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Cher Accused of Hiring Four Men to Kidnap Her Son, Court Filing Says

September 28, 2023 by www.breitbart.com Leave a Comment

Pop legend Cher is being accused of hiring four men to kidnap her own son, Elijah Blue Allman, according to the man’s estranged wife.

Marieangela King, who is married to the 47-year-old Allman, alleges Cher sent the men to the couple’s hotel room in New York City last year to forcibly remove him from the hotel, The Messenger reports.

In a court filing, King says the two were talking about reconciling during the hotel visit. Allman had filed for divorce from King in 2021, but the case was not yet concluded when they met in New York City.

King says the two spent 12 days at the hotel but on Nov. 30, the four men appeared and tried to take Allman away with them.

“I was told by one of the four men who took him that they were hired by petitioner’s mother,” the filing reads. “Since August 2022, I have been told that I am not allowed to see or speak to [Allman] who is currently in lockdown at a treatment facility that is undisclosed to me. I am also told [Allman] has no access to his phone.”

King also alleges Cher told her to vacate the home she was living in with Allman after their split.

File/Cher and her son Elijah Blue Allman is seen at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) on December 10, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (GVK/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

“I did so on the belief that my support payments would be timely, and I would be able to afford housing,” King said in the filing. “I was not allowed to retrieve all my belongings from our primary home and residence, nor was I given the opportunity to inventory our assets.”

But she added that she has been prevented from finding out Allman’s whereabouts or his condition.

“I understand his family’s efforts to make sure he is well, and I want what is best for my husband.”

According to the Daily Mail , Cher’s son was photographed at the hotel in L.A. that he had been living in for six months and the photos showed him disheveled and unshaven.

One witness claimed he seemed to be constantly smoking cigarettes that had been “dipped in something.” The person added, “He looked strung-out and messy, like he was a homeless person living on the streets.”

The concern seems warranted since he was discovered passed out on the ground outside the hotel and is now in rehab in Pasadena, California.

Allman has confessed to a drug problem in the past. In 2014, for instance, he claimed he started doing drugs including heroin at the age of 11.

The younger Allman’s father, rock singer Gregg Allman, died in 2017 at the age of 69.

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Ange Postecoglou revolution gathers pace as Son Heung-min gives Spurs reason to sing

September 2, 2023 by www.telegraph.co.uk Leave a Comment

Tottenham fans have serenaded Ange Postecoglou to the tune of Robbie Williams’s Angels but perhaps Let Me Entertain You would be more appropriate after his side swept aside Burnley to maintain their unbeaten start to the Premier League season.

They could have managed more than their five goals at Turf Moor. Son Heung-min scored a hat-trick, while James Maddison pulled the strings and was rewarded with a goal. Postecoglou also has a freescoring centre-back in Cristian Romero, who failed to find the net last season but has two goals already this season.

“It was a testament to the goalscorers who have thrust into the leadership positions and have embraced that with not just words but actions on a daily basis,” said Postecoglou, Tottenham’s amiable Australian coach in his rookie Premier League season. “They have bought into it and Madders is one of them. He was so creative and showed how clinical he is. How he is prepared to work for the team is a great example.”

A fascinating Postecoglou interview from 2020 resurfaced this week on Training Ground Guru where he talked about the bond with his late father, growing up watching the entertainers of the 1970s and their shared interest only in exciting football. It will be music to the ears of Spurs fans.

“I’m loving Big Ange instead,” are the words swapped in the fans’ version of Angels , and they were sent back down the M6 at last happy after visiting this ground. It was where Antonio Conte imploded last year and Jose Mourinho rounded on his own players before that.

There was no such drama here despite falling behind to Lyle Foster’s early opener. Spurs were ruthless in punishing Burnley for their mistakes thereafter. Son’s hat-trick came in the striker role Harry Kane vacated on the eve of the season. And Maddison is now the player attacks go through. He thrives on getting fouled and being heckled by his opponents’ fans.

“He is a pretty strong, resilient guy. It’s not that he likes to get targeted but he wants the ball and has that quality,” Postecoglou said.

Burnley could not have got off to a better start, ahead within four minutes following a move that swept through the visitors’ back line with incisive passing and powerful running. Luca Koleosho, an Italy Under-19 forward, showed Premier League pedigree to get around Pedro Porro before his cut-back invited Foster to finish neatly into the far corner of the net.

Spurs’ riposte came in the form of a long ball down the middle, although the finish was intricate. Porro provided the route-one path to goal with a punt downfield that Burnley failed to deal with. Seconds later, Son had exchanged passes with Manor Solomon before the Spurs captain dinked the ball over James Trafford. They were ahead in the added minutes of the first half after Burnley had four attempts, but failed, to clear Maddison’s corner. The ball fell to Romero on the edge of the area, with his finish finding the top corner off a post.

Maddison’s goal came after Burnley lost the ball in their own territory, with Destiny Udogie shifting the ball to Maddison, who was afforded plenty of time on the edge of the penalty area to take aim and finish well.

Son’s second goal came after Solomon waltzed through Burnley’s defence and squared to his captain. Porro played Son behind Burnley’s defence for his treble. Josh Brownhill pulled one back for the home side in the last seconds.

Son’s ability to play in Kane’s position was part of the thinking in not targeting a No 9 in the window. “It’s one of the reasons,” Postecoglou said. “I have a picture in my head of what I want the team to look like and we are still building. It’s putting pieces together and not neglecting what is in front of you. Sonny, central or wide, has all the characteristics to play in any system.”

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Sweet moment Princess Kate roars like a tiger while playing with toddlers on visit to centre for kids with special needs

September 27, 2023 by www.thesun.co.uk Leave a Comment

THIS is the adorable moment Princess of Wales roared like a tiger as she played with toddlers during a visit to a sensory development class.

The future Queen beamed as she met kids with special educational needs and their parents during a portage session in Sittingbourne, Kent .

Kate, 41, wore an eye-watching red Zara blazer as she made the visit by helicopter to kick off her Shaping Us campaign, which highlights how every child in Britain can be given a better start in life.

Skylar, who is almost two and enjoyed spreading foam over herself and her pals – but avoided getting the Princess in a mess – said: “She is very sweet.”

She laughed as Beatrice, three, screamed with delight at the sight of shredded paper going everywhere.

And Kate applauded Darcie, a three-year-old girl with Down Syndrome carefully pouring brightly coloured squares of paper into a cup.

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“Well done,” the Princess told her, before adding: “Louis’ got a Darcie in his class.”

Portage is a council-run service for children with special educational needs and disabilities that provides trained practitioners who go to their homes or bring family groups together to help with their development from birth up until pre-school age.

Kate asked parents if they were receiving enough support and heard them explain how getting their child enrolled on a portage scheme had enhanced their development.

The practitioners are trained by the National Portage Association, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in Britain this year and oversees 110 services around the country.

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Kate’s session, attended by seven children with a range of needs and conditions, including social communications difficulties, autism , complex needs and Down Syndrome, is run by Kent County Council at the Orchards Centre in Sittingbourne.

She met father-of-four Steve Ikebuwa from Gravesend, who discussed how much the Kent Portage Service has helped their 11-month-old son Nathan, who has severe learning difficulties.

Mr Ikebuwa told the Princess that – like her – his wife had suffered the severe morning sickness, hyperemesis gravidarum, which causes severe vomiting during pregnancy .

Kate told him: “I went through that. I know what that feels like.”

Charlotte Beer, a portage practitioner from Dover , got into the career after her daughter Evie, now six, was diagnosed with autism at the early age of 18 months.

She said: “She was around about 13 or 14 months when we started noticing a regression in her development. We recognised the signs.”

When Evie started seeing a portage practitioner called Kerry, there was a noticeable improvement in the little girl and it was a chance for Charlotte to discuss things weekly or fortnightly with an expert.

“It was a real lightbulb moment,” she told Kate.

She added: “When you have a child going through lots of assessments and tests it can be quite a negative experience. There’s a lot of hearing what your child isn’t doing.

“It makes such a difference to have someone saying, wow, look what your child can do. She really changed our whole outlook. She was so important to us all as a family.

“From our perspective as well she was an outlet for me. She was that person, I can’t remember if she was coming weekly or fortnightly, I could use to offload.”

She said her daughter at six was doing well. “She is still non-verbal but she is starting to ask for chips all day long.”

Janet Rickman, chair of the National Portage Association, said she hoped that the royal visit would raise the profile of the scheme and persuade many her councils to set up their own.

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She added: “To be able to showcase and celebrate our 40th anniversary is brilliant.

“But we also hope that maybe local authorities will notice it more and realise how fantastic portage is and want to develop it more in their local areas.”

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Gita Mehta, writer on India who made her name with Karma Cola, a hilarious account of spiritual questers – obituary

September 27, 2023 by www.telegraph.co.uk Leave a Comment

Gita Mehta, who has died aged 80, was admired as a novelist and as the author of books about her native India – the India seen from the inside by a returned emigrée, and the India as sold to the West in images of mysticism, poverty and chaos.

She made her name in 1980 with her first book Karma Cola: The Marketing of the Mystic East, a hilarious essay on “spiritual travellers” from the West – The Beatles, Hollywood rich kids in detox, intense Scandinavians, British colonial guilt-trippers – who go in search of the mystic soul of India, but only succeed in keeping everyone awake playing the bongos on 24-hour train journeys while filling the pockets of self-appointed “swamis” in a flourishing guru industry.

“They thought we were profound. We knew we were provincial,” Gita Mehta wrote. “Everybody thought everybody else was ridiculously exotic and everybody got it wrong.”

Writing in The Daily Telegraph James Cameron observed that of the many books he had read about India, Karma Cola was “the only one that has intentionally made me laugh”, while Ann Morrow commended it as “ideal for parents to give their children before they set off to India in the youthful hope of finding themselves and a guru”. The book’s cynical tone and colourful reportage earned it comparisons to the “New Journalism” of such American writers as Tom Wolfe .

Later Gita Mehta took to fiction, and published Raj (1989), a commercial blockbuster about rich princeling families looking for love in the run-up to Partition, which was hailed in the New York Review of Books as a powerful reinterpretation of history, though less kindly received by British critics.

Her A River Sutra (1993), a collection of tales told in poetic prose, centred around a civil servant who retires to rediscover his soul and run a guest-house by the sacred river Narmada where pilgrims come and tell him their stories.

She returned to opinionated reportage in Snakes and Ladders (1997), a 35-chapter guide to modern India, taking in politics, economics, autobiography, jokes, history, polemic, anecdote, interviews, race, the arts, literature, caste, and the sex industry.

Gita Mehta was married to Sonny Mehta , known as one of the top names in transatlantic publishing, the brains behind the Picador imprint at Pan Books in London and subsequently head of Knopf, the most “literary” imprint of Random House US.

A glamorous literary couple, the Mehtas divided their time between London, New Delhi and New York, where Gita, elegant in floaty saris whatever the weather (“because we’re one of the few peoples left in the world whose form of dress isn’t defined by Calvin Klein”), was known for her vivid, all-embracing personality, her delight in meeting new people and in new ideas, and for a beady-eyed scrutiny and dry wit that made her very good company.

In an article in The Daily Telegraph she recalled being rung up in New York and asked to appear on television to discuss her sexual fantasies: “I nearly fainted… In the West you talk about love and sex lives; in India we are more likely to talk about bowel movements… I recommend a return to the bowel movement – you don’t have to worry about being too old for it.”

A journalist who requested an interview recalled that “Would you mind awfully if I… chain-smoked throughout?” were her first words.

But Gita Mehta’s “insider-outsider” take on modern India was derived as much from family background as her own cosmopolitanism. The second of three children, she was born Gita Patnaik in New Delhi on December 12 1942 to Bijayananda (“Biju”) Patnaik, the scion of a princely family from Orissa (now Odisha), and his wife Gyanwati, née Sethi.

Her enormous extended family covered all parts of the Indian political spectrum, from intense Anglophilia – “There was a time when my mother had seven male cousins up at Cambridge simultaneously. Others were in the RAF” – to revolutionary activism. A cousin of her father’s, a 19-year-old poet, was shot dead while leading a raid on the British armoury at Chittagong, while another was taken in chains to the Andaman Islands aged 14 and imprisoned for 17 years.

Gita’s father Biju would become celebrated postwar as one of the most colourful and maverick personalities of Indian politics. At the time of his daughter’s birth he had come under the spell of Mahatma Gandhi, and the family home in New Delhi, which sheltered nationalists escaping the law, was known throughout the country as Absconders’ Paradise. Yet he did not follow the example of other Indian “freedom fighters” in seeking an end to British rule through collaboration with the Japanese.

Instead, on the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the RAF and, according to his daughter,  was “complimented, even decorated, by the Vicereine of India” for the large number of British civilians he had evacuated from Burma in the teeth of the Japanese advance. At the same time, however, from his RAF aircraft, he dropped bags of Gandhi’s “Quit India” leaflets on to Indian troops under British command and made clandestine flights to carry Congress Party leaders to secret meetings.

In early January 1943 he was arrested and jailed for his exploits and Gita recounted the tale of how, as he was being led away, he whispered to his wife to get rid of their weapons. This she did, using the family two-seater Sunbeam-Talbot convertible which she only knew how to drive in reverse. Unwittingly, in the dark, she dumped the cache outside the local police station. Fortunately, no connection was ever made.

As her mother campaigned to get her father released (she was finally successful in 1946, a year before independence), Gita, barely three years old, was sent with her older brother to a boarding school in Kashmir run by Irish nuns who told her: “We don’t allow crying here”.

“My brother and I spent the entire time trying to escape,” Gita said. “We once collected biscuit tins, waited until 9pm and tried to stack them up by a wall and climb over it, but…”

Back home in Delhi, she acquired a lifelong love of literature from visits to street booksellers hawking Mad magazine alongside works by Plato and Dickens: “Anna Karenina, sahib? Madame Bovary? Hot books, sahib, only this minute arrived.”

Having read her way through much of the literary canon, from Bombay University she read English at Girton College, Cambridge, where, by mistake, she sat her finals at the end of her first year: “Afterwards they hauled me up. I said, ‘But did I pass?’ and they said Yes.” With uncharacteristic meekness she sat her finals again when she was expected to.

At Cambridge she played bridge with Germaine Greer and Clive James and became friends with Eric Idle of Monty Python, Jonathan Lynn the co-writer of Yes Minister, and Richard Eyre, later of the National Theatre, who recalled her as “extraordinarily beautiful” and of having “the air of someone who had lived several lives… I don’t think I’d met anyone that cosmopolitan.”

It was at Cambridge, too, that she met fellow student Sonny Mehta while they were standing in a queue to see Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal; they married in 1965.

After graduation she studied at film school in London and embarked on a career as a documentary filmmaker for British, European and American networks, including reporting the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 for NBC and making Dateline Bangladesh, a film compilation of the war which was shown in cinemas in India.

Her development as an author was slow in gestation, partly due to her proximity, through her husband, to prize-winning writers. “Imagine: You’re working on a book and Gabriel García Márquez comes for a drink,” she told Publishers Weekly: “You think, ‘Does the world really need me?’ ”

The idea for her first book was sparked by a cocktail-party conversation in New York: “There had been the usual talk about karma. I wafted past in a sari and somebody said, ‘She can tell you what karma’s all about.’ I said, ‘It’s not what it’s cracked up to be.’ The guy said, ‘Yeah, that’s a great answer, so write it.’ It was the chairman of Bantam Books so I wrote it.” It took her just three weeks. Her last book, Eternal Ganesha (2006), was a coffee-table book about the ubiquitous, elephant-headed Hindu deity.

Gita Mehta was offered one of India’s highest civilian honours, the Padma Shri, in 2019, but declined on the grounds that “the timing might be misconstrued” because of an imminent general election.

Gita Mehta’s husband Sonny died in 2019. She is survived by their son.

Gita Mehta, born December 12 1942, died September 16 2023

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Who won America’s Got Talent? Adrian Stoica and Hurricane victorious but some fans furious

September 28, 2023 by www.express.co.uk Leave a Comment

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Adrian and Hurricane were crowned AGT champions (Image: NBC)

The winner of America’s Got Talent has been revealed, with Adrian Stoica and Hurricane taking home the crown.

The popular trainer and his faithful border collie Hurricane came out on top in an action-packed final which featured a whopping 11 acts.

Adrian and Hurricane beat off stiff competition in the two-night finale of Season 18 of AGT from second placed Anna deGuzman and Murmuration in third, and will now walk away with an incredible prize.

The dynamic duo will star in their own Las Vegas residency, drive around in a new Kia car and get a staggering $1million cash prize.

Adrian grabbed hold of Hurricane as confetti rained down after their win was announced, with judges Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum, Sofia Vergara and Howie Mandell getting to their feet to applaud.

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Adrian and Hurricane were joined by Cat Cora (Image: NBC)

Earlier on in the evening, Adrian and his pet pooch were joined by a very special guest in a pre-recorded video.

Celebrity chef Cat Cora cooked up a fancy meal with the pair ahead of the grand finale, but in ended in disaster when Adrian chased Hurricane and they made a big mess.

Some fans were not too happy with the result and took to Twitter to voice their negative opinions.

“AWFUL!!!! America got this one wrong!!! Putri Ariani deserves the win more,” wrote one viewer.

Another added: “Man … Hurricane is a phenomenal dog and i love their acts but i gotta question how Murmuration didn’t win it all ; they were just perfection every single performance”

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A third put: “Congratulations to them but I feel like something was off with the voting this year. Absolutely stellar acts…..gone…..???”

However, others backed the duo, with one fan tweeting: “Well Deserved! It’s about time someone won for their talent and not their story”

Another said: “People getting mad over this for what? These two were very talented and keep in mind the time that went into this for him and Hurricane, this was at least for me thee best dog act ever on the show”

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