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Aug 24, 2022 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
YouTube star KSI will make a pretty penny for his boxing return on Saturday night, but he has reportedly turned down offers amounting to $150million for other endeavours.
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🥊The social media star hasn't fought since November 2019 when he defeated Logan Paul in Los Angeles in a professional rematch of their initial white-collar meeting and returns this weekend with two fights in one night.
Aug 24, 2022 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Daniel Ricciardo has been ousted by McLaren after the British team terminated his contract.
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🏎️Ricciardo, an eight-time grand prix winner, had a deal until the end of 2023, and only last month insisted he “is committed to McLaren until the end of next year”.
Aug 24, 2022 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
An iPhone has sold for €35,000 at auction in the UK, 15 years after it was officially released.
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💷 The first generation device was sold for $35,414, (€35,6661) and still in its original plastic sealed packaging.
Facebook was briefly "broken" by a bizarre bug that causes strange posts to appear on users’ feeds early on Wednesday.
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ℹ️ People waking up to check their news feeds on Wednesday morning were left baffled after seeing many unusual posts from strangers which had been posted to the pages of celebrities.
Google Maps users have spotted what appears to be a downed airplane in an Australian rainforest.
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🇦🇺 The keen-eyed Maps users came across the image of a white, aircraft-shaped image among the trees in the Cardwell Range, between Townsville Range and Cairns in North-eastern Australia.
Maura Higgins is among the hopefuls rumoured to be in line to host Love Island after Laura Whitmore announced she was quitting the show.
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📺The Bray native announced on Monday night that she was stepping down as host, before the next series in South Africa in early 2023.
Aug 23, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Jake Paul will fight a boxer with a winning record in his October ring return, essentially ruling out Andrew Tate as a potential opponent.
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🥊Tate is a four-time former kickboxing world champion and boxed regionally in the UK during his younger years, but has no officially licensed boxing matches, meaning he would not qualify for Paul's requirements.
Domestic football in Ukraine returned on Tuesday for the first time since Russia invaded the nation in February earlier this year.
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🇺🇦 The return of league football coincides with Ukraine's national flag day and precedes Ukraine Independence Day, 24 August (when the nation declared independence from the former Soviet Union republic in 1991), after a six-month enforced shutdown.
Aug 23, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Laura Whitmore has quit Love Island, telling fans she can no longer host the ITV2 series.
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💬She wrote on Instagram : "Some news! I won’t be hosting the next series of Love island."
Aug 22, 2022 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Two of Hugh Hefner’s favourite Playboy girlfriends have opened up about feeling disgusted by what they encountered when they stepped into the tycoon’s bedroom for the first time.
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🐰Former Playboy Bunnies have regularly spoken out about the dark undertones to living in the Playboy Mansion, with drug-fuelled orgies apparently the norm and archaic dress code rules enforced.
Aug 22, 2022 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Harry Styles revealed he 'had his own journey figuring out his sexuality' in an honest new interview.
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🎵 The As It Was singer, 28, sat down for a chat with Rolling Stone, with the star posing in fun and bright clothing for the issue.
Aug 22, 2022 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
There is a chance that Manchester United's Premier League clash with Liverpool on Monday night will be overshadowed by fan protests.
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🏟️The Manchester United fan group ‘The 1958’ is calling on fans to stage a mass walkout at Old Trafford during the game.
Aug 22, 2022 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Viewers of the new Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon have been left divided over the at-times extreme level of violence and gore in the series premiere.
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📺 HBO Max viewers in the US got the first viewing of 'Heirs of the Dragon' as it aired last night, while UK and Irish viewers will be able to watch it this evening.
Kick-boxing world champion Andrew Tate was today removed from major social media platforms Instagram and Facebook for allegedly breaking their terms of service.
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ℹ️ The former combat athlete, who has a win over UFC star Luke Barnatt from his MMA days, has risen to massive prominence in recent months, particularly on Instagram and Tik Tok through short videos shared by fans.
Line Of Duty star Adrian Dunbar has addressed whether the hit police drama could return for a seventh series as fans of the police procedural desperately await an answer.
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📺The 64-year-old actor, who plays Superintendent Ted Hastings in the BBC show, told The Times the final decision on the storyline is “entirely down” to creator Jed Mercurio.
Aug 19, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Down GAA are set to investigate ugly scenes which marred their Division One League final on Wednesday night.
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🇮🇪 St Mary's, Burren beat defending All-Ireland club champions Kilcoo 1-12 to 0-7 at Mayobridge.
American actor Jonah Hill has decided to withdraw from public appearances due to his struggle with anxiety attacks.
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🎞️ The comedic actor, best known for his roles in Superbad and The Wolf of Wall Street, said in an open letter that he will no longer be taking part in promotional events for his films.
Aug 18, 2022 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Amber Gill has opened up on dating after saying she had "switched teams" on social media last month.
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🌈 The 24-year-old Love Island star - who won the ITV2 reality series alongside Greg O'Shea - previously alluded to her sexuality on Twitter, as she watched this year's explosive Casa Amor antics.
