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The Sun
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Katie Price's boyfriend JJ Slater UNFOLLOWS Conor McGregor after she was pictured partying with him in Ibiza
KATIE Price's boyfriend JJ Slater has unfollowed Conor McGregor on Instagram after she was pictured partying with him in Ibiza. Page 3 legend Katie, 47, was snapped in a barely-there red and white bikini cuddling up to the UFC star, 36, at Ocean Beach during a rowdy day out on the Spanish party island. 4 Grinning for selfies and dancing among the crowd, the mum-of-five looked in her element as she joined a host of celeb pals - including Wayne Lineker, Jamie O'Hara and Dean Gaffney - at the event. Conor later posted a photo from the event with Katie, captioning it: "Katie Price Forever." But behind the scenes, the pictures didn't go down well with JJ, 31, who swiftly hit the unfollow button on Conor's account. A source told The Sun: 'JJ had been following Conor on social media for around six months. "Katie and JJ went to Ireland a few months ago and Katie took him to Conor McGregor's pub and introduced them. "Katie was already following Conor on socials, and after that he followed her back and JJ also started following Conor. "Now, after Katie was snapped partying with Conor in Ibiza, JJ has unfollowed Conor. "He didn't like seeing the pictures of them having a whale of a time on the party island, he thought it looked disrespectful.' JJ, who found fame on Married at First Sight UK, has been dating Katie since earlier this year, with the pair recently enjoying a string of PDA-filled outings. Katie's tiny figure was on full display as she cuddled up with Conor during the wild party earlier this month. The reality star nearly slipped out of her tiny bikini as she danced among the crowd with the boxer. Showing off a deep bronze tan and slender frame, Katie beamed next to Conor as she posed with fans and the boxer. With a tiny red and white bikini barely keeping her famously enhanced boobs covered, Katie delighted in the revelry on the day out. JJ's representatives have been contacted for comment. Fans have grown concerned for the star in recent weeks during her increasingly slender frame. Katie has repeatedly shut down speculation she had started using weight loss jabs – and hit back at critics of her weight loss. Speaking on her Snapchat in May, Katie said: "Yes I've lost weight. "Yes that what I've wanted to do, I've wanted to lose weight. "Because the past three, four years ago when I broke my feet and I was in a wheelchair for 10 months because they said I'd never walk again, and obviously you put weight on being in a wheelchair. "And then I did all the IVF stuff, that also puts on weight. "So yeah I did put on weight and I hated it, I felt uncomfortable and it wasn't me." She then explained how, after finishing her failed IVF treatment, she became more active with healthy eating. "Everyone is talking about it - it's driving me mad," she said. "I'm healthy and I do eat. "If you look at old old pictures of me in the Jordan days, I was always skinny." The mum-of-five underwent a £1,500 bum filler procedure in May which she livestreamed on TikTok from the operating table. She told the camera: 'You can grow old gracefully, but I don't want to grow old gracefully. "If there's procedures out there to be done, I will take advantage of them. And at least I'm being honest.' Just weeks later, she shared that she had gone for more, further enlarging her rear. Plasters from the treatment were still present and bleeding on her bum by the time she arrived in Ibiza, with Katie showing off the bandages by the poolside. 4
The Sun
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Inside Jake Paul's fight diet for Julio Cesar Chavez Jr fight with favourite dinner and cheat meal revealed
JAKE PAUL has been training off a diet of tasty chicken and the occasional cheesecake in preparation to fight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. The YouTuber-turned-boxer returns to the ring on Saturday night against former middleweight world champion Chavez Jr. 5 He switched his training from his adopted home of Puerto Rico to Atlanta, Georgia where Paul recently purchased a £29million ranch. And with him all the way was personal chef Eric Triliegi - who has worked with the likes of Conor McGregor and Ryan Garcia in the past. Triliegi - an expert in helping fighters cut weight through nutrition - has the job of making sure Paul is fuelled for 12 weeks of training. He told SunSport: "For someone like Jake or an athlete it's actually very simple. "We want to make sure he's getting enough carbohydrates so he has enough glycogen storage in his muscles to be able to perform. "We gotta make sure he has enough fat so we can give him some of that good fat energy as well and then he has to have the right amount of protein so we keep him lean. "When we do the water load, we like to have him have more muscle mass because water and muscle cell combine, water and fat don't combine. "So I like to make sure that he's lean with muscle, got enough muscle so when the water load happens, it's doing the right things." Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr JAKE PAUL'S controversial boxing career rolls on this weekend with the Problem Child facing boxing royalty in Anaheim, California. Paul will face Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, a highly-decorated former world middleweight champion. The Mexican, 39, has fought just once in the last four years but has the best boxing resume of any fighter to step into a ring with Paul - bar Mike Tyson, who was aged 58 at the time they fought. INFO Everything you need to know about Paul vs Chavez Jr LATEST NEWS & FEATURES Jake Paul buys incredible £29MILLION ranch with 5,700 acres Jake Paul in talks over TWO shock world title fights Chavez Jr is son of boxing great who was arrested on gun charges and robbed by party girls Jake Paul heavyweight days over after getting 'too fat' 5 Paul's favourite fight camp meal is chicken marsala - an Italian-American dish made of shallots, garlic and a wine sauce. He has up to four meals a day - breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks mixed in with smoothies between his sessions. Jake Paul vows to send Julio Cesar Chavez Jr into sad boxing retirement and goads 'I'll be there for you' And if Triliegi fancies treating Paul , he serves up a sweet treat - all still healthy, of course. He said: "Honestly, I'm not big on cheat meals but I will do a no-bake cheesecake, passion fruit cheesecake, things like that. "But I use all healthy ingredients." Paul's last fight was up at heavyweight in November when Mike Tyson controversially came out of retirement aged 58. He jumped up to 227lb (16st 2lb) before winning on points and now drops back down to the 200lb cruiserweight limit of 14st 4lb. And Triliegi said: "The last fight camp for Tyson we were having over 3,400 calories a day - maybe a little bit more. "We were gaining weight, so it was a lot easier. Now with this, he came in camp light around 215, so the weight cut's been real easy, real simple." Triliegi has to make sure Paul's calories are reduced as the fight edges closer and the weigh-in approaches. But the chef - who brought out his own book called Fight Food - even tracks the boxer's SLEEP to help him shed the unwanted pounds Triliegi said: "I monitor everything, his sleep cycle, light, deep, in REM, his training, rest blocks. "If everything is going smoothly, he can eat the food that he wants, he can eat when he wants. "But we just monitor a little bit of the portion control. But other than that, we're monitoring sleep, making sure he doesn't eat too late. "If you eat too late when you go to bed instead of resting, you're digesting so it's taking away from the purpose of sleep so we pretty much keep track of everything." 5 5
Telegraph
20 hours ago
- Telegraph
Like his good friend Donald Trump, Conor McGregor rides out any scandal
When Conor McGregor was convicted of sucker-punching a man in a Dublin pub in 2019, he bought the pub and 'barred' his victim. Fast-forward to last week and he reportedly did not even need to lift a finger for the latest recipient of one of his left hooks to be thrown out of Ibiza's Pacha nightclub. It seems that whatever the crime or controversy, sooner or later the world's most infamous mixed martial arts fighter ends up coming out of it on top. Next week he could take major step in that direction when it comes to the most serious alleged offence committed by a man who has become the living embodiment of his nickname, 'The Notorious'. The Republic of Ireland's Court of Appeal is set to consider an application for new evidence to be introduced in his battle against a civil ruling that he raped Nikita Hand at a Dublin hotel in December 2018. That ruling, delivered by a jury at the Irish capital's High Court in November, meant McGregor was ordered to pay the mother of one more than €248,000 (£206,000) in damages. McGregor, who faced no criminal charges over the alleged rape after prosecutors deemed there was 'no reasonable prospect of conviction', immediately announced his intention to appeal. That appeal was lodged in February, and it emerged in April that he was attempting to introduce new evidence alleging Hand had been assaulted by her then partner on the night McGregor was found to have raped her. The evidence has been provided by two former neighbours of Hand, one of whom has signed a sworn affidavit claiming to have seen her being punched after she returned home that evening. Hand, who told November's civil trial that McGregor had 'brutally raped and battered' her, signed an affidavit calling her neighbours' allegations 'lies'. Even if the Court of Appeal rules the new evidence inadmissible or refuses to quash last year's verdict, McGregor already appears to have found a way of emerging from it all remarkably unscathed. It all comes amid a burgeoning 'bromance' with the man who arguably laid out the blueprint for him to do so. McGregor was still awaiting his trial last year when Donald Trump became the first former US president to be convicted of a felony after being found guilty of 34 charges linked to hush-money payments made to ex-adult star Stormy Daniels. The verdict did not prevent Trump running for re-election and, weeks later, he survived a would-be assassin's bullet on the campaign trail. McGregor, who had caused a political earthquake at the end of 2023 by signalling his intention to run for the presidency of his own country, posted to his 10 million followers on X: 'A 78 year old multiple billionaire he should be on a yacht on the med touring golf courses. But he is not. He is in Pennsylvania spitting out bullets! Running for the love of his country! God speed Donald! God bless the United States.' Whether Trump saw the message or not, less than two months after McGregor's own court defeat, the Irishman was among the guests at the US president's second inauguration and also posed for a photograph with Nigel Farage at a pre-event rally. By the time Ireland's prime minister Micheal Martin visited the White House in the week leading up to St Patrick's Day, Trump was publicly singling out McGregor as his favourite Irishman. If that was embarrassing for the taoiseach, it became even more so on St Patrick's Day when McGregor was invited for an audience with Trump and seized a platform to spout anti-immigration rhetoric he had begun to voice in the preceding months and years. That had included in the build-up to a riot in Dublin in November 2023, which was triggered by the stabbing of three young children outside a primary school. McGregor posted on X: 'Innocent children ruthlessly stabbed by a mentally deranged non-national in Dublin, Ireland today. There is grave danger among us in Ireland that should never be here in the first place, and there has been zero action done to support the public in any way, shape or form with this frightening fact. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.' Following the riot, and facing accusations of incitement, McGregor said he did not condone the violence. His White House visit was followed by an announcement that he would run for the presidency of Ireland later this year. But despite previously being publicly endorsed by Elon Musk and claiming to have the support of Trump himself, McGregor faces what would appear insurmountable hurdles to becoming his own country's head of state. Under the current rules, candidates must garner the support of 20 Oireachtas (parliament) members, or the backing of four of Ireland's local authorities in order to stand. A recent Irish Times survey of 949 local councillors found not one of the 187 who responded said they would nominate him for the role. Stiofán Conaty, a Sinn Fein councillor from Cavan County Council, told the publication: 'No such pressure would ever influence me to even consider voting for that horrid man.' McGregor's presidential ambitions could hardly be further removed from his stance on politics a decade ago after he was criticised for wearing a Remembrance Day poppy. 'F--- politics and f--- religion,' he wrote on Twitter in October 2015. 'I just want to swing a few lefts and a few rights for a couple of hundred mill in peace.' Back then, McGregor was at the peak of his powers in the Ultimate Fighting Championship with a five-year, 15-bout winning streak that included becoming the first man to hold championships in two weight classes simultaneously. Arguably the world's most recognisable MMA fighter, he was even named the following year as RTE Sports Person of the Year – Ireland's equivalent of the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award. By then, McGregor had announced his retirement from UFC amid speculation about who would win in a fight between him and the world's best boxer, Floyd Mayweather Jnr. That planted the seed for a crossover boxing match between the pair on August 26, 2017, which became the second-highest-selling pay-per-view event in history. McGregor was beaten but, in reality, there were no losers from a fight in which he later said he earned 'around' $100 million. He went on to be ranked by Forbes as the world's fourth-highest-paid athlete on $99 million. The Mayweather fight also brought unprecedented public scrutiny on McGregor, who was accused of racism after telling his black opponent to, 'Dance for me, boy', during a promotional event. Mayweather later claimed McGregor had 'called black people monkeys' and had spoken 'disrespectfully to my mother and my daughter'. Responding on Instagram, McGregor wrote: 'Floyd Mayweather, don't ever bring race into my success again. I am an Irishman. My people have been oppressed our entire existence. And still very much are. I understand the feeling of prejudice. It is a feeling that is deep in my blood. In my family's long history of warfare there was a time where just having the name 'McGregor' was punishable by death. Do not ever put me in a bracket like this again …' Following the bout, McGregor looked likely to return to UFC before the end of the year. But plans were scrapped when he pushed a referee and slapped another official at a rival MMA event in Dublin, in which he was not even competing. The next day, the head of the commission for the event issued a statement accusing McGregor of having 'assaulted' the pair. McGregor apologised and UFC president Dana White later blamed his behaviour partly on his rapid rise to fame, branding his entourage 'cling-ons'. 'He's a young, rich kid who is a god in Ireland,' White said. 'That's not the healthiest environment either. When you make that kind of money, you're that famous and you're a professional athlete, you're gonna have an overload of cling-ons.' McGregor's MMA return was still on hold when, in April 2018, he was filmed in New York throwing a metal equipment dolly at the window of a bus carrying his UFC nemesis and heir apparent, Khabib Nurmagomedov. The window shattered, injuring two other fighters. White called the incident 'the most disgusting thing' in the history of the organisation. McGregor turned himself in to police and was charged with assault, criminal mischief and other crimes. He pleaded no contest to a count of disorderly conduct and was ordered to carry out five days of community service and attend anger-management classes. One of his victims, Michael Chiesa, later sued McGregor over his injuries. The case was settled out of court more than four years later. White's condemnation did not prevent him signing a six-fight deal for McGregor to return to the UFC, starting with a bout against new lightweight champion Nurmagomedov in October that year. McGregor was defeated and a brawl broke out afterwards that led to both men receiving lengthy bans and heavy fines. After defeating Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov jumped out of the octagon and a brawl ensued 🎥 @AndreasHale d — SB Nation (@SBNation) October 7, 2018 It was during his six-month suspension that McGregor allegedly raped Hand and was arrested over accusations he stamped on a fan's phone in another incident caught on camera. The alleged victim in that case stopped cooperating with police and charges were later dropped. On March 26, McGregor announced his second retirement from MMA, hours before news broke that he was being investigated over his alleged rape of Hand. On April 6 came the Dublin pub attack in which McGregor punched Desmond Keogh for refusing an offer to sample the fighter's 'Proper No. Twelve' brand of whiskey. McGregor pleaded guilty to the assault in November that year and was fined €1,000. He also issued a public apology. However, when it was reported in April 2021 that McGregor had bought the Marble Arch pub where the incident had taken place, he reposted a link to the article saying: 'Ye and your mans barred.' Keogh told the Irish Mirror: 'I wouldn't want to be spending money in his pub to be honest.' That same month, McGregor and his business partners sold Proper No. Twelve for $600 million. The rape investigation and a further – denied – sexual assault allegation failed to prevent McGregor making what was a winning UFC comeback in January 2020. He retired again and, later that year, was arrested on the French island of Corsica on suspicion of attempted sexual assault and indecent exposure. He was released without charge and a police investigation into the denied claims was eventually dropped. Hand filed her civil lawsuit against McGregor in January 2021, days before what proved to be the fighter's final UFC comeback. He lost that bout, to Dustin Poirier, and a rematch in July. By then, Forbes had ranked him as the world's highest-paid athlete on $180 million following the sale of his whiskey brand. In October that year, McGregor was publicly accused by Italian DJ Francesco Facchinetti of breaking his nose in a nightclub in Rome. Facchinetti filed a criminal complaint but, as of today, no known action has been taken over an alleged incident McGregor has yet to comment on. The following July, McGregor held a birthday party on his yacht in Ibiza, after which a woman filed a complaint that he had physically assaulted her and that she had broken her arm jumping off the boat to escape him. McGregor denied the allegation and the woman later withdrew a lawsuit she had lodged against him. After making the allegations, her car was torched outside her home and a brick thrown through her window. During last year's civil rape proceedings against McGregor, it emerged that a gang of masked men had broken into Hand's home, smashed the windows and stabbed her boyfriend in the months leading up to the court case. There is no suggestion McGregor had any involvement in or prior knowledge of these incidents but, with him having 47 million followers on Instagram in addition to 10 million on X, they could indicate his supporters are prepared to go to extreme lengths to silence his accusers. McGregor is now facing another sexual assault lawsuit, filed in Florida in January this year over allegations – which he denies – of attempted rape during the NBA Finals in June 2023. Following a police investigation into the claims, prosecutors confirmed in October that McGregor would face no criminal charges. His alleged victim's lawsuit claims McGregor 'attempted to forcefully place his unprotected penis' into her mouth and anus without her consent. The claim was filed days before Trump's inauguration, but, like the verdict in November's civil case against him, did not prevent him attending or being invited to the White House in March. It has certainly not stopped his relentless campaigning for the presidency of Ireland. So, when footage emerged last week of him punching someone to the floor of Pacha during his latest trip to Ibiza, it hardly came as a surprise that his victim was apparently ejected and he was allowed to carry on as if nothing had happened.
Irish Independent
2 days ago
- Politics
- Irish Independent
The Irish Independent's View: Timing is crucial as parties consider candidates for next president
The Latin phrase translates as 'make haste slowly' and appears at first glance to be a contradiction in terms or an oxymoron. A truer translation is 'balance speed with caution', a warning that rash decisions can have long-term detrimental consequences. Down the centuries, the maxim was adopted by many leaders, and it featured in the works of painters and writers who helped sustain it in history. The aphorism has now been very definitely adopted by many seasoned Irish politicians in their hyper-cautious approach to the upcoming presidential election campaign in October. A widely-admitted belief that President Michael D Higgins will be a very hard act to follow is compounded by very bad experiences during personalised campaigns in the two previous elections of 2011 and 2018. Thus far, the pre-campaign has been characterised more by people ruling themselves out than by promulgating their candidature. At this point, just two people – the mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor and Donegal-based businessman Peter Casey – have made clearly positive noises about standing (Mr Casey surprised many by coming second last time out with a remarkable 23pc of the total poll). The wisdom of prioritising caution over speed is hard to argue with One assumes that, behind the scenes, the more seasoned and mainstream politicians and their party organisers are giving the election considerable thought. Surely some quiet preparations are being planned. Fine Gael appears best fixed for a prompt campaign take-off later this summer. Two strong candidates – former GAA president and MEP Seán Kelly and former EU commissioner Mairead McGuinness – are quietly cited by the party. Fine Gael has never won the office since it was created in 1937. Either potential candidate would be a strong contender for addressing that lack. The identity of a Fianna Fáil potential runner is less clear, though former ministers Éamon Ó Cúiv and Mary Hanafin have not ruled themselves out. Party soundings also suggest that adopting an external candidate, as FF did when it endorsed Mary McAleese in 1997, remains a possibility. Sinn Féin has to decide whether to throw its lot in with a common candidate backed by left-leaning parties or go it alone as it did to very mixed results in 2011 and 2018. The prospect of a united leftist candidate cannot be ruled out, and it will be recalled that this did succeed admirably in 1990 when president Mary Robinson upset the apparently heavier hitters. On balance, the wisdom of prioritising caution over speed is hard to argue with. The nasty 2011 campaign effectively ran from the May holiday weekend to Halloween, with longevity creating many practical problems. But to Caesar Augustus's aphorism there is a counter, which reminds us that 'he or she who hesitates is lost'. In politics, timing is crucial.
Irish Independent
2 days ago
- Irish Independent
Mediahuis journalists win top honours at the Justice Media Awards
Almost 140 journalists gathered at the Law Society of Ireland for the announcement of the awards' winners. Mark Tighe of the Sunday Independent and Marie Crowe of RTÉ won the inaugural award in the Print-Online Journalism Feature category for their joint investigation on 'Field of Broken Dreams'. The judges described it as a 'superb two-and-a-half-year investigation highlighting the mistreatment and wrongs made against women footballers who suffered in silence', adding it was a 'standout entry' and a 'deserving winner'. Mr Tighe and Ms Crowe along with RTÉ Investigates director Frank Shouldice also scooped the merit certificate in the Human Rights and Social Justice Reporting Broadcast category for their 'Girls in Green' investigation. The Irish Independent special correspondent Catherine Fegan was awarded three merit certificates. In the Print and Online Journalism Daily category, she was awarded for her reporting 'Taking Back the Power' – in which three survivors of rape tell of their tough decision to waive their right to anonymity so the perpetrators could be named. Ms Fegan was awarded in the Human Rights and Social Justice Reporting in Print and Online for 'School abuse victims demand justice: I didn't talk to anyone about it. I just carried it all inside', and also won in the Court Reporting Print and Online category for her piece 'Nikita Hand v Conor McGregor: The Moment the Mask Slipped'. The Irish Independent legal affairs editor Shane Phelan was awarded a merit certificate for his 'Key factors that may have swayed the jury in Nikita Hand case against Conor McGregor' in the Court Reporting Print and Online category. In the Print and Online Journalism Sunday category, Sunday Independent journalist Ali Bracken claimed a merit certificate for her reporting 'Conviction of James Kilroy for murdering his wife Valerie French is not the end of the legal road for the French family'. There were also two merit certificates won by the Irish Independent podcasts in the Broadcast Journalism Podcast category. The Indo Daily team, including Garrett Mulhall, Fionnán Sheahan, Robin Schiller, Carlo Salizzo, Ian Doyle, Hugh Keenan, and Rory Bowens, were awarded for the episode titled 'Wanted: Gardaí release images of 99 Dublin riot suspects, is it a worrying precedent?' Meanwhile, Mr Tighe and Joe Molloy of the Indo Sport were awarded for the Indo Sport's episode called 'Nikita Hand wins David and Goliath case against Conor McGregor'. Former Irish Independent journalist Ellen Coyne also won a merit certificate for her reporting on 'Domestic violence victims forced into homelessness by lack of refuge spaces' in the Human Rights and Social Justice Reporting in Print and Online category. President of the Law Society Eamon Harrington said: 'The record-breaking number of entries this year shows that the standard of Irish legal journalism remains incredibly high. 'As journalists across the world continue to face threats, it is more important than ever to recognise and support responsible journalism, and those who produce it.'
