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Time of India
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Who is Ann Kaplan Mulholland and why is her comment stirring controversy at Cannes?
Image credits: Getty Images Being famous has a string of perks, but it also has few drawbacks. You are on the internet almost 24/7, and while you may be appreciated for the good, you will definitely be called out for the bad. Ann Kaplan Mulholland , a 64-year-old entrepreneur, is currently attending the Cannes Film Festival, being held in the French city of Cannes from May 13-24, 2025. The Canadian millionaire entrepreneur recently debuted at the red carpet in a pink ensemble designed by Homolog, a Paris-based fashion house. Just like any other celebrity attending the festival, Mulholland went out and about in the coastal town, exploring its famous beauty. Now, a video of her poorly treating a restaurant server has been going viral on social media, along with the comment she made to him. Know all about this below! Who is Ann Kaplan Mulholland? Image credits: Getty Images Ann Kaplan Mulholland is famous for a variety of things. Firstly, she is a millionaire entrepreneur who is the CEO of iFinance Canada , the parent company to Medicard, Petcard, Dentalcard, iFinanceTech and iFinance Home Improvement. Secondly, she was a part of the reality TV show, 'The Real Housewives of Toronto ' and the author of the book 'How to Be Successful in Spite of Yourself'. She had a doctorate in finance and a whopping net worth of £500 million, according to the Daily Mail. Born in Winnipeg and raised in Victoria, the popular personality has been married to her surgeon and former ice hockey player husband, Stephen Mulholland, for the past 22 years, and the pair share eight children and two pets. In an interview with the HELLO! Magazine, the couple revealed that they met at a plastic surgery convention where Ann's company was financing U.S. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Elevate Business Writing With This Desktop App Grammarly Learn More Undo procedures and Stephen was attending as a surgeon. Stephen also shared that he instantly knew he was going to marry Ann, but it took him 14 months of "wooing" for him to convince her of the same. Over the years, Ann has become a known face in the media with her self-made career, which she uses to inspire young women, her stint on the reality TV and her and her husband's highly successful and popular professional careers. Why is Ann Kaplan Mulholland's comment stirring controversy at Cannes? Image credits: X/@OliLondonTV Mulholland, who debuted at the film festival recently, shared a video where she could be seen sitting at a table in a restaurant alongside her friends. In the now-deleted video, which she posted with the caption, "#SoClose", a waiter was helping the media personality to a slice of pizza when she looked at him with a serious expression and said, "Do I look like I eat carbs?" The member of the staff appeared visibly shocked at Mulholland's comment as he removed the pizza from her plate and awkwardly stepped away from the table. Mulholland then turned away from him and continued speaking to her friends. The socialite's behaviour with the staff has gone viral all over social media, where people have been condemning her rude comment to the waiter who was just doing his job. Influencer Joey Swoll shared Mulholland's viral video on X, condemning her behaviour, writing, "You can tell a lot about someone from how they treat the waitstaff at a restaurant." Internet personality Oli London, also reposted Swoll's reaction on X, calling out Mulholland for her rude behaviour. While Mulholland's video comes as a shocking and disturbing revelation of how she and many popular celebrities treat people, it also marks a stark contrast from the way she had earlier presented herself. In a 2018 interview with the HELLO! Magazine, she spoke on and on about being aware of how important each action is. "It's about living in the moment but being accountable. All the actions that you take, be accountable for them," she said. "When you do something, own up to it. Be aware of how important each action is. Even when you're getting a coffee, if you smile at someone, they can smile back. I like doing that- when I get my coffee, I smile back. It's a lot nicer to live that way," said the multimillionaire. However, her actions in the viral video seem to be completely opposite to the persona she portrayed. This marks the contrasting images that media personalities present in front of the media and people, and how they really are.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Ann Kaplan Mulholland, ex-Toronto Real Housewife, brings cameras to England to buy, restore a castle
A core personality on the 2017 show The Real Housewives of Toronto, Dr. Ann Kaplan Mulholland brought a camera crew with her after purchasing a castle in England. In the new reality show Queen of the Castle (Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. ET on on CTV Life, and the CTV app, and streaming next day on Crave), Kaplan Mulholland takes home renovation to another, more regal, level. Interestingly, the original plan for Kaplan Mulholland and her husband, Dr. Stephen Mulholland, was never to purchase a castle, but rather, they were trying to purchase a flat in London. But when Kaplan Mulholland found that the cheapest contender was £8.4 million (now about $15.4 million), she thought to check how much a castle would cost. That led the purchase of a £5.5 million Lympne Castle (now just over $10 million), with a new plan to renovate and restore the historic property in the small community. In terms of going back in front of the camera, Kaplan Mulhollan was actually set to star in a different reality show before this castle opportunity came up. "I was asked to do a TV show about entrepreneurship for women, and ... I said I'd rather do a show on entrepreneurship, because I just feel like it doesn't matter if you're male or female, ... it's the same lessons," Kaplan Mulholland told Yahoo Canada. "I think after years of being in finance and in a man's world, I just felt that I had to rise above that." "I phoned up one of the producers and said, 'We're looking at this castle.' The offer was in. But the survey wasn't completed. And I said, 'I think it'd be interesting to do a show on a renovation of a castle.' ... And the show got picked up." Right from the beginning of the series there are questions about how Kaplan Mulholland will integrate with the existing, close-knit British community. But despite some initial resistance, Kaplan Mulholland stressed that she's very much part of this town now. "These families have lived there forever. There's a few last names in this whole county," Kaplan Mulholland said. "The house on the corner is actually called the corner house." "I didn't think about it, because we bought the castle without thinking about the community. And then when I joined the church I got to know some people, and didn't realize the impact we had on the community. ... They've opened their arms to me, almost everyone has. ... The castle is a happy place. So the community comes in. We sit and play Scrabble. I go to their houses for dinner. I'm invited home for tea. ... I walk down the street and we give each other hugs. In church, we stop and hug each other. It's really quite lovely. And they're not talking to me about the castle or TV or anything, [it's] how's the kids and things like that. It's really nice, the way a community should be." But that does't mean that Lympne Castle is void of Kaplan Mulholland's flair, including her desire to put olive trees on the property, which we see in the first episode. "I had searched to make sure that the olive trees were good for that soil and for that area, and that they would survive," Kaplan Mulholland said. "It was a process, but we did not want to harm the trees." "And prior to that, just [trying to] find five olive trees the same size and height. And these are old, mature olive trees. So it was quite a process." Additionally, Kaplan Mulholland certainly brought her fun energy to the show. Kicking off the development of the bistro on the property, The Naughty Dog, with a sausage eating contest, which also created some surprises for the crew. "The camera crew did not know that they were going to eat out of bowls, and the people that were in the competition did not know they were going to do that, so we brought out the chopped up sausages ... and we had one bowl of mustard and one of ketchup, and then they did not know that I was going to ask them to put their hands behind the back," Kaplan Mulholland explained. "So it was quite funny ... and the camera crew had to film it without knowing, without laughing, and just run with it." For fans of The Real Housewives of Toronto, or home renovation show lovers, Kaplan Mulholland's series Queen of the Castle, puts her unique spin on both reality TV formats.
