David Beckham has revealed how living with his “tiring” obsessive compulsive disorder leads him to spending hours cleaning and organising his home while the rest of his family are in bed.
The former England football captain, 47, says in a forthcoming Netflix documentary: “The fact that when everyone’s in bed I then go around, clean the candles, turn the lights on to the right setting, make sure everywhere is tidy. I hate coming down in the morning and there’s cups and plates and, you know, bowls.
“I clip the candle wax, I clean the glass, that’s my pet hate, the smoke around the inside of a candle,” he says. “I know, it’s weird.”
When the camera crew comments on how clean his kitchen looks, Beckham says: “I clean it so well, I’m not sure it’s actually appreciated so much by my wife, in all honesty.”
In response, Victoria Beckham tells the crew “He’s just so perfect” and tells David he is “appreciated”. He says he finds the cleaning rituals “tiring” but he feels compelled to do it.
Beckham has discussed living with the condition in the past. He told the Daily Mail he would count clothes and place magazines in straight lines and symmetrical patterns. He also said that one of the reasons he kept getting tattoos was because he was addicted to the pain.
In an interview with ITV in 2006, he said he could not stop acting on his compulsions despite having tried.
He said: “I’ve got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line or everything has to be in pairs. I’ll put my Pepsi cans in the fridge and if there’s one too many then I’ll put it in another cupboard somewhere … everything has to be perfect.”
Netflix confirmed last July that a documentary series about the former footballer’s career was in production. The series will feature unseen archive footage as well as interviews with Beckham, his family and friends, and other people who played an important role in his story.
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In an Instagram post, Beckham said: “I’m excited to confirm that I am partnering with Netflix on a documentary series about my life and career.
“The series will feature unseen archive, untold stories as well as interviews with the people who have been a part of my journey. The series is directed and produced by Academy Award winners Fisher Stevens and John Battsek. Watch this space …”
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( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )
Only three in 10 Britons think the monarchy is “very important”, the lowest proportion on record, a poll shows as the king’s coronation approaches.
A survey by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) shows public support for the monarchy has fallen to a historic low. A total of 45% of respondents said either it should be abolished, was not at all important or not very important.
In 2022, the year of the late queen’s platinum jubilee, 35% of respondents gave one of the same three answers. Overall, answers in 2023 displayed a drop in support for the monarchy to roughly the levels last seen in 2021.
The data, based on 6,638 interviews, builds on 40 years of data collected for the annual British Social Attitudes survey. It shows the number of people who say the monarchy is “very important” has fallen to 29%, from 38% in 2022.
This reflects a long-term trend of declining support for the monarchy, with the new research showing the number of those answering “very important” at the lowest level since data collection began in 1983.
But the return to 2021 levels is in keeping with the bump in popularity the Windsors tend to receive during showpiece events such as jubilees, weddings or births, NatCen noted.
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Guy Goodwin, the chief executive of NatCen, said: “Whilst we are observing a downward trend in support for the monarchy, it is clear from the data that important national events and celebrations, such as jubilees, marriages and births, have a clear and positive effect on society’s views towards the monarchy.
“Throughout the 2010s, we saw an increase in support for Britain to continue to have a monarchy, which coincided with the marriage of HRH the Prince of Wales, and the queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations.”
A total of 26% of people surveyed said the monarchy was “quite important”, up two percentage points on 2021. But 20% said it was “not very important”, also up two points since 2021. A quarter of those questioned said the monarchy was “not at all important/should be abolished”, a proportion that has remained unchanged since 2021.
Goodwin said it was an additional concern that just 12% of 18- to 34-year-olds view the monarchy as “very important”, compared with 42% of those aged 55 and older. He said: “The challenge going forward will be for the monarchy to deliver its relevance and appeal to a younger generation to maintain this support.”
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( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )
“It is unfathomable how Ms. Debrow can offer competent and adequate counsel to her client who has been accused of further crimes,” Willis argues in the filing.
It’s the first whisper from Willis about the probe since January, when she described charging decisions in the investigation as “imminent.” Her comments at the time followed the conclusion of a special grand jury’s investigation into Trump and his bid to reverse the election results. While the special grand jury recommended criminal charges against an untold number of people whose identities remain secret, the panel had no power to issue the charges itself. Instead, Willis must present evidence to a traditional grand jury in order to issue formal charges, which may or may not align with the special grand jury’s recommendations.
Willis’ special grand jury probe stretched for nearly a year as she hauled in a slew of figures in Trump’s inner circle, suggesting that her probe went beyond the immediate allegations of potential Georgia election law violations that Trump may have committed. She fought some of those witnesses — from Sen. Lindsey Graham to former chief of staff Mark Meadows to former national security adviser Mike Flynn to Rudy Giuliani — in state and federal courts to secure their testimony. Willis is particularly interested in Trump’s Jan. 2, 2021 phone call in which he urged Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” just enough votes to reverse the outcome of the election.
Willis’ concerns about the legal representation of the false electors is not new. She raised an alarm in November that some of them might have different degrees of legal exposure and could be called on to testify against each other or otherwise have interests that would require separate representation. At the time, the judge overseeing the matter, Robert McBurney, permitted 10 of the electors to remain represented by a single attorney. But he agreed to require another, Georgia Republican Party Chair David Shafer, to get separate representation because his degree of criminal exposure appeared to be greater than the others.
The false electors were a key aspect of Trump’s bid to remain in power, despite losing the 2020 election. By convening a set of pro-Trump electors in several states Trump lost, his allies pointed to the “competing“ slates of electors to argue that Congress or then-Vice President Mike Pence should pick between them on January 6, 2021, when lawmakers met to count electoral votes and finalize the results of the election. The challenges lodged by Trump’s congressional allies failed, and Pence ultimately rejected Trump’s repeated insistence that he had the single-handed authority to halt the certification himself, ending Trump’s last-ditch bid to stay in power.
Many of the false Republican electors were party activists or chairs in those states, and they helped convene the Republican electors in December, when Biden’s certified electors also met to formalize his victory in those states. The false electors in at least five of the Biden-won states — including Georgia — signed certificates claiming that they were the legitimate presidential electors from those states. While many of the false electors have claimed they weren’t told that they were going to become components in Trump’s Jan. 6 plans — only that their actions were necessary to preserve legal challenges — others were more intimately involved with figures in Trump’s inner circle.
Many of them have already been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors probing Trump’s election gambit as well, and dozens of them were subpoenaed by and testified to the Jan. 6 select committee.
Trump has already been indicted in New York for alleged crimes related to hush money payments and covering up an affair just before the 2016 election. But the Fulton County and federal probe may present more acute legal threats in the long run as prosecutors edge closer to final charging decisions.
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Hyderabad: Rumours of Naga Chaitanya and Sobhita Dhulipala’s relationship have been circulating for quite some time. Neither of them, however, has confirmed or denied the reports. Fans are eager to learn more about their rumoured romance. And now, actor and Chay’s brother Akhil Akkineni’s recent comments on the rumoured couple has only added more fuel to the speculations.
Akhil is currently promoting his upcoming film Agent and during one of the recent interviews he was questioned about Naga Chaitanya and Sobhita’s alleged relationship. Akhil was quick to clarify that he had no knowledge of it. According to Cine Josh, the actor was focused on transforming his physique for his role in Agent, and he was unaware of his brother’s personal life at the time.
While both Chaitanya and Sobhita are preferring to remain tight-lipped about their budding romance, their leaked pictures from vacations in abroad have been only sparking more and more speculations about their dating life. Check out the viral pics below.
Akhil Akkineni, a young and talented Tollywood actor, also discussed a possible multi-starrer with his brother, Naga Chaitanya.
During the promotion of his upcoming film, Agent Akhil discussed the expectations that come with multi-starrers, particularly those starring real-life brothers. He expressed his desire to work on a multi-starrer with Naga Chaitanya if a strong script is found.
Fans are excited to see the Akkineni brothers share the screen again after Akhil made a statement about a possible collaboration with his brother. The brothers previously collaborated on the critically acclaimed film Manam.
On the work front, both brothers are preparing for the box office releases of Akhil’s Agent and Naga Chaitanya’s Custody.
Mumbai: SRK is the only actor who has featured in the world top actors list several times and he is enjoying a massive fan following across the globe. Talking about his looks and physical personality, almost every Indian girl dreams of a partner like him. From prominent personalities to common fans, various Indian girls have publicly expressed their will to marry SRK. In the latest development, actress Fatima Sana Shaikh’s video is doing rounds on the social media in which she claims that she used to cry for SRK.
Yes, in the video Aamir Khan’s rumoured girlfriend is seen saying that she used to cry for SRK and she still loves him. It is not clear whether the video is old or new but it is being widely circulated on social media platforms now.
When asked if she ever expressed her love to SRK, the Dangal actress is seen saying, ”Itni dafa interview mein bola hai.. I am sure unko message ponch gaya hoga.”
For the unversed, Aamir Khan and Fatima Sana Shaikh are being linked for several years now, ever since they starred in Dangal together. Though the two rubbished the rumors multiple times, things only got intense after Aamir announced his divorce with his second wife Kiran Rao. So much so that, people went on to blame Fatima for their separation.
Check out the video below.
In November last year, Fatima Sana Shaikh’s cryptic Instagram caption under one of her posts sparked her wedding rumours with Aamir Khan. “To do or Knot to do, That is the question…” she captioned one of her posts. The word ‘knot’ sparked the speculations of her marriage. Soon after her post went viral, netizens flooded the comments section with questions if her Nikah with her rumoured beau Aamir Khan is on cards.
Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has revealed that the total average time for performing Umrah rituals from the beginning of Tawaf to the end of Sai is 104 minutes.
This was shared during the first ten days of the holy month of Ramzan through an infographic posted on the General Presidency of the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques’ official Twitter account.
It takes an average of 49 minutes for Tawaf, 11 minutes for pilgrims to move from Tawaf to Sai, and 44 minutes for Sai.
These statistics come at a time when the Saudi authorities conducted field surveys to determine the average time in February 2022.
The General Presidency also stated that the Agency for Security, Safety, Emergency Response and Risk provided more than 500 security personnel to serve visitors to the Grand Mosque during the month of Ramzan.
Moreover, more than 15 multilingual security monitors are assigned to assist visitors to the Grand Mosque.
Mumbai: Former actress Sana Khan and Mufti Anas Saiyad got married on November 20 in 2020. Before, Sana Khan was associated with the entertainment industry and was one of the popular young actresses. However, she decided to quit the glamorous world in October 2020 and chose to marry Anas. In a recent interview, the couple shared details about their love story, including how Anas proposed to Sana and won her heart.
Before marriage Mufti Anas used to call Sana Khan his sister and the duo had never imagned that they would become life partners. Yes, Mufti Anas in an interview on the YouTube channel recently, opened up about his love story with Sana Khan. He said that he used to address Sana as ‘baji’ (which means sister in English) before proposing to her.
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He said, “Sana was very famous. At the same time, people in the industry said she prays five times a day. Many of her friends in the industry used to say that she is not made for there. I met Sana in 2017. Then, when I first spoke to Sana, I said ‘Baji kya haal hai? At that time I didn’t know that she was going to become my wife in destiny.”
Sana Khan and Anas first met in Mecca in 2017, but their interaction was brief as Anas was introduced to Sana as an Islamic scholar. Anas was smitten by the actress and got her number from a common friend, but despite texting her, Sana did not reply for three days. Later, during Ramadan in the same year, Sana messaged Anas for something she needed to ask. However, after a few days, Anas messaged Sana multiple times, only to be eventually blocked by her. Speaking about the same, Anas said, “When Sana had to ask something, she used to unblock me and then block me, and this continued till 2017.”
Finally, Sana Khan agreed to marry Mufti Anas two years after he proposed to her. Sana Khan is currently seen preaching Islam on her Instagram account.
Trump’s actions have remained consistent over time. He started his presidential bid with a clear track record on race and immigration, paying debts, and following the law. At nearly every turn, Trump has been exactly who his words and actions told us who he was. It’s the response to them that has changed, and that has told us who we are.
What has surprised at least some observers is the reaction to Trump from political leaders, the media and the public. From insulting John McCain in 2015 to the Access Hollywood tape to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., to Jan. 6, elected Republicans have mostly kept their criticisms tepid, and the president’s public support has remained steady. The media has often relied on the “unprecedented” frame, talking about Trump’s actions as norm-breaking when they should have talked about them as republic-breaking.
The politics of revelation casts Trump as not a catalyst of change but a mirror to how we have changed. At the heart of this narrative is the idea that partisan ties overwhelm everything. And this perspective has some basis in political science. Trump’s approval ratings in office were incredibly stable, regardless of positive or negative events. It’s quite striking when you contrast this with the approval patterns for Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan — you can identify events and economic changes in the dips and climbs. For Trump — and Obama, too, for that matter — almost nothing seems to move the needle. The “doom loop” narrative of party politics advanced by New America’s Lee Drutman identifies this as one of the disadvantages of two-party politics. Writing about the 2020 election, John Sides, Chris Tausanovitch and Lynn Vavreck find a calcification of politics, where voters’ attitudes and choices reflect long-standing factors like racial views and partisanship, and don’t change very much in response to major events. Partisanship and Trump approval dampened the impact of the economy on vote choices, and, despite very different circumstances, voters were remarkably consistent in their 2016 and 2020 votes.
These findings lend credence to the idea that our politics has become a politics of revelation: That the latest Trump scandal will do little to change how people think, and will instead only further show the real nature of our politics and values. That is, it will show that “lol nothing matters” and that Americans prefer to defend their teams rather than preserve their democracy.
The 2022 midterm elections challenged this narrative a bit, and that suggests we’re capable of moving beyond the politics of revelation. Split-ticket voting came back, suggesting that voters could cross party lines when they didn’t like the candidates. Some of the most extreme candidates — those who had expressed views on elections, democracy and abortion that ran counter to public opinion — won fewer votes than their more mainstream counterparts. The result was not just that election denial seemed like a losing brand. It also seemed like American politics could be made flexible and responsive again.
In this light, the first indictment of a former president provides an opportunity for the country not to just reveal itself, to stay stuck in a politics of revelation, but possibly to evolve beyond that in response to a new situation.
This could happen in two ways. First is the familiar question of whether partisanship will once again triumph over everything else. But the second test is a new one: whether we can figure out how to hold former presidents accountable for their actions. As many commentators have pointed out, it’s quite normal in the American system for governors and members of Congress to face consequences when they’ve broken the law. Prison time for former governors of Illinois is an especially bipartisan affair.
But it’s not an accident that the presidency has been the exception to this. Modern presidents are such powerful and ubiquitous figures, so synonymous with national identity, that the idea of holding them to account has only been seen as destabilizing. The Clinton impeachment was widely viewed as a political stunt, and any serious questions were obscured by national satisfaction with the economy and suspicion of the impeachment process. Upon leaving office, Clinton entered into a plea bargain to avoid indictment for lying under oath. Nixon and Watergate were taken much more seriously, but Ford chose to pardon his predecessor upon taking office, declaring that it was more important to move on than to spend more time facing up to what the office of the presidency could be, and, in fact, had become.
Presidents, unlike members of Congress (and some governors) are also term-limited, which means that they will become ex-presidents in a fairly predictable timeframe. This means there are strong incentives to avoid any post-presidential legal processes that could be seen as politicized (or, indeed, be politicized) turning the legal system into a political tool to punish opponents. In sum, we’ve treated the presidency, including the post-presidency, as if it were too big to fail. The Trump indictment pushes our political system in a new direction, and offers us a chance to rethink power and accountability.
In other words, there are real downsides to adopting a framing of Trump’s indictment that casts it as a process of revealing more about the American public, rather than a genuine political development in and of itself. We already have evidence that while partisanship matters a great deal and structures our politics, it doesn’t beat out every factor every time. Norms can change, and the politics of the presidency have changed in response to shifting expectations. Many people may have been surprised at the response — or lack thereof — to Trump’s past scandals and statements. But now we know who Trump is, and how his party responds to him, and can move forward.
What lies ahead will likely still be deeply partisan, and Trump’s most loyal supporters will rally to his side. But not everyone will, and the decisions of legal and political actors, media and ordinary citizens almost certainly will shape what, if anything, matters for preserving accountability in American politics.
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Ram Gopal Varma (left) and Manoj Bajpayee (right).
Mumbai: Manoj Bajpayee is regarded as one of the best actors who fits in any role. His unique way of delivering dialogues and facial expressions is always loved by his fans. The actor worked with various directors but today we will tell about how Manoj Bajpayee sees popular director Ram Gopal Varma (RGV). The Gulmohar actor recently in an interview admitted that he owes his career to RGV.
The actor in an interview said that he is still in touch with RGV and they talk to each other quite often. He said RGV calls him sometimes to give him ‘gaalis’. He further said that RGV scolded him for featuring in a cameo for the remake version of the iconic song, ‘Sapne Mein Milti Hai’. The song starred Dhvani Bhanushali and Abhimanyu Dassani.
RGV is one of the renowned directors and has helped various people to achieve stardom. Recently, MM Keeravani had credited Ram Gopal Varma after his Oscar win, for giving him a break. Keeravani had said in an interview that ‘Ram Gopal Varma was his first Oscar’.
From ‘Satya’, ‘Kaun’ to’Shool’etc, Manoj Bajpayee and RGV worked together in several films. Bajpayee had also won his first national award for the ‘Best Actor In A Supporting Role’ for ‘Satya’.
Nayanthara has finally revealed the full names of her twin boys, whom she welcomed via surrogacy.
Chennai: Actress Nayanthara has finally revealed the full names of her twin boys, whom she welcomed via surrogacy.
Nayanthara was at an award function here, where she spoke about the middle name of her twins, whose first names are Uyir and Ulagam.
Nayanthara was asked to share the full names of her twin boys and she said: “My first son is Uyir Rudronil N. Shivan and my second son is Ulag Dhaivag N. Shivan.”
It was in June 2022, when Nayanthara married filmmaker Vignesh Shivan in an intimate ceremony in Chennai. The wedding was attended by superstars such as Rajinikanth and Shah Rukh Khan. The same year Vignesh Shivan took to Instagram to announce that they have welcomed their bundle of joy – twin boys via surrogacy.
