Wife of Brit captive Aiden Aslin on her way to UK amid death penalty fears

Lizzie Cundy has shared a glam birthday snap after turning 54 years old in style.On Monday (May 2), the former WAG celebrated her big day with the help of her two children and an entirely pink outfit.After sharing birthday posts from her celeb pals including Ruth Langsford on Instagram, Lizzie posted a stunning image of herself dresses to the nines.The reality star looked chic in a pair of pink tweed shorts and a pink blazer, which she paired with diamante silver heels and a pink vest top.She finished her birthday look with a pair of reflective sunglasses and a golden pendant necklace. Lizzie wrote in a caption alongside the snap: "Nice birthday balloons! My birthday outfit...

Spinnin' Plates podcast, the Wildest Dreams songstress said: "All my issues started when I got into the band."Not even Steps, the first band, we were put on a diet immediately and told to lose weight, I was 18, the things that I did from then on, all I ate was peas and fish fingers for ages."The mum-of-two continued: "The day of the audition for Steps, they said they wanted me but wanted me to lose weight."I'm better now but it is still something that is in my head every single day and I think also knowing the things that we had to deal with, was airbrush."I remember going for a meeting years ago and our record company were trying to persuade us to do FHM, the way they persuaded us, or tried to persuade us to do it was, they came and they brought two photographs and said this is the photo - the airbrushed photo - but this is what it looked like before, so look what we can do, we can make you look like this - and that was the selling point."The BRIT Award winner explained that she finds it "difficult" to comprehend that children have access to image editing apps on smartphones.Claire continued: "My relationship with food is very complicated, I don't remember it when I was a kid, we had three meals a day, I don't ever remember my mum being on a diet."It wasn't something I had growing up at all, I was quite sporty at school, I always had big legs and a big bum, I don't think it was an issue until I started working."I've gone from being dangerously thin to obese and I honestly do believe it's all part of the same, if it's an eating disorder, it's one extreme to the other."The singer went on to say that there seems to be a "lack of understanding" with people assuming those overweight may just be lazy and have no discipline –

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Chester Bennington‘s pre-Linkin Park band, Grey Daze, have shared the first episode of their documentary series. Watch the first episode below.The four-part series, called Grey Daze: Creation of the Phoenix, follows the band from their origins in the ’90s up to their yet-to-be-released LP, ‘The Phoenix’. The record, which is set to come out on June 17, features re-mastered vocals from Bennington.The Linkin Park frontman left Grey Daze back in 1998, but had reunited with them and was in the middle of re-recording music for a new album when he died in 2017.The band have shared the first episode of the docu-series, which features footage of Bennington and his bandmates playing together at their start, before getting into their experience of making ‘The Phoenix’, a follow-up to their 2020 album ‘Amends‘, which also featured re-mastered vocals from Bennington’s.‘The Phoenix’ will be a 10-song collection intended to honour the late singer, with contributions from Dave Navarro, Richard Patrick and Bennington’s daughters, Lily and Lila Bennington.“’Amends’ was more emotional and reflective,” Graze drummer Sean Dowdell said about the band’s coming release.

Brian Eno is in the works by director Gary Hustwit, it has been announced.Hustwit has previously worked on films about Mavis Staples (Mavis!) and Wilco (I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco).The filmmaker’s official website now features a page for a documentary called Eno, which is described as “the definitive career-spanning, multi-platform documentary about visionary musician and artist Brian Eno”.Hustwit was given access to hundreds of hours of previously unseen footage and unreleased music from Eno’s archive to make the doc, which will be released in multiple versions and “will employ groundbreaking generative technology in its creation and exhibition”.The director and his team have digitised and restored approximately 400 hours of material spanning 50 years, including interviews, early video art projects, lectures, performances, behind-the-scenes footage of recording sessions and more – most of which have not been released publicly before.Eno represents the latest collaboration in the legendary musician and filmmakers’ creative relationship. Eno previously created the score for the documentary Rams in 2017, which explored the life of the German designer Dieter Rams.The film will, according to Hustwit’s website, “offer a deep dive into subjects that Eno has been notably passionate about, such as sustainability, social equity, and the future of civilisation, while centring above all on the nature of creativity”.“Much of Brian’s career has been about enabling creativity in himself and others, through his role as a producer but also through his collaborations on projects like the Oblique Strategies cards or the music app Bloom,” Hustwit said.

FKA Twigs’ lawsuit against Shia LaBeouf, alleging sexual battery, assault and infliction of emotional distress, has been given a date to go to trial.In December 2020, the musician – real name Tahliah Barnett – sued the actor, accusing him of “relentless abuse” during their relationship.Now, the case will be heard before a jury in a Los Angeles court next year, with the trial currently set to start on April 17, 2023, Rolling Stone reports.A remote hearing in the case was heard in June 2021. At that time, Barnett’s lawyer told a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge that “the parties have been engaged in productive settlement negotiations and are in the process of arranging for an early mediation”.

told the Hollywood Reporter.Known as the “Godfather of the US paparazzi culture” and “Paparazzo Extraordinaire,” the shutterbug shot more A-listers than perhaps any photographer in America during his six-decade career in photojournalism: John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Elvis Presley, Princess Diana, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol and so many more.Though iconic, some of the Bronx-born fotog’s shots landed him in trouble — mostly because his subjects were unaware he was shooting them.His work methods, regarded as unethical by some or genius by others, ultimately produced some of the most highly regarded iconographies — a testament to his keen eye — evident in “Windblown Jackie,” which infuriated the First Lady but delighted Galella.“This decisive moment photo, which I titled, ‘Windblown Jackie,’ is my favorite, most published picture and the best-selling print of all time at my fine art galleries worldwide,” he wrote in 2021. “It’s a superior picture, like DaVinci’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.

La La Anthony looks glamourous as she arrives at the 2022 Met Gala on Monday evening (May 2) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Emma Chamberlain is one of the first stars on the red carpet at the 2022 Met Gala!

soaring costs of groceries and gas, Met Gala organizers are being slammed for celebrating over-the-top opulence. This year’s gala — to be held tonight at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — features the dress code “Gilded Glamor and White Tie,” paying homage to America’s era of economic ascent.

Roy Keane and the rest of the Monday Night Football panel were left in hysterics after a Gary Neville scarf was spotted on a Manchester United fan. Presenter David Jones and former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher were unable to contain themselves in the studio as cameras focused on the United supporter.

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£1billion in cancelled trips this summer.Thousands of Brits will be forced to abandon dream holidays abroad because of huge delays in their travel documents arriving.Fraught passengers are playing Russian roulette with getaways and have just a 50% probability of a “successful and timely” passport renewal process, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research.Home Office minister Kevin Foster warned holidaymakers to submit passport applications as soon as possible.He said: “We’d advise people this is a virtually unprecedented surge in demand.”But the chaos means the UK economy will rake in millions. VisitBritain research showed 21million adults are planning an overnight UK-based trip between July and September, which amounts to a £5.7billion spending boost.And campsite bookings are up 40% on last year, camping website Pitchup.com said.The firm’s founder Dan Yates said: “With the cost-of-living crisis and the environmental crisis weighing on people’s minds, domestic camping and glamping provides a cheaper and lower impact option.”The number of valid UK passports fell by over 2.5 million in the first two years of the pandemic.The Passport Office is advising travellers to apply at least 10 weeks in advance.

temperatures hotter than St Tropez and Ibiza this week - just as we all have to go back to work.Temperatures topping 20C will blow tomorrow (Tuesday, May 3), before hitting 23C or 24C by Thursday (May 5).But the ‘mini heatwave’ comes a few days late for most people, who endured a chilly and rainy Bank Holiday weekend.The 700-mile wide ‘subtropical surge’ will bring warmer air to much of the country today.And forecasters say the 23.4C hottest day of 2022 is under threat.However, they also said the sudden warm weather - which will make the UK hotter than many Mediterranean destinations - could also bring a threat of thunderstorms.Met Office forecaster Simon Partridge said: “This week is a funny old one, there’s a fair bit of rain and cloud around as well as sunny spells, with many areas gradually warming up until Thursday which should be the warmest day,“Between Monday and Wednesday temperatures will sit in the high teens and low 20s in Wales and central and southern parts of England, while eastern Scotland could reach 19C (66.2F). “Thursday will see high teens quite widely across the country, parts of the South East will rise as high as 21C (69.8F), with an outside chance of 22C (71.6F) in areas where there is more sunshine.

Chris Pratt was spotted in a new costume on the set of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in Atlanta, Georgia.On Monday, the 42-year-old actor, who plays Peter Quill a.k.a Star-Lord, was seen chatting on his iPhone during a break in filming for the upcoming third installment of the Marvel trilogy.Chris' co-star Karen Gillan, who plays Nebula, donned in a similar ensemble as she prepared to film scenes, indicating that the costumes may be the new uniform of the Guardians of the Galaxy superhero team.

Russian claims to have captured Ukraine’s important Black Sea port of Mariupol, a determined rearguard of Ukrainian fighters remain in the ruined city – along with some 20 British volunteers.The British fighters, sheltering from the almost-constant Russian bombardment in underground bunkers, have vowed to “save the last bullet for themselves” rather than be taken alive.Hundreds of British Army veterans and others have rushed to Ukraine's defence and a few – like Notts-born Aiden Aslin – have been captured by the Russians.As many as 20,000 civilians in Mariupol are already believed to have been killed by Russian shells and bombs, and many more may die as food supplies run out.Russian leader Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to surround the city’s industrial district and seal it off to starve out the defenders.A large force of Ukrainian defenders is holed up beneath the near-impregnable Azovstal steel works, along with an unknown number of civilians..Putin has abandoned plans to storm the factory and has ordered Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu to instead "block off this industrial area so that a fly couldn't get through".Conceding that his forces couldn’t enter the steelworks without sustaining heavy losses he added: "There is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground through these industrial facilities."A British volunteer in Kyiv who had previously fought alongside the defenders of Mariupol told The Sun: “There are as many as 20 British lads still there and I fear for them.“Many are veterans of the conflict in the Donbas.

Ukraine after Russian forces claimed he was an enemy agent rather than a prisoner of war.The 27-year-old signed up for the Ukrainian marines in 2018 and has dual UK-Ukraine citizenship, with Russian state media claiming he was a mercenary "used [by the West] to perform various delicate tasks" – a claim he strongly denies.Currently, Russian law states that those who are suspected of spying face interrogation and even prison, whereas prisoners of war are released at the end of the conflict.Now, his brother Nathan Wood, 25, has revealed that his brother looked unharmed in a video that appears to suggest Kremlin officials are keen to exchange him for pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who is being held in Ukraine.Speaking to The Mirror, social worker Nathan said: "The Prime Minister is aware Aiden has been taken prisoner of war, it gives us a bit of hope but it is now a waiting game."There needs to be a positive outcome and now the Russians are talking about him potentially being freed in a prisoner swap, he is hopefully being with humanity."They have made their demands clear, hopefully, they are treating him like a prince, they don't want to show him with scratches and bruises because it could harm their chances."This could all takes, days, weeks, months but the Ukrainian and Russian governments appear to be talking and now we need Britain to offer some support."He went on to add that his family have to "be patient" but are "more confident now that Aiden will be released."Aiden was captured in Mariupol and has since appeared in videos being handcuffed and covered in bruises after claims he was being interviewed under duress for propaganda.

Russia has launched a formal probe following claims that Brit SAS heroes are secretly on the ground in war-torn Ukraine.

soldier captured by Russian forces in Ukraine has spoken to his mum over a Facebook messenger video call. Aiden Aslin's captors called his mother Ang Wood to expect a video call yesterday morning (Thursday, April 21) in which she was told to "press Boris Johnson for a swap deal".

Russia, with a fuming pal of Russian President Vladimir Putin saying the pair will "will have to answer in full for their actions".Shaun Pinner, 48, and Aiden Aslin, 28, were targeted by the deputy head of the Kremlin's powerful security council, Dmitry Medvedev.The former Russian president and prime minister said the pair would not be treated as combatants under the Geneva Conventions, meaning they would not receive the rights a prisoner of war would.Medvedev's show trials for the two men come after a failed swap deal for Putin's "prince of darkness" Viktor Medvedchuk, currently held by Ukrainian forces. The British captives have made an appeal to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson several times on multiple Russian state TV outlets.

A British fighter captured by Russian forces has been pictured with gashes to his face and a swollen eye, in a move believed to be motivated by propaganda.