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Time of India
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Meet Tobias Jones, the London-based director who just married actress-dancer Lauren Gottlieb in a dreamy Tuscan wedding
Lauren Gottlieb is officially off the market! The ABCD star just said 'I do' in a picture-perfect wedding in Tuscany on June 11, and let's just say... we are still recovering from the sheer romance of it all. But while her glam mermaid-esque gown stole the visual spotlight, the biggest buzz right now is around one question: Who is Tobias Jones, the man she just married? Who is Tobias Jones? Meet Tobias, a London-based video creator and director who has kept a relatively low-key profile despite his creative chops. Tobias may not be dancing on stage like his superstar wife, but he's been working behind the scenes in the content and film world. Quiet, creative, and camera-savvy, Tobias brings a calm balance to Lauren's vibrant on-screen energy. Their relationship, though under-the-radar for years, was the kind of love story that grows in the quiet, no messy tabloid drama, just travel, laughter, shared passion for creativity, and now… vows in a vineyard. A bridal look worthy of Vogue Lauren walked down the aisle in a figure-hugging ivory gown that was pure magic. Off-the-shoulder sleeves, plunging neckline, delicate lace, shimmering sequins, and a train that trailed behind like a fairytale. Paired with dainty silver jewellery, white pumps, and soft glam makeup, she was the definition of ethereal elegance. Her hair? A chic half-up, half-down style with a dramatic tulle veil that could honestly deserve its own fan page. Tobias in tux Tobias showed up looking sharp and swoon-worthy in a classic black tux with a bow tie and corsage. He went full old-school romantic with padded shoulders, crisp tailoring, and the kind of posture that screams, 'This is my forever.' And we are obsessed. Love, music & fireworks for the wedding With Lauren's dad walking her down the aisle, a live singer serenading the ceremony, a champagne tower, and Coldplay's A Sky Full of Stars lighting up a firework finale, it was intimate, cinematic, and unapologetically romantic. From Bollywood dreams to Tuscan vows, Lauren Gottlieb and Tobias Jones just proved that fairytales are still a thing, and this one's got a killer playlist and killer outfits.
Indian Express
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Lauren Gottlieb marries 'man of her dreams', shares wedding photos from Italy
Lauren Gottlieb gets married ABCD fame actor and dancer Lauren Gottlieb got married to her longtime boyfriend Tobias Jones. Wedding date and venue Lauren Gottlieb and Tobias Jones got married on June 11 in an intimate ceremony in Tuscany, Italy. The wedding was a private affair attended only by close friends and family. The wedding look For her special day, Lauren wore a stunning white off-shoulder gown with a plunging neckline. She kept her makeup minimal and wore diamond earrings. Tobias Jones' wedding look Lauren Gottlieb's husband Tobias wore a classic black-and-white tuxedo. Meet 'Mr. & Mrs. Jones 11.06.2025' Lauren shared a bunch of official photos from her dreamy Italy wedding. 'We promised each other forever' "Marrying each other was the most beautiful day of our lives. It was joy. It was peace. It was everything we've ever dreamt of!," wrote the actor. 'Literally crying posting this!!!!' Lauren Gottlieb added in the comment section, "Waited a lifetime for the most amazing love I could have ever imagined. Man of my dreams @newinflux." Who is Tobias Jones? Based in London, Tobias Jones, also known as TJ, is a director and video creator recognized for his work with several reputable brands. Aamir Khan, girlfriend Gauri Spratt inseparable at Sitaare Zameen Par screening; Salman, SRK add charm
NDTV
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- NDTV
In Pictures: Lauren Gottlieb Marries Long-Time Beau Tobias Jones In An Italian Wedding
New Delhi: Actor-dancer Lauren Gottlieb took the plunge with her long-time partner Tobias Jones as the lovebirds got married on June 11, 2025. It was a beautiful Italian wedding for the couple in Tuscany. They had gotten engaged last year in August 2024. Lauren Gottlieb took to Instagram to share some dreamy pictures of the ceremony. What's Happening Earlier today, Lauren Gottlieb surprised fans with her wedding pictures on Instagram. She got married to London-based video creator and director Tobias Jones, on June 11, 2025, in Tuscany, Italy. Sharing an Instagram carousel of her wedding pictures, Lauren Gottlieb wrote a long caption encapsulating her feelings on her special day. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lauren Gottlieb (@laurengottlieb) She wrote, "Mr. & Mrs. Jones, 11.06.2025. On a Tuscan hilltop, with our hearts wide open, we promised each other forever. We've always felt this love was out there. A once-in-a-lifetime kind of love. And when we found it, it felt like coming home. Marrying each other was the most beautiful day of our lives. It was a joy. It was peace. It was everything we've ever dreamt of!" She added, "Our story found its stage at @casaledepasquinelli. It really felt like we stepped into a dream! @gabriele_pasquinelli_, @ and @francescanieri76, you didn't just host a wedding, you held space for something sacred. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! These were the most gorgeous and jaw-dropping floral arrangements we have ever seen, thank you @ for making this dream a reality!" "To @nikagunchak, who saw us exactly as we are and made it timeless. Thank you for capturing these beautiful moments! More thanks to come!" concluded Lauren Gottlieb. About Lauren Gottlieb and Tobias Jones's Love Story Back in 2022, in conversation with Hindustan Times, Lauren Gottlieb spoke about her modern love story with Tobias Jones. She had shared, "I have never known a love like this. It feels like coming home. I'm completely at peace. I always dreamt of having a true partner in life. We definitely found our perfect match." The ABCD actor had further revealed that the two met on Instagram in March 2021, and slid into each other's DMs. She added, "TJ is the full package! The perfect balance of confident, kind, caring, funny, playful, professional, and hardworking." The two were in a long-distance relationship that sailed through. In A Nutshell Lauren Gottlieb married her long-distance fiance Tobias Jones on June 11. 2025. She took to Instagram to share pictures from her Italian wedding and penned a heartwarming post on how beautiful the ceremony and journey was.
News18
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- News18
ABCD Star Lauren Gottlieb Marries Tobias Jones In Italy, Calls It ‘Dream Come True'
Actor-dancer Lauren Gottlieb, known for her role in ABCD (Any Body Can Dance), tied the knot with longtime partner Tobias Jones in a dreamy wedding in Italy on June 11. Congratulations are in order as actor-dancer Lauren Gottlieb has tied the knot with her fiancé Tobias Jones. After getting engaged in August 2023 at Aruba Ocean Villas, Lauren exchanged vows with Tobias Jones, a London-based video creator and director, on June 11. The intimate, dreamy wedding took place in Tuscany, Italy, and was attended by close family and friends. Lauren, best known for her role in Remo D'Souza's film ABCD (2013), confirmed the news of her wedding in a statement to Hindustan Times. She described the day as a dream come true, mentioning she felt unexpectedly calm before the ceremony. While speaking with Hindustan Times, Lauren said, 'It was truly a dream come true — from the quietest moments to the biggest surprises." She then opened up on her wedding ceremony which took place on June 11, and said, 'I woke up the morning of the wedding before anyone else. As I got ready, I was oddly calm. And then… it was time. When I saw Tobias standing at the altar in his custom Prada tux, I kept telling myself, remember, every second of it. Don't forget a single thing." The intimate wedding had many surprises, including a performance by Tobias' cousin as Lauren walked down the aisle, a champagne tower for guests, and fireworks set to Coldplay's 'A Sky Full of Stars." A highlight for Lauren was the father-daughter dance, accompanied by an emotional speech from her father. They shared a moment of laughter, tears, and heartfelt words, making it a perfect day for her. 'We just held each other, laughed, cried, danced, and exchanged words we'll never forget. He told me I was the best daughter he could've ever dreamed of. And I told him that I owe him everything — every dream I've ever made came true was because of him. It was the most perfect moment I could've ever asked for," said Lauren. While Lauren is yet to post pictures from the wedding ceremony, she shared a series of photos from her bachelorette party in Rome, with her friends. Two days ago, she also shared pictures from her birthday celebration in Rome with her fiance Tobias Jones, as well as their closest friends and family members. 'The most unforgettable Birthday in Rome with all my closest family and friends Dreams really coming true!!!" she wrote. First Published:
The Herald Scotland
12-05-2025
- Politics
- The Herald Scotland
What Italy's ultra movement can tell us about Scottish scene
To help understand where the burgeoning ultras scene in Scotland has come from, then, and where it may lead, it is natural to look to the country where the concept was birthed, and where it thrives to this day. Few understand the Italian ultras scene better than author Tobias Jones, an Englishman who moved to the country initially in 1999 and then went back there after some years back home to settle into family life in Parma. A few years ago, though, his long-held fascination with sub-cultures led him into a very different world, as he embedded himself into the matchday rituals of the ultras group affiliated to Cosenza – a relatively small and unheralded club from the south of the country. (Image: Rob Casey - SNS Group) The choice was rooted in a desire to offer a counterbalance to the old tropes about ultras groups – their sympathies for fascistic ideology, the violence (murders, even) and drug-dealing - which are nonetheless an undeniable and integral part of their story. Cosenza, by contrast, were steadfastly anti-fascist, and were known instead as altruistic, providing shelter to the destitute or to immigrants and charity to those in need. The result was his illuminating 2019 book, Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football, a fascinating and unflinching account of the birth of the ultras movement in Italy, what they evolved to become, warts and all. But at its heart is the notion that this is not one homogenous movement at all, but groups for whom the love of their own town or city – their 'caput mundi', or capital of the world - is just as important as their disdain for the others. 'Being an ultra, much of it's a common human anthropological thing that when people form groups, they have enemies, that's the way it goes,' Jones said. 'Almost immediately when the 'ultra' was born around 1967, '68, you have the Years of Lead in Italy. You have the extremist political terrorism from far right and far left. So, that's a sort of a context that is unique. 'Once where there were insults, those became beatings that became death, there was this sort of revenge mechanism that was always upping the ante. If you've got a martyr that needs to be avenged, it keeps ratcheting up. So, from fistfights you go to knife fights and from knife fights to gunfights. 'I see the Italian ones very sort of embedded in what happened here. So, the shift to the far right amongst the ultras is so clearly connected to the end of the Soviet Union, the sort of discrediting of communism, if that's what it was, and the rise of mass immigration into a country that when I first came in, you never really saw one black or brown face. You've got geopolitical things happening that mean that the terraces take a very large rightward step. 'Here, you obviously had Inter, Lazio and Verona and then lots of lesser-known teams like Ascoli who've always been notoriously aligned to the right. And other ones, not necessarily well-known teams, but Livorno, Genoa etc that were more to the left. (Image: Rob Casey - SNS Group) 'I've often wondered how the sectarian element enters into it in Glasgow, but that's not something that was there in a mono-faith country like Italy, which was almost ubiquitously Catholic in the 60s and 70s. 'How that plays out, I don't know. It'll be interesting to see over the coming years or decades.' The notion of knife fights or gun fights playing out on Scottish streets may seem a frightening one, and after the running battles between the Green Brigade and the Union Bears in Glasgow city centre prior to the New Year derby, not all that much of a stretch to imagine. The police response to that incident – the exercising of additional powers to search fans prior to the next match between the sides at Celtic Park and the kettling of supporters outside the ground – sparked a subsequent protest at the London Road police station over the heavy-handedness of fan policing. In Italy, the response from the authorities was on a different level altogether, meeting the escalating seriousness of what they were dealing with, but as Jones explains, the common thread of suppression runs through the psyche of ultras from Celtic's North Curve to Inter's Curva Nord, and strained relations with the police are a given. 'Calling the police response heavy-handed is sort of an understatement,' he said. 'The D.I.G.O.S. [Divisione Investigazioni Generali e Operazioni Speciali], the division that deals with fans, is not commonly associated with light-handedness. 'And as always, as in ultra-on-ultra violence, ultra-on-police violence, the one thing that will unite the whole ultras movement is this notion that they are the suppressed, subjugated underdog. That's natural when you have fans repeatedly dying in custody, and then also fans being shot across the motorway like Gabriele Sandri, the Lazio fan whose picture is up everywhere. 'And then you get also a policeman killed in Catania, (Filippo) Raciti. So, you know, it's incremental, this bit-by-bit increase of fear and distrust. 'And then the other thing they did, which was incredibly strategic and split down the centre of the whole movement, was the fans' identity card. You couldn't go to either at-risk games or away games, or sometimes you couldn't even get into your home stadium, unless you had it. 'I talk about it in the book that half the fans said, 'Well, look, what's the difference? We've got to go to the stadium.' It's like not going to church. And other people would go a thousand miles to stand outside the stadium and sing from there as a protest. It's down the middle. And as you know, if you split the opposition, you're halfway there.' To draw alarmist conclusions from the ultras story in Italy though when considering the future of the Scottish equivalent is, Jones feels, too simplistic. (Image: Craig Foy - SNS Group) 'There are sides of the way that they support a football team here that I can't really see being imported quickly to Scotland,' he said. 'I hope, for instance, that the real violence and drug dealing remains outside the ultras scene. I think when the head of a gang is earning tens of thousands a month, people fight for that kind of money. I don't get the impression, I might be wrong, that your groups there have got huge income streams. 'It's obviously linked to touting and all the stuff like the burger concessions, the parking concessions, sort of the petty criminal, mafia context around the curtilage of stadiums that mean that the ultras can get into those positions. And also, obviously, proper wholesale narco-trafficking. 'Here, it's extremely hierarchical. So, the one man with a megaphone decides what everyone sings. When I go to a stadium in Britain, it feels a lot more spontaneous and there's a lot of humour. Whereas here, it's kind of quite serious and frowning. You know, the next song on the hymn sheet is this. 'I say this in a good way, Scotland just feels more anarchic than Italy, which is actually quite traditionalist and conformist in unexpected ways. I just wonder whether that sort of make-up of an ultras group that is strategical, politicised, hierarchical, maybe that's not the way it'll grow in a very different country.' Might it instead, in Scotland, follow the path of what Jones describes in his book as 'the more idealistic origins of the movement' that he found were still largely the guiding principles of the ultras in Cosenza, such as charity. They may be politicised and from differing sides of that spectrum, but almost all of the ultras groups operating in Scotland collect for their local foodbanks, and try to be seen as a force for good within their communities, a common trait with their Italian counterparts. 'The first thing on the other side of the charge sheet against the ultras is that any time there's a flood, an earthquake, a drought, a natural disaster, a man-made disaster, it's always the ultras on the front line,' he said. 'Partly because the Italian state is not so nimble, it's often very slow to respond, but the ultras are always on the front line. 'I followed Cosenza for three years because they were the most altruistic of all ultras, I think. They were occupying hotels confiscated from the Mafia, opening them up to immigrants, doing distribution of food to the homeless, doing evenings of five-a-side football matches for young kids who couldn't afford a pitch, all sorts of things that again fill the gap in modern society where there are many, many holes in the safety net.' Just as the ultras groups fill the holes society fails to in many lives. If there are lessons to be drawn then from the Italian experience when it comes to the way Scotland's ultras scene may evolve, it is that being dismissive or wholly condemnatory of them is a dangerous game, and a stance that may allow nefarious actors to fill those voids in the lives of many of them. 'I think the warning sign isn't about ultras, but about the wider society,' he said. 'Where do vulnerable, excluded young men - because it's normally men, but women as well – find belonging and meaning and rootedness? And actually, if they find it in a football team, is it that bad a place to find it? (Image: SNS Group) 'If there aren't movements that create family and tribe and fun, if a football team can't do it, where the heck are young kids in the 21st century going to find belonging and meaning? 'So, I think the warning is actually if it's demonised and we're told from the off they're idiots we shouldn't listen to - which I think is how the ultras movement was scorned by the intellectual left in Italy in the 80s and the 90s, they started turning their back on it, saying these guys are a bunch of idiots - it created this vacuum that the far-right moved into. So, I see that as the main warning. 'But I think - and I'm guessing here, but I hope – [the Scottish ultras movement] is perhaps a reflection of that really fascinating bond between Scotland and Italy. So, whether it's because of industry, prisoners of war, shipbuilding, food or so many other things, there is this amazing link between the countries. 'I get the sense that's kind of what a lot of Scottish groups feel. You know, they're doing something that's a bit Italian. And that obviously is a great thing, because it's a lovely country.'
