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Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Love Island reject moans he's unemployed and still single after disastrous show appearance
A LOVE Island reject has complained that he's unemployed and still single after his disastrous show appearance. 4 A Love Island reject has complained that he's unemployed and still single after his disastrous show appearance. Credit: Eroteme 4 Shakira and Chris during Casa Amor Credit: Eroteme The Commercial Real Estate Asset Manager, 29, from joined Love Island as part of the Casa Amor boy line-up. Advertisement However, he didn't manage to win a place in the main villa, and was sent packing during the brutal Casa recoupling. Taking to TikTok, Chris Middleton stood outside his family home and revealed: "So I'm turning 30, single, unemployed and a Love Island reject." He added: "And my dad was in this house raising a family." After a few snippets showing his father he continued: "Same house, same family, thirty years apart. Crazy." Advertisement His followers were quick to comment and one wrote: "It's okay Chris most people break up after love island anyways." Another added: "You will find someone, I'm sure of it, you sound like such a genuine person and any girl would be lucky to have you xx." While another said: "The deadpan delivery is 10/10." Chris was only on Love Island for a few days but before going in the villa, he said: "If I meet the right person, I do fall fast. Advertisement "The issue is I very rarely meet the right people! I lose interest quickly." But despite his best intentions, Chris failed to make a connection with the OG girls and was sent packing. Watch the moment Love Island star 'gives away' he'll DUMP partner after the final as fans say 'he's worked out she's using him' During his time on the show, the hunk all but "disappeared". At the time, fans speculated about his lack of screen time on Reddit. Advertisement One wrote: "I'm wondering where Chris has gone?" While another added: "There's always one of them that kind of blends with the background and becomes invisible during casa, seems like Chris is this year's victim." And one said: "Feel bad for Chris with no screen time. Seemed like a good bloke." However, the hunk in trunks has now given his verdict on his time on the show, and his been spilling secrets that viewers at home don't get to see. Advertisement Taking to TikTok, Chris revealed the brutal way Islanders are removed from the villa, once they have been dumped. Meanwhile, there could be more potential drama for the Islanders after The Sun was first to report how the "entire" cast of the 2025 season will return ahead of the final. We told how this year's Love Island cohort will make a second entrance into the Mallorca villa. A source told us the scenes will air on ITV2 soon and said: "The entire cast will be returning to the villa this week - just like the 'jury' in All Stars earlier this year." Advertisement 4 Chris complained he was 30, single and unemployed Credit: TikTok
New Indian Express
2 days ago
- Business
- New Indian Express
PNB net slumps 49% to Rs 1,675 crore on higher taxes; bad loans fall
MUMBAI: The third largest public sector lender Punjab National Bank (PNB) has reported a net profit of Rs 1,675 crore for the three months to June, a steep 49% dip from the year ago period, weighed down by increased tax outgoes which jumped to Rs 5,083 crore. An improvement in asset quality and a healthy 15.7% jump in income to Rs 37,231 crore and a 1% growth in the key net interest income at Rs 31,964 crore could not cushion the massive tax outgo of Rs 5,083 crore, leading to a massive drop in net income to the tune of close to 49% for the reporting quarter. In the June 2024 quarter the bank had netted Rs 3,251 crore in net income while the same stood at a high Rs 4,567 crore in the March 2025 quarter, the New Delhi-based lender said in a statement management attributed the deep cut in the bottom line to the sharp rise in tax expenses, which more than doubled to Rs 5,083 crore from Rs 2,017 crore a year earlier. But the bank did not offer explanation for such a spike in tax key net interest income inched up 1% to Rs 10,578 crore and the net interest margin stands at a low 2.84%.On the asset quality front, the bank showed significant improvement with gross dropping to 3.78 from 4.98 a year ago or at Rs 42,673 crore. Similarly the net non-performing assets ratio also declined to 0.38 from 0.60 a year ago or Rs 4,132 crore. Bad loan provisions came down to a low Rs 396 crore from Rs 1,312 crore in the corresponding quarter last year and from Rs 792 crore reported in the March quarter. The provision coverage ratio improved by 98 bps to 96.88 from business grew 11.6% to Rs 27.2 trillion from Rs 24.37 trillion of which deposits were Rs 15.89 trillion which grew 12.9% while advances were Rs 11.32 trillion. Of the total deposits savings deposits rose to Rs 4,97,981 crore registering, a growth of 2.8% and current deposits at Rs 70,656 crore a growth of 9.2% and the low cost Casa deposits increased to Rs 5,68,638 crore recording a growth of 3.6% and the Casa share at 36.99%. Of the total advances, retail credit increased 11.8% to Rs 2,62,219 crore and the core retail advances grew 17.7% of which housing loans grew 16.6% to Rs 1,18,708 crore, vehicle loans jumped 25.3% to reach Rs 27,229 crore, agriculture advances grew 6.2% to Rs 1,78,885 crore and MSME book increased 18.6% to Rs 1,69,426 crore.
Scottish Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Emma takes HUGE dig at Love Island producers as she reveals fate of romance with Boris
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) LOVE Island's Emma Munro took a swipe at producers - as she revealed the fate of her romance with co-star Boris. The Casa bombshell left ex-boyfriend Harry Cooksley stunned upon arriving in the villa. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 4 Emma Munro discussed her time on Love Island after being axed Credit: Shutterstock Editorial 4 She and Boris spoke to Maya Jama on Aftersun Credit: Shutterstock Editorial 4 The pair were joined by fellow dumped star Billykiss Credit: Shutterstock Editorial Adamant she didn't want to reunite with Harry, Emma first explored a connectionwith Conor Phillips. However, she would later recouple with fellow Casa bombshell Boris Vidovic. Emma, Boris and Irish star Billykiss were ultimately all axed in a triple dumping. Following her departure, Emma addressed her time on the ITV2 dating show. Speaking to Maya Jama on Aftersun, Emma said: "I'm disappointed the viewers didn't get to see our story play out and I'm disappointed we didn't get more airtime". Meanwhile, she also revealed what the future holds for her and villa partner Boris. Emma said: "It's hard to date someone when they live in a different country. But I love Boris." Viewers saw Harry's stunned reaction to Emma's Love Island entrance - as he could be heard saying: "Oh my god, it's my ex." It comes as Emma previously denied having gone on Love Island to win Harry back. Addressing fan speculation after leaving the villa, she said: "It's very easy when you've been with someone a long time, to fall back into that spot where you're comfortable. "When we were flirty it felt like everything was good and perfect, but then I very quickly snapped out of it when I saw his behaviour." Love Island star Emma reveals real reason she and Harry discussed winning the £50k after 'game plan' rumours She added: "I had to keep reminding myself that those were the same behaviours why I left in the first place and why I don't want to go back there." Emma also addressed fan theories of her and Harry having a "secret game plan" to win the show's £50,000 prize. She said: "I think they've just been proved wrong because he's still in there and I've now left the Villa so that definitely wasn't the game plan. "We hadn't spoken, I can confirm that is just a rumour." Conor brought Emma back to the main villa after Casa, while Harry decided to stay coupled up with Helena. Just days after returning, Harry and Emma enjoyed multiple flirty conversations, much to the dismay of an unamused Helena. Everything came to light at the Grafties - as Helena ended things with Harry for good. Love Island airs on ITV2 and ITVX.
Crypto Insight
5 days ago
- Business
- Crypto Insight
Wrench attacks drive crypto investors to centralized custodians
Crypto custodians are reporting increased interest in their services amid the rising frequency of so-called '$5 wrench attacks' on cryptocurrency traders, investors and project leaders. In the last year, several high-profile wrench attacks — physical attempts to steal someone's crypto — have targeted prominent investors and business executives in the blockchain industry. The crypto mantra of 'not your keys, not your coins' has lost its power among some investors who fear for their personal safety. Cold wallets may offer full control over digital assets, but they also present a single point of attack. As crypto adoption grows, and wrench attacks persist with the proliferation of more high-value crypto investors, custodians are seeing a shift in preference from self-custody to institutional control. Crypto wrench attacks drive security demand Wrench attacks are nothing new. Jameson Lopp, a Bitcoin advocate and chief technology officer of Bitcoin wallet Casa, published a GitHub repository logging hundreds of such incidents since 2014 — and those were only the ones reported in the news. In the last two to three years, as crypto adoption has sped up and become more mainstream than ever, attacks have grown more public and sophisticated. In January 2025, the founder of crypto wallet Ledger and his wife, David and Amandine Balland, were kidnapped, taken to separate locations and held at ransom. Just months later, the daughter of an exchange founder barely fought off attackers who attempted to kidnap her in a van on the streets of Paris. Concern over the rise in attacks and their similar methods led French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau to meet with cryptocurrency professionals to discuss the issue. As concern over these attacks grows, crypto custodians are noticing an uptick in interest in their services. Emma Shi, over-the-counter and institutional sales director of HashKey, which offers custody and exchange services, told Cointelegraph, 'We're absolutely seeing rising retail anxiety translate into meaningful inflows. Wealthier retail investors are increasingly approaching regulated custodians after high-profile cases like the recent Manhattan kidnapping, where physical coercion was used to access private keys.' Shi said HashKey's custody business has noted increased interest in storage from 'family offices, crypto-native high-net-worth individuals and even those with nest eggs that are large enough to be vulnerable to theft.' Cold wallets have long been lauded by crypto advocates as a way to give investors full control over their assets and to keep them maximally secure offline. However, this single key also provides a 'single point of failure,' per Wade Wang, CEO of multiparty computation (MPC) crypto custody service Safeheron. Wang said that there is a 'flight to security' among crypto investors, where holders 'are actively seeking innovative solutions that eliminate that single point of failure to significantly raise the bar for attacking.' Already in 2023, a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers on the state of digital custody noted the challenge of cold wallets being prone to theft or loss. One solution posited in the report was MPC or multisignature wallet options. Can custody services stop wrench attacks? Crypto self-custody, while boasting a new technology, runs into the same problem as treasure hoarders throughout history — they were vulnerable to physical attacks and theft until they could share that risk with a stronger and securer institution like a bank. Robbing a bank is a lot harder than robbing a person. In the same fashion, crypto investors are now seeking to 'raise the cost' of the $5 wrench attack. Wang said that investors wish to 'return to the fundamental principle: making the cost for an attacker rise exponentially. For example, when it costs $3 million to steal $10 million, the incentive for attack is lost.' Third-party custody can achieve this and mitigate the problem of wrench attacks, adding time-locks and layers of approval and shifting the target from an individual to the custodian's employees. 'But it is not an optimal solution,' per Wang. Trust is still put in a single, centralized institution and, as exemplified by the recent breaches at Coinbase and Bybit, even major regulated crypto businesses are vulnerable to employee misconduct and phishing. Wang suggested that distributed custody, such as MPC, 'is a superior solution because it fundamentally solves the problem. The core principle of MPC is to use technology to decentralize the single point of control and risk […] into a 'multiparty' structure.' In such a system, control doesn't belong to any one person, and transferring funds requires complex consensus protocols from multiple parties. Decentralized solutions may better reflect the ethos of the blockchain industry, but 'we cannot neglect the benefits of centralized custodians,' Wang said. 'Reliable security measures bring better assurance of keeping clients' assets safe, a familiar way of doing things for lots of new crypto players.' Centralized or decentralized, crypto investors could still be at risk if the public image of crypto investors is that they are all walking around with cold wallets full of Bitcoin. Shi said, 'The perception of risk matters, too. Attackers often assume holders store funds themselves, so public awareness that more crypto is held in custodial solutions may deter opportunistic assaults.' Wrench attacks a 'temporary problem' solved by adoption Public perception is indeed changing. Retail investors are increasingly making crypto part of their portfolio, according to a 2024 report from Ernst & Young. New regulations in large financial markets like the EU and the US are creating the frameworks necessary for institutional investors to get involved. This regulatory shift has been good for the custody industry as well, as it 'legitimizes professional custody for everyday investors and is leading to more offerings from not only crypto-native firms but traditional banks as well,' said Shi. 'We're seeing crypto adoption accelerate in regions with regulatory clarity, which creates entirely new custody considerations for investors who previously relied solely on self-custody solutions.' Regulations also raise the stakes of wrench attacks, per Wang. Better regulatory frameworks with more jurisdictions 'proactively setting robust regulations' will 'inevitably lead to more severe law enforcement actions, which will significantly increase the cost of such attacks and fundamentally curb such behaviors.' 'We see the physical attacking as a temporary challenge,' Wang concluded. The crypto industry has evolved through many stages, but the rise of wrench attacks on prominent investors and executives shows that it has yet to reach the maturity of traditional financial markets. In the meantime, executives are not only moving their assets to centralized and decentralized custodians but also finding muscle of their own. Personal security firms have also seen an uptick in interest from crypto's elite to protect their homes and persons. Source:
The Irish Sun
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Love Island boy accused of ‘coasting to the final' and targeting ‘fan favourite girl'
A LOVE Island lad has been accused of "coasting to the final" after targeting a "fan favourite girl" to couple up with. Some viewers of the ITV2 series have flagged what they believe is the Advertisement 7 A Love Island hunk is 'coasting' to the final claim show fans 7 It comes as Yasmin Pettet was left fuming at her partner's conduct Credit: Shutterstock Editorial 7 Jamie Rhodes appeared to get handsy with the girls in a kissing challenge Credit: Shutterstock Editorial 7 Fans now reckon Jamie has 'undetected game play' Credit: Eroteme It comes as one Love Island couple are set to bag the whopper £50K cash prize in the coming weeks. Now loyal viewers are convinced Jamie Rhodes's intentions for Yas Pettet aren't pure - especially after he got handsy with a number of other villa girls His reaction left Yas understandably annoyed as she fumed: "What the f*** am I watching?" The pair appeared to be going from strength to strength after chatted about their growing connection and Advertisement READ MORE Love Island Yet after his flirty antics fans have flooded Reddit with comments suggesting he is only with the bombshell for her popularity. One posted: "Jamie's undetected game play. "He entered the villa knowing Yas picked up a popularity and she's a fan favourite. Also, he knows about the villains that the fans hate and staying away from them." They added: "Notice Jamie was the only guy went on Harry and called him during the Casa recoupling, knowing that will get him points from the public, and it has. Advertisement Most read in Love Island Exclusive "The whole fan base all over social media loved him for that. Love Island bombshell Yasmin's pal shares secret behind perfect posture after fans were left baffled "And he's COASTING to the final and potentially winning the whole thing with Yas. "Also, He got excited during reading the kissing challenge, because he didn't get to kiss someone else since he came. We saw his hands were slipping to the girls asses. "I feel we didn't see the real him, there's something about him. I know you don't want to hear that but this relationship won't last to Christmas." Advertisement Another mused: "Can we talk about how inappropriate it was for him to grope the a*** of every single girl in the villa during the kissing challenge?" Love Island 2025 full lineup : A 30-year-old footballer with charm to spare. : A 22-year-old Manchester-based model, ready to turn heads. : A payroll specialist from Southampton, looking for someone tall and stylish. : International business graduate with brains and ambition. : A gym enthusiast with a big heart. : A Londoner with celebrity connections, aiming to find someone funny or Northern. : A personal trainer and semi-pro footballer, following in his footballer father's footsteps. : A towering 6'5' personal trainer. : A 25-year-old Irish rugby pro. : Love Island's first bombshell revealed as sexy Las Vegas pool party waitress. : The 24-year-old bombshell hails from London and works as a commercial banking executive. : Pro footballer and model entering Love Island 2025 as a bombshell. Giorgio Russo : The 30-year-old will be spending his summer in the sun, potentially his sister Alessia's successful tournament at the Euros in Switzerland. : Professional DJ from Manchester who appeared on X Factor 2016 in girl group Four of Diamonds. : Miss Bikini Ireland 2019 winner who hails from Dublin and works as a nail technician and personal trainer. Emma Munro: Harry Cooksley's ex who entered as a bombshell and works as a hydrogeologist. Departures : : Axed after an arrest over a machete attack emerged. He was released with no further action taken and denies any wrongdoing. : A model and motivational speaker who has overcome adversity after suffering life-changing burns in an accident. : A boxer with striking model looks, seeking love in the villa. : A teaching assistant from Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, who entered Love Island 2025 as a bombshell . : Works as a scaffolder day-to-day and plays semi-pro football on the side. Poppy Harrison: The bombshell broke up with her boyfriend after finding out she would be in the villa Will Means : The fourth fittest farmer in the UK according to Farmers' Weekly in 2023 entered the villa as a bombshell : An Irish actress part of the OG line-up. : 23-year-old personal banker from Glasgow who fancies herself as a 'good flirt'. : 27-year-old gym hunk who entered the show as a bombshell . One added: "All a Casa bombshell needs to do is couple up with the most popular girl/boy and coast until the final. The real successful game players are the bombshells that come in before the series is due to end and still win (Josh and Greg)." A fan posted: "Honestly a valid take I feel like bombshells that come in past a certain point are aware of who they should go for, but for Yasmins sake I hope he's genuine because we have never seen her this way with a guy in the villa." Yet one then clapped back and put: "I personally like him & hope he & Yas win because it's undeniable we have seen a softer side of Yas since they've been coupled up." Advertisement FINAL COUNTDOWN The date of the Love Island final is yet to be confirmed by ITV, but as regular viewers know, the final always takes place on a Monday in a live episode. It is heavily speculated that the official When The Advertisement 7 Fans suggested Jamie is 'coasting to the final and potentially winning the whole thing with Yas' Credit: Eroteme 7 The couple had enjoyed a sweet paddleboard date Credit: Eroteme 7 The show champs will scoop a whopping £50K cash prize Credit: Shutterstock Editorial
