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CBS News
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Lainey Wilson talks impostor syndrome, new single "Somewhere Over Laredo" and finding her "Duck"
Country music star Lainey Wilson has had a whirlwind year. She is fresh off winning four 2025 ACM Awards, including Entertainer of the Year, has just released her new single "Somewhere Over Laredo," and is recently engaged to former NFL player Duck Hodges. Despite all of this and her success, she told "CBS Mornings" she still has impostor syndrome. "At the end of the day, I think everybody is human, and I've absolutely dealt with it," she said. "You know what I've realized over the past year, especially, is that if you're given a gift and you have worked toward receiving that gift, it's important to accept it with an open heart and open mind." The artist praised her fiancée, Hodges, calling him one of her "biggest cheerleaders." "He's the kind of dude that just, he high-fives me on the way in the door and on the way out. He played professional football, and he knows what it's like to work your entire life for something. And so he gets it," Wilson said. "So I had to kiss a bunch of frogs, but I finally found me a duck." Wilson is also venturing into acting, following her appearance on "Yellowstone." She said she never expected to pursue acting but welcomed the creative challenge. "I never in a million years thought I'd be doing movies or acting of any sort. I signed up to write songs and sing country music," Wilson said. "But I feel like there's been so many opportunities that have popped up that I'm like, gosh, I'd be crazy not to take this opportunity." The singer's upcoming North American tour will feature arena and amphitheater performances, a significant step up from her earlier days playing in bars. "It's really wild to watch the crowds get bigger. I feel like, you know, as they do, my team also gets bigger," Wilson said. Why "Somewhere Over Laredo" is her most personal song yet Wilson said the inspiration for her latest song came during her frequent travels. "I spend a lot of my time, 30,000 feet in the air, flying to the next show, the next town. And you know, when you're staring out the window, you get to just spend a little bit of time with yourself and reminisce and dream, talk to God, all of those things," Wilson said. The singer said the song allowed her to "step back into a pair of shoes that I wore a long time ago" and called it one of her favorite songs that she has have ever written. Wilson will perform "Somewhere Over Laredo" live for the first time at the American Music Awards on Monday on CBS and streaming on Paramount+
Times
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The Forbes Family Group wants to give everyone a leg-up
'I have such impostor syndrome sitting at those tables,' Danielle Forbes says, putting a hand to her chest. 'The other day we were leaving Soho House after an event and I saw [the comedian] Judi Love. I couldn't believe she was there. I'm such a massive fan. And then she said, 'Oh my God, it's Danielle from FFG!', and I couldn't believe she knew who I was. I nearly passed out.' You might not know who Danielle Forbes is, but plenty of others do. The joint chief executive of the Forbes Family Group (FFG) is perhaps better known as the wife of Dean Forbes, a multimillionaire recently named the most influential black person in the UK, knocking the former British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful off the top of the Powerlist 2025. 'I feel that a lot. I think, how do you know me?' she says. 'But it's those rooms we are creating, it's becoming so much bigger, and people are watching and wanting to be in those rooms.' Those rooms are the events that Danielle creates with her co-chief executive, Davina Forbes-Williamson, Dean's cousin. Danielle, who is softly spoken, perhaps a bit shy, is behind FFG's charitable giving — more than £1.7 million since 2020 — while Davina, the co-founder of a talent search agency, is eloquent and punchy, an obvious businesswoman to spear their networking events. Together, FFG covers donations, business events for underrepresented communities and glitzy fundraising galas with Idris Elba and Rio Ferdinand as guests. FFG was sparked by lockdown. 'We were queueing up to get necessities and we thought how difficult this must be for single mums, for those without much money,' Danielle says. Dean had worked his way out of poverty, making his fortune in private equity. They were doing very well, so decided they wanted to give back. 'Growing up in single-parent households,' she continues, 'that was something that was dear to our hearts.' Dean was raised on a housing estate in Catford, southeast London, caring for his siblings and mother, who has muscular dystrophy, while Danielle's mother was also on her own, looking after three daughters on a council estate in Battersea. 'We didn't have much money. I felt I didn't have what other kids have.' That's very much not the case for their three children. Danielle met Dean when they were 18, when he was trying (and failing) to make a career as a footballer. Danielle owned her own flat and car, and had a job as an executive assistant. 'I didn't mind, but he felt insecure about it. But it worked. We fell in love very young and we didn't have very much, which is why it's so important to give back now that we can.' Giving back tends to focus on personal causes such as raising awareness around leukaemia, which one of their twin daughters was diagnosed with when she was two. 'It was a horrible time: she was in hospital for a year, and had chemo and many blood transfusions.' The experience showed Danielle that there is a particular lack of awareness around blood donations among the Afro-Caribbean community. 'We donated to the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust for years, but starting FFG was a game-changer.' Last year's FFG gala raised £435,000 for it in one night. Other charities they support include Power the Fight, a community programme to end youth violence (a particular problem where Dean grew up), and Mentivity, which provides mentoring and holiday clubs for underprivileged children. • How more of us are leaving £1m gifts to charity Davina is passionate about the business side of things; she has acted as an unofficial career coach to Dean over the years. 'When football wasn't working out I told him to get a job,' she says cheerfully. She now focuses on FFG's investment and connection programmes, aimed at underrepresented entrepreneurs, mostly people of colour. 'It's about socioeconomic disparity and lack of access,' she says. 'We'd spent years acting as mentors to family friends needing advice. We wanted to do that for more people and provide wider access to our networks.' They started organising Radar events, inviting prominent people such as the technology millionaire Duane Jackson and the software chief executive Elona Mortimer-Zhika to speak on stage and then network with the audience for two hours afterwards. They have also launched a pitching programme, where applicants are guided by industry bigwigs and the winners are awarded £45,000 investment between them for their fledgling businesses — a sort of kinder version of The Apprentice. Really it's about connecting people, facilitating the kind of advice and mentorship that's usually the reserve of the privileged. 'We know the value of having people around who can support you, inspire you, give you a kick up the bum,' Davina says. 'At the core we are family, and we know how much that support means.'
Times
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Actress Helen Behan: I call Stephen Graham my ‘brother'
When Helen Behan and Brendan Gleeson were jointly given honorary fellowships by the nursing faculty of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in February, she had a confession to make to the older actor. Behan, who started acting after a chance encounter in a pub in Co Meath, could not shrug off her feeling of impostor syndrome. 'I wandered in off the street into acting,' she told him. 'I have this guilt because other people train really hard and maybe don't get the opportunities I did.' Gleeson was having none of it. 'You have to park that feeling,' he replied. 'Accept it and get on with life.' Behan was being honoured for her services as a nurse while Gleeson was being recognised for
