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Rylan Clark has been flooded with messages as he marked what should be considered a major milestone what it comes to his career. The TV and radio star took to social media to recognise that it had officially been 12 years since he left The X Factor. But there was a time when we may have seen Rylan much, much sooner that his appearance on the ITV singing show, headed up by Simon Cowell. The self-confessed Big Brother superfan has previously claimed he was 'booted off' the hit reality show when he was 18 - before even making it into the famous house But that was just a setback in Rylan's plans to make it. He looked for other ways to make his name on TV and in 2010 he reached the final of Sky Living modelling series, Signed by Katie Price. But it wasn't until 2012 that he really hit the big time with a memorable turn on The X Factor where he was mentored by Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger. READ MORE: Stacey Solomon addresses 'estranged' Joe Swash relationship after heading out solo with kids He ended up finishing the ITV singing competition, after THAT memorable crying scene, in fifth place and soon his Big Brother opportunity came around again and he won Celebrity Big Brother 11 in 2013. Later that year, he presented Big Brother's Bit on the Side, This Morning and The Xtra Factor and the rest, as they say is history. Rylan, 35, is now a BBC Radio 2 presenter, hosting his own Saturday afternoon show for the station, among the presenters who covers the annual Eurovision Song Contest for the broadcaster and has a string of other TV projects under his belt - including dating show and travel series. On Monday (November 25), Rylan reflected on the anniversary of his X Factor departure. Sharing a selfie from the car as he was chauffeured around, the Essex-born star said: "12 years ago today I left The X Factor as a quarter finalist. Still going. Cheers everyone, appreciate it x." Rylan Clark (Image: Rylan Clark Instagram) Loose Women star Ruth Langsford was quick to respond, writing: "Of COURSE you are!!" Doctor Who's Russell T Davies replied: "Amazing!" West End star Marisha Wallace commented: "Oh the places you will go." Socialite Lizzie Cundy added: "So proud of you my darling friend ...amazing." And Rylan's followers were also quick to respond with support. @charl0ttesayshi said: "Proud of you!! Here’s to the next 12 & beyond." @anniejarrett28 commented: "You’ve had the last laugh! National treasure." @jackiedorrianjagdambe wrote: "Oh my word is that really 12 years ago!!! You are amazing @rylan." @janebailey4818 added: "Well deserved, Rylan. I love seeing you on TV and listening to your radio show."MAC defensive lineman commits to Iowa out of transfer portal
DEAR ABBY: My husband is miserable. Five years ago, he was fired from his job of more than 25 years, and the small issues he had with depression, alcohol and smoking have multiplied exponentially. He sleeps until 10 or 11 a.m., showers only two or three times a week, rarely eats and has a drink in his hand by 4 or 5 p.m. every day. He now suffers from COPD but has no plans to quit smoking. He would never consider therapy. My husband has lost so much weight and muscle mass, he's barely recognizable. He seems to miss sex, but even if he made an advance, his lack of physicality would make it miserable. Anyway, I'm no longer interested. He was never an affectionate person, but now he has poor personal hygiene, his breath smells of liquor and his hands smell of tobacco. Beyond the quiet misery of home, it's tough for him to go out. He has a hard time with stairs, walking very far and even ordering from a restaurant. I feel he is trying to hasten his own death. I honestly feel there is nothing I can do that I haven't already done. I'm fine, but numb. Do you have any advice for me? -- HOPELESS IN KANSAS DEAR HOPELESS: Your husband seems to feel he has nothing to live for. You mentioned that he seems to miss sex but is now in such bad shape that you are no longer interested. Have you told him the reason you are no longer interested is that he's no longer the person you fell in love with, and a giant step in the right direction would be for him to consult his doctor about his depression? If the answer is no, consider offering him that "carrot." If he's willing to try to get back on track, you might feel differently. There are nicotine substitutes for the truly addicted, which help users inhale fewer damaging byproducts. People with COPD can get some exercise with the help of supplemental oxygen, a subject that should also be discussed with his doctor. That said, the bottom line is your husband has to WANT to help himself. If he doesn't, it may be time for you to locate the nearest Al-Anon group (al-anon.org/info) and attend some meetings, which will help you to recognize that his self-destructive behavior is not your responsibility and only he can help himself. DEAR ABBY: A longtime friend is now a widow and doesn't have time to connect anymore. I have invited her for coffee and for dinner and sent notes of support. She waits days, even weeks to respond and has other social things to do. I understand loss and grief, but this feels like "NO. Go away," with a stiff arm. I guess it's time to go away. Right? -- UNEXPECTED IN INDIANA DEAR UNEXPECTED: You may have been overwhelming this woman in your attempt to comfort her. Depending on how long ago she lost her husband, it may be better for you to step back and allow her to regain her balance. The more you push her, the further she will distance herself.It's something Beatles fans thought they would never hear again - Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon harmonising on stage. And Sir Paul has admitted it is "very emotional" to play new Beatles track Now And Then on his current tour - because it is a "John song" and so it feels wonderful to be singing with him. Now and Then was released at the end of 2023, after a recording process that started in the late Seventies with a John Lennon demo, and ended with Ringo Starr and Sir Paul in the studio in 2022 finishing the song. It has been described as the last ever Beatles song and after wowing fans the world over on release, it now has two Grammy nominations. Sir Paul has been including it in all his sets on his Got Back world tour and speaking for the first time about playing it, he says: "It's really great. When you introduce a new song, even though it's an old song, like 'Now and Then', the first reaction is, people aren't quite sure what it is or what you're doing. "But during the run of the concerts, they get the idea. The word gets out on the internet, you know. So now the reaction is really strong, and for us it's great to play because it's a nice song to play, and for me, it's particularly great because it's a John song. And so it's very emotional for me. I love it. I love doing it, and the audience seem to love it too." Paul is talking having just returned to the UK after being on the road since October with his Got Back Tour going to South America and round Europe. He and his band, who have been together 22 years, will end the year with four homecoming gigs, kicking off this weekend in Manchester and then moving onto more sold out shows in London. Aside from his Glastonbury headline set in 2022, and an intimate warm-up gig the night before in nearby Frome, these are the Beatles legend's first UK dates since 2018. Paul said: "Manchester is like, you know, next to my old hometown. It's a great city, and we love it really. "So that's going to be good to be there. And then London, we finish it up around Christmas time. So that's exciting. We're looking forward to London, and then that will finish this tour, and we'll all be very glad to have a nice Christmas holiday." Looking back over the year he highlights some particularly enjoyable shows in October and those close to him who have been on the road say it is clear he still loves playing live, treating fans to shows lasting nearly three hours every night with over 35 songs. "The audiences in South America are insanely wonderful," he says, having played 15 shows there to over 500,000 people. And they are so keen and crazy that we have a party every time we play to them. So it's been great." More recently he has played Paris and Madrid to incredible ovations, with fans aware that the chance to see the iconic 82-year-old does not come around too often these days. And with 12 Beatles studio albums, 26 solo albums and 22 UK number ones to his name, he has also answered the question of how you manage to choose a set list each night. Aside from perhaps some obvious hits which must stay on heavy rotation, he still likes to be inspired by culture and the world around him. In the tour programme, Sir Paul writes: "If I see a movie and then hear one of my songs in it, I think: ‘Oh, I should do that one.’ Sometimes it will give me the impetus to actually look at that song and think of doing it. It may even just be someone saying to me, ‘Oh, I love that song of yours,’ and you go, ‘Oh...’ They love it enough for me to think, ‘Yeah, I should do that, just for you.’ "There are songs that some people say, ‘Oh, I love that one,’ and it makes a difference. That’s always happened. One of my own Wings albums, I’ll be thinking, ‘Well, it didn’t do too well, so maybe it wasn’t that good,’ and then you find some kids are playing the hell out of it saying, ‘This is a great album,’ so it gets me back into it." He adds: "I'll just hear it at a random place like you say, on the radio, at a party, and decide to include it. That's always a good feeling, it's like a little light bulb moment "ding, eurika" we should definitely try that one. That is often the way I decide how to do things, or decide what to do. You work on the setlist over time, and you finally feel you get it to a place where it’s working well. That's how we all feel on the tour now - and it looks like the audiences agree!" One downside of social media is fans coming to see the tour have had a good idea of the show they are going to see and especially what it will look like. As with all music gigs these days, thousands of phones are out to record the songs, perhaps even more so when it is a Beatle on stage. But Sir Paul, who will be supported at the UK gigs by friends and family including wife Nancy McCartney, does his best to keep an element of surprise, so fans coming to the shows in the coming days won't know exactly what to expect apart from some huge singalong hits. He says: "On the first night we can pull some surprises, but then the minute that gets on social media... It’s like the old comedians who used to complain that their jokes got told, so the next people who saw them knew the jokes. I approach every show and every audience in a slightly different way depending on the location of the show, so I suppose that’s the way I change it up a little bit. "You’ll see your set list published and we’ll go, ‘Right, we’re gonna change it!’ We keep trying to be ahead of the guy who’s giving the game away. I would like it much better if people had no idea what they were coming to see, but the only answer to that is for us to make changes occasionally. So if he said, ‘They open up with this song,’ we’ll go, ‘Let's open up with a different song,’ just to prove them wrong." Recent opening songs he's played include Can't Buy Me Love in Madrid and Hard Days Night in Paris, so whatever he chooses for Manchester, I've got a feeling Beatles fans won't need much encouragement to sing along. * Sir Paul McCartney's Got Back tour ends in the UK with two dates at the Manchester Co-Op Live followed by two shows at London's O2 Arena next week. New documentary Beatles 64 is out now on Disney+ Follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok , Snapchat , Instagram , Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and Threads .
WASHINGTON (AP) — President announced on Monday that he is of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect , an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office. The move spares the lives of people , including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals, as well as the killings of guards or prisoners in federal facilities. It means just three federal inmates are still facing execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber ; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. . “Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole. These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.” The Biden administration in 2021 announced a on federal capital punishment to study the protocols used, which suspended executions during Biden's term. But Biden actually had promised to go further on the issue in the past, pledging to end federal executions without the caveats for terrorism and hate-motivated, mass killings. While running for president in 2020, Biden's campaign website said he would “work to pass legislation to , and incentivize states to follow the federal government’s example.” Similar language didn't appear on Biden's reelection website before he in July. “Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden's statement said. “But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice president, and now president, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.” He took a political jab at Trump, saying, “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.” Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has spoken frequently of expanding executions. In a speech , Trump called for those “caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts.” He later promised to execute drug and human smugglers and even praised China's harsher treatment of drug peddlers. During his first term as president, Trump . There were during Trump's first term, more than under any president in modern history, and some may have happened fast enough to have contributed to the at the federal death row facility in Indiana. Those were the first federal executions since 2003. The final three occurred after Election Day in November 2020 but before Trump left office the following January, the first time federal prisoners were put to death by a lame-duck president since Grover Cleveland in 1889. Biden from advocacy groups urging him to act to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates. The president's announcement also comes less than two weeks after he of who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, and of 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes, the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The announcement also followed the post-election pardon that Biden granted his son Hunter on federal gun and tax charges after long saying he would not issue one, sparking an uproar in Washington. The pardon also raised questions about whether he would issue sweeping for administration officials and other allies who the White House worries could be unjustly second administration. Speculation that Biden could commute federal death sentences intensified last week after the White House announced he plans to next month. Biden, a practicing Catholic, will meet with Pope Francis, who recently in hopes their sentences will be commuted. Martin Luther King III, who publicly urged Biden to change the death sentences, said in a statement issued by the White House that the president "has done what no president before him was willing to do: take meaningful and lasting action not just to acknowledge the death penalty’s racist roots but also to remedy its persistent unfairness.” Donnie Oliverio, a retired Ohio police officer whose partner was killed by one of the men whose death sentence was converted, said the execution of "the person who killed my police partner and best friend would have brought me no peace." “The president has done what is right here,” Oliverio said in a statement also issued by the White House, “and what is consistent with the faith he and I share.” Weissert reported from West Palm Beach, Florida.No Labels goes after opponents of third-party presidential bid in courtMinnesota firearms deer harvest remains above 2023 after third weekend, DNR says
Dee Devlin just went scorched earth on Conor McGregor 's sexual assault accuser ... lighting her up in a series of Instagram posts on Tuesday afternoon. In the IG Stories, the UFC superstar's longtime partner called Nikita Ni Lamhain -- who just won her civil case against McGregor in Ireland last week -- a liar ... and said straight up, "My sons will be warned women like you exist in the world." Devlin claimed that back in 2018, prior to Ni Lamhain's suit against McGregor, Ni Lamhain would send "messages and pictures of herself over and over to my man" ... despite knowing he was in a committed relationship. She also said Ni Lamhain made up her allegations against McGregor -- claiming surveillance footage following Ni Lamhain's now-infamous '18 encounter with McGregor backs up her beliefs. "CCTV DOES NOT LIE," she wrote. "I look forward [to] the day the world will see the footage of you on that night and the carry on of you." "Not a bother on you having the time of your life. This is the real evidence, video footage no one knew was being taken in the moment which you miraculously don't remember? To me it looks like you're the one sexually assaulting in the lift. To me it looks like everyone is trying to get away from you." In a separate post on the social media app, Devlin shared a snap of McGregor and their family ... making it clear she's fully in his corner despite the jury's ruling last Friday. "I love him I trust him and I BELIEVE HIM!" she wrote. "Our four beautiful children whose smiling faces and happy hearts are testimony to the man he is and who we are!" "No one is entitled to comment on our relationship -- we trust one another and love one another. Nothing will change that. Our family stands strong!" Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media. For Conor's part, he's been adamant that his intercourse with Ni Lamhain was nothing but consensual ... and he issued a public apology to Devlin for his actions in a statement on his X page on Monday. On Tuesday, he also re-shared one of Devlin's posts, captioning it with a couple emojis. As for the result of the civil case, McGregor has vowed to appeal the decision.
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