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Scottish Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
‘You'll upstage the bride' people fume as wedding guest shows off very revealing dress that's ‘way too fancy'
And scroll down to see which celebs have been breaking the rules too FROCK NO 'You'll upstage the bride' people fume as wedding guest shows off very revealing dress that's 'way too fancy' Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A FASHIONISTA has come under fire after showing off her wedding guest outfit that trolls insist will ''upstage the bride''. Wedding season has well and truly arrived, which means many people have been taking to social media to share their stylish frocks and gowns. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 1 People have accused this wedding guest of 'upstaging the bride' with this dress Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk But one woman has left people demanding she changes her outfit for a close pal's garden wedding. The dress code detailed in the digital invite asked guests to "get just a little bit fancy" with chinos listed as an option for men and "dress/skirts" for female attendees. From this brief, the woman opted for a sleeveless floor length silver satin dress with a deep plunging V-neck. And even she seems unsure about her choice, after sharing a picture of her final look in the Wedding Dress & DIY Facebook page. Alongside the snap, she wrote: "Is this too intense to wear as a guest It's at a garden venue inspired by the French countryside. "I'm concerned this is a bit too much for the venue/garden vibes.. and potentially even a little too close to white? "The bride is a close family friend but I don't want to bother her when she has so much on her mind. "Bridesmaids are wearing burgundy red. Please help me out here; suitable attire or too much?" Her post quickly racked up almost 1,000 comments with plenty of fashion fans having their say. Not only did people warn her that it was "too revealing" and would take attention away from the bride, but others claimed its colour broke a basic rule because it looked near-white. Frankie Bridge slammed by fans again for SHEER wedding guest dress that's 'too much' and will 'upstage the bridge' Wearing ivory as a wedding guest is often considered a cardinal sin and the ultimate insult to the bride. One person said: "Too close to white and it looks too good. You'll show up the bride! Don't wear it to a wedding!" A second wrote: "So you want to wear a wedding dress to somebody else's fairly casual wedding…I think you already know the answer…" A third fumed "no, you'll upstage the bride" while someone claimed: "Too revealing for a will be on you not the bride." "Nope it's to fancy for what the invite says and also it looks like you're the bride", chimed in a fifth. Wedding Guest Outfit Etiquette If you're struggling to decided on a dress to see you through wedding season, here's a few rules on what not to wear so you don't get in trouble. Folklore says that wearing red at a wedding means you slept with the groom. Casual attire like jeans and flip flops should always be avoided. Any colour that could be picked up as white or cream - even if it's not. Most would agree that your cleavage needs to be covered. Wearing white is a massive no-no if you're not the bride. And a sixth echoed: "I definitely thought you were asking if it was too plungy to wear as a bride... then realised you're a guest." Others, however, jumped in to support the wedding guest and urged her to wear the show-stopping frock. One said: "Am I the only one saying the dress is fine for the dress code instructions? Lol." "I'd wear this gown; it's beautiful and you look beautiful in it", another insisted. A third agreed: "It's gorgeous. Not white. Wear it. Always better to be too dressed up than too dressed down." Meanwhile, a fourth wrote: "I don't think it matters if it's more casual or not. Just wear it if you like it and don't care what ppl thing if you feel beautiful or sexy in it. It looks amazing on you." Celebs aren't exempt from making fashion faux pas at weddings either. When Dani Dyer wed footballer Jarrod Bowen last week, guest and fellow Love Islander Georgia Steel was slated for wearing what looked like a revealing white dress to her pal's big day. After Georgia posted a snap on TikTok of the lace-trimmed Miss Circle number she wore, the trolls came out in force, bashing her for picking what was in fact a 'soft beige' dress. 'Wearing white to a wedding?' questioned one, while another waded in with: 'Way too bridal for a wedding.' And Georgia isn't alone. Two months ago, White Lotus actress Sydney Sweeney came under fire for the 'inappropriate' dress she wore to her Anyone But You co-star Glenn Powell's sister's wedding. She chose a cleavage-baring corset-style dress from V Chapman in a very pale blue. Fans thought the colour was an issue. Comments included: 'That is not an appropriate shade of blue for a wedding' and 'The number one [rule] of a wedding is don't wear anything close to white.'
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Yahoo
Fugitive ex-Olympian Ryan Wedding's drug ring still active in Canada, RCMP says
The murderous drug-trafficking network allegedly run by former Team Canada Olympian Ryan Wedding remains active in Canada despite efforts to dismantle the cartel-linked group, the RCMP has confirmed to CBC News. Wedding was added this year to the FBI's list of ten most-wanted fugitives. He's accused of running a $1-billion US criminal enterprise that routinely shipped tonnes of fentanyl and cocaine throughout North America, and that has been linked to at least four killings in Ontario. "There certainly are elements of his network that remain in place," RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather said Friday, during an unrelated news conference at the Mounties' Ontario headquarters in London. Leather, the RCMP's officer in charge of criminal operations for the province, said Wedding's alleged drug-trafficking organization remains a target of "multiple ongoing investigations," involving the federal police agency, Toronto police and Ontario Provincial Police. The Thunder Bay, Ont.-born Wedding competed for Canada as a snowboarder at the 2002 Olympic Games. Now 43, he's been on the run from the RCMP since 2015 when he faced charges related to a cocaine-importing conspiracy. Wedding was also indicted in California last fall, along with 15 alleged accomplices including nine fellow Canadians. He faces eight felony charges, including drug-trafficking offences and murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise that used stash houses to store drugs in the Los Angeles area. "The alleged murders of his competitors make Wedding a very dangerous man," Akil Davis, the assistant director of the FBI's L.A. field office said in March. The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $10-million US for information leading to his arrest. WATCH | From Olympian to fugitive: U.S. prosecutors have said Wedding is suspected of living in Mexico, under the protection of the Sinaloa cartel, once headed by notorious drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. Authorities have also suggested he could be hiding out in Canada, the U.S., Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, or elsewhere. U.S. prosecutors have said Wedding continues to traffic drugs while in hiding. Liam Price, the RCMP's director general of international special services, said earlier this year Wedding "continues to pose one of the largest organized crime threats to Canada, even as a fugitive." Four of Wedding's co-defendants, who were arrested in Toronto last October, remain in custody in a local jail and face extradition to the U.S. His alleged right-hand man, fellow Canadian Andrew Clark, was arrested in Mexico last fall and transferred to U.S. custody in February. The U.S. indictment unsealed last October lists 18 aliases for Wedding, including James Conrad King, Jesse King, El Jefe ("The Boss"), Public Enemy, Giant and Grande.
Daily Mail
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Brooklyn no longer sees his old friends and 'does whatever Nicola Peltz asks', insiders tell KATIE HIND, as they reveal how David and Victoria are horrified at their daughter-in-law's 'plans' for their son and the Beckham name
It was just a few months after their £3million wedding that Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz attended a launch event staged by American fast food giant Wendy's for a new summer dessert. In keeping with the colour scheme of the pudding – a confection called Strawberry Frosty – they dressed in pink for their trip to Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard.
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Snow Bros: Inside the FBI's Ten Million Dollar Manhunt
Ryan Wedding should be a hard man to hide. The one-time Olympian stands at a muscular six-foot-three and carries himself with the secure swagger that comes with being a white man of privilege. He was raised in the Canadian ski resort town of Thunder Bay, the son of wealthy and multilingual Canadian parents, both star skiers, who poured their hearts and savings into their young athletic offspring's snowboarding dreams. Their expensive and rapt attention paid off. In 2002, the accomplished shredder represented Team Canada in the men's Parallel Giant Slalom race in Park City, Utah. Unfortunately, there was no metal behind that mettle. He placed in the heat at a solidly unremarkable 24th place. These days the 43-year-old rich kid's profile is much higher than even those seeking Olympic gold, and his once clean-cut looks are far more bad-boy menacing. Last month, Wedding's photo — arms inked with tribal sleeve tattoos, unruly ginger hair tucked under an L.A. baseball cap the same royal blue color as his penetrating eyes — was added to the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List. The crimes he stands accused of are eerily similar to the case presented against Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán, the notorious drug lord who commanded over the bloodthirsty Sinaloa cartel for decades until he was captured in 2016 and sentenced to life in prison in the world's most secure prison three years later. The Sinaloa cartel, which has gone through a slew of management shifts after Guzmán's conviction that led to warring within the region marked by unimaginable violence as several factions jockey for top positions, the DEA says, just so happens to be the same Mexican criminal outfit that federal prosecutors believe is harboring Ryan Wedding despite a $10 million U.S. Department of State bounty that is being offered for any information leading to his capture. The international manhunt for Ryan Wedding has Drug Enforcement Agency insiders buzzing, according to several sources who spoke to Los Angeles on the condition of anonymity, that El Chapo's notoriously deadly empire, and the routes the Sinaloa cartel built from Colombia into Mexico with stash houses in L.A., have been taken over by Wedding, a white boy Canadian yuppie from a family of intellects. Despite his pedigreed background, Wedding enjoys a terrifying assortment of monikers and aliases whispered by his criminal compatriots as he enjoys his life on the run. Among them: 'El Jefe,' the Boss, and 'El Toro,' the Bull, along with 'Public Enemy,' 'Buddy,' 'Grande,' 'Mexi' and 'the Giant,' all nicknames now listed on a federal indictment unsealed last fall in California's Central District where prosecutors build cases against accused transnational drug lords like Wedding in an imposing Little Tokyo highrise that houses L.A.'s federal court. Wedding's operation, federal law enforcement officials in the United States say, mirrored the Sinaloa cartel's stronghold on critical transportation routes. Like El Chapo, the former Olympian 'headed a complex transnational organized crime organization which coordinated the procurement and transportation of cocaine from South America to Canada,' according to the Department of Justice. In Los Angeles, Wedding used stash houses to hide bulk quantities of cocaine 'weighing hundreds of kilograms,' investigators say, before the drugs were trafficked from Southern California to Canada. All of it stealing a page from the playbook of El Chapo and his criminal compatriots.L.A. is also the city where El Chapo's wife, former beauty queen Emma Coronel Aispuro, who married the decades-older Guzmán on her 18th birthday, remains on federal parole after finishing a three-year sentence on charges she helped her husband maintain control of his trafficking empire. These days it appears that she is eschewing her cartel roots for couture with the launch of a shapewear line that will rival Skims, the underwear brand run by Kim Kardashian, as she continues to check in with her California federal parole officer. Whether Wedding has officially taken a top spot in the Sinaloa cartel is unclear. But it's worth noting that the $10 million reward being offered by the U.S. Department of State for the brawny athlete is double the bounty American officials put up for El Chapo's capture during his unimaginably violent heyday. How It Started, Where It's Going How Wedding became what the feds call 'an Olympic-athlete-turned-drug lord,' comprises a blood-soaked trail that spans decades and stretches across several continents and connects him to some of the most dangerous criminals in the world: dirty ex-Russian KGB agents, Iranian encryption experts, Hezbollah-connected narco terrorists and an ex-wife whose name came up in a money laundering scheme involving hawala, the Iranian money transfer system that has come under scrutiny because of its lack of a paper trail. According to prosecutors, Wedding's operation brought in about a $1 billion a year and was run with an unlikely and motley coterie of crooks. Among them: Nahim Jorge Bonilla, a Latin music executive whose preferred nickname was 'The One' and whom investigators believe was negotiating drug deals as owner of the Miami Beach hot spot Mandrake. There was an Indian trucking magnate; a Toronto hitman; Russian mobsters; and Wedding's childhood buddy Andrew Clark, his second-in-command, better known by his alias 'The Dictator.' But Wedding, 'El Jefe,' was undeniably the boss. Prosecutors say he moved 60 tons of cocaine a year from the humid climes of South and Central America to the iciest reaches of Canada, and was the 'principal administrator, organizer and leader of the criminal enterprise.' Los Angeles was Wedding's hub, the proverbial ground zero for his operation's sophisticated 'transportation network' that stockpiled drugs in warehouses across the city before they were smuggled into Canada by long-haul truckers. Wedding's last year on the Canadian Olympic team came in 2002. It was around this time that, per Matthew Allen, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's L.A. field division, Wedding pivoted from 'navigating slopes' to 'contouring a life of incessant crimes.' The crimes Wedding committed, he says, were 'unremitting, callous and greed-driven.' In another nod to El Chapo's violent reign, Wedding also used violence to eliminate the competition with the use of contract killers he and his consiglierie Clark kept on speed dial, according to the DOJ. Their alleged victims include Mohammed Zafar, 39, a resident of Brampton, located about an hour outside Toronto, who was ordered murdered over a drug debt on May 18, 2024. In December 2023, Wedding and Clark, according to a federal indictment, ordered the execution-style murders of Jagtar and Harbhajan Sidhu, a married Indian couple in their 50s visiting their daughter in Caledon, Ontario. The couple had rented a house once belonging to an Indian drug courier who left L.A. with a large shipment of drugs that never made it to their destination. In what officials called 'a case of mistaken identity,' the assassin erroneously assumed he had found his target and opened fire. During said execution, the hired hitman also shot the couple's daughter, Jaspreet Kaur Sidhu, 13 times. She miraculously survived, recalling her harrowing experience with CBC news: 'I heard my mother's last screams. After that, there was complete silence. Only the noises of gunshots.'Investigators have been on Wedding's tail since 2015, when the disgraced Olympian's name was listed in court documents filed in Montreal as part of a drug case spearheaded by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Wedding was charged with two counts of conspiracy to import cocaine, two counts of conspiracy to traffic cocaine and one count of trafficking cocaine. Wedding fled Canada and, in turn, the U.S. Department of Justice authorities dubbed the case to bring. the narcotics trafficker to justice 'Operation Giant Slalom,' a nod to the Olympic race in which Wedding competed in Salt Lake City. In October, the feds struck hard at Wedding's network, rounding up his most powerful lieutenants in a series of raids in the United States, Colombia and Mexico. Heavily armed FBI Agents swarmed Bonilla's $5 million Miami mansion, once owned by DJ Khaled, demanding the music mogul-cum-restaurateur surrender over an implicating loudspeaker. In the Pacific-bordering state of Jalisco, Clark was tackled in a dramatic maneuver coordinated by Mexico's Navy Seals and was extradited back to the U.S. last month along with dozens of other high-profile accused drug lords. In total, authorities seized roughly a ton of cocaine, firearms and dozens of rounds of ammunition; more than $255,000 in cold hard cash; and over $3.2 million in cryptocurrency. But Wedding has mastered the art of evading law enforcement. The ruthless ringleader remains at large living in the lap of luxury at the expense of those whose lives he destroyed. California Dreamin' Wedding's dizzying life of crime began in California in the summer of 2008. That June, a review of court records show, he flew to LAX with an Iranian money launderer named Hassan Sharari and Michael Krapchan, a reputed Russian mobster with plans to buy 24 kilos of cocaine from former KGB agent Yuri Trofinov. But nothing on that trip for the ex-Olympian would go as a recorded phone call, Trofinov assured Krapchan, the owner of a Vancouver radio station and Vice President of the Vancouver Russian Jews Association, that the cocaine was '100% Colombian' and available for pickup in Los Angeles. Krapchan was afraid of Trofinov, and for good reason: Trofinov was a former member of the KGB, the now-defunct phalanx of secret police whose tactics were so terrifying most Russians refused to utter the acronym aloud. Rather, its agents were referred to by the euphemism, 'high-class professionals.' Krapchan's attorney would later describe Trofinov in a court filing as 'a big player' in the drug trade, 'a Godfather' in a ring of former KGB agents and Russian policemen involved in global-wide drug dealing and money laundering activities. Krapchan owed Trofinov money connected to a real estate deal gone wrong. If the debt wasn't paid, the 'high-class professional' warned that he would 'take care of [Krapchan] the Russian way.'The cocaine deal would provide Krapchan a way out. Trofinov would sell him 24 kilos of that 'Colombian' coke, which, in turn, Krapchan could upsell and wipe out his remaining debt. Krapchan accepted the deal, noting that he would be traveling to L.A. with 'a Canadian athlete' (Wedding) and 'an Iranian' (Sharari).When Wedding and Sharari touched down at LAX, Trofinov was waiting at the airport. He immediately demanded to see the money. But Wedding said they didn't have it. 'Obviously, I didn't put it in my fucking suitcase,' he told Trofinov. The terms had changed, he explained. He would buy one kilo, he said, 'have a look at it, and grab the rest of them later.' Trofinov erupted into a fiery rage. No one knew it then, but the ex-KGB officer was wired up, working undercover for the FBI. The feds were positioned nearby with a plan to swoop in and grab the trio right there. Only Wedding's 'paper' to pay for the drugs had been sent to L.A. using the ancient Iranian money transferring system known as hawala, which kept transactions such as this one from the prying eyes of banking authorities and regulatory agencies so that there was no arrestable transaction. They needed a day or two to access the men went their separate ways. Wedding checked into a room at the Comfort Inn in Woodland Hills and chilled until the buy scheduled for three days later in San Diego at a dumpy hotel room, where the FBI was waiting. The would-be drug buyers were bundled into handcuffs as agents searched Wedding's hotel room in the valley where they recovered 100 grand in a dresser. In a matter of days, the Iranian flipped, testifying against Wedding who was found guilty at it came time for his sentencing in May 2010, Wedding turned on the charm for the judge who would determine his fate, apologizing for 'the stupid and irresponsible decisions,' that led to him 'coming down to San Diego to buy drugs.' Worse, he added, 'I allowed myself to be lured by the idea of easy money, and the sad thing is I really didn't need money that bad. As an athlete, I was always taught that there are no second chances, and, well, I'm here asking for exactly that.' The judge was moved, so much so she told Wedding he had swayed her into imposing a lighter sentence than the one she had in mind. Wedding was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison. With time served after his arrest, he was released months later in 2011. He used his time wisely, a DEA official told Los Angeles on the condition of anonymity. 'He was in jail with Mexican Mafia right at the time they had made a deal with El Chapo years earlier to protect his drug routes. His time in a federal lockup was a dream for an aspiring narco terrorist. It was like getting a graduate degree in cartel ops.' Never Miss a Beat! Subscribe to Los Angeles Magazine's The Daily Brief for daily updates delivered straight to your inbox. Join below or by clicking here.
CBC
28-03-2025
- CBC
Alleged accomplice in fugitive ex-Olympian case denied bail
An alleged accomplice of Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding has been denied bail, Ontario Superior Court heard on Friday. Former trucker Gurpreet Singh is accused of helping to co-ordinate cocaine shipments from California to Canada on behalf of Wedding's alleged crime ring. He faces extradition to the U.S., where prosecutors want him to stand trial on drug-related charges. In his written decision, Justice Michael Dineen wrote that Singh "has a very strong incentive to flee to avoid a potential sentence greater than 20 years in the United States." The allegations against Singh suggest he has connections with international criminal organizations, including in Mexico, Dubai and Colombia, the decision reads. Dineen wrote the court does not have a "credible picture" of Singh's financial situation, and whether he has any funds he could use to flee the country. "The record before me considered as whole gives rise to an obvious concern that Mr. Singh may have a large and unknown further amount of concealed illegal income," he said. Defence had proposed strict house arrest The defence had proposed a strict house arrest release to Singh's parents' home, with GPS monitoring and the supervision of three sureties, including his parents and a family friend. But Dineen wrote that "it is not realistic to expect this bail plan to stop Mr. Singh from disabling the GPS monitor, getting in a vehicle and effectively disappearing if he had the motivation and resources to do so." U.S. prosecutors had warned against granting bail to Singh, who is one of Wedding's four co-defendants in custody in Ontario. They suggested in a recent letter submitted to the Ontario court that Singh, 31, owes a debt to Wedding over a kidnapping incident. WATCH | $10 million US reward offered for information leading to Ryan Wedding's arrest: Ryan Wedding's path from Olympian to most-wanted fugitive 16 days ago Duration 6:03 Ryan Wedding once represented Canada as an Olympic snowboarder; now he's accused of being a drug kingpin and is on the FBI's most wanted list — with a $10 million US reward being offered for information leading to his arrest. CBC's Thomas Daigle traces his shocking path from the top of the slopes to the underworld. Prosecutors argued Wedding took credit for negotiating Singh's release last summer after he was kidnapped by cartel members in Sinaloa, Mexico over a $600,000 drug debt. "Wedding should not be granted access to an additional loyalist through the release of Singh on bail," Los Angeles-based assistant U.S. attorneys Maria Jhai and Lyndsi Allsop recently wrote. Singh was arrested in October 2024.
