canes can take their tomato-growing game to new heights. Bush tomatoes are one variety that stay grounded without needing support. However, cordon tomatoes, known for their singular tall stem, will need a bit of help to reach their fruitful potential, reports the Express. Most of these bags are perfect for growing a variety of produce including tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, and melons, and they're versatile enough to be placed just about anywhere. Whether you pop them in a greenhouse, on a soil bed, or even on a concrete surface, they contain everything your plants crave. Alan Titchmarsh's clever tip involves using cane supports with the bags, which can be easily manoeuvred around the bag for a snug fit. A little wiggle might be needed to slot the bag between the support's bars, but once done, it should encircle the bag perfectly. Cordon tomatoes, known for their lofty growth, need sturdy canes for support, and it's these varieties that Titchmarsh hails as "the best croppers". He recommends: "One, a red one called Shirley, and the other, a sort of orange-yellow called Sunset. I like a bit of colour on the salad plate, and those two should do very nicely." Tomatoes burst with flavour, and among them, cherry tomatoes stand out, growing on lengthy vines instead of bushes or tall structures. You'll find a rainbow of tomato types offering a spectrum of colours from red to orange, yellow, striped, and even black. Gardening buffs also advise that tomatoes love nutrient-rich, moisture-holding soil and bask in warm, sunny spots. They should be planted deep and spaced out as per the guidance on their seed packets, which will tell you the precise spacing required. The correct distance between your plants not only ensures they get ample sunlight but also enhances the air circulation in and around the soil. This can help to ward off any potential disease issues. How to cultivate tomatoes in grow bags Step one: Carefully cut slots out of the bag to expose the compost as small windows in which your plants will sit inside. Step two: Use a trowel to scoop out a decently sized hole and take the plant out of its original pot to then place it in the hole you've just made. Step three: It's time for your canes for added support. Jiggle the support beams over your bag of compost so it sits nicely in inbetween two, stabilising it on any surface.
The Irish Sun
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
‘Love the dress', cry fans as RTE's Kathryn Thomas stuns in bargain M&S frock on girls trip with rarely-seen sister
RTE star Kathryn Thomas had her fans gushing after she shared a series of "beautiful" snaps from her holiday. The popular presenter has been hard at work recently with her new Q102 weekday breakfast show. Advertisement 3 Kathryn Thomas jetted off on a girls trip last week Credit: Instagram 3 Kathryn went to Greece with her sister Credit: Instagram 3 Kathryn took to social media to share some highlights from her trip Earlier last week, They stayed in the incredible 4-star hotel, Elite Suites, in Oia, Santorini, which Kathryn said "was amazing". While on their getaway, the siblings enjoyed a trip to the seaside town of Ammouid in Greece. Yesterday, marking her return home, Kathryn took to her Advertisement Read more on Kathryn Thomas The mum-of-two looked chic as she stepped out onto the balcony of her accommodation in a green linen dress from Marks and Spencer. The fabulous frock features a dramatic scooped v neckline with a maxi dress look. Unfortunately it's currently out of stock on their website, which is no surprise when you find out it was on sale for just €18.49. Elsewhere in her post, Kathryn stopped for a cute selfie alongside her sister. Advertisement MOST READ ON THE IRISH SUN Exclusive In the snap the pair were beaming as they both cracked a wide smile for the picture. Kathryn Thomas enjoys a dreamy trip to Greece While by the sea, Kathryn made the most of her trip by indulging in some fresh seafood, along with a few dips in the ocean. While at the Sunset at Ammoudi seafood restaurant, Kathryn panned around the area to show off the jaw-dropping views. She captioned her post: "It's been a week." Advertisement BEST TIME Friends and fans raced to the presenter's comment section to gush over the fabulous trip. One fan said: "Lovely." Kathy commented: "Stunning." Colette remarked: "Gorgeous love the dress." Advertisement Eva asked: "Beautiful would you recommend it?" Another fan added: "So beautiful Kathryn... Have a wonderful holiday."
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Is Your Partner Your 'Best Friend'? Watch Out For This 1 Potential Drawback.
They say the best relationships are built on friendship. It's a romantic idea, one that promises deep connection, unwavering support and a love that feels safe and familiar. But new research led by Colorado State University suggests that this romantic ideal might not be as common — or as beneficial — as we think. In a national survey researchers conducted, only 14.4% of partnered adults in the United States said they consider their romantic partner to be their best friend. Those who did were more likely to enjoy a strong sense of companionship in their relationship. However, there was a surprising twist: They also reported feeling less social support overall. The researchers suggest that relying on one person to fulfill both romantic and best friend roles might limit other important connections. While being close with your partner is clearly valuable, putting all your emotional eggs in one basket can mean missing out on the broader support a wider social network can offer. For this study, researchers surveyed 940 adults in the United States between the ages of 18 and 85. All of them were in a romantic relationship and said they had at least one best friend. Participants completed a survey that assessed their relationship quality and well-being through measures of emotional closeness, routine interaction, companionship, perceived social support, stress, and loneliness. Respondents listed up to seven friends, labeling each as a 'friend,' 'best friend,' 'romantic partner,' or a combination. Participants who listed their partner as a best friend reported higher levels of companionship — but lower social support from friends. Best friend partners, however, scored higher on emotional closeness and routines than non-partner best friends. 'This finding makes sense,' said Joseph Laino, a psychologist and assistant director at Sunset Terrace Family Health Center at NYU Langone, who was not a part of the study. 'If you identify your romantic partner as your best friend, then your social circle is likely smaller than if you also have a best friend outside of your primary romantic relationship. With a best friend outside of your romantic relationship, you invest time and energy in your relationship with your best friend, not only with your romantic partner.' He adds that having a non-romantic best friend also provides you with someone you can talk to about your romantic relationship. A non-romantic best friend does not necessarily have the same involvements — financial, housing, children — that our primary romantic relationships often do, which lowers the stakes, should there be a conflict, and creates space with fewer potential areas of conflict. We've all likely heard it before: 'I married my best friend.' But the common cliche is not so reflective of the greater population. Polling data from the Pew Research Center reveals that 61% of Americans consider close friendships 'very' or 'extremely' important for a fulfilling life, compared to just 23% who hold the same view of marriage. 'One of the reasons this [phrase] has caught hold may be due to the influence of the media, which romanticizes this notion,' said Laino. 'Reality shows about dating and marriage have proliferated in recent years, like 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' which all contain some variation of 'I'm marrying my best friend.' This contributes to the idea that it is, or at least should be, an aspirational goal.' Our relationship with our best friend is often a long-term and enduring one. Since we also want our romantic relationship to be long-term and enduring, the idea that we are romantically partnered with a 'best friend' seems like a logical conclusion. 'It's not a bad thing to romantically partner with the person you consider your 'best friend,'' said Laino. 'It may provide you with a greater sense of companionship, greater fulfillment through the shared activities that you both enjoy, and a sense of security in the relationship.' Many people have long-term friendships that existed before becoming romantically involved with a primary romantic partner. Some of us may even have friendships that extend back to our childhoods. When we enter a romantic relationship as adults, we don't have to let those relationships wither or fade. 'Just because we are married or partnered doesn't mean the social lives we lived before no longer exist,' said Laino. 'But it takes an investment of time and energy to maintain those friendships. If we don't intentionally make time for our friends, it is very easy for us to drift farther and farther from those friendships and for our social circles to slowly shrink over time.' Schedule IRL time with those who are important to you. If you don't schedule it, it likely won't happen. It's so easy to say, 'Let's get together sometime,' and not set a date. What happens? A week goes by. A month goes by. A year. Then it feels too late. If we put a date on the calendar, it's more likely to happen, and, in turn, you are more likely to maintain the friendship. Virtual time is good, too! Scheduling time doesn't always have to involve getting together in person. Consider a FaceTime chat. Modern technology helps us stay connected in ways that were not possible before. Send a text message to a friend and let them know you are thinking of them. Include a picture if you have one. Send a card. It feels special to receive a card in the mail. It reminds us that someone took the time to write the card and mail it. Make that phone call. Even if it's just to say, 'Just wanted you to know I was thinking of you today.' 'Intentionality is key since our lives don't leave us a lot of extra time,' said Laino. 'We all have many responsibilities and competing priorities. Remember, though, even small gestures go a long way.' 7 Red Flags That You're Venting Too Much About Your Partner These 4 Words Could Resuscitate Your Strained Friendship 10 Signs You Might Be In A Codependent Relationship
