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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rupert Everett says he was fired from Emily In Paris, calls it a "tragedy"
Rupert Everett has dozens of film and TV credits under his belt, not to mention a handful of Golden Globe and Olivier Award nominations. But none of that mattered when he was written off Emily In Paris. 'For me, it was a tragedy,' the My Best Friend's Wedding actor said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair. 'I was in bed for two weeks because I couldn't get over it.' It doesn't seem like he's joking. In his view, he was 'fired' from the Netflix series, in which he appeared in one season four episode as interior designer Giorgio Barbieri. 'I did a scene in the latest season, and they told me, 'Next year we'll speak,'' he recalled. 'I waited for them to call me—but ultimately, it never came, and they just fired me. Show business is always very difficult, from the beginning to the end. When they write the screenplay, they think they want you—but then things change, and they lose your character. I don't know why.' VF notes that a source close to the production contests Everett's framing. They say that the actor was hired as a guest star, and his character's arc simply reached its natural conclusion. That being said, this isn't the first time Emily In Paris has engendered an extremely strong emotional response from someone involved. Last year, Lucas Bravo (Gabriel) went on a rampage against the show, telling IndieWire that it was 'not fun for me to shoot or to see a character I love so much… being slowly turned into guacamole.' (Other great turns of phrase from that rant include the show's stagnancy being compared to 'a lot of souffles' and a lot of grousing about how the actor 'really grew apart' from the 'sexy chef' that was 'very much part of me in Season 1.') Even French president Emmanuel Macron couldn't resist the pull of Emily In Paris madness. 'Emily In Paris in Rome doesn't make sense,' he told Variety when the show deigned to leave his beloved city. 'We will fight hard. And we will ask them to remain in Paris!' At least Everett can wade through this tragedy in good company. More from A.V. Club Together is for lovers with strong stomachs What's on TV this week—Chief Of War and Eyes Of Wakanda Rupert Everett says he was fired from Emily In Paris, calls it a "tragedy" Solve the daily Crossword
Sky News AU
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
Disgraced TV host Peter Everett breaks silence after being charged with sexually touching teenage boy without consent
Former Ready Steady Cook host Peter Everett has broken his silence after he was charged with sexually touching a teenage boy without consent. The TV host was accused of the offence relating to a 16-year-old boy, alleged to have occurred in the Central Coast town of Toukley last Friday. He was subsequently required to report for bail at Waverley Police Station in Sydney's east, where he stopped to speak to media on Tuesday. "I am holding up as well as possible," Everett told Daily Mail Australia. "My solicitor has advised me not to speak, but I am pleading not guilty." Everett first attempted to evade a waiting media pack by driving around Sydney's east for two hours before returning to make the statement. Mandatory interim conditions, including bans on assaulting, threatening, stalking, harassing or intimidating the alleged victim, remain in place. Meanwhile, police on Monday sought an Apprehended Violence Order against Everett on behalf of a third party identified as 'MD'. The matter will be heard at Wyong Local Court on Thursday. Everett fronted Sydney's Parramatta Court on Saturday, where the fallen TV star pleaded not guilty and denied the sexual touching allegations. He was granted bail with strict conditions, which include reporting to the police station twice a week. Everett was arrested and spent Friday evening incarcerated before appearing in court the following day. A NSW Police spokesperson told officers were investigating the alleged sexual touching of the 16-year-old boy. "Following extensive inquiries, police arrested a 66-year-old man at a home at Toukley," the spokesperson said. "The man was taken to Wyong Police Station where he was charged with sexually touch another person without consent." Everett was sacked from the Australian adaptation of Ready Steady Cook in 2011, a competition show that features two teams, each consisting of a chef and a guest, competing to prepare meals using given ingredients. He was about to board a plane for an overseas holiday when he received a call from Rory Callaghan, former CEO of Southern Star Productions (Endemol Shine Australia), informing him he was not to return to the show. The TV host opened up about the matter in 2019 and said Callaghan told him during the phone call he thought he was "greater than the show." "I had no idea what that meant," he told "I think it meant I thought I was so indispensable and that they couldn't do the show without me." "I said, 'I am a large part of the show, but I just want the best for the show'." Callaghan defended his decision, telling TV Tonight Network Ten had "reached a point" where production needed to progress without Everett. "It was a hard production with him, so it was time to move on," he said. Everett hosted the show five years after he took over the reins from Nick Stratford in 2006. He went on to transform it from a low-rated show into a commercial success, with the program nominated for three Logies during his tenure. Comedian Colin Lane next replaced Everett, who in 2023 launched a fiery spray at Channel 10 for not inviting him back to the 2024 reboot. Everett admitted to being like a spoiled child at being snubbed for the hosting role, which was handed to Chef Miguel Maestre. "I was like a three-year-old for a couple of days, who constantly asks, "Why, why, why?'" he told New Idea. "They didn't approach me for some reason. Who knows why? It's a shame."
CTV News
2 days ago
- CTV News
Mountaineer summits little-known peak between Banff and Jasper, proposes official name
Outside his window in the staff accommodation unit of the Columbia Icefields Discovery Centre, British mountaineer Andy Everett has a clear view of the curve-shaped peak known as 'Nigel SE3' or 'Nigel 2' – a mountain thought by many in the community to be unclimbed. Standing beside the popular Nigel Peak and perched right on the boundary of Jasper and Banff National Park, the climb quickly became Everett's season objective. 'It doesn't look so much like that from the other side if you're coming up from Banff, but from [the Icefields Parkway] … looking south towards it, it's got this really iconic shape,' said Everett. Working as an Ice Explorer driver in the Columbia Icefields after travelling the world for several years, Everett's itch for exploration only grew when he came to the Rockies in 2024. Eager to tick the peak off his list, Everett and his friend Barney Crump set out for a reconnaissance hike on June 6, going just short of the summit. 'Whenever I see a mountain, if it looks cool, I'm like, 'I want to climb that.' It doesn't matter which country I'm in or where I am,' said Everett. 'I remember everyone always saying that as far as we know, 'No, no one's ever climbed this mountain,' so that was a big draw as well. I would've done it anyway, but the fact that no one else had done it, it kind of made it even more urgent that I was like, 'Oh, I'll have to be the first.'' Joined by a third friend, Tobias White, everything fell into place for a summit attempt on June 26 and the three Brits took off via Nigel's Pass. Having done the recce hike and after reading a blog page from a hiker who made it just short of the summit, Everett knew what to expect and came prepared for 'the gap' – the section just below the true summit that requires about eight metres of vertical climbing. 'It's a bit unnerving, but then there's one point where basically there's some protection we can put in at the bottom of the route.' 'But to get to the top, I had to outclimb the protection … You're effectively soloing at that point, like the protection's going to stop me bouncing down the mountain, but I'll still hit the deck,' said Everett, describing the final climb. Belayed by his friends below, Everett completed the 'sketchy' climbing section that finishes with a scramble on even more loose rock. 'We didn't think that anyone had ever been up there, so we didn't even know it was possible … it was very kind of nerve wracking picking our way through because we didn't really know whether any of it was doable and how the quality of the rock and how stable it was going to be,' said Crump. Looking back down from the top, Everett noticed a rusted piton driven into a crack – evidence that proved he actually wasn't the first to set foot on the over 3,000-metre summit. 'I got to the top, my friends are cheering … and I look down and I see … there's a piton in the top and I thought, 'Oh, bugger. You know, just [as we're] cheering and we're celebrating I realize that someone's kind of beat me to it, so that was that point I realized someone else had done it,' he said. Now at the true summit, Everett found a rusted jar with a note inside listing the names of several parties who had summited the peak years before him – the first in June 1966, followed by two more summits several weeks later, one in 1992 and another in 2020. 'I was speechless [when I saw the piton]. I didn't speak for about 30 seconds afterwards. It was such a mission to get it there, but the jar made it better, at least. It was a little time capsule to find, so that soothed my pain.' Among the names scribbled down on two of the expeditions was Hans Fuhrer, a ski instructor and park warden who summited many peaks in the area over the years. 'Given when the highway was built and given when he climbed it, I presume [Fuhrer] was the first person ever to do it unless, you know, someone went up without a jar before him, but I'm guessing he's the first,' said Everett. Well-known Jasper guide Peter Amann had also once stood where Everett was with a summit in September 1992. Everett's top made it the sixth expedition the mountain had seen. Beside the names of several local legends, Everett jotted down his, along with the date and a message: 'Sketchy climb, but feel good for doing it. Well done all for getting here! Thanks to Barney Crump and Tobias White who helped me get here and waited below.' 'I thought that was a really special moment because it's not really something that you ever find on top of mountains. You know, maybe there could be a drop box sometimes in places in Europe, but you know, a glass jar that's been there for over 60 years and also the fact that it had very specifically written down the amount of people that done it,' said Crump. 'Mount Dave Lorraine' A longstanding dream now accomplished; Everett felt it only right the peak be given an official name. 'No one else has really called it anything. I've seen a million different names online. Some people call it 'Nigel 2' because it's close to Nigel Peak. Some people have said 'Nigel SW3', but there seems to be no official name or nothing deserving of it anyway,' said Everett. In honour of his parents, Dave and Lorraine, Everett says the name 'Mount Dave Lorraine' has already caught on in his circle of friends and coworkers in the Icefields. Now he's submitting a proposal, hoping to make the name official. 'It'd be nice to get it named after my parents, but even just any name I think is good enough. I think it deserves one.' Having grown up climbing back home in Northern England, Everett credits his father for teaching him all the skills he's now put to practice in his own mountaineering and climbing ventures over the years. 'My dad, he's kind of taught me everything I know anyway [about mountaineering], so I think it seems only right to sort of credit him with it. My mom not so much if I'm being honest, but she still raised me up and it'd be a nice sort of memory to them,' he said. Along with a moniker for the standalone mountain, Everett is proposing several significant features be named, including 'the gap' section right before the summit, the creek and several notable rock features along the route. He notes in his proposal that naming these landmarks could also help make any future rescue efforts in the area more efficient. 'It's a good mountain. It's got it all. You've got the pass to get up and then you go in for a bit of bush whacking through the forest, then you've got the river, then the scree slope and then the climb at the end, so it kind of got like these five epic stages. They're all different, but all very cool in their own right,' he said. 'That's the crazy thing is there's thousands of people seeing this mountain every day. It's right off the Icefields Parkway. It's right next to Nigel's Peak … you can see Nigel and Athabasca from it … so there must have been thousands of people seeing it, but just no one getting there, which just kind of blows my mind a bit,' he added. Naming geographical features Requesting a geographical feature be named – or the existing one be changed – begins with the submission of a proposal to the Alberta Geographic Naming Program. When this is done for a feature within a national park, the process becomes even more extensive, requiring decisions from the Alberta government, Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) and Parks Canada. Through extensive research, consultation of Indigenous communities and the local population, and verification that the name complies with the Principles of Geographical Names, a decision can take more than one or two years. Often, priority is given to names already commonly used within a community, but a general rule is that no commemorative names will be approved for people still living – a minimum of five years has to elapse from their date of death, according to the Alberta government's Geographical Names Manual. Everett acknowledged that while his name suggestion doesn't comply with some of the naming principles, he will still go ahead and submit the proposal, hoping that, at the least, it will spark a process of giving the mountain an official name – even if it's not after his parents. 'I [will] submit the application anyway and if they say no, you know, even if they give it any name, I'd be quite happy with that to be honest.' 'I was thinking I'll probably get a sheet of paper and get all my chums here to sign it, saying that we use the name here and that'll hopefully add more weight to it, so I might submit it in maybe a week or two,' added Everett. Everett said that, with some exposure, he thinks the peak has the potential to attract many more mountaineers and hikers given its location, surrounding views and interesting final climb. 'It's an awesome view and it's pretty accessible as well, so I think even if people don't get to the summit, if they're more hikers, and they go to the other side of the gap, I still think they'd have an amazing day out,' said Everett. 'There's probably plenty of people trudging up Nigel who haven't even thought to do, hopefully, Mount Dave Lorraine in the future.'
Hamilton Spectator
2 days ago
- Hamilton Spectator
Mountaineer summits little-known peak between Banff and Jasper, proposes official name
ICEFIELDS PARKWAY – Outside his window in the staff accommodation unit of the Columbia Icefields Discovery Centre, British mountaineer Andy Everett has a clear view of the curve-shaped peak known as 'Nigel SE3' or 'Nigel 2' – a mountain thought by many in the community to be unclimbed. Standing beside the popular Nigel Peak and perched right on the boundary of Jasper and Banff National Park, the climb quickly became Everett's season objective. 'It doesn't look so much like that from the other side if you're coming up from Banff, but from [the Icefields Parkway] … looking south towards it, it's got this really iconic shape,' said Everett. Working as an Ice Explorer driver in the Columbia Icefields after travelling the world for several years, Everett's itch for exploration only grew when he came to the Rockies in 2024. Eager to tick the peak off his list, Everett and his friend Barney Crump set out for a reconnaissance hike on June 6, going just short of the summit. 'Whenever I see a mountain, if it looks cool, I'm like, 'I want to climb that.' It doesn't matter which country I'm in or where I am,' said Everett. 'I remember everyone always saying that as far as we know, 'No, no one's ever climbed this mountain,' so that was a big draw as well. I would've done it anyway, but the fact that no one else had done it, it kind of made it even more urgent that I was like, 'Oh, I'll have to be the first.'' Joined by a third friend, Tobias White, everything fell into place for a summit attempt on June 26 and the three Brits took off via Nigel's Pass. Having done the recce hike and after reading a blog page from a hiker who made it just short of the summit, Everett knew what to expect and came prepared for 'the gap' – the section just below the true summit that requires about eight metres of vertical climbing. 'It's a bit unnerving, but then there's one point where basically there's some protection we can put in at the bottom of the route.' 'But to get to the top, I had to outclimb the protection … You're effectively soloing at that point, like the protection's going to stop me bouncing down the mountain, but I'll still hit the deck,' said Everett, describing the final climb. Belayed by his friends below, Everett completed the 'sketchy' climbing section that finishes with a scramble on even more loose rock. 'We didn't think that anyone had ever been up there, so we didn't even know it was possible … it was very kind of nerve wracking picking our way through because we didn't really know whether any of it was doable and how the quality of the rock and how stable it was going to be,' said Crump. Looking back down from the top, Everett noticed a rusted piton driven into a crack – evidence that proved he actually wasn't the first to set foot on the over 3,000-metre summit. 'I got to the top, my friends are cheering … and I look down and I see … there's a piton in the top and I thought, 'Oh, bugger. You know, just [as we're] cheering and we're celebrating I realize that someone's kind of beat me to it, so that was that point I realized someone else had done it,' he said. Now at the true summit, Everett found a rusted jar with a note inside listing the names of several parties who had summited the peak years before him – the first in June 1966, followed by two more summits several weeks later, one in 1992 and another in 2020. 'I was speechless [when I saw the piton]. I didn't speak for about 30 seconds afterwards. It was such a mission to get it there, but the jar made it better, at least. It was a little time capsule to find, so that soothed my pain.' Among the names scribbled down on two of the expeditions was Hans Fuhrer, a ski instructor and park warden who summited many peaks in the area over the years. 'Given when the highway was built and given when he climbed it, I presume [Fuhrer] was the first person ever to do it unless, you know, someone went up without a jar before him, but I'm guessing he's the first,' said Everett. Well-known Jasper guide Peter Amann had also once stood where Everett was with a summit in September 1992. Everett's top made it the sixth expedition the mountain had seen. Beside the names of several local legends, Everett jotted down his, along with the date and a message: 'Sketchy climb, but feel good for doing it. Well done all for getting here! Thanks to Barney Crump and Tobias White who helped me get here and waited below.' 'I thought that was a really special moment because it's not really something that you ever find on top of mountains. You know, maybe there could be a drop box sometimes in places in Europe, but you know, a glass jar that's been there for over 60 years and also the fact that it had very specifically written down the amount of people that done it,' said Crump. A longstanding dream now accomplished; Everett felt it only right the peak be given an official name. 'No one else has really called it anything. I've seen a million different names online. Some people call it 'Nigel 2' because it's close to Nigel Peak. Some people have said 'Nigel SW3', but there seems to be no official name or nothing deserving of it anyway,' said Everett. In honour of his parents, Dave and Lorraine, Everett says the name 'Mount Dave Lorraine' has already caught on in his circle of friends and coworkers in the Icefields. Now he's submitting a proposal, hoping to make the name official. 'It'd be nice to get it named after my parents, but even just any name I think is good enough. I think it deserves one.' Having grown up climbing back home in Northern England, Everett credits his father for teaching him all the skills he's now put to practice in his own mountaineering and climbing ventures over the years. 'My dad, he's kind of taught me everything I know anyway [about mountaineering], so I think it seems only right to sort of credit him with it. My mom not so much if I'm being honest, but she still raised me up and it'd be a nice sort of memory to them,' he said. Along with a moniker for the standalone mountain, Everett is proposing several significant features be named, including 'the gap' section right before the summit, the creek and several notable rock features along the route. He notes in his proposal that naming these landmarks could also help make any future rescue efforts in the area more efficient. 'It's a good mountain. It's got it all. You've got the pass to get up and then you go in for a bit of bush whacking through the forest, then you've got the river, then the scree slope and then the climb at the end, so it kind of got like these five epic stages. They're all different, but all very cool in their own right,' he said. 'That's the crazy thing is there's thousands of people seeing this mountain every day. It's right off the Icefields Parkway. It's right next to Nigel's Peak … you can see Nigel and Athabasca from it … so there must have been thousands of people seeing it, but just no one getting there, which just kind of blows my mind a bit,' he added. Requesting a geographical feature be named – or the existing one be changed – begins with the submission of a proposal to the Alberta Geographic Naming Program. When this is done for a feature within a national park, the process becomes even more extensive, requiring decisions from the Alberta government, Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) and Parks Canada. Through extensive research, consultation of Indigenous communities and the local population, and verification that the name complies with the Principles of Geographical Names, a decision can take more than one or two years. Often, priority is given to names already commonly used within a community, but a general rule is that no commemorative names will be approved for people still living – a minimum of five years has to elapse from their date of death, according to the Alberta government's Geographical Names Manual . Everett acknowledged that while his name suggestion doesn't comply with some of the naming principles, he will still go ahead and submit the proposal, hoping that, at the least, it will spark a process of giving the mountain an official name – even if it's not after his parents. 'I [will] submit the application anyway and if they say no, you know, even if they give it any name, I'd be quite happy with that to be honest.' 'I was thinking I'll probably get a sheet of paper and get all my chums here to sign it, saying that we use the name here and that'll hopefully add more weight to it, so I might submit it in maybe a week or two,' added Everett. Everett said that, with some exposure, he thinks the peak has the potential to attract many more mountaineers and hikers given its location, surrounding views and interesting final climb. 'It's an awesome view and it's pretty accessible as well, so I think even if people don't get to the summit, if they're more hikers, and they go to the other side of the gap, I still think they'd have an amazing day out,' said Everett. 'There's probably plenty of people trudging up Nigel who haven't even thought to do, hopefully, Mount Dave Lorraine in the future.' The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada. The position covers Îyârhe (Stoney) Nakoda First Nation and Kananaskis Country. Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. 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New York Post
3 days ago
- Health
- New York Post
What is ‘sleeping beauty syndrome'? Extremely rare condition makes people sleep 16 to 20 hours
It's not such a fairy tale. With stress, smartphones, and bad nighttime habits, many of us are struggling to get the recommended six to nine hours of sleep each night. However, a rare condition causes some to doze for nearly an entire day for days on end. 4 A rare condition called 'sleeping beauty syndrome' causes some to doze for nearly an entire day for days on end. Courtesy Everett Collection What is sleeping beauty syndrome? Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS), also known as 'Sleeping beauty syndrome' or 'familial hibernation syndrome,' is a neurological disorder that causes sufferers to sleep for extended periods, as much as 16 to 20 hours a day. An ultra-rare condition, research suggests KLS occurs in one to five people per million and has a higher prevalence among Ashkenazi Jews. To date, only 500 cases have been reported in medical journals. While 70 percent of people with this disorder are male, KLS can affect either sex, with symptoms typically emerging in early adolescence and progressing for an average of 14 years. KLS is a central disorder of hypersomnolence, a category which also includes narcolepsy. Episodes can appear and subside, with most patients experience it for 10 to 20 years. Symptoms of KLS or sleeping beauty syndrome A KLS episode is defined as symptoms that persist for at least two days. Episodes average around 10 days but can last for several weeks. For one patient with KLS, her sleep count reached 70 consecutive days. 4 Episodes average around 10 days but can last for several weeks. Rido – Those with Kleine-Levin sometimes display ferocious hunger, hallucinate and become unprecedentedly aroused during episodes, according to the Kleine-Levin Syndrome Foundation. Experts say the majority of people diagnosed with KLS will experience on average, 20 episodes in their lifetime. Symptoms of KLS include: Extreme drowsiness and inability to stay awake. Increased appetite Weight gain Increased sex drive Hallucinations Behavioral changes, including irritability and disorientation Anxiety or depression. Confusion or amnesia. KLS episodes can come on suddenly, increasing the likelihood of injury if the patient is operating a motor vehicle or machinery — so people with the condition are advice to stay home in a secure environment during episodes. 4 The exact cause of KLS is unknown, although researchers suggest that it may be genetic or the result of an illness or injury that damages the hypothalamus. GoodIdeas – What causes KLS? The exact cause is unknown, although researchers suggest that it may be genetic or the result of an illness or injury that damages the hypothalamus, the part of the brain responsible for regulating sleep. There is speculation that the disorder, which often develops after people become symptomatic for an infectious disease, is an autoimmune reaction in which the body mistakes brain tissue for an invader, according to a 2005 study. KLS can be triggered by: Infection Substance use Head trauma Physical exertion Stress Memory recall during an episode is limited. Patients may be able to eat and use the bathroom, but as a consequence of their extreme exhaustion, they struggle with physical function beyond these basic behaviors. 4 Therapy is often recommended alongside other KLS treatments to help patients manage symptoms of hypersexuality, anxiety, and depression. Chanelle2000/ – 'When it comes to relationships with friends, family, school is a big one: I lose everything when I'm in an episode,' one KLS patient previously shared. After an episode, normal behavior and sleep routines resumes. KLS treatment Treatment for KLS includes medications like lithium, IV steroids, and/or stimulants to reduce episode frequency, length, and severity. Therapy is often recommended alongside these treatments to help patients manage symptoms of hypersexuality, anxiety and depression.
