Gloria Hunniford has introduced the dying of her husband of greater than 20 years, Stephen Method, on the age of 85.

The 84-year-old veteran broadcaster wed the businessman in 1998, and he or she mentioned he would go away ‘essentially the most monumental void, not solely in my life, however our complete household’.

In an announcement at this time, his household mentioned: ‘It’s with enormous unhappiness and really heavy hearts that we share the passing of Stephen Method, Gloria’s beloved husband, who misplaced his battle yesterday afternoon.

‘Stephen had been heroically combating his sickness… however all the time with nice tenacity and a constructive spirit.’

Hunniford mentioned: ‘Stephen was a gentleman and a large of a person, who will go away essentially the most monumental void not solely in my life, however our complete household.

Gloria Hunniford and Stephen Method at We Will Rock You on the London Coliseum on June 7, 2023

Gloria Hunniford and Stephen Method on the Lady of the Future Awards on the Marriott Lodge Grosvenor Sq. in London on November 8, 2007

A household photograph of Gloria Hunniford and Stephen Method of their again backyard in Kent final summer season

‘He was an extremely sort, beneficiant, and caring man, with a delightfully quirky sense of humour, which remained until the tip. 

‘We had a tremendously blissful 25-year marriage and did so many lovely and thrilling issues collectively that I’ll all the time cherish.’

Mr Method was described as a ‘fantastic husband, father and grandfather’ and Hunniford added: ‘It is a fantastic shock and phrases can not categorical my unhappiness presently.

‘A vibrant shining gentle has dimmed, and he shall be missed at each flip.’

Northern Irish broadcaster Eamonn Holmes, who bought his break when he bought Hunniford’s job at Good Night Ulster, additionally paid tribute.

He wrote on Instagram: ‘I really feel the ache of Gloria my pricey good friend of 40 plus years on the lack of Stephen – a real gent and a scholar. My real heartfelt condolences.’

It was Mr Method who broke the information of the dying of Hunniford’s former husband Don Keating as she got here off stage after internet hosting a TV chat present in 1997, she revealed that 12 months.

Mr Keating was discovered useless by a good friend at his kitchen desk, along with his dinner and a glass of wine in entrance of him.

(From left) Stephen Method, Gloria Hunniford, Christopher Biggins and Neil Sinclair attend the World Premiere Charity Gala of One other Mom’s Son, on the Odeon Leicester Sq. in London on March 16, 2017

Gloria Hunniford seems on ITV’s Unfastened Girls within the London studio on August 5, 2024

A household {photograph} of Stephen Method on his 84th birthday final summer season

When Hunniford and Mr Method began courting, he owned an hairdressing salon in New Bond Avenue, Mayfair.

Hunniford and Mr Method met at an occasion in London earlier than getting married in Kent in 1998, one 12 months after Mr Keating’s dying.

She beforehand revealed that Mr Method proposed whereas they have been on vacation in Barbados after she was struggling in a pool at their villa having by no means learnt to swim as a baby.

Hunniford advised the Belfast Telegraph in 2017: ‘I keep in mind larking about once I was six or seven and falling into the water absolutely clothed and developing for the third time and considering I used to be going to die.

‘Then, when Stephen and I have been in Barbados, we had a pool to ourselves and it was extremely popular, and Stephen was bantering me to get in.

‘I managed a number of strokes then went plop, straight down. Stephen mentioned no-one had ever clung to him so tightly. It was the primary time he noticed me wanting weak, so he proposed.’

Stephen Method and Gloria Hunniford attend The King and I press night time on the Dominion Theatre in London on January 31, 2024

An undated household {photograph} of Gloria Hunniford and Stephen Method on vacation in France

Gloria Hunniford and Stephen Method arriving at Sir John Mills ninetieth party at London’s Dorchester Lodge on February 22, 1998

In Might final 12 months, Mr Method revealed he had been left partially blind after dropping the sight in his proper eye when he suffered a second stroke.

He mentioned on the time that he ‘wakened within the morning and there was blood within the eye and that was it’, including that he was ‘coping OK with all of it – it is tremendous however simply disorientating’.

Hunniford’s daughter Caron Keating, additionally a TV presenter, died after a battle with breast most cancers in 2004, and he or she arrange a basis in her reminiscence.

The Caron Keating Basis fundraises for most cancers charities, in addition to elevating consciousness.

In March, Hunniford revealed her grandson Charlie, 29, was getting married in the identical church as Caron. 

In 2017, Hunniford grew to become an OBE within the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her contribution to most cancers charities by means of breast screening providers and most cancers assist.

Gloria Hunniford and Stephen Method, pictured for the Mail On Sunday on September 9, 1999

Hunniford’s daughter Caron Keating, additionally a TV presenter, died after a battle with breast most cancers in 2004, and he or she arrange a basis in her reminiscence. They’re pictured on June 15, 1993

Gloria Hunniford with ex-husband Don Keating who died in 1997. She married Mr Method in 1998

She began her profession in tv in her native Northern Eire earlier than going to London to work on the sport present We Love TV, and internet hosting a Radio 2 programme for greater than a decade.

Hunniford has been a steady presence in residing rooms across the nation together with on Unfastened Girls, This Morning, Rip Off Britain, The Travelling Image Present, Residence Away From Residence and Meals: Reality Or Scare.

The Portadown native appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2005, the place she was partnered with Darren Bennett, and had a stint on The Masked Singer in 2022.

Final month, Hunniford led tributes to BBC radio star John Bennett after his dying aged 82, saying her former colleague was as a ‘big in broadcasting’.

Bennett co-launched BBC Radio Ulster with Hunniford on New 12 months’s Eve in 1974, and later grew to become best-known as ‘The President’ of the weekend music programme The Sunday Membership, which he offered for greater than 44 years.

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar staved off one other main election problem from former Minneapolis Metropolis Councilman Don Samuels on Tuesday, based on unofficial main election outcomes. 

Omar’s win is a victory for Minneapolis progressives, in addition to opponents of Israel’s battle in Gaza. Professional-Israel activists efficiently ousted two “Squad” members in Democratic primaries in latest months, however Omar will probably return to Washington for one more time period given nominal opposition within the November election.

The first race for Minnesota’s fifth Congressional District didn’t function the intensive outdoors spending of the opposite Squad primaries.

Samuels misplaced to Omar within the 2022 main election by about 2 share factors, and this yr made the case that her headline-grabbing advocacy is leaving Minneapolis with out competent management to handle issues dealing with constituents.

Omar’s margin of victory shall be bigger than 2022, based on preliminary outcomes.

“This marketing campaign has been one of many ugliest, most disgusting (campaigns) towards me that I’ve ever, ever witnessed,” Omar stated in a speech at her election evening watch celebration. “We had an opponent that was prepared to align with literal Nazis with a view to defeat us.”

Omar in 2022 largely ignored Samuels’ marketing campaign and acquired the political scare of her life when he almost received. Omar this yr campaigned energetically towards Samuels. She spent $450,000 on promoting within the runup to the first, as of a July marketing campaign finance report.

Omar, now in her third time period, for years has balanced roles as an influential progressive voice in Washington and a world spokeswoman for justice, with the extra mundane facets of being a member of Congress: serving to constituents navigate federal forms, voting as a member of the Home minority on a raft of laws that can by no means turn into regulation and lifting up native companies and nonprofits within the fifth District.

Omar hopes a Democratic Home majority will imply a return to the Home Committee on International Affairs, from which she was eliminated by the GOP Home majority over allegations of antisemitism, over unanimous help from her caucus, together with Jewish Democratic colleagues.

Katherine Byrn, a 53-year-old instructor on the College of Minnesota, advised the Reformer she voted for Omar as a result of she “kicks ass.”

Kerry Newstrom, a 45-year-old highschool instructor in northeast Minneapolis, voted for Omar as a result of she stated we want girls in elective workplace. She has no children and known as herself “a childless cat girl,” referring to disparaging feedback made by Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance.

Gloria Hunniford has introduced the loss of life of her husband of greater than 20 years, Stephen Manner.

The veteran broadcaster, 84, wed the businessman in 1998, and she or he mentioned he would depart “probably the most huge void, not solely in my life”.

In a press release on Wednesday (14 August), his household mentioned: “It’s with enormous disappointment and really heavy hearts that we share the passing of Stephen Manner, Gloria’s beloved husband, who misplaced his battle yesterday afternoon.

“Stephen had been heroically combating his sickness… however all the time with nice tenacity and a constructive spirit.”

Manner was 85, Hunniford’s agent confirmed.

Hunniford mentioned: “Stephen was a gentleman and a large of a person, who will go away probably the most huge void not solely in my life, however our whole household.

“He was an extremely type, beneficiant, and caring man, with a delightfully quirky sense of humour, which remained until the tip.

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“We had a tremendously completely satisfied 25-year marriage and did so many stunning and thrilling issues collectively that I’ll all the time cherish.”

Manner was described as a “fantastic husband, father and grandfather” and Hunniford added: “It’s an amazing shock and phrases can’t categorical my disappointment presently.

“A vivid shining mild has dimmed, and he shall be missed at each flip.”

It was Manner who broke the information of the loss of life of her former husband Don Keating as she got here off stage after internet hosting a TV chat present in 1997, she revealed that yr.

Once they began relationship, he owned an hairdressing salon in New Bond Road, Mayfair.

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Hunniford’s daughter Caron Keating, additionally a TV presenter, died after a battle with breast most cancers in 2004, and she or he arrange a basis in her reminiscence.

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The Caron Keating Basis fundraises for most cancers charities, in addition to elevating consciousness.

In 2017, Hunniford turned an OBE within the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her contribution to most cancers charities via breast screening companies and most cancers assist.

She began her profession in tv in her native Northern Eire earlier than going to London to work on the sport present We Love TV, and internet hosting a Radio 2 programme for greater than a decade.

Hunniford has been a steady presence in residing rooms across the nation together with on Free Ladies, This Morning, Rip Off Britain, The Travelling Image Present, Dwelling Away From Dwelling and Meals: Reality Or Scare.

The Portadown native appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2005, the place she was partnered with Darren Bennett, and had a stint on The Masked Singer in 2022.

Sam Smith is on the centre of one other case of on-line misinformation, this time, claims that he’s “semibisexual.”

The 32-year-old “Unholy” hit maker is the topic of a Fb submit that claims they’ve come out as semibisexual, which is unfaithful.

In 2019, Smith got here out as non-binary and adjusted their pronouns to they/them.

The submit was shared to the UK-based Wakefield Information web page, which has 43 thousand followers and declares itself: “A information web page for individuals who like fun. Nothing on this web page is critical. Parody account.”

The web page shares transphobic rhetoric frequently. One other latest submit reads: “FFS. The world has gone mad. Now NHS employees need to ask males if they’re pregnant or face the sack,” whereas others mock the looks of trans girls.

The viral submit on Wakefield Information, shared on 13 August, reads: “Sam Smith has come out as ‘semibisexual’.

“The singer has defined that semibisexual means somebody who’s bisexual however is interested in just one gender.”

Regardless of the very fact that is an unsubstantiated declare by an apparent parody account, the (virtually 5000) feedback beneath the submit are a predictable cesspit of anti-LGBTQ+ hatred. It has additionally been shared 6500 occasions.

What does semibisexual imply?

Semibisexual is outlined as an individual who considers themselves to be “partially bisexual”; it was truly invented by a Tumblr troll to mock the LGBTQ+ neighborhood.

In keeping with sexuality wiki, “the time period was coined by a satirical Tumblr weblog as a mockery of neolabels, microlabels and MOGAI identities. That’s the reason the time period stays controversial.”

A “semibisexual” particular person might really feel sexual attraction in direction of one gender (often the other).

Somebody who solely feels sexual attraction in direction of the other gender is often known as heterosexual.

In distinction, bisexuality is usually outlined to be having an emotional, romantic and/or sexual sights to multiple intercourse or gender.

The outline goes on to learn that “only a few” individuals have claimed this id as a real expertise. 

Smith has repeatedly been the goal of on-line trolls purposefully focusing on their gender and sexuality.

Beforehand, Smith has been labelled “satanic” for his or her raunchy performances, and confronted bigots’ hate head on.

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar pulled off a win Tuesday evening in her major race in opposition to her most important rival, former Minneapolis metropolis councilman Don Samuels, in accordance with a race name by the Related Press.

Omar is likely one of the progressive Home members generally known as the “Squad” and has been a pointy critic of how Israel has carried out its conflict in Gaza. She managed to keep away from losses confronted by fellow squad members, Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri and Jamaal Bowman of New York. Each major opponents in these races have been backed by the tremendous PAC, United Democracy Mission, the political arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

At a victory speech to supporters Tuesday evening in Minneapolis, Omar started by saying her marketing campaign runs on “the politics of pleasure” and that she is “extremely honored by this victory [and] honored to characterize the individuals who welcomed me and my household as refugees to this unbelievable state.”

She then pivoted and provided an evaluation of the first race.

“This marketing campaign has been one of many ugliest, most disgusting campaigns in opposition to me that I’ve ever witnessed,” Omar mentioned. “I hope they mirror within the shameful method they determined to divide our district and the unbelievable folks we’re grateful to characterize.”

This was not the primary matchup between Omar and Samuels. Samuels got here simply two proportion factors in need of defeating her in 2022. He once more got here up brief on Tuesday, trailing Omar by greater than 10 proportion factors.

He ran as extra of a centrist than Omar and recurrently known as her divisive for her feedback concerning the conflict in Gaza.

He additionally criticized her for voting in opposition to President Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure invoice. Omar, in the meantime, pointed to congressional earmarks she mentioned she introduced again to her group.

The Congresswoman had a considerable fundraising benefit over Samuels and had the endorsement of Minnesota’s Democratic Occasion. Her marketing campaign additionally introduced in nationwide political figures like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who held a marketing campaign rally at her highschool alma mater.

Federal marketing campaign data present pro-Israel teams didn’t have a noticeable monetary presence within the race in Minnesota’s fifth congressional district. Samuels says he noticed a burst of donations following Rep. Bush’s loss in St. Louis final week.

“We had about $200,000 {dollars} in random donations after Cori [Bush] misplaced,” Samuels mentioned Tuesday afternoon as he talked to voters in downtown Minneapolis. “There’s a motion occurring right here and different components of the nation away from the far left to a extra collaborative type,” Samuels mentioned.

Omar is more likely to face little opposition within the basic election. Democrats have a serious voter registration benefit over Republicans in Minnesota’s fifth congressional district.

August 14, 2024, marks Pakistan’s 78th Independence Day. Pakistan’s press displays on the imaginative and prescient of the nation’s founding fathers and discusses the various methods by which it has fallen in need of that. With the economic system in dire straits and seemingly chaotic politics, it’s the residents who’re dropping out.

Daybreak ascribes blame to the “ruling elite” who’ve “achieved little of substance to dispel the clouds of doom.” Recalling the imaginative and prescient of Muhammad Ali Jinnah on the time of independence, the editorial laments that on the axes of “democracy, constitutionalism, defending minorities, eliminating corruption”, the nation has “achieved the precise reverse”.

The European soccer season formally kicks off with Champions League winners Actual Madrid taking over Atalanta, the Europa League champions, within the last of the UEFA Tremendous Cup 2024 on the Nationwide Stadium in Warsaw, Poland.

The Actual Madrid vs Atalanta UEFA Tremendous Cup 2024 last can be stay streamed and telecast in India. The soccer match will begin at 12:30 AM IST on Thursday.

Kylian Mbappe, the 2018 FIFA World Cup winner with France and one of the crucial sought-after forwards within the soccer world, is about to debut for Los Blancos. The 18-year-old Brazilian striker Endrick Felipe may additionally get his first recreation.

The Spanish soccer membership claimed its fifteenth UEFA Champions League title with a 2-0 victory in opposition to Borussia Dortmund within the last in June.

Forward of the UEFA Tremendous Cup 2024 last, Los Blancos performed three pleasant matches, dropping twice and profitable as soon as.

However, Atalanta clinched the Europa League trophy for the primary time of their historical past final season. Within the UEFA Europa League last in Could, the Italian soccer membership defeated Bayer Leverkusen 3-0.

Atalanta, who play within the Serie A, arrive within the Tremendous Cup after enjoying 4 friendlies, dropping thrice and managing only a draw.

Actual Madrid maintain the sting within the head-to-head with a 2-0 document. The 2 groups met within the Champions League spherical of 16 stage in 2021. La Liga giants eked out a slim 1-0 win within the away leg earlier than a complete 3-1 victory at residence.

A win in Warsaw would make Actual Madrid the one staff to have received the UEFA Tremendous Cup six occasions. They’re at present tied with FC Barcelona and AC Milan with 5 trophies every. However, Atalanta will compete of their first-ever last.

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Disney Channel star Skai Jackson has been arrested after experiences of a “home incident” at a US theme park.

The 22-year-old actress is greatest recognized for taking part in Zuri Ross within the sitcom Jessie which ran from 2011-2015.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division confirmed she was arrested on Friday afternoon for “spousal battery” at Common Studios in Hollywood.

Skai Jackson’s representatives have been contacted for remark.

A spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Division mentioned Miss Jackson was taken to a police station in West Hollywood for reserving.

Police say she was concerned in a “home incident” and that she was the “major aggressor”.

“The investigation is ongoing and will probably be despatched to the Van Nuys Superior Courtroom Home for submitting,” they added.

Skai Jackson was 9 when she was solid as Zuri and later reprised the position for the primary three seasons of spin-off present Bunk’d.

The New York-born actress has additionally appeared in Marvel Rising and the 2023 movies Sheroes and The Man In The White Van.

A lettuce-themed banner prank at an occasion Liz Truss was talking at was “not humorous”, in accordance with the previous prime minister, who additionally accused “far-left activists” who unfurled it of making an attempt to “suppress” free speech.

She earlier stormed off stage after a banner that includes a lettuce and the phrases “I crashed the economic system” unfurled behind her at an occasion.

Ms Truss initially didn’t touch upon the stunt, however on Wednesday posted a response on the X social media platform.

“What occurred final evening was not humorous,” she wrote.

“Far-left activists disrupted the occasion, which then needed to be stopped for safety causes. That is executed to intimidate individuals and suppress free speech. I will not stand for it.

“Would we see the identical response if the activists had been far-right?”

Truss storms off stage

The previous prime minister was taking questions from an viewers in Beccles, Suffolk, as a part of her e-book tour on Tuesday night when marketing campaign group Led By Donkeys carried out the stunt.

She was saying how she thought Donald Trump would in all probability win the US election as “the typical American will not be doing nicely” when a banner got here down from the ceiling behind her.

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The vegetable pictured was a reference to a lettuce the Each day Star live-streamed, to see if it wilted earlier than her premiership in 2022 ended.

After Ms Truss resigned simply 49 days into the job, the newspaper declared the lettuce victorious.

The banner’s economy-related tagline was a reference to her agenda of tax cuts and spending that plunged the UK economic system into disaster.

Ms Truss, who misplaced her South West Norfolk seat within the July election, initially didn’t discover the banner.

Nonetheless, when she was alerted to it and some individuals began laughing, she appeared unimpressed and stated: “That is not humorous.”

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She then gathered up her notes, took her microphone off and walked off the stage.

There was a small smattering of applause as she left.

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Led By Donkeys claimed credit score for the stunt, because the group posted a video of it to social media.

It stated: “Liz Truss is on a pro-Trump talking tour. So we dropped a strategically positioned distant managed lettuce banner.”

Earlier this 12 months, the group used a remote-controlled banner with an image of the Russian president to disrupt a speech by Reform UK chief Nigel Farage.

It learn: “I coronary heart Putin.”

Liz Truss left the stage abruptly at an occasion to advertise her personal ebook after campaigners unfurled a banner behind her that was emblazoned with the phrase: “I crashed the economic system” beneath an image of a lettuce.

The previous prime minister, who lasted 45 days in workplace, was in Suffolk on Tuesday discussing the US presidential election when the marketing campaign group Led By Donkeys lowered its remote-controlled banner with an enormous image of a lettuce.

She stated the prank was “not humorous”. In an announcement on X, Truss known as Led By Donkeys “far-left activists” who used the stunt as a method to “intimidate individuals and suppress free speech”.

On Tuesday she expressed her horror on the “assaults on free speech in Britain and Europe”.

Truss was expressing her help for Donald Trump earlier than she was pranked. “I help Trump and I would like him to win,” she stated earlier than the viewers applauded her. “It’s what I used to be saying a bit about incumbents. I believe the common American isn’t doing properly …

“I believe it was Invoice Clinton’s adviser who stated: ‘It’s the economic system silly.’ So I believe he [Trump] will, he in all probability will win. I’ve bought a load of Trump questions, by the best way.”

Moments later, because the host instructed her he had “no thought the place that’s come from”, some members of the viewers laughed, earlier than she muttered: “That’s not humorous,” ripping the microphone from her gown and strolling off. She was applauded by some as she left.

The lettuce picture and joke arose from the ultimate days of Truss’s premiership, when the Day by day Star launched a dwell stream of a lettuce to see whether or not Truss’s battle to outlive in No 10 may last more than a 60p iceberg lettuce from Tesco.

Truss was making an attempt to advertise her memoir, Ten Years to Save the West, when Led by Donkeys wrote on X: “We simply dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump talking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t discover it humorous.”

On X, Truss stated: “What occurred final evening was not humorous. Far-left activists disrupted the occasion, which then needed to be stopped for safety causes. That is achieved to intimidate individuals and suppress free speech.

“I gained’t stand for it. Would we see the identical response if the activists have been far-right?”

Truss has turn out to be vocal on US politics, final month addressing Republican supporters and urging them to be taught classes from her temporary time in No 10. She stated: “I’ve discovered how highly effective the unelected forms is. It’s a must to win in November … it’s important to dismantle the leftist state … they’re devious, they’re ruthless and they’re out to get you.”

The previous prime minister has beforehand criticised the Day by day Star’s lettuce joke, saying it was not “significantly humorous”, noting in June: “I simply assume it’s puerile.”

She went on to criticise the British media, claiming it was “recognized all through the world for being significantly vociferous” and it’s not “significantly deferential to politicians”.

The banner stunt got here shortly after Truss voiced her help for Elon Musk, who has claimed the UK has a two-tier policing system. She stated on X: “I’m appalled by the assaults on free speech in Britain and Europe. We are able to’t be really free with out free speech. Good for Elon Musk and X for standing as much as these bullies.” Musk responded, thanking her for help.