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The Irish Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
MAFS UK star finds love with foot fetish model two years after marrying ‘most hated' bride who cheated on him on show
The star has been looking for love – and may have finally found it A NEW MATCH MAFS UK star finds love with foot fetish model two years after marrying 'most hated' bride who cheated on him on show MARRIED At First Sign star Duka Cavolli has found new romance three years after the collapse of his TV marriage with a 'findom' foot fetish model that rakes in up to £2,000 A DAY. The star appeared on the 2022 series of the E4 reality show favourite, marrying Whitney Hughes – which quickly collapsed when she cheated on him with another groom in the experiment. 6 Duka went Instagram official with his new girlfriend Credit: Instagram/dukacav 6 Duka and Whitney's marriage quickly became doomed Credit: Simon Johns Advertisement 6 Duka's marriage ended when Whitney cheated on him with another groom Credit: Channel 4 Mocking her groom's Yugoslavian name, Whitney was seen rolling her eyes at their vows, with things quickly going downhill from there. Whitney called going on the show the "worst thing I've ever done in my f***ing life" with the pair failing to find any rapport. While his marriage seemed doomed from the start, Duka has now gone public with his new relationship, sharing photographs of his weekend away at Boomtown Festival with new girlfriend, Lola Sharp. Advertisement Sharing cosy pictures together, he wrote: "Adventures with this one ❤️" and showed them covered in glitter as they celebrated the event. Friends and followers were delighted for the pair, with one writing: "Dukkkkkaaaaaaa 🙌 Love this! Enjoy your adventures 🤍" "You guys are just the cutest 🥰 " said another, with Duka responding: "good energy all around 🙌❤️" Lola is making a killing on OnlyFans as a 'mistress', with submissive men paying her hundreds of pounds a go for her to speak down to them and show them images of her feet. Advertisement The men, who are referred to in the findom (financial domination) world as paypigs, call her Mistress and Goddess, willingly bending to her financial demands. "Whatever Lola wants… Lola gets," she declares on her site, describing herself as a "bratty, luxurious domme next door — with thick thighs, pretty feet, and a fat ass." Her Instagram account is full of teasing pictures showing Lola in heels and pulling of dirty socks to expose her bare feet. Married At First Sight UK first look- Duka horrifies cast as Whitney prepares to dump him in commitment ceremony On one occasion last year, she revealed she raked in $713 (£515) before lunchtime, joking: "Just another day of having no self respect." She also showed screen grabs of men tipping her $150 just to sneak a look at the soles of her feet, and sending her gifts including jewellery worth hundreds of pounds from an Amazon Wishlist. Advertisement Even her ticket and budget for Boomtown - which came in at a costly £1,000 – was completely crowdfunded by her work. 6 Lola rakes in thousands a day as a financial dominant on Instagram and OnlyFans Credit: Instagram/dukacav 6 Duka and Whitney's marriage completely collapsed on the show Credit: Channel 4
Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
MAFS UK star finds love with foot fetish model two years after marrying ‘most hated' bride who cheated on him on show
The star has been looking for love – and may have finally found it A NEW MATCH MAFS UK star finds love with foot fetish model two years after marrying 'most hated' bride who cheated on him on show Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) MARRIED At First Sign star Duka Cavolli has found new romance three years after the collapse of his TV marriage with a 'findom' foot fetish model that rakes in up to £2,000 A DAY. The star appeared on the 2022 series of the E4 reality show favourite, marrying Whitney Hughes – which quickly collapsed when she cheated on him with another groom in the experiment. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 6 Duka went Instagram official with his new girlfriend Credit: Instagram/dukacav 6 Duka and Whitney's marriage quickly became doomed Credit: Simon Johns 6 Duka's marriage ended when Whitney cheated on him with another groom Credit: Channel 4 Mocking her groom's Yugoslavian name, Whitney was seen rolling her eyes at their vows, with things quickly going downhill from there. Whitney called going on the show the "worst thing I've ever done in my f***ing life" with the pair failing to find any rapport. While his marriage seemed doomed from the start, Duka has now gone public with his new relationship, sharing photographs of his weekend away at Boomtown Festival with new girlfriend, Lola Sharp. Sharing cosy pictures together, he wrote: "Adventures with this one ❤️" and showed them covered in glitter as they celebrated the event. Friends and followers were delighted for the pair, with one writing: "Dukkkkkaaaaaaa 🙌 Love this! Enjoy your adventures 🤍" "You guys are just the cutest 🥰 " said another, with Duka responding: "good energy all around 🙌❤️" Lola is making a killing on OnlyFans as a 'mistress', with submissive men paying her hundreds of pounds a go for her to speak down to them and show them images of her feet. The men, who are referred to in the findom (financial domination) world as paypigs, call her Mistress and Goddess, willingly bending to her financial demands. "Whatever Lola wants… Lola gets," she declares on her site, describing herself as a "bratty, luxurious domme next door — with thick thighs, pretty feet, and a fat ass." Her Instagram account is full of teasing pictures showing Lola in heels and pulling of dirty socks to expose her bare feet. Married At First Sight UK first look- Duka horrifies cast as Whitney prepares to dump him in commitment ceremony On one occasion last year, she revealed she raked in $713 (£515) before lunchtime, joking: "Just another day of having no self respect." She also showed screen grabs of men tipping her $150 just to sneak a look at the soles of her feet, and sending her gifts including jewellery worth hundreds of pounds from an Amazon Wishlist. Even her ticket and budget for Boomtown - which came in at a costly £1,000 – was completely crowdfunded by her work. 6 Lola rakes in thousands a day as a financial dominant on Instagram and OnlyFans Credit: Instagram/dukacav 6 Duka and Whitney's marriage completely collapsed on the show Credit: Channel 4
Leader Live
11-07-2025
- Sport
- Leader Live
Wrexham legend Smallman can tell you all about Melbourne!
The former Wrexham striker, whose goals famously took Wrexham to the FA Cup quarter-finals in 1974, emigrated to Australia in 1982, and played for Melbourne-based Green Gully. The Reds kick off their Down Under tour against Melbourne Victory this morning in what should be a packed Marvel Stadium. And that's such a contrast to what it was like for goal-getter Smallman more than 40 years ago. 'It wasn't exactly coats for goalposts but it wasn't far off!' said Smallman, recalling his move from North Wales to Victoria. He convinced wife, Barbara, to make the big move and Australia was home for six years with his two children, David and Jennifer, both born in Melbourne. 'It was my uncle who first gave me the idea,' added Smallman, whose return to Wrexham on a two-year contract was ruined by another freak injury that dogged his career. 'He'd gone out to Melbourne on a £10-assisted package. He was an engineer and went on to become head mechanic at Qantas.' Smallman's top flight days at Everton, who paid Wrexham £76,000 for the Flintshire-born striker in 1975, had been thwarted by injury. 'I was at Everton for five years and I was injured for four years and three months of that time,' said Smallman. 'Arfon Griffiths wanted to sign me back and I was playing in the reserves. We had a game at Port Vale one Saturday morning and I'd tried to put the goalkeeper off by standing in front of him - like you used to be able to do - when he took a kick out of his hands. 'I turned round and he belted the ball right into my back. It almost ballooned back over him and went just over the bar. 'I carried on playing but my back was really hurting - it turned out I'd broken a rib. 'So the Wrexham return didn't come off so Charles Roberts - the former Wrexham director - was chairman at Bangor City and invited me to play there where Graham Whittle and Peter Williams were playing. 'It was alright but then the Australia opportunity came up and I ended up playing for a team called Green Gully. 'They were a Maltese team - and that's what it was like over there at the time. You had Yugoslavian teams, there was an Italian team called Juventus and another Maltese side called Green Cross. They were bitter rivals and it always kicked off against them!' Smallman's injury jinx struck again and an ankle ligament injury ruled him out for the first five weeks. 'It was unbelievable and obviously they weren't impressed,' added Smallman, now aged 72 and living in Minera. 'When I returned I went in for a diving header; the keeper caught me with his shin and I had 26 stitches in my lip with my nostril hanging off!' There was no national league in Australia back in the Eighties but there was success for Green Gully in the Victoria State League. 'We won the league and in my last season there, I was player-manager,' said Smallman. 'We won the treble and I scored a last minute goal in the final game of the season to win the league. 'The highlight was playing a cup final in front of 25,000 at the Olympic Stadium. We beat a German team called Heidelberg and I scored twice and set up the other three in a 5-0 win. 'Obviously I was working out there as well as playing - we'd get about 50 dollars a game - and ended up at Monsanto - the same group that had a factory in Acrefair - but my days ended at Green Gully when Jimmy Rooney, who'd play 100 times for Australia, came in as manager. 'We didn't get on and I played for a Greek team called Western Suburbs and then for the team where I lived in Melton. ' I remember my mum and dad coming out while I was playing and it was great for my dad to see me score in one of the games.' But by 1988 and after Smallman had come back home after having a beer following training, the conversation turned to: 'Do you want to go home?' And that's exactly what the Smallman family did as they boomeranged back for a new adventure back home in north Wales. Smallman did play a few games for Colwyn Bay but at 36, he knew it was time to finally hang up those boots!
San Francisco Chronicle
26-06-2025
- Politics
- San Francisco Chronicle
Brazil agrees to compensate family of journalist killed during dictatorship 50 years ago
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's government on Thursday signed a landmark agreement accepting responsibility for the killing of Vladimir Herzog, a prominent journalist and political prisoner whom the military dictatorship falsely claimed had killed himself while in custody 50 years ago. Herzog's family celebrated the official admission of liability, which involved the government agreeing to pay them compensation. 'This apology is not merely symbolic,' the journalist's son, Ivo Herzog, said from the Vladimir Herzog Institute in Sao Paulo, an organization dedicated to preserving his memory. 'It is an act by the state that makes us believe the current Brazilian state doesn't think like the Brazilian state of that time.' Under the settlement, the government will pay nearly 3 million Brazilian reais (about $544,800) to the Herzog family as compensation for moral damages. The agreement also includes retroactive payments of a monthly pension to Herzog's widow, Clarice Herzog, from a prior court order. Along with Rubens Paiva — whose story was portrayed in the 2025 Oscar-winning picture 'I'm Still Here'— Herzog's case became a national symbol of the fight to bring justice to the victims of the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. Official estimates put the number of dead and missing during the regime at 434. Herzog, commonly known by his nickname Vlado, was a Jewish journalist born in 1937 in Osijek, a Yugoslavian city that is now part of Croatia. His family escaped the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941 and settled in Brazil. Herzog was the news director of a São Paulo television station — the state-run TV Cultura — when, in October 1975, intelligence agents summoned him for questioning on suspicion that he had ties to the outlawed Communist Party. Herzog, who had denied any connection to the Communist Party, walked into the Sao Paulo intelligence headquarters to testify and never came out. At the time, the Brazilian military claimed he had hanged himself in his cell with a belt. The government released a public photo of his body, which was later proven to have been staged. Jorge Messias, Brazil's federal legal counselor, praised the agreement Thursday as representative of Brazil's commitment to democracy. 'Today, we are witnessing something unprecedented: The Brazilian state formally honoring the memory of Vladimir Herzog," he said. Messias said the agreement held particular significance in this moment of tumult for Brazil's democracy. Military officers accused of plotting a coup to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro in power despite his failure to win re-election in 2022 are standing trial in a historic case before the Supreme Court, 'In the 2022 election, we stood at a crossroads: Either to reaffirm democracy or move toward the closure of the Brazilian state, with all the horrors we lived through for 21 years,' Messias said. Ivo Herzog said the settlement closes a painful chapter in his family's decades-long fight for justice. In 1978, a court ruling issued while Brazil was still under dictatorship ordered an investigation into the circumstances of his father's death. In 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found Brazil guilty of crimes against humanity for Herzog's killing and prevented the case from expiring under the statute of limitations. The ruling also required the state to acknowledge and formally apologize for the crime but it didn't at the time. 'This has been a struggle not only of the Herzog family, but of all the families of the murdered and disappeared,' Ivo Herzog said. ____
26-06-2025
- Politics
Brazil agrees to compensate family of journalist killed during dictatorship 50 years ago
SAO PAULO -- Brazil's government on Thursday signed a landmark agreement accepting responsibility for the killing of Vladimir Herzog, a prominent journalist and political prisoner whom the military dictatorship falsely claimed had killed himself while in custody 50 years ago. Herzog's family celebrated the official admission of liability, which involved the government agreeing to pay them compensation. 'This apology is not merely symbolic,' the journalist's son, Ivo Herzog, said from the Vladimir Herzog Institute in Sao Paulo, an organization dedicated to preserving his memory. 'It is an act by the state that makes us believe the current Brazilian state doesn't think like the Brazilian state of that time.' Under the settlement, the government will pay nearly 3 million Brazilian reais (about $544,800) to the Herzog family as compensation for moral damages. The agreement also includes retroactive payments of a monthly pension to Herzog's widow, Clarice Herzog, from a prior court order. Along with Rubens Paiva — whose story was portrayed in the 2025 Oscar-winning picture 'I'm Still Here'— Herzog's case became a national symbol of the fight to bring justice to the victims of the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. Official estimates put the number of dead and missing during the regime at 434. Herzog, commonly known by his nickname Vlado, was a Jewish journalist born in 1937 in Osijek, a Yugoslavian city that is now part of Croatia. His family escaped the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941 and settled in Brazil. Herzog was the news director of a São Paulo television station — the state-run TV Cultura — when, in October 1975, intelligence agents summoned him for questioning on suspicion that he had ties to the outlawed Communist Party. Herzog, who had denied any connection to the Communist Party, walked into the Sao Paulo intelligence headquarters to testify and never came out. At the time, the Brazilian military claimed he had hanged himself in his cell with a belt. The government released a public photo of his body, which was later proven to have been staged. Jorge Messias, Brazil's federal legal counselor, praised the agreement Thursday as representative of Brazil's commitment to democracy. 'Today, we are witnessing something unprecedented: The Brazilian state formally honoring the memory of Vladimir Herzog," he said. Messias said the agreement held particular significance in this moment of tumult for Brazil's democracy. Military officers accused of plotting a coup to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro in power despite his failure to win re-election in 2022 are standing trial in a historic case before the Supreme Court, 'In the 2022 election, we stood at a crossroads: Either to reaffirm democracy or move toward the closure of the Brazilian state, with all the horrors we lived through for 21 years,' Messias said. Ivo Herzog said the settlement closes a painful chapter in his family's decades-long fight for justice. In 1978, a court ruling issued while Brazil was still under dictatorship ordered an investigation into the circumstances of his father's death. In 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found Brazil guilty of crimes against humanity for Herzog's killing and prevented the case from expiring under the statute of limitations. The ruling also required the state to acknowledge and formally apologize for the crime but it didn't at the time. 'This has been a struggle not only of the Herzog family, but of all the families of the murdered and disappeared,' Ivo Herzog said.
