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Gregg Wallace latest: Kirstie Allsopp slams ‘sex act’ remark amid backlash over blaming ‘middle-aged women’

Gregg Wallace latest: Kirstie Allsopp slams ‘sex act’ remark amid backlash over blaming ‘middle-aged women’

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Gregg Wallace breaks silence after ‘stepping away’ from MasterChef amid misconduct allegations Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Kirstie Allsopp is the latest figure to accuse Gregg Wallace of inappropriate behaviour amid backlash over the Masterchef presenter blaming “middle-class women of a certain age”. Wallace left the BBC programme on Thursday (28 November) after claims were made by 13 people that he made a number of inappropriate sexual comments. Speaking in a video posted on his Instagram page, the 60-year-old said: “I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age, just from Celebrity MasterChef. This isn’t right.” Presenter Kirstie Allsopp responded to his remarks by claiming that Wallace made “unprofessional” comments about a sex act when they were filming a pilot for a TV show. Allsopp said the remarks left her feeling “embarrassed” and added: “That is unacceptable. Because he is essentially saying this is …

Labour civil war as Diane Abbott slams Keir Starmer’s ‘poor judgement’ on winter fuel cuts | Politics | News

Labour civil war as Diane Abbott slams Keir Starmer’s ‘poor judgement’ on winter fuel cuts | Politics | News

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Labour’s Diane Abbott has lashed out at party leader Sir Keir Starmer live on television as she berated his “poor judgement” in accepting freebies and cutting winter fuel payments. The Hackney North MP has a chequered past with the Prime Minister after she had the Labour whip withdrawn over an “offensive” suggestion that “Jews don’t suffer racism”. The whip was restored before the General Election, but only after months of uncertainty about her future. Appearing on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, stand-in host Victoria Derbyshire asked Ms Abbott how she thought Labour and the PM were doing so far. She went on to say: “Maybe if he’d done more doorknocking for the Labour Party, he didn’t understand that of all the people to take money off, not pensioners. “Pensioners don’t forgive and forget and they’re one of the blocks of voters who actually do vote – and he didn’t seem to get it that that would be a problem. “People are still coming up to my colleagues in other parts of the country in …

Neil deGrasse Tyson Slams Elon Musk’s Plans for Mars Colonization

Neil deGrasse Tyson Slams Elon Musk’s Plans for Mars Colonization

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“I don’t see it happening until governments judge that it’s geopolitically in our interest.” Um, Actually Famed astrophysicist and science fiction pedant Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t think very highly of multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk’s desperate desire to deliver humanity to Mars. During a chat with Bill Maher — who has plenty of quibbles with the plan himself — last week, the pair took aim at Musk’s plan to make humanity “interplanetary” by establishing a city on the Red Planet. “I don’t see it happening until governments judge that it’s geopolitically in our interest,” deGrasse Tyson told Maher, as quoted by The Hill. “But I believe president-elect Trump has some interest in Mars, so you might have another conversation in a couple of months.” “At some point, somebody has to pay for it, and just being interested in something is not the same thing as paying for it,” he added. Maher reiterated a long-held criticism, arguing that we’ve got plenty of fires to put out on Earth — so why abandon it in favor of a …

Charlamagne tha God Slams CNN For ‘Bullshit’ Trump Coverage

Charlamagne tha God Slams CNN For ‘Bullshit’ Trump Coverage

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Charlamagne tha God took no prisoners during an appearance on CNN‘s AC360 on Thursday night, damning the network’s coverage of Donald Trump and overtly fascist statements and tendencies, and the double standards it applies to Kamala Harris in an impassioned bout of truth-telling that left host Anderson Cooper reeling. In a clip that has gone viral on social media, Charlamagne, a popular podcaster and co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club, is asked by Cooper about Trump’s plan to appear on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and whether Harris planned to do the same. “I think that she should keep calling Donald Trump a fascist,” Charlamagne replied tersely to the rather inane question. He continued, “And I think that Americans need to keep looking at the rhetoric of Donald Trump because I don’t know why we’re even thinking about electing somebody who’s talking about putting people in camps. I don’t know why we’re talking, why we want to elect somebody who’s talking about mass deportation. I don’t know why we’re having this …

Liam Payne: Michael Buerk slams BBC for coverage of ‘drugged up faded boy band singer’ in Radio 4 interview

Liam Payne: Michael Buerk slams BBC for coverage of ‘drugged up faded boy band singer’ in Radio 4 interview

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Veteran foreign correspondent Michael Buerk has expressed his disapproval of the BBC’s extensive coverage of Liam Payne’s death. The BBC journalist, 78, known for his landmark 1984 Six O’Clock News bulletin about the famine in Ethiopia that triggered the release of the charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas”, and Bob Geldof’s 16-hour music marathon Live Aid, described Payne as a “drugged up, faded, boy band singer”. Payne’s death at the age of 31 dominated news headlines after the One Direction star fell from a third story hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 16 October. Multiple substances, including pink cocaine, were allegedly found in toxicology reports, though the Public Prosecutors Office say the analysis is not yet completed. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Buerk claimed Payne’s death should not have been of such interest to any of …

AI safety showdown: Yann LeCun slams California’s SB 1047 as Geoffrey Hinton backs new regulations

AI safety showdown: Yann LeCun slams California’s SB 1047 as Geoffrey Hinton backs new regulations

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, publicly rebuked supporters of California’s contentious AI safety bill, SB 1047, on Wednesday. His criticism came just one day after Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as the “godfather of AI,” endorsed the legislation. This stark disagreement between two pioneers in artificial intelligence highlights the deep divisions within the AI community over the future of regulation. California’s legislature has passed SB 1047, which now awaits Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature. The bill has become a lightning rod for debate about AI regulation. It would establish liability for developers of large-scale AI models that cause catastrophic harm if they failed to take appropriate safety measures. The legislation applies only to models costing at least $100 million to train and operating in California, the world’s fifth-largest economy. Most of these signatories have a distorted view of what is coming next with AI.The distortion is due to their inexperience, naïveté on how difficult the …

Casey Wasserman Slams Daily Mail for Claims About Personal Life

Casey Wasserman Slams Daily Mail for Claims About Personal Life

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Casey Wasserman slammed The Daily Mail on Tuesday for a publishing a report detailing claims about his personal life — allegations that covered everything from infidelity to sleeping with a staffer at his company — in what marked his first public comments since article hit on Aug. 1. “Well, I guess consider the source,” the mogul told CNBC Squawk Box anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin during a conversation focused on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics during the CNBC x Boardroom Game Plan Summit inside Santa Monica’s Fairmont Miramar Hotel and Bungalows. “If The Daily Mail qualifies as reporting, then I guess we’re all in trouble. But we live in a day and age where people can say whatever they want without facts, without cooperation, without sources, and it’s the world we live in.” The moment delivered a fair amount of tension during what was otherwise a lively discussion focused on the preparation, logistics, atmosphere, celebration and athleticism to come when Los Angeles stages the Olympics in four years. Wasserman, who serves as LA28 president and chairperson, was seated …

New Joe Biden Ad Slams ‘Convicted Criminal’ Donald Trump

New Joe Biden Ad Slams ‘Convicted Criminal’ Donald Trump

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President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is taking off the gloves and going after his rival, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, with a new $50 million ad campaign focusing on the former president’s historic criminal conviction in New York. The 30-second spot, titled Character Matters, features images of Trump in the Manhattan courtroom where he was found guilty last month of falsifying business records to hide payments to an adult film star. “He’s been convicted of 34 felonies, found liable for sexual assault, and he committed financial fraud,” the narrator says in the ad. “This election is between a convicted criminal who’s only out for himself and a president who’s fighting for your family.” Biden’s campaign said the ad is targeting voters in all battleground states in the month of June, contrasting Trump’s legal troubles with Biden’s legislative accomplishments, including working to lower health care costs and counteract the effects of inflation. “Character matters, and the President of the United States should be someone who understands that the highest office in the land is about you …