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The Irish Sun
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Meg ‘is copying celebs AGAIN & they won't be happy – she'll get in trouble if she doesn't do something original'
MEGHAN Markle has been accused of copying celebrities again with her new wine. The Duchess of Sussex, 43, has added Rosé wine to her range of As ever products - which is her first alcoholic beverage. 5 Meghan Markle is launching a new brand of rosé wine Credit: Arthur Edwards / The Sun 5 The wine is part of her As Ever brand Credit: As Ever 5 Hugo Vickers has slammed the launch Credit: Alamy Hugo Vickers is a royal expert, known for his books on the The expert kicked out against Meghan's new drink which is part of her brand As Ever, which includes her jam range. However, Hugo issued an urgent warning to the Duchess, advising her to make sure that her rosé is different enough to the slew of celebrity alcohol brands which have been released in recent years. Hugo said: 'And that's where you've got to be jolly careful. Read More on Meghan Markle 'Because if you start just sort of taking other people's products and putting your name on it - I'm not saying that she's absolutely exactly done that - if you do something even by accident, then you're going to get into trouble. 'Because people who are less successful, who are selling them or the same thing and seeing them going out under her name, they won't like that definitely.' He added: 'If you like rosé wine, you'll probably find that you've got a particular one that you like, and I must admit I wouldn't be tempted to go for hers. 'I don't know what hers is, how hers is going to be so different from anybody else's. Most read in Royals 'It's probably going to be more expensive because it has a sort of brand on it.' He also claimed that much of her popularity can be attributed to her famous husband. Hugo said: 'Prince Harry gives it a kind of a soap opera element which would otherwise be lacking, because, as you say, there are numerous other celebrities launching products, and you know you see them here and there, and you may be interested in them. Meghan's kids will be SO angry when they grow up & realise how they were used by her 'You may like the star who's put their name to it, and you might buy it for that reason.' The expert added that He said: 'I don't think it's going to concern him very much. 'I think he's probably much more interested in getting to Ascot and seeing whether one of his horses does well.' She also went viral for her remark that every 'failure' is actually a 'success'. However, Hugo slammed the comment - saying: 'She must have been doing an awful lot of winning recently, because quite a lot of the things that she's done have not been wildly successful.' He added: 'I think you do better actually by winning than failing.' Hugo also had a great tip for readers who are in the market for a new rosé. He said: 'Buy the palest kind of rosés that you can find, and those do tend to be rather more expensive, and don't buy the ones that look like syrup, because they're horrible. 'But there is a huge different range of rosés, so I don't entirely blame her for having a go at that one especially. 'Listen, we're talking on probably The Sun has approached Meghan and Harry's representatives for comment. The 2023 pink booze from Napa Valley, California, will be sold via her As ever website from July 1. It has been announced alongside two new spreads now available including a Limited-Edition Orange Blossom Honey for $28 (£20). And she has also restocked six of the original products including $15 flower sprinkles. But there is no new raspberry spread available after Meg admitted she may never restock the infamous jam spread. 'COPYCAT' BEHAVIOUR It comes after Pamela Anderson fans accused Meghan of "copying" her Cooking With Love show with her own Netflix cookery programme With Love Meghan - released last month. And in February, the mayoress of Porres in Majorca complained the logo for the Duchess' lifestyle brand, As Ever, resembled her town's historic coat of arms. The town's mayor, Francisca Mora Veny, was considering taking legal action against the royal and has asked Meghan to remove the logo. Ms Mora told The Sun: 'We don't want our coat of arms to be perverted because it belongs exclusively to Porreres. 'The only difference with their logo and our coat of arms is that theirs shows two hummingbirds and in ours are either swallows or pigeons — historians cannot agree. "We will ask Meghan to remove the logo from their website.' Even before Meghan became a member of the British Royal Family, she appeared to be looking to others for inspiration. In her speech for International Women's Day at the UN in 2015, she was accused of lifting whole chunks from one delivered by former First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt. The Sun previously compiled a list of seven times, in fact, that Meghan has 5 Meghan posted a summery snap online to promote her new range Credit: aseverofficial/Instagram 5 She is also selling a new apricot spread, available this summer
Scottish Sun
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Meg ‘is copying celebs AGAIN & they won't be happy – she'll get in trouble if she doesn't do something original'
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) MEGHAN Markle has been accused of copying celebrities again with her new wine. The Duchess of Sussex, 43, has added Rosé wine to her range of As ever products - which is her first alcoholic beverage. 5 Meghan Markle is launching a new brand of rosé wine Credit: Arthur Edwards / The Sun 5 The wine is part of her As Ever brand Credit: As Ever 5 Hugo Vickers has slammed the launch Credit: Alamy Hugo Vickers is a royal expert, known for his books on the Windsors and their ancestors. The expert kicked out against Meghan's new drink which is part of her brand As Ever, which includes her jam range. However, Hugo issued an urgent warning to the Duchess, advising her to make sure that her rosé is different enough to the slew of celebrity alcohol brands which have been released in recent years. Hugo said: 'And that's where you've got to be jolly careful. 'Because if you start just sort of taking other people's products and putting your name on it - I'm not saying that she's absolutely exactly done that - if you do something even by accident, then you're going to get into trouble. 'Because people who are less successful, who are selling them or the same thing and seeing them going out under her name, they won't like that definitely.' He added: 'If you like rosé wine, you'll probably find that you've got a particular one that you like, and I must admit I wouldn't be tempted to go for hers. 'I don't know what hers is, how hers is going to be so different from anybody else's. 'It's probably going to be more expensive because it has a sort of brand on it.' He also claimed that much of her popularity can be attributed to her famous husband. Hugo said: 'Prince Harry gives it a kind of a soap opera element which would otherwise be lacking, because, as you say, there are numerous other celebrities launching products, and you know you see them here and there, and you may be interested in them. Meghan's kids will be SO angry when they grow up & realise how they were used by her 'You may like the star who's put their name to it, and you might buy it for that reason.' The expert added that Meghan's new product won't 'concern' the Prince greatly. He said: 'I don't think it's going to concern him very much. 'I think he's probably much more interested in getting to Ascot and seeing whether one of his horses does well.' Meghan's new wine follows her jam brand, which went viral on social media. She also went viral for her remark that every 'failure' is actually a 'success'. However, Hugo slammed the comment - saying: 'She must have been doing an awful lot of winning recently, because quite a lot of the things that she's done have not been wildly successful.' He added: 'I think you do better actually by winning than failing.' Hugo also had a great tip for readers who are in the market for a new rosé. He said: 'Buy the palest kind of rosés that you can find, and those do tend to be rather more expensive, and don't buy the ones that look like syrup, because they're horrible. 'But there is a huge different range of rosés, so I don't entirely blame her for having a go at that one especially. 'Listen, we're talking on probably one of the hottest days in England, and a glass of ice cold rosé wouldn't go amiss.' The Sun has approached Meghan and Harry's representatives for comment. The 2023 pink booze from Napa Valley, California, will be sold via her As ever website from July 1. It has been announced alongside two new spreads now available including a Limited-Edition Orange Blossom Honey for $28 (£20). And she has also restocked six of the original products including $15 flower sprinkles. But there is no new raspberry spread available after Meg admitted she may never restock the infamous jam spread. 'COPYCAT' BEHAVIOUR It comes after Pamela Anderson fans accused Meghan of "copying" her Cooking With Love show with her own Netflix cookery programme With Love Meghan - released last month. And in February, the mayoress of Porres in Majorca complained the logo for the Duchess' lifestyle brand, As Ever, resembled her town's historic coat of arms. The town's mayor, Francisca Mora Veny, was considering taking legal action against the royal and has asked Meghan to remove the logo. Ms Mora told The Sun: 'We don't want our coat of arms to be perverted because it belongs exclusively to Porreres. 'The only difference with their logo and our coat of arms is that theirs shows two hummingbirds and in ours are either swallows or pigeons — historians cannot agree. "We will ask Meghan to remove the logo from their website.' Even before Meghan became a member of the British Royal Family, she appeared to be looking to others for inspiration. In her speech for International Women's Day at the UN in 2015, she was accused of lifting whole chunks from one delivered by former First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt. The Sun previously compiled a list of seven times, in fact, that Meghan has been accused of being a "copycat". 5 Meghan posted a summery snap online to promote her new range Credit: aseverofficial/Instagram
New Indian Express
15 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New Indian Express
‘Pavangal' sparked EMS's interest in Marxist ideology, says Tharoor
'The fire ignited by Hugo burned brightly in young political minds of the time. The novel stirred a generation not merely to weep, but to act,' he said. Tharoor was speaking at the launch of 'Pardon My French,' book shelf at DC Books store here on Thursday. He also had a conversation with French Ambassador Thierry Mathou at the event. 'Pavangal' changed the very trajectory of Malayalam literature and social thought. 'For the first time, readers here encountered a literary hero like Jean Valjean - broken by systems, redeemed by compassion, awakened to justice. It lit the torch of conscience in countless readers,' he said. The book offered prominent modern novelists Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, O V Vijayan and others a new idiom of empathy, a new narrative possibility, a new lens through which to view the oppressed and the invisible, he said. According to Tharoor, reading French literature is to step into a world where beauty and pain walk hand in hand. 'The moral complexity of Camus, the passion of Hugo, the subtle defiance of Colette, the psychological depth of Duras... these are not just artistic achievements, but guides to understanding the human condition,' he said.
The Advertiser
a day ago
- Health
- The Advertiser
'The scariest part is the recovery': courageous baby Hugo's fight for life
At only four days old, Hugo Holding went through open-heart surgery. Mum Hayley White, of Cessnock, said Hugo was diagnosed with a heart condition while she was pregnant. "We were asked if we wanted to terminate the pregnancy. That was a heartbreaking thing to be asked," Ms White said. "No child asks to be born, but we wanted to say we did everything we could to give him a life. "It was hard. We knew we'd be choosing to put our baby first and this would affect our other children." She added that if "any of my children were unwell, there's not a thing I wouldn't do for them". "I decided my unborn baby deserved that same respect. He is my child." Ms White sought to raise awareness that one in 100 babies are born with a congenital heart defect. Hugo's heart condition meant "the whole left side of his heart is small, including his valves". During surgery in January, he had an aortic arch repair and ASD [atrial septal defect] closure at Westmead Children's Hospital. Ms White said the surgeons and cardiologists were "amazing". "You can tell they really do care. They truly want the best for the child," she said. Hugo was in ICU for two months and a cardiac ward for a month. During this time, Hugo's dad Tyson Holding lost his job after his place of work was sold. A GoFundMe, titled "Hugo's Journey", has been started to help the family. Hugo went home for 10 weeks, but a follow-up echo scan showed his heart pressures were high. He returned to hospital last month for a diagnostic procedure. "He lost blood and went downhill. There was an issue with the ventilation machine. At one point, it wasn't working properly," Ms White said. "He ended up in ICU and didn't bounce back. After two days, they decided to intubate him, putting tubes down his nose and throat to take over the lungs' work." The doctors were concerned for Hugo's life, so he underwent a second open-heart surgery on May 30, called the Ross procedure, to replace his aortic valve with his own pulmonary valve. His pulmonary valve was replaced with a donor valve. "They've said the blood flow is looking a lot better now and his heart pressures are down," Ms White said. "His recovery so far is a lot better than last time. Fingers crossed he keeps on that path." Doctors have said Hugo's mitral valve will probably need replacing in future with a mechanical valve. Now five months old, Hugo is in a ward at Westmead for children with heart conditions. "After a big surgery, they put them on a lot of opioids like morphine and fentanyl. He's now being weaned from the drugs, which takes weeks. "The scariest part is the recovery and the things that can go wrong after surgery. It's really hard on the little babies." The family, including three of Hugo's four siblings, is staying at Ronald McDonald House. "I would like to give a shout out to Ronald McDonald House and the charity HeartKids," Ms White said. At only four days old, Hugo Holding went through open-heart surgery. Mum Hayley White, of Cessnock, said Hugo was diagnosed with a heart condition while she was pregnant. "We were asked if we wanted to terminate the pregnancy. That was a heartbreaking thing to be asked," Ms White said. "No child asks to be born, but we wanted to say we did everything we could to give him a life. "It was hard. We knew we'd be choosing to put our baby first and this would affect our other children." She added that if "any of my children were unwell, there's not a thing I wouldn't do for them". "I decided my unborn baby deserved that same respect. He is my child." Ms White sought to raise awareness that one in 100 babies are born with a congenital heart defect. Hugo's heart condition meant "the whole left side of his heart is small, including his valves". During surgery in January, he had an aortic arch repair and ASD [atrial septal defect] closure at Westmead Children's Hospital. Ms White said the surgeons and cardiologists were "amazing". "You can tell they really do care. They truly want the best for the child," she said. Hugo was in ICU for two months and a cardiac ward for a month. During this time, Hugo's dad Tyson Holding lost his job after his place of work was sold. A GoFundMe, titled "Hugo's Journey", has been started to help the family. Hugo went home for 10 weeks, but a follow-up echo scan showed his heart pressures were high. He returned to hospital last month for a diagnostic procedure. "He lost blood and went downhill. There was an issue with the ventilation machine. At one point, it wasn't working properly," Ms White said. "He ended up in ICU and didn't bounce back. After two days, they decided to intubate him, putting tubes down his nose and throat to take over the lungs' work." The doctors were concerned for Hugo's life, so he underwent a second open-heart surgery on May 30, called the Ross procedure, to replace his aortic valve with his own pulmonary valve. His pulmonary valve was replaced with a donor valve. "They've said the blood flow is looking a lot better now and his heart pressures are down," Ms White said. "His recovery so far is a lot better than last time. Fingers crossed he keeps on that path." Doctors have said Hugo's mitral valve will probably need replacing in future with a mechanical valve. Now five months old, Hugo is in a ward at Westmead for children with heart conditions. "After a big surgery, they put them on a lot of opioids like morphine and fentanyl. He's now being weaned from the drugs, which takes weeks. "The scariest part is the recovery and the things that can go wrong after surgery. It's really hard on the little babies." The family, including three of Hugo's four siblings, is staying at Ronald McDonald House. "I would like to give a shout out to Ronald McDonald House and the charity HeartKids," Ms White said. At only four days old, Hugo Holding went through open-heart surgery. Mum Hayley White, of Cessnock, said Hugo was diagnosed with a heart condition while she was pregnant. "We were asked if we wanted to terminate the pregnancy. That was a heartbreaking thing to be asked," Ms White said. "No child asks to be born, but we wanted to say we did everything we could to give him a life. "It was hard. We knew we'd be choosing to put our baby first and this would affect our other children." She added that if "any of my children were unwell, there's not a thing I wouldn't do for them". "I decided my unborn baby deserved that same respect. He is my child." Ms White sought to raise awareness that one in 100 babies are born with a congenital heart defect. Hugo's heart condition meant "the whole left side of his heart is small, including his valves". During surgery in January, he had an aortic arch repair and ASD [atrial septal defect] closure at Westmead Children's Hospital. Ms White said the surgeons and cardiologists were "amazing". "You can tell they really do care. They truly want the best for the child," she said. Hugo was in ICU for two months and a cardiac ward for a month. During this time, Hugo's dad Tyson Holding lost his job after his place of work was sold. A GoFundMe, titled "Hugo's Journey", has been started to help the family. Hugo went home for 10 weeks, but a follow-up echo scan showed his heart pressures were high. He returned to hospital last month for a diagnostic procedure. "He lost blood and went downhill. There was an issue with the ventilation machine. At one point, it wasn't working properly," Ms White said. "He ended up in ICU and didn't bounce back. After two days, they decided to intubate him, putting tubes down his nose and throat to take over the lungs' work." The doctors were concerned for Hugo's life, so he underwent a second open-heart surgery on May 30, called the Ross procedure, to replace his aortic valve with his own pulmonary valve. His pulmonary valve was replaced with a donor valve. "They've said the blood flow is looking a lot better now and his heart pressures are down," Ms White said. "His recovery so far is a lot better than last time. Fingers crossed he keeps on that path." Doctors have said Hugo's mitral valve will probably need replacing in future with a mechanical valve. Now five months old, Hugo is in a ward at Westmead for children with heart conditions. "After a big surgery, they put them on a lot of opioids like morphine and fentanyl. He's now being weaned from the drugs, which takes weeks. "The scariest part is the recovery and the things that can go wrong after surgery. It's really hard on the little babies." The family, including three of Hugo's four siblings, is staying at Ronald McDonald House. "I would like to give a shout out to Ronald McDonald House and the charity HeartKids," Ms White said. At only four days old, Hugo Holding went through open-heart surgery. Mum Hayley White, of Cessnock, said Hugo was diagnosed with a heart condition while she was pregnant. "We were asked if we wanted to terminate the pregnancy. That was a heartbreaking thing to be asked," Ms White said. "No child asks to be born, but we wanted to say we did everything we could to give him a life. "It was hard. We knew we'd be choosing to put our baby first and this would affect our other children." She added that if "any of my children were unwell, there's not a thing I wouldn't do for them". "I decided my unborn baby deserved that same respect. He is my child." Ms White sought to raise awareness that one in 100 babies are born with a congenital heart defect. Hugo's heart condition meant "the whole left side of his heart is small, including his valves". During surgery in January, he had an aortic arch repair and ASD [atrial septal defect] closure at Westmead Children's Hospital. Ms White said the surgeons and cardiologists were "amazing". "You can tell they really do care. They truly want the best for the child," she said. Hugo was in ICU for two months and a cardiac ward for a month. During this time, Hugo's dad Tyson Holding lost his job after his place of work was sold. A GoFundMe, titled "Hugo's Journey", has been started to help the family. Hugo went home for 10 weeks, but a follow-up echo scan showed his heart pressures were high. He returned to hospital last month for a diagnostic procedure. "He lost blood and went downhill. There was an issue with the ventilation machine. At one point, it wasn't working properly," Ms White said. "He ended up in ICU and didn't bounce back. After two days, they decided to intubate him, putting tubes down his nose and throat to take over the lungs' work." The doctors were concerned for Hugo's life, so he underwent a second open-heart surgery on May 30, called the Ross procedure, to replace his aortic valve with his own pulmonary valve. His pulmonary valve was replaced with a donor valve. "They've said the blood flow is looking a lot better now and his heart pressures are down," Ms White said. "His recovery so far is a lot better than last time. Fingers crossed he keeps on that path." Doctors have said Hugo's mitral valve will probably need replacing in future with a mechanical valve. Now five months old, Hugo is in a ward at Westmead for children with heart conditions. "After a big surgery, they put them on a lot of opioids like morphine and fentanyl. He's now being weaned from the drugs, which takes weeks. "The scariest part is the recovery and the things that can go wrong after surgery. It's really hard on the little babies." The family, including three of Hugo's four siblings, is staying at Ronald McDonald House. "I would like to give a shout out to Ronald McDonald House and the charity HeartKids," Ms White said.
The Guardian
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Loyle Carner: Hopefully! review – rap sweetheart faces family, fear and the feels
Loyle Carner raps like he has a lump in his throat and tears in his eyes. Wonder, nostalgia, love, hurt, excitement, hard-won peace: these are the emotions his voice tends to catch on. When combined with his typically blissed-out sonics – feathery breakbeats, dreamy piano figures, delicate synth washes, gently plucked guitars – the results are often very nice. Sometimes a bit too nice. So it is on Feel at Home, the sentimental love song that opens the 30-year-old's fourth album, Hopefully! Carner – whose moniker is a spoonerism of his real name, Benjamin Coyle-Larner – never makes music that is boring or basic. As well as the slushy lyrics and comfortingly toasty chords, Feel at Home is buttressed by madly skittering percussion and what sounds like a blurry reproduction of young children's playground chatter. But much like the outpouring of earnestness and loveliness on the Croydon-raised rapper's first two albums, Hopefully! may well have you hankering for a shred of dissonance or disruption – especially after 2022's Mercury-shortlisted Hugo, which gratifyingly offset Carner's trademark tenderness with a more abrasive sonic palette. Initially, the musician seems to have moved on – or perhaps backwards – from that record. Then he starts singing. Carner has said he was duped into doing so by his producer, Avi Barath (he originally thought his vocal track was a placeholder for another performer). It was a trick worth playing: whenever Carner slips into his low-pitched, totally unaffected croon, it cuts through any over-sweetness like a squeeze of lemon. The combination works particularly well on the exceptional In My Mind – whose lugubrious self-laceration and loose, clattery instrumentation recalls King Krule's thrilling early work, while always remaining characteristically Carner – as well as in the choruses of Lyin and Strangers. The latter's sing-song central refrain is flatly murmured in a way that feels authentically uncertain and all the more appealing for it. Vulnerability has always been Carner's lyrical stock-in-trade. It tends to manifest in two ways, first in open-hearted sincerity that has generated songs about grief and ADHD, and which is in full flow on the album's title track: 'You give me hope in humankind, but are humans kind? / I don't know but I hope so.' Second, in a less anodyne and far more striking form of introspection: on In My Mind, he admits a tendency towards myopic self-obsession and alludes to the bitter dismissal of a 'minor friend'. Carner has two young children, and the artwork for Hopefully! features the kind of felt-tip scrawl most toddler-wranglers will recognise. Parenting is the album's major theme, and there are moments when Carner approaches it from a compellingly raw angle. On About Time, covering the tensions between fatherhood and artistry, the narrator lists the thrills of his job before describing what sounds like a fight with his partner, in which he lets slip yet 'another fucking thing I know you couldn't forgive'. Yet for all Carner's accounts of the internal and external conflict involved in fatherhood, it's hard to buy the more damning self-critique – on Lyin he claims to be 'just a man trained to kill, to love I never had the skill' – from an artist who makes music this heartfelt. Sign up to Sleeve Notes Get music news, bold reviews and unexpected extras. Every genre, every era, every week after newsletter promotion Lyin introduces a third lyrical mode, capturing early parenthood's transcendent surreality in a stream of impressionistic imagery: Carner looks for reassurance under sofa cushions; his bedroom walls fall 'to Poseidon'. Progressing from anxiety to confusion to a strange elation, he is overcome by the way his child's hand reflexively tightens as he attempts to let go of it and how bright the sky looks in the middle of the night. His voice radiates awe and trepidation-tinged delight. It is magical songwriting, and his most impressive work to date. Even before fatherhood, Carner's work fixated on family: his mother is unusually omnipresent in his music, even by hip-hop's standards. His 2019 song Dear Jean even took pains to insist that his new girlfriend was no threat to the pair's intimacy. She's still never far away; over luminous guitars on All I Need, he recalls the smell of 'the sheets on my mother's mattress – just the place I learnt my backflips'. It's classic Carner: the place where heady feeling threatens to tip over into cloying soppiness. Yet thanks to a pleasingly precarious new vocal style and some levelled-up lyricism, he's more adept than ever at this specific balancing act. Big Thief – Incomprehensible This taster of the Brooklyn band's sixth album, Double Infinity, ups the tempo as frontperson Adrianne Lenker makes peace with the aging process in her trademark stream-of-consciousness style. The sound is fittingly cosmic; the overall effect truly sublime.
