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The Irish Sun
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Love Island star's girlfriend accidentally reveals they had their first date BEFORE he split with All Stars ex
A LOVE Island star's girlfriend accidentally revealed their first date took place BEFORE he'd split from his All Stars ex. Viewers were first introduced to Advertisement 4 Callum Jones' girlfriend Myna Amor shared an insight into when their first date took place Credit: PA 4 Myna shared these snaps to her Instagram story Credit: Instagram 4 Callum and Jess Gale were coupled up in All Stars Credit: Rex The 28-year-old Although Callum entered the All Stars villa on Day 1, Jess Following their split after the final, Callum confirmed his new romance with stunning model Myna Amor. Posting on her Instagram story, Myna has seemingly revealed she and Callum had their first date before he'd split from Jess. Advertisement Read more on Love Island A fan had asked her: "How long has it been since you and Callum have dated?" Myna replied, sharing snaps of the pair to her followers: "We met last year in March. "I find it crazy that these photos were taken on our first date." However, Callum and Jess themselves Advertisement Most read in Love Island Exclusive The Sun has approached Callum's reps for comment. Last July, Myna London . Love Island Star Callum Jones' New Romance Unveiled She exclusively revealed: 'It's been really hard to keep their relationship under wraps for such a long time – it's been just over 5 months. 'It's been so crazy seeing everyone online try and guess who Callum is in a relationship with, knowing it's been me the whole time." Advertisement Speaking She said the incident happened around the time of Jess told The Sun: "It didn't fizzle out, things happened and there was this thing at Molly [Smith's] clothing event. Love Island 2025 full lineup : A 30-year-old footballer with charm to spare. : A 22-year-old Manchester-based model, ready to turn heads. : A payroll specialist from Southampton, looking for someone tall and stylish. : International business graduate with brains and ambition. : A gym enthusiast with a big heart. : A Londoner with celebrity connections, aiming to find someone funny or Northern. : An Irish actress already drawing comparisons to Maura Higgins. : A personal trainer and semi-pro footballer, following in his footballer father's footsteps. : A towering 6'5' personal trainer. : A 25-year-old Irish rugby pro. : Love Island's first bombshell revealed as sexy Las Vegas pool party waitress. : The 24-year-old bombshell hails from London and works as a commercial banking executive. : A teaching assistant from Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, who entered Love Island 2025 as a bombshell . : Works as a scaffolder day-to-day and plays semi-pro football on the side. : Pro footballer and model entering Love Island 2025 as a bombshell. Departures : : Axed after an arrest over a machete attack emerged. He was released with no further action taken and denies any wrongdoing. : A model and motivational speaker who has overcome adversity after suffering life-changing burns in an accident. : A boxer with striking model looks, seeking love in the villa. "I found out something prior to the event and something that you can't really come back from. Advertisement "We don't speak now and I guess a line has been drawn under that. "After certain bits of information came to light, I wouldn't want to speak to Callum and after that, it was done.' Love Island continues on ITV2 and ITVX. 4 Callum and Jess had previously both appeared in Love Island series six Credit: Splash Advertisement
The Irish Sun
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Love Island fans beg ‘doormat' Helena to have some self respect after Harry's womanising is exposed in brutal villa game
LOVE Island fans have begged Helena to stop being a "doormat" and dump Harry for good. Last night Harry's womanising ways were exposed in a brutal game as he finally admitted to snogging Yasmin in the Hideaway. 3 Love Island fans have begged Helena to stop being a 'doormat' and to dump Harry Credit: Eroteme 3 Harry's womanising ways were exposed in a brutal game last night Credit: Eroteme Earlier that day, the pair enjoyed a cosy chat in the private area and kissed THREE times. But despite their snog, neither Harry nor Yasmin admitted to it when they returned from the Hideaway. That was until their actions were exposed in a brutal firepit game on Thursday night. Helena was left in shock as Yasmin revealed they'd kissed not once, but three times. READ MORE ON LOVE ISLAND And while Harry smirked, the stunning air hostess was backed by co-star Megan. 'You're a liar,' Megan shouted across the firepit to Harry, adding: 'You owe it to Helena to be f****** honest, you p****. 'She's sat there watching you go into the Hideaway, you kissed her three times and then come out and go 'Oh no, I didn't do anything.'' Meg finished by telling Harry: 'Grow a pair of b******* mate, honestly, grow the f*** up.' Most read in News TV After her sweary rant at the scandalous star, Helena got up and stormed off from the group as Remell said: 'I think we should wrap it up here.' While Helena could be seen storming off as Harry showed no sign of remorse. Love Island fans disgusted by hunk's 'gross habit' ITV2 viewers have begged Helena to dump Harry. One wrote: " "Helena is like a doormat Love Island." A second posted: "Helena is a weak babe, she needs to bump Harry." "Helena needs to move on and have some self respect," a third said. Another added: "Helena is such a door mat and Harry knows that, he's a massive player but she's clinging on to him." There were more fireworks earlier in the game when it was revealed Yasmin said she'd like Harry to "tip her upside down". Elsewhere, Conor read out a comment from Dejon that ruffled Meg's feathers. Dejon previously told the boys about Yasmin: "She's never orgasmed, so if I give her her first orgasm, then she'll fall in love." After Conor read out the comment, Yasmin said to the group: "I mean, if you can make me orgasm, fair play. I probably will fall in love." Things go from bad to worse when Remell read out a remark that Harry made to the boys about wanting to kiss Yasmin. Helena yelled: "What the f*** is going on here?" Megan exclaimed: "He tells you f*** all and that's why, you need to find out and hear it for yourself." Love Island 2025 full lineup : A 30-year-old footballer with charm to spare. : A 22-year-old Manchester-based model, ready to turn heads. : A payroll specialist from Southampton, looking for someone tall and stylish. : International business graduate with brains and ambition. : A gym enthusiast with a big heart. : A Londoner with celebrity connections, aiming to find someone funny or Northern. : An Irish actress already drawing comparisons to Maura Higgins. : A personal trainer and semi-pro footballer, following in his footballer father's footsteps. : A towering 6'5' personal trainer. : A 25-year-old Irish rugby pro. : Love Island's first bombshell revealed as sexy Las Vegas pool party waitress. : Beauty salon owner from Devon who runs 12 aesthetics clinics, boasting a famous clientele including former Love Islanders. : The 24-year-old bombshell hails from London and works as a commercial banking executive. : A teaching assistant from Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, who entered Love Island 2025 as a bombshell . : Works as a scaffolder day-to-day and plays semi-pro football on the side. : Pro footballer and model entering Love Island 2025 as a bombshell. Departures : : Axed after an arrest over a machete attack emerged. He was released with no further action taken and denies any wrongdoing. : A model and motivational speaker who has overcome adversity after suffering life-changing burns in an accident. : A boxer with striking model looks, seeking love in the villa. 3 Harry and Yasmin's secret Hideaway kiss was revealed to the group Credit: Eroteme
New York Post
18 hours ago
- Business
- New York Post
Pan Am returns to the skies with special 12-day transatlantic journey: ‘Opportunity to relive aGolden Age of Travel'
A trip honoring the legacy of Pan American World Airways is underway after a chartered jet bearing the historic airline's branding took to the skies earlier in the week. The plane left John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Tuesday, kicking off a 12-day trip that came with a roughly $60,000 price tag for its passengers, CBS New York reported. Advertisement The trip, described as 'a Pan Am journey by private air,' comes as part of a collaboration between Criterion Travel and Bartelings with licensing from Pan American World Airways. The operators want to give passengers the 'opportunity to relive a 'Golden Age of Travel' on a specially curated program' with the Pan Am trip, according to a brochure on Criterion Travel's website. The itinerary for the round-trip journey features stops in locales that were on Pan Am's Southern and Northern transatlantic routes, including Bermuda, Lisbon, Portugal, Marseille, France, London, England and Shannon, Ireland. The brochure for the 'Tracing the Transatlantic' trip touts 'high-end service, stays at top hotels, fascinating destinations, reminiscences of Pan Am's glory days, and iconic Pan Am design, logos, and identity popping up throughout.' Advertisement 3 CBS New York reported that a Pan American World Airways flight took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday in what is the start of a 12-day trip costing about $60,000 per passenger. HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images 3 The trip is part of a collaboration between Criterion Travel and Bartelings, with licensing from Pan American World Airways. AFP via Getty Images 3 Stops along the way include Bermuda, Lisbon, Portugal, Marseille, France, London, England, and Shannon, Ireland. dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images The trip is using a Boeing 757-200 jet with lie-flat business-class seats. Advertisement 'Every detail, from the flight deck, to the cabin, has been designed with care–honoring the golden age of travel while reimagining it for today's world,' Pan Am Brands said in a Facebook post. Flight attendants working on the trip will don uniforms that recreate the ones worn by Pan Am staff when the airline was still operating, CBS New York reported. 'It's such an honor and a privilege to be stepping into this uniform,' one flight attendant named Anna Maria Aevarsdottir told the outlet. Advertisement 'We hope we can embrace the grace that they showed America.' The transatlantic trip was first announced in the summer of last year.
NZ Herald
a day ago
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Whanganui rugby: Regional rivalry returns with Pownall Trophy on the line
Brought to you by Whanganui Rugby Regional rivalry is renewed for the first time in 15 years this Matariki Friday, as the Northern sub-union team will face the resurrected Rangitīkei squad in Taihape. Today's fixture will be for the historic Pownall Trophy, which involved these two sides as well
Otago Daily Times
a day ago
- General
- Otago Daily Times
Continuing a legacy
Providing a green space in suburbia where birds and insects can flourish is the aim of an Opoho couple, Louise Frampton writes. Located up Signal Hill Rd, Marianne Groothuis and John Dodd's property is nestled unobtrusively behind a boundary of tall native trees. Entering the driveway, a feeling of calmness embraces you as the hum of traffic is replaced by the chatter of birdsong. The wide, sweeping gravel path, a former driveway, is bordered with tree ferns, astelia and rhododendrons and a lush green canopy of native trees provides a haven for the birds. Among the trees are Northern rātā, Southern rātā, lancewoods, kōwhai, kauri, rimu, pōhutakawa and nīkau palms, sitting side-by-side with rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias. But when the house was built in 1932, a very different garden greeted visitors. Back then, a formal English garden was visible from the road. It had a circular pond with a fountain in the lower garden and stone steps, pillared by yew trees, leading up to the symmetrical flower and rose beds nestled in the expansive lawn above. A row of flowering cherries ran along the top of the garden in front of white-painted trellis. But all that changed in 1959 when the quarter acre (1000sqm) property was bought by Doug Campbell and his wife Ann. Campbell was a geologist and botanist at the University of Otago and put a lot of the natives and trees into the Opoho property, as well as at his holiday home in Warrington. "He was a passionate collector of rare native plants, but he hated the formality of the English garden," Dodd says. "He did his absolute best to subvert [the formality] without actually removing anything." Many of the remnants of the formal garden are still hidden among the natives, such as the sundial, stone steps and all of the long-lasting trellis. Many flowering cherries were removed, but a few remain among the rhododendrons. "He called the [flowering] cherries the 'poodles of the plant world'," Groothuis says. Among the natives the botanist planted is a kauri tree. Dodd says it was about 1.5m tall when he and Groothuis bought the property about 25 years ago. "Apparently it was gifted to Doug by a geology student who was working for a mining company in Coromandel. A road was going through and the little kauri was going to get ripped out so this student rescued it and brought it back to Dunedin for Doug. "It would be about 30-40 feet (9-10m) tall now." There is also a special scree garden where Campbell planted his cuttings and seedlings from his geology adventures. "He would gather scree from the area and place it around the plant," Groothuis says. Campbell is no longer alive, but an extract from his obit written in 2001 sums him up well: "Doug was less concerned about the appearance of his garden. His interest was in the plants themselves. Each one had a story, either related to where he had collected them on geology trips all over New Zealand, or [related to] a research question he had about the variation in leaf shape and size. He had speargrass, native brooms, shrubby coprosmas, little gunneras, and the occasional special celmisia. He wanted to bring tūī and bellbird around the house and was always on the lookout for good nectar-producing species." Campbell must have known his garden was in good hands when he sold the property privately to Dodd and Groothuis in 2000, especially since Groothuis is a curator at the Dunedin Botanic Garden, responsible for the camellia collection. Her love of camellias spills into her home garden as well, where some of her favourites are planted, such as Camellia transnokoensis, native to Taiwan, and Camellia yunnanensis, from China. She also has a hedge of 30 white-flowering Camellia 'setsugekka', which are coming into flower now. Also in her home garden is her "outdoor office", a special area nestled in the bottom of the section surrounded by natives, where she has a table to pot up seedlings and cuttings, for other areas of the garden, or to sell at the gate. Dodd is a talented double bass player as well as a guitarist and singer-songwriter. He plays in many different musical lineups, often touring the country. He's also a former music teacher at Logan Park High School and, like his wife, has a love for the garden. "This garden is my personality and John's personality, Groothuis says. "We both love it and we have firm discussions when something needs to be removed or planted." Dodd says there are always messy parts. "I would probably like it immaculate." But Groothuis likes the "scruffy" habitat that encourages the birds and insects. "We really love the birds and I really love the fact that it's scruffy enough to encourage lots of insects and wildlife," she says. She especially likes to keep the dying leaves facing down on the cabbage tree trunks – "it's something that cabbage trees only do in the colder climates to protect themselves", and she says it also makes a great habitat for insects. Since moving in, they have planted a mataī, a rimu, three nīkau, pohutakawa, kakabeak, the Chilean myrtle Luma apiculata, rata, kowhai and ''lots of tree ferns''. The couple say most of the work involved is getting the weeds under control, and pruning the trees to allow the light in. "We do get arborists in to help thin out the trees," Groothuis says. Their most treasured area is the window seat in the lounge. It gives a magical view of the entire front garden. Close to the window, a witch hazel is in flower and a Japanese pagoda tree has been trimmed back to create room to hang bird feeders from the trellis. The antics and interactions of the tūī, kererū, bellbirds and waxeyes can be admired close-up from the comfort and warmth of the lounge. "We've almost constantly got a bird [on show]. Our two kereru often sit there and just hang out," Groothuis says, adding the window seat is an ideal place for reading or recuperating. There are sometimes up to six tūī at the feeders. "You can just sit here for ages watching." As Dodd and Groothuis approach their 25th anniversary of owning the property in October, they say they are proud to have continued the previous owner's work. They have a huge respect for Doug Campbell. "He was in this [property] for about 40 years and his legacy is still alive," Groothuis says. "We really love that the garden is about big trees and natives and [we love] the joy that comes from it being a little [bit of] wildlife in suburbia." The garden is in good hands.
