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The Sun
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Who is Ben Holbrough and when is the model joining Love Island 2025?
BEN Holbrough not only loves to show off his six pack on social media, he says he's prepared to go all the way in the famous villa. He has even worked out a plan of action for if and when he gets some action on the show — here's everything we know about him. 3 Who is Ben Holbrough Ben Holbrough is a private hire taxi driver and model from Gloucester. He's already admitted he's not afraid of having a cheeky romp on Love Island 2025. The 23-year-old is one of the latest batch of singletons looking for love on the ITV2 dating show. Not only is he up for getting down and dirty on Love Island, Ben has even worked out a cheeky way to hide his bedroom antics. He said: "I can never say never, you know, you gotta take every day as it comes. "Who knows if there's a girl and I'm sharing a bed with her and she's sexy... it could get carried away." The 6ft 2in model added: "The hideaway is there for the taking as well, so we'll wait and see. "I've already told my family that I will try and keep it as PG as possible, because I have my niece watching, so I do need to make an effort to keep it PG. "But then again, there's nothing wrong with just putting a quick cover over, so I could just do that and people will think we're just having a quick cuddle, and that that is all it was." But he would also go to great lengths to avoid cheating: Love Island shock as girl is dumped from show in most brutal launch twist EVER 'If I've got loyalty to a girl, I would do my absolute best to go and sleep outside on my own. 'But if we're kind of 50/50, and there's five new girls coming in, it's going to be hard not to just, you know. 'Basically, I've got to go and say hello, we've got to get to know each other, so at least we'll see when we're there I guess.' Ben regularly shows off his six pack on social media in mirror selfies. His Instagram already boasts over 14k followers as of June 9, 2025 — a number that is expected to skyrocket during his time on the show. In a video on his Star Now modelling page, Ben said: "My main line of work is modelling, which I've been doing for about five or six years now. "But when I'm not doing that, my hobbies are either going to the gym or playing football." Ben already has a connection to the world of reality TV — he's followed on Instagram by Married At First Sight star Lacey Martin. When is Ben Holbrough joining Love Island 2025? Ben is in the starting lineup for the show's 12th season, which kicks off at 9pm on Monday, June 9, 2025. He's one of the main batch of contestants entering the Love Island villa at the very start of the series, instead of joining the cast as a bombshell later on. Love Island 2025 full lineup Harry Cooksley: A 29-year-old footballer with charm to spare. Sophie Lee: A model and motivational speaker who has overcome adversity after suffering life-changing burns in an accident. Shakira Khan: A 22-year-old Manchester-based model, ready to turn heads. Blu Chegini: A boxer with striking model looks, seeking love in the villa. Megan Moore: A payroll specialist from Southampton, looking for someone tall and stylish. Alima Gagigo: International business graduate with brains and ambition. Tommy Bradley: A gym enthusiast with a big heart. Helena Ford: A Londoner with celebrity connections, aiming to find someone funny or Northern. Ben Hullbra: A model ready to make waves. Megan Clarke: An Irish actress already drawing comparisons to Maura Higgins. Dejon Noel-Williams: A personal trainer and semi-pro footballer, following in his footballer father's footsteps. Aaron Buckett: A towering 6'5' personal trainer. Conor Phillips: A 25-year-old Irish rugby pro Antonia Laites: Love Island's first bombshell revealed as sexy Las Vegas pool party waitress. Rose Selway: Beauty salon owner from Devon who runs 12 aesthetics clinics, boasting a famous clientele including former Love Islanders Departures:
Malay Mail
5 days ago
- General
- Malay Mail
Man jailed in Singapore for punching taxi driver, fined for separate food court scuffle
SINGAPORE, June 6 — A 41-year-old man who punched a taxi driver in a fit of road rage and later shoved a man at a food court was sentenced to five days' jail and fined S$2,500 (RM8,220) yesterday. According to Channel News Asia (CNA), Silas Yu Ming'En lashed out at the 66-year-old cabbie after the latter overtook him at a traffic junction in Choa Chu Kang. He then assaulted a second victim months later in a separate incident at Bukit Panjang Plaza. Yu pleaded guilty to two counts of voluntarily causing hurt, while an additional charge of using threatening behaviour was taken into consideration for sentencing. According to the facts of the case, on April 9, 2024, Yu was driving along Choa Chu Kang North 5 when a taxi driver came to a stop behind him at a red light. After the light turned green, the taxi overtook Yu, having found him to be driving slowly. When both vehicles stopped again at the junction of Choa Chu Kang North 5 and Choa Chu Kang Street 53, Yu got out of his car to confront the driver. The cabbie rolled down his window after Yu knocked on it, prompting a heated exchange. Yu demanded that the driver step out of the vehicle. When he refused, Yu reached through the open window in an attempt to unbuckle his seatbelt and tried to force the door open. He then punched the driver, causing a superficial abrasion on the man's right arm. The injury was later assessed at a polyclinic. CNA also reported that on December 29, 2024, Yu was involved in another altercation — this time at a food court in Bukit Panjang Plaza. While walking past a 30-year-old man, Yu said 'excuse me' in a manner the other man found rude. The man tapped Yu on the shoulder and said, 'Can you don't be so rude?' before walking off. But Yu followed him, pushing him twice in the chest and causing him to hit his lower back against a pillar. Although the man attempted to walk away, Yu continued pursuing him until members of the public stepped in. The man suffered a bruise on his lower back. Yu has since paid the food court victim S$160 in compensation. The taxi driver, however, could not provide a figure for his medical expenses. In court, Yu, who was unrepresented, read a letter expressing remorse. 'I deeply regret any harm caused,' he said. 'I take full responsibility ... I will learn from this experience and not repeat such behaviour.' For each count of voluntarily causing hurt, Yu could have been jailed for up to three years, fined up to S$5,000, or both.
Irish Times
03-06-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
Only Our Taxis Run Free - Frank McNally on a funny thing that happened on the way to the Goldsmith Festival
Collecting a rental car to drive to the Goldsmith Festival on Saturday, but running late, I had to get a taxi for a distance I would usually walk and found myself in the company of a very friendly driver from Bangladesh. He'd been in Ireland 19 years and, as I told him, his accent was now located halfway between Dhaka and Dublin. But he had an extraordinarily sunny disposition for a Dublin taximan, which was infectious. As always when meeting people from other parts of the world, I tried to remember all the things I knew about his country, which wasn't many, but enough that the driver seemed delighted about that too. In the back of my unworthy mind, of course, I suspected he was only being friendly in the hopes of a tip. Hence my surprise when we got to the rental car place and he turned the meter off waved away my offers to pay with a smiling 'no charge'. READ MORE Guessing the fare would have been only seven or eight euro, I now determined to throw him a €10 note as I got out. Except I only had a twenty. 'Here – give me a tenner back out of that,' I tried to insist. But still he refused. Humbled, I shook his hand and thanked him, remembering that the talk I had to give later would be under the theme – from The Deserted Village - 'Where wealth accumulates and men decay.' There was one man who was in no danger of decomposition, I thought, as the only Dublin taxi driver ever to give me a freebie drove off. *** On the bill before me in Ballymahon, Professor David O'Shaughnessy discussed 'The Benefits of Goldsmith'. This was a play on words, for while implying that Goldsmith is good for you, O'Shaughnessy's talk turned out to be on the fascinating subject of 18th century theatrical economics, and specifically the 'benefit nights' by which playwrights earned their share of the profits. In the case of his classic comedy, She Stoops to Conquer, those were good for Goldsmith. But the play succeeded against the odds, and even against the hostility of the Covent Garden Theatre manager, George Colman, who didn't want to stage it. With the author too nervous to attend opening night, meanwhile, his friends led by Samuel Johnson organised a counter conspiracy to ensure success. Central to their plot was a man who, according to Johnson's biographer James Boswell, 'was gifted by nature with the most sonorous, and at the same time the most contagious, laugh that ever echoed from the human lungs.' This two-legged hyena was also, however, somewhat deficient in wit, and would not by himself know which bits of the play were funny. So the plan was to wait for Johnson to laugh, whereupon Boswell would nudge the hyena – placed in a box where he would be seen and heard by the whole theatre - into action. It worked well for a while, until the laughing began to draw more attention than the play. Boswell urged his neighbour to tone it down, but it was too late. Having not recognised any jokes at the start, the hyena now found every line hilarious. 'These were dangerous moments, for the pit began to take umbrage,' recalled Boswell, 'but we carried our play through, and triumphed not only over Colman's judgment but our own.' *** I was too late for the Saturday morning tour of Goldsmith Country, which was to include the 'hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade/For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made'. So I'm not sure how confident the guide was – or could be – about whether it was the right bush. The same question arose 125 years ago when William Bulfin did the tour, as later recorded in his travelogue Rambles in Eirinn. Then, his guide was adamant:'Well, that's the hawthorn tree. Some people that doesn't know the differ will tell you that it is the bush there to the left, farther away; and some visitors believes them and marches off with sprigs from the wrong bush. Aren't you going over to get a sprig?' But Bulfin wasn't interested in sprigs because he thought the whole concept of Goldsmith Country existed only in Goldsmith's mind until later relocated to England. He was especially dismissive of the notion that 'Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain' was located anywhere in the Ireland of the Penal Laws. If it was, Bulfin argued, there is no way the villagers could ever have been as happy as Goldsmith remembered them, even before a greedy landlord ruined everything. *** Bulfin wrote some of his Irish dispatches for Arthur Griffith's newspaper Sinn Féin. Which reminds me, too late to mention it the taxi driver, of what must be the most extraordinary fact in the history of Irish-Bangladeshi relations. Namely that in 1930, inspired by events in Dublin 14 years earlier, Bengali rebels staged an uprising against British rule in Chittagong, now Bangladesh's second city. They called themselves the Indian Republican Army (IRA), took over buildings until overwhelmed by superior force, and timed it for Easter, symbolically, even though none of them were Christians. But maybe the taxi driver knew all this already and, by refusing to charge me, was doing his own bit to make Ireland free.
CTV News
02-06-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Montreal woman says she was scammed by driver posing as Uber at Trudeau Airport
A woman says she was overcharged after a driver posing as her Uber picked her up at the airport. A woman says she was the victim of a scheme at Montreal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, claiming she was misled by someone posing as her ride-share driver. After landing at Trudeau Airport last weekend, Lindsay Myers ordered an Uber to return home to Pointe-Saint-Charles and headed to the designated pick-up zone. 'It kept saying, 'I'm trying to find a car.' It was trying to find a car for the longest time. And I was saying okay,' she explained. The Uber app didn't find a driver but gave her a PIN number that matched the passenger and the car. An airport employee then directed her to a waiting car. 'And I was like, okay, but how do I know that that's my car?' Once in the car, the driver took off. 'He had no idea where I was going. So, the first thing that happened was he was opening up his phone and he said, 'the Uber application is not working. It's broken. So, we're just going to forget that,'' she said. Myers typed her address, expecting she would pay the standard $41 flat fee for a downtown ride. She said she let her guard down because the driver was friendly. 'Because he was a nice guy. He was chatty with me,' Myers noted. But after reaching her destination, the driver had a surprise for her. 'And he pointed to it. He said, 'by the way, that's the taxi fare, $55.'' She said she assumed she was with an Uber driver, but it turns out he was a taxi driver and charged her the higher flat fee of $55. Myers even added a $5 tip and paid with her debit card. 'At home I checked and it said $115.60. And I said, 'What on earth happened?' And so I immediately knew that he had overcharged me,' Myers said. CTV News contacted Trudeau Airport, which said it was surprised by the incident. To reduce attempted scams and illegal drivers, the airport only accepts a limited number of taxis with specific permission to serve the airport. There's also a second Uber line where employees make sure passengers get into the right car. However, in a statement, the airport said that passengers have to take basic precautions. 'Travellers using Uber must make sure that the car and the driver match what the app says.' CTV News contacted Uber, and it confirmed that it uses PIN numbers that guarantee the driver can be traced, regardless of the circumstances. The airport authority says it's not impossible that rogue drivers still find a way to circumvent the system. When illegal drivers are caught, they face a $5,000 fine. Except Myers says, she doesn't know the identity of her driver. Luckily, she was able to get a chargeback for the unauthorized amount she paid. Myers is now warning other passengers to be wary next time they take a taxi or an Uber from the airport.
BreakingNews.ie
26-05-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Man jailed after hijacking a taxi driven by a 75-year-old in Co Cork
A father of five who was part of a group of men who hijacked a taxi in Cork, threatened its 75-year-old driver with a knife and bundled him out of the vehicle has been jailed for four years. Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that the taxi driver felt that he was 'going to die' on the evening of January 26th, 2024 when he was subjected to the 'terrifying' ordeal. Advertisement One of the three men who got into his taxi in the city put a knife up to his face and neck and threatened him. He was subsequently thrown out of the vehicle at Monard in Rathpeacon, Co Cork. Judge Helen Boyle said that Anthony Hornibrook (39) was one of three men who had caused considerable trauma to the taxi driver. She told Mr Hornibrook (39) that she had viewed the 'terrifying' dashcam footage of what had occurred. 'The front seat passenger, your co-accused put a knife to his (the taxi driver's) face and neck. The taxi driver tried to reason with him. There was a scuffle and the taxi driver got a cut to his hand and lip. Advertisement "The 75-year-old taxi driver was left at the side of the road and had to be rescued by kind people.' Judge Boyle referenced the heartfelt and eloquent victim impact statement of the taxi driver. She described him as being a 'brave man' who had never experienced an incident of this kind in 35 years of driving taxis in Cork. The taxi driver had told her that the assault on him was 'life-changing' and that the 'trauma' of the incident would never leave him. He said that the men had stolen his livelihood and that he was 'not the same person.' The taxi driver said that he was extremely grateful to the people who went to his assistance when he was injured, having been bundled out of his vehicle. Advertisement He added that in addition to the trauma suffered, the men 'stole his livelihood' and caused him a financial burden. Mr Hornibrook of Killala Gardens, Knocknaheeny in Cork, previously pleaded guilty to a number of charges. The hijacking incident was the most serious of the charges he faced. It stated that by threat of force or intimidation, he threatened the taxi driver that he would be stabbed with the ca,r then being seized. There was a charge of driving a stolen car at Davis Street, Mallow, Co Cork Cork on January 27th, 2024. Mr Hornibrook also pleaded guilty to four shoplifting offences, all of which occurred between January 20th and 30th, 2024. Advertisement Ireland Woman (29) jailed for setting her neighbour's car... Read More He stole goods totalling €370 from Blarney Woollen Mills, €925 at JD Sports in Mahon Point, €378 at Dunnes in Merchant's Quay and €390 at Tommy Hilfiger in Cork city. The court heard that the thefts occurred as part of a 'ten-day spree' which the accused undertook to pay for drugs. Judge Boyle was told that Mr Hornibrook was drug-free and doing well in prison. She jailed him for four and a half years, suspending the final six months of the sentence. She also disqualified Mr Hornibrook from driving for a period of seven years.
