Holly Willoughby wasn’t going to let wet weather stop her from barbecuing today.
Dressed in rainproof coat with a hood, the co-host of This Morning braved the rain to get her grill on this afternoon.
And as well as cooking her family’s lunch outdoors, she was highlighting an important charity.
Holly, 39, is married to TV producer Dan Baldwin. They have three children – Harry, aged 11, Belle, aged nine and five-year-old Chester. It looked like she’d been flipping burgers and a juicy steak for all of them.
Holly flashed a big smile and posted this cute image to her six million followers on Instagram, despite the damp conditions.
Holly captioned the picture: “Classic British BBQ for lunch today… not even the rain could dampen our spirits.”
As well as tagging the companies who had given her the barbecue and the food, Holly posted a link to Age UK.
They are using the hashtag #donateadinner to produce and distribute home cooked meals to the most vulnerable in society.
Holly Willoughby a key worker
Holly and Phil continue to host This Morning (Credit: ITV)
As TV presenters, Holly and her This Morning co-host Phil are key workers, so they are exempt from the lockdown. They’ve been entertaining and informing us on the daytime show four days a week.
It’s been a busy day for Holly, who started her weekend with a little bit of make-do and mending.
She posted another picture to Instagram of her doing some repairs to her son Chester’s favourite cuddly toy.
LONG Island Medium star Theresa Caputo’s daughter Victoria has postponed her wedding to May 2021 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Victoria, 25, made the announcement over Instagram on Saturday.
Victoria Caputo and her fiance, Michael Mastrandrea, are postponing their weddingCredit: InstagramTheresa Caputo’s daughter is getting married in May 2021Credit: Getty Images – Getty
She captioned a series of photos with her fiancé, Michael Mastrandrea: “New photo shoot with @cassaram our fav photographer ever! Thank you for capturing our new save the date photos. May 2021.”
During a recent Instagram Q&A, Victoria revealed she has not postponed her wedding despite the current coronavirus pandemic.
Victoria and Michael recently bought a home togetherCredit: Instagram
Though tying the knot has been postponed, the two have continued to take the next step in their relationship by purchasing a house!
In May, Victoria posted her and Michael holding a sign that read: “Holy s**t we’re homeowners.”
Victoria and Michael got engaged in February 2019 after dating since 2017.
They celebrated their engagement party in May 2019.
Victoria said in a recent Q&A that she had no plans to postpone her weddingCredit: InstagramTheresa and Victoria appeared on Say Yes to the DressCredit: Instagram
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Their wedding planning was filmed for the most recent season of her mom Theresa’s TLC show Long Island Medium.
Victoria appeared on Say Yes to the Dress earlier this year, where Theresa even gave a shopper a spiritual reading.
The Sun revealed the couple’s wedding registry, which includes 194 pricey items.
The couple is asking for a $699.99 10-piece cookware set, $174.99 cheese board, $399.99 food processor, $399.99 toaster oven, $599.99 vacuum, $194.99 platter and more household items.
Other items include $40.99 wine glass set, $49.99 glass set, $29.99 waffle maker and more.
Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have all removed a Trump campaign video from their platforms after receiving copyright complaints, Reuters reported. The nearly four-minute video featured images of the late George Floyd of Minneapolis, who died May 25th after a police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes. A video of the incident has prompted nationwide protests of police violence.
Twitter disabled the video, while Facebook and Instagram removed posts containing the video. When President Trump objected to the removal in a tweet, calling it “illegal,” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responded: “Not true and not illegal. This was pulled because we got a DMCA complaint from copyright holder.”
A spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram, told Reuters it also had received a copyright complaint under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. “Organizations that use original art shared on Instagram are expected to have the right to do so,” the spokesperson said. YouTube did not remove a version of the video from its platform, saying it did not contain the content that violated the copyright. As of Saturday morning, the YouTube version of the video had nearly half a million views.
It wasn’t clear who filed the copyright complaint about the video, titled “Healing Not Hatred,” which includes images of demonstrations protesting Floyd’s death and a voiceover of a President Trump speech where he says the “death of George Floyd was a grave tragedy.”
Last month, Twitter applied labels to two of President Trump’s tweets, one that used the phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” for “glorifying violence” and another one for being “potentially misleading” about mail-in voting. Trump later issued an executive order governing how websites can moderate content.
For the last week, ever since the killing of George Floyd galvanized the world to confront not just the history of police brutality against black people but our own complicity in allowing it to happen, the social media feeds of fashion brands and influencers have filled up with black squares and statements of solidarity. And like many, I have been struck by how often they feel like a dutiful piece of corporate performance.
And I think about how many other ways fashion, an industry with a reach and economic power that goes far beyond clothes, could redesign its own approach in this particularly charged political and social moment.
I have, for example, been unable to stop thinking about Kerby Jean-Raymond’s 2016 Pyer Moss spring collection, shown at New York Fashion Week.
Mr. Jean-Raymond is part of a new wave of black designers who aren’t waiting for the establishment seal of approval but are simply doing it for themselves — and remaking the status quo in the process. In New York, Telfar by Telfar Clemons; Heron Preston; Christopher John Rogers. In London, Samuel Ross of A-Cold-Wall and Grace Wales Bonner. In Milan, Stella Jean. And in Paris, Kenneth Ize, who is Nigerian, and Thebe Magugu, from South Africa.
Mr. Jean-Raymond has been experiencing several breakout seasons, in part because he has fully embraced fashion’s ability to reshape culture, and he has been using his shows to highlight overlooked black contributions to history and “end the erasure of minorities and people of color,” as he once told The New York Times.
In 2015, Mr. Jean-Raymond did a show that put the Black Lives Matter movement front and center. It began with a 12-minute video about racism in America. He invited the families of victims of police brutality to sit in his front row and put editors behind them. Then he sent white work boots scrawled with names in black marker and blood down his runway; there were tailored jackets and tunics that had been ripped and rent asunder. The artist Gregory Siff live-tagged the clothes as they appeared with words like “breathe.”
It was something.
Mr. Jean-Raymond said it almost sunk his brand. Retailers dropped him. He got death threats. Some editors were mad about their seating demotion. Yet that collection is even more resonant today. It is also a reminder that five years ago fashion was faced with its own failings and did not rise to the occasion.
Today, as then, designers have a voice that is about much more than Instagram, or escapism. Hopefully more of them will use it.
That’s one side of the matter. But not all of it.
Modeling has made what seem like genuine strides forward — models of color open and close shows, the most prestigious slot; they get major ad campaigns, the most lucrative jobs. In early 2015, I wrote a story looking at how few black designers had been give the keys to the world’s biggest brands. This matters because designers control what we see in the end, and they are often the only employees allowed to speak publicly for said brands. Between then and now, not much has really changed.
Rihanna has her own brand at LVMH. Virgil Abloh is the Louis Vuitton men’s wear designer. But while Kering, the owner of Gucci and Saint Laurent and the second largest fashion conglomerate in the world, has made a powerful statement against racism and made meaningful donations to the N.A.A.C.P. and Campaign Zero, as well as starting diversity and inclusion councils for its brands, none of those brands have a creative director of color. Tapestry, the owner of Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman, is the only fashion group with a black chief executive: Jide Zeitlin.
Until the executive suite changes, it is hard not to feel that a lot of the statements and initiatives are still words and intentions, not reality. And we are left with suspicions and investigations: How much of what they say do they actually put into practice?
One of the problems is that big brands traditionally allow only two people — the designer and the chief executive — to speak about their companies. Perhaps it is time to unmuzzle the staffs and encourage them to share their own lived, individual experiences. In its statement, PVH, the parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, did not just take a stand or announce a donation (though they did both), but it also gave space to two black employees (one from human resources, one from marketing). It’s a start.
So is a new initiative from the Council of Fashion Designers of America to create an employment program that it says is “specifically charged with placing black talent in all sectors of the fashion business,” as well as mentorship and internship programs.
With more than 6,000 followers and growing fast, a new Instagram page is encouraging locals to support Black-owned businesses in Charlotte in a show of solidarity.
After witnessing the protests that have taken place in Charlotte and all over the United States, Jeff and Madeline Carothers, along with their longtime friend Ashley Creft, felt compelled to start the account to help further the movement.
“Being Black in America and in this city right now, we thought this was something we could do,” Madeline said. “We thought our role could be this, making an impact, even in a small way.”
But the effect hasn’t been small at all — the Instagram account, which was just created Sunday, has already garnered thousands of followers.
“We didn’t think support for this page would be as huge and fast as it’s been,” Madeline said. “It’s been a little overwhelming, in a good way, that so many people agree with the page’s mission.
THOUSANDS OF BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES
Only one day after the account’s creation, followers tagged hundreds of local Black-owned businesses in the page’s comments. Now, thousands are listed.
“We stopped counting,” Madeline said.
She said she believes the account is resonating with so many because of the common struggle Black Charlotteans face when starting a small business.
“Charlotte is a beautiful city, and it’s growing fast. It’s supposed to be a place where there’s lots of opportunity, but if you’re Black like us, you see Charlotte from another perspective,” Creft said. “Sometimes you have to retreat to a ‘for us by us’ mindset. So I guess we wanted to uplift those people and highlight those struggles.”
Madeline knows these struggles personally — she’s a business owner herself. Though she and Creft are full-time social workers, Madeline spends evenings working on her wig-making company, A Curl’s Dream.
Oftentimes, Black businesses and entrepreneurs don’t have the same resources as their white counterparts and are forced to self-fund and/or rely on funding from friends and family to start their ventures. Bringing visibility to these businesses helps them succeed.
“We’ve seen how Charlotte has evolved, and there’s been a lot of gentrification,” Creft said. “Many Black businesses haven’t been able to withstand those changes.”
Supporting Black-owned businesses is also an action non-Black allies can take during this moment in Charlotte’s history. By supporting these businesses, allies are expressing solidarity with Charlotte’s Black community and creating a long-term positive effect.
NOT JUST A FAD
And Madeline hopes the support will continue long after the protests have ended.
“it’s important to support Black businesses all the time on purpose and be intentional about it. With any marginalized community, if you don’t shed a positive light on them and support them, they’ll wither,” Madeline said. “When you go out of your way to support them, it creates a lane for other businesses to succeed the same way.”
Originally, the page’s creators planned to highlight one business each day on the page and encourage their followers to support it, but now they’re working on compiling a comprehensive list of every Black-owned business in Charlotte, going so far to create a map broken down by neighborhood. Later on, they hope to create a website and host networking events for local Black business owners and entrepreneurs.
Black Lives Matter: Book judged axed over Twitter remarks
The Western Mail’s chief reporter has been asked to step down as a Wales Book of the Year judge over his comments about the Black Lives Matter protests.
Literature Wales said Martin Shipton’s “aggressive language” was “detrimental” to the organisation’s values.
Among dozens of tweets sent in response to several people, Mr Shipton asked why the demonstrations were being allowed to take place during lockdown.
He said he was not asked to explain his comments.
“After expressing my concerns about the Black Lives Matter protest in Cardiff, which undoubtedly broke the Welsh Government’s prohibition on public gatherings of more than two people, I was subjected on Twitter to a vicious tirade of abuse and bullying that lasted for days,” he said.
“Many of the tweets questioned my right to express an opinion, called into question my credentials as a journalist and attacked me on the basis of my age.
“One of my guiding principles is not to appease bullies, so I defended myself by responding robustly to my attackers.”
The disease, he said, had taken “many more lives than the Minneapolis police.”
“I just don’t see what value there is in holding a demo in front of Cardiff Castle about the murder of a black man in Minneapolis,” he tweeted.
“It’s politically naive and virtue signalling”.
Mr Shipton insisted in the tweets he was not condoning police brutality, but had “been demonstrating my membership of the awkward squad by taking on some woke, group-think dogmatists”.
Literature Wales said it “would like to thank him for his work”.
This year’s shortlisted contenders for the competition will be announced on 1 July.
Blac Chyna modeled in a pristine white tub for one of her newest Instagram story photos, posing in a sheer, black minidress that showcased her ample assets. She posted the provocative picture to promote her OnlyFans account.
The 32-year-old model kneeled in the bathtub for the sexy shot, popping her booty for added effect. She looked at the camera with serious bedroom eyes, giving a “come hither” stare. Her arm was carefully positioned over her bust to cover any NSFW parts, her wrist touching her knee.
The former reality star posed from the side, emphasizing her hourglass figure. She rocked the see-through garment, which was skintight and clung to her every curve. The strapless frock not only showed off her bare shoulders, but exposed her midriff as well.
Chyna’s numerous multi-colored tattoos were on display, including her large back piece, which was visible through the outfit. Her floral leg tattoo, which snaked its way from her foot up to her calf, was one of the focal points of the photo. Her “King” ink, in honor of her son King Cairo, was present on her hand.
The frock sported fringe that cascaded down her back and into the tub, long, black strands that curved around her bottom.
She paired the dress with black stilettos with a strap that wrapped around her ankle.
As for her jewelry, Chyna accessorized the look with two silver bracelets and a silver necklace.
Her long nails appeared to be lacquered with a white polish.
Chyna sported light pink locks for the sensuous shot. She tilted her head forward, letting her long, wavy tresses curl around the nape of her neck and over her shoulder. The cotton candy-colored mermaid waves were a pop of color against the dark outfit.
She appeared to wear a full face of makeup, starting with her brows, which arched high over her honey brown eyes. Chyna looked to wear a smoky eye, with what seemed to be a charcoal-colored shadow on her lids that fanned out past her eyes, giving her a cat-eye effect. Her lashes curled upwards in a dramatic fashion. Her lids appeared to be rimmed with kohl liner, making the whites of her eyes stand out. Her lower lashes seemed to be coated with black mascara.
Her contoured cheeks looked to be brushed with bronzer and highlighter, making her cheekbones pop. Her lips appeared to be filled in with a frosty pink lipstick that matched her hair.
