7 d. ago Big Brother couple announce shock split days after leaving iconic house

The Big Brother couple have announced they have split just days after they returned to the reality show house.

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1 week ago A Place In The Sun couple demanding 'a champagne house with a lemonade budget' leave host Craig Rowe exasperated with damning six

Tuesday's instalment of the Channel 4 property show saw married couple, Jane and James, ask Craig to help find them a holiday home in Crete.

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1 week ago A Place in the Sun couple 'separate' during show leaving host Craig Rowe 'confused'

A Place in the Sun viewers were left in hysterics as a couple quibbled over a property, with one of them walking away and host Craig Rowe trying to keep the peace.

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3 w. ago World Bank employees accused of ‘intimidating’ au pair into forced labor and threatening to have her deported

Exclusive: An au pair from Indonesia claims in a lawsuit obtained by The Independent that the couple refused to let her leave the house without their permission and threatened to have her deported if she told anyone about the mistreatment

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3 w. ago The best possible wedding gift? Leaving the reception without saying goodbye | Polly Hudson

Newlyweds spend a ridiculous amount of money to have the same conversations over and over. That’s why it is time to embrace the French exitTurns out it’s not only intricate dances and lip-syncing – there is common sense on TikTok, too. An idea circulating there is that a new wedding rule should be introduced, stipulating that guests must not say goodbye to the happy couple, but should just leave. That way, the newly spliced spouses are allowed to enjoy the most expensive party they will ever throw, rather than being persistently interrupted and pulled off the dancefloor.While your kneejerk reaction may be that this is rude, ungrateful ghosting on the most special day of their lives, stop for a moment and think about it rationally – and mathematically. A wedding reception can easily have 150 guests, some of whom will be in couples. Even if they’re bored witless, social convention dictates that people usually stay until the last, say, two hours of the night, which means one or two goo...

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3 w. ago Couple leave horrific racist message on receipt for horrified waiter at restaurant

Guillermo Ortiz, a waiter working at a Planet Hollywood restaurant at Los Angeles Airport, has shown a racist message that was left scribbled by a couple on a receipt

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3 w. ago ‘An intellectual stuck in a Batman suit’: readers remember the genius of Val Kilmer

Guardian readers recall encounters with a brilliant actor who was kind, generous and much more than a heart-throb• Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun and The Doors, dies aged 65• An ethereally handsome actor who evolved into droll self-awareness• A life in picturesI worked as a dialogue coach on Oliver Stone’s Alexander in 2003. Val was playing Alexander’s father, Philip II of Macedon. Oliver wanted the Macedonians to have Celtic accents in contrast to the Greeks, who looked down on the Macedonians, as the English have only too frequently done to neighbours of the UK. We were prepping in Morocco and I had been working for a while with Val on his Irish accent when my 95-year-old mother died and I had to leave for a couple of days for her funeral. During my absence, Val had to go home for a short while. When I returned I opened my hotel room door to find it awash with beautiful white roses. Val had sent them before he left, leaving a note of condolence and both his personal phone numbers so ...

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4 w. ago ITV Emmerdale's Gabby Thomas and Vinny Dingle's big move revealed as couple leave the village

Emmerdale's Gabby Thomas and Vinny Dingle will make a big move in upcoming scenes, but a scheming Sam Dingle is determined to split the couple up for good

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4 w. ago Love Island All Stars finalists split just weeks after leaving ITV2 villa

Another Love Island couple have split up just weeks after leaving the villa and making it to the final, after struggling to make their romance work in real life

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4 w. ago 'Nightmare' couple leave landlord up to her knees in trash – the loo will make you gag

A landlord's property has been completely trashed after she took a chance on a 'nightmare' tenants who left the property with piles of rat-infested rubbish which reached knee height

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