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  • MYSTYLE | Conor Maynard

    MYSTYLE | Conor Maynard

    We caught up with pop prince Conor to find out why boxers are his go to fashion statement at home and why it’s all about Nandos.

    Connor Maynard

    HIS WATCH: Never wear watches!
    HIS AFTERSHAVE: Used to always be Hugo boss, but I haven’t worn an aftershave in years! I prefer the natural scent… joking, I just can’t be bothered half the time (laughs).
    HIS CLOTHING:
    1) Uptown: Spencer Hart, their suits and shirts are so unique.
    2) Downtown: Too many to name! Adidas shoes are the one for me right now, although I just tend to like particular pieces of clothing as opposed to sticking with a single brand.
    3) Mytown: any mildly clean pair of boxers I can find and some sweatpants.
    HIS ACCESSORIES: Phone, my lucky bracelets (stared wearing them just before my first ever singles were released) and my house keys because I like to be able to get back into my house at the end of a day.
    HIS DRINK: Disaronno and Coke (me and my friends call it a “dizzy Coke”)
    HIS RESTAURANT: Nandos, because I’m the most adventurous, out-there guy you’ll ever meet.
    HIS TRAVEL: Anywhere with good people.
    HIS BOOK: A Series Of Unfortunate Events, read the whole series twice!
    HIS SONGS: Changes every day! Right now: John Mayer – “I Don’t Trust Myself”, Fetty Wap – “My Way” (feat. Drake), Taylor Swift – “Bad Blood”.
    HIS QUOTE TO LIVE BY: “It’s better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.”
    FINISH THIS SENTENCE: Someone once told me… that quote you just read, so I took it as my own and now when I say it everyone thinks I’m really profound and a genius and it’s great!

  • Do you remember Aaron Renfree from S Club Juniors? What he looks like now is so HOT

    Do you remember Aaron Renfree from S Club Juniors? What he looks like now is so HOT

    The baby-faced S Club Junior singer Aaron Renfree has grown up to be quite the hunk.

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    CREDIT: Polydor

    At the time Aaron, (at the bottom) was the oldest member of S Club 8 – he just a teenager when the band launched their first album and single.

    If you were around in the early noughties you may remember S Club 8 – or S Club Juniors. They were a spin-off from S Club 7, originally set up to support their older counterparts on tour, but they were quite successful in their own right. They released two albums in 2002 and 2003 racking up 6 top 10 hits during their time together including “One Step Closer” and “Automatic High”.

    Well of the members, Aaron Renfree has just caught our attention. He’s turned into quite the hot man and he’s going to be turning 30 this year!

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    If you’re wondering what he’s up to now, he’s a choreographer and show director for the X Factor tour and has appeared on the X Factor and the Voice as a backup dancer.

     

    Fancy a trip down memory lane then you can buy their albums still on Amazon

  • Okay, Adam Lambert was ridiculously hot at Elton’s Oscar bash

    Okay, Adam Lambert was ridiculously hot at Elton’s Oscar bash

    Ah Adam… Don’t change

    Adam Lambert literally shone brightly at Elton’s Oscar bash yesterday as he caught up with a slew of stars including Leona Lewis, Candis Cayne, Alison Porter and Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears.

    Adam cut a fine figure at the Elton John Foundation Oscar party in a timeless black tux complete with a single red rose. The 35-year-old hit singer wore a Dolce and Gabbana suit teamed with a Gucci bow tie. The event was held at The City of West Hollywood Park and attended by some of the entertainment industry’s finest stars.

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    Also at Elton’s bash was love birds Zachary Quinto and Miles McMillian. Zachary, 39 and his 25-year-old model beau who have been dating for over three years, wore matching bow ties, but the Star Trek actor, Zachary opted for a more vibrant jacket with a gold motif. Miles took a more traditional route wearing a classic black tux.

     

     

     

  • Tanzania withdraws threat of publishing “gay list”

    Tanzania withdraws threat of publishing “gay list”

    The African country of Tanzania has withdrawn its threat of creating a list of gay people and sharing it publically.

    Tanzania
    Tanzania

    The list, which was threatened last week, would have outed people who are accused of selling sex online. Deputy health minister Hamisi Kigwangalla was to call a press conference on Monday to distribute the list, however, the press call was cancelled. Taking to Twitter he wrote that they were not going to name names due to a “technical reason” and said they would deal with “the issue” differently.

    He wrote,

    “For strategic reasons and to avoid destroying evidence we will deal with this issue differently and will keep you informed at every step.”

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    Tanzania took the unusual step of banning the imports of lube last year in an effort to crackdown on anal sex. The action was seen as a move which directly targetted the gay and bisexual male community.

    Homosexuality is illegal in Tanzania as it is in 38 of the 54 countries in Africa. Those found guilty, in the Commonwealth country, could be handed life imprisonment. However, no arrests have been known to have been made in recent years.

    Homosexual acts attract the death penalty in three African, Sudan, Somalia and Mauritania, where the legal system is based on Sharia law.

  • The Oscars failed to mention Alexis Arquette “In Memoriam” despite having over 70 film credits

    The Oscars failed to mention Alexis Arquette “In Memoriam” despite having over 70 film credits

    Alexis Arquette was left out of the Oscar’s in memory segment which paid tribute to stars who died in 2016.

    Alexis Arquette
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    Speaking to ABC Alexis Arquette’s sister, Patricia Arquette said she was “really pissed off” with the Academy after they seemingly snubbed the star. She said,

    “I was really pissed off the academy left out my sister Alexis in the Memoriam, because Alexis had a great body of work, but Alexis was one of very few trans artists that worked in the business,”

    “At a time when we have trans kids that can’t even go to the bathroom at school, you would think the academy would have a little bit more respect for a group of people that are murdered, and trans women of color are most likely to live in extreme poverty, making $800 a month, so I think the Oscars have a lot of learning to do.”

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    Alexis died in September 2016 at the age of 47. She starred in over 70 films and television programmes during her career.

  • Katie Hopkins is being SUED

    Katie Hopkins is being SUED

    Katie Hopkins is being sued by Guardian writer and food blogger Jack Monroe.

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    CREDIT: Channel 5

    LBC presenter and Mail Online columnist Katie Hopkins is being sued by the Guardian and Cooking On A Bootstrap writer Jack Monroe; over tweets sent from Katie Hopkin’s twitter account in 2015; which Monroe has said has caused “serious harm” to her reputation.

    Monroe, is suing after Hopkins wrote a tweet, which suggested that she was involved with or condoned the vandalism on a war memorial in 2015 during an anti-government protest.

    The tweet was published in May 2015 and said,

    “@MsJackMonroe scrawled on any memorials recently? Vandalised the memory of those who fought for your freedom. Grandma got any more medals?”

    Monroe is also arguing that a tweet sent by Katie Hopkins, allegedly bore a “defamatory innuendo meaning” that she “approved or condoned the criminal vandalisation of the women’s war memorial in Whitehall during an anti-government protest”.

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    Monroe’s lawyer William Bennett told Mr Justice Warby:

    “The claimant’s primary case is that by reason of the seriousness of the allegations and the scale of publication, serious harm to reputation has been caused.

    “A widely published allegation that someone has either vandalised a war memorial or approved of such an act will inevitably cause serious damage to reputation.”

    Monroe’s lawyer noted, that even after Hopkins deleted the first tweet, “she did not apologise or retract the allegation even though she knew it was false”.

    Solicitor-advocate Jonathan Price, for Hopkins, told the judge in written argument that Monroe’s case was a “relatively trivial dispute” which was “resolved on Twitter in a period of several hours”.

    He claimed that, “no lasting harm, and certainly no serious harm” to Monroe’s reputation resulted from the interaction.

    Speaking to the court, Monroe said,

    “These proceedings have been a nightmare. It has been an 18-month, unproductive, devastating nightmare.

    “I did not want to be here today. I have offered several times through my lawyer to settle these proceedings outside court. This is the last thing that I wanted to be doing.”

     

  • Zachary Quinto and his boyfriend Miles McMillian looked super cute together at the Oscars

    Boyfriends Zachary Quinto and Miles McMillian hit the town last night and looked super cute together.

    Zachary Quntion and his boyfriend Miles McMillian were spotted together last night, first the Oscars where they held hands in front of the world’s media, then the Vanity Fair party and then the pair joined a galaxy of stars, including Adam Lambert, Ricky Martin and Bryan Singer at the outrageously gorgeous Elton John Foundation Oscar party.

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    Zachary, 39 and his 25-year-old model beau who have been dating for over three years, wore matching bow ties, but the Star Trek actor, Zachary opted for a more vibrant jacket with a gold motif. Miles took a more traditional route wearing a classic black tux.

    Also in attendance at Elton’s lavish party was the director and producer Bryan Singer who was seen hugging Elton’s husband, David Furnish.

     

     

     

  • Moonlight becomes the first ever gay themed Best Picture at the Oscars

    Moonlight becomes the first ever gay themed Best Picture at the Oscars

    Moonlight has made history after becoming the first gay-themed film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.

    In spite of a wrongly announced Best Picture, Moonlight actually took top place at this year’s Oscars and in doing so made history as the first gay-themed film to ever get the top prize.

    In 2006 Brokeback Mountain came close receiving 8 nominations, the most of any film that year. In the end, it won three of them but was pipped at the post for the ultimate award by Crash.

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    There hasn’t been an LGBT-themed film nominated for Best Picture since 2014’s Dallas Buyers Club in which the film’s stars, Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto both won gongs for their performances.

     

    You can pre-order Moonlight from Amazon now.

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  • Oh wow. The wrong Best Picture was just read out at the Oscars and it got very very awkward

    Oh wow. The wrong Best Picture was just read out at the Oscars and it got very very awkward

    Oscars 2017 will go down in history as probably one of the most awkward ever after the wrong film got called as the “best picture”.

    So there was a massive, monumental eff up on the Oscars this year after, it seems, the wrong announcement card was given to Warren Beatty. We wondered why Warren took so long to announce the winner. In the end, it was Faye Dunaway who read out the mistake that La La Land had won “Best Picture”.

    The card read: Emma Stone, La La Land, the only problem was that the card was for the earlier category of Best Actress. The actual winner, Moonlight, was supposed to be in that envelope.

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    Only after the cast and crew of La La Land had done their acceptance speeches was the mistake made clear in one of the most awkward hand overs we’ve ever witnessed.

    Warren was forced to announce, “This is not a joke” as he tried to explain the issue.

    “I wasn’t trying to be funny,” he told the audience and the millions of viewers at home, as he explained that the duo had been handed the previous winner’s card. “That’s why I looked at Faye for a really long time”.

    Anyway, watch it unfold with Twitter moments:

     

    https://twitter.com/i/moments/836082426560524290

  • Scottish men doing Yoga in Kilts is all we need this weekend

    Scottish men doing Yoga in Kilts is all we need this weekend

    Oh MY…

    Those naughty but lovely people at the BBC.

     

    BBC The Social have managed to racked up 46 million views thanks the flashing of some rather perky assets of these rather striking Scottish guys in kilts doing Yoga.

    Enjoy the view.

     

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  • Police target two London gay clubs in drug bust

    Police target two London gay clubs in drug bust

    The Metropolitan Police have arrested three men after drug busts at two London clubs following an “intelligence-led operation”.

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    Two gay clubs in London were raided in the early hours of Friday morning by the Metropolitan Police. They arrested three men after a “quantity of suspected Class A drugs” were found on one of the premises.

    Officers entered Vauxhall clubs, Fire and Lightbox and searched customers and members of staff. The venues were also searched.

    According to police reports two 30-year-old men were arrested at Lightbox on suspicion of possession of Class A drugs. One of the men arrested is a staff member of Lightbox. The other man was additionally arrested on suspicion of breaching a court order. A third man, aged 28 was arrested at the same venue on suspicion of handling stolen goods.

    All three were taken into custody at a south London police station where they remain.

    No one was arrested at Fire.

    Chief Inspector Lance Lamnea, of Lambeth borough, said,

    “This operation was based on intelligence that indicated harmful substances were being sold at these nightclubs. We are committed to supporting a vibrant night time economy in the capital, but where we suspect offences are taking place we must take swift action to protect the public.

    “In this case, anti-social behaviour – believed to be generated by those attending the clubs – has been having a detrimental effect on the lives of those living and working in the area.

    “We will be working closely with both the clubs’ management and our partners to ensure the continuing safety of the public and consider whether there will be any impact on licensing issues.”