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Daily Mail
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Myleene Klass, 47, shows off her incredible physique in a skimpy blue bikini as she poses up a storm in sizzling new snaps
She works hard on her gym-honed physique. And Myleene Klass showed off her incredible figure in a skimpy blue bikini as she posed up a storm in sizzling new snaps on Monday. The radio star and musician, 47, posted from a sunny location to her followers as she took part in an advert for Skechers UK. And while showing off her footwear she also displayed her abs and toned legs in a pretty scalloped blue bikini. She accessorised her look with dark shades and a cap and pulled a series of poses to show off her phenomenal figure. The brunette beauty penned in the caption of her post: 'Fetch in Sketch-ers. FIT cap/ trainers @skechers_uk bikini @freemans #brandambassador.' The radio star and musician, 47, posted from a sunny location to her followers as she took part in an advert for Skechers UK It comes after last week Myleene celebrated her MBE honour with a lavish royal-themed party where she was joined by family and celeb pals. The star was honoured for her services to women's health, miscarriage awareness and charity at an investiture ceremony on Wednesday. Myleene shared a clip on Instagram showing the highlights from the afterparty - although the number one star appeared to be her son Apollo, five, who supported her throughout the event. The star couldn't look prouder of her achievement, as she was captured partying it all up with pals, including the likes of Christine Lampard, Nicole and Natalie Appleton. The stunning two-tier cake was made with a crown on top, while royal-themed photo props were spread about the room as Myleene recorded herself having fun. Cherishing her achievement, the TV star wrote a lengthy caption alongside the video: 'It takes a village… I didn't do it alone. Thank you my fam, I love you all so much.' She continued: 'A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.' Greek proverb 'We are Mamas. We do this for our babies so they'll know we are forever watching over, loving and protecting them. She accessorised her look with dark shades and a cap and pulled a series of poses to show off her phenomenal figure She even jumped in the air for one snap She looked in great shape in the pictures She concluded emotionally: 'The change in these Miscarriage and Women's health laws/models of care came too late for me and the majority of my friends and colleagues, but our children will, through our relentless work, hopefully know less heartache.' Myleene looked typically chic in an all-white suit including fitting trousers and blazer - while showing off her new pin proudly. Her little man Apollo, whom she shares with her fiancé Simon Motson, looked cute in a navy suit and tie. After being presented with the medal by King Charles at Windsor Castle on Wednesday, Myleene took to her Instagram to mark her achievement in a very racy way. She stripped down to pose in her lavish clawfoot tub, wearing nothing but a sparkling tiara on her head - in a mirror image of Princess Margaret's iconic bath snap. The younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II was famously photographed by her then-husband Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1962, wearing the dazzling Poltimore tiara while soaking in the tub. Following Wednesday's investiture ceremony, she took to her Instagram to admit she was 'utterly overjoyed and humbled' to receive the honour. The former Hear'Say star was joined by her fiancé Simon Motson, son Apollo, and her two daughters, Ava, 17, and Hero, 13, who she shares with ex-husband Graham Quinn. Myleene has campaigned for paid bereavement leave to be extended to those who experience a miscarriage. Following last Wednesday's investiture ceremony, she took to her Instagram to admit she was 'utterly overjoyed and humbled' to receive the honour The mother-of-three suffered four miscarriages and has spoken openly about the psychological effects of baby loss on women. She is an ambassador for the pregnancy and baby charity Tommy's and fronted the Bafta-nominated documentary Myleene Klass: Miscarriage And Me in 2021, in which she met women around the UK to hear their experiences. Sharing a slew of photos from Windsor Castle, Myleene wrote: 'Having my family there and our rainbow baby boy was extra magical in what has at times been a very dark journey for us all.' While she concluded her post: 'Before this and my (bafta nominated) documentary Myleene Klass: Miscarriage and Me, it did feel like no one really mentioned the dark secret of Miscarriage, the shame, the taboo, now, it's said loudly in the walls of the Palace and around Westminster.
Los Angeles Times
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Cannibals are coming in the postapocalyptic thriller '40 Acres' — and this family is ready to fight
Plymouth Rock landed hard on the forefathers of Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) and centuries later, she's raising her own children to fight back. R.T. Thorne's postapocalyptic thriller '40 Acres' is set some time in the 21st century with humankind at each other's throats. Fourteen years earlier, a pandemic wiped out the animals and now the crops are in blight too. We don't know what's happening in the rest of the world but here in this rural stretch of Canada, hungry cannibals are hunting people in the woods. Hailey, a ramrod military veteran, refuses to be a redneck's lunch. 'Government ain't done nothing but kill, steal and lock up Black folks before they even fell apart,' Hailey says, brushing off a suggestion that she team up with her neighbors or what's left of the Army. The Freemans — Hailey, her partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes) and their blended clan of 20-something Manny (Kataem O'Connor), teen daughters Danis and Raine (Jaeda LeBlanc and Leenah Robinson), and young Cookie (Haile Amare) — are isolationists on a fortified farmstead that's belonged to her family since 1852, when an enslaved ancestor escaped from a Georgia plantation and made it across the Canadian border. For protection, they've got an impressive armory, an electric fence and a steadfast suspicion of anyone who shows up. In the first scene, a band of outsiders trespass on their property and make a big show of being friendly. 'Greetings,' their leader says with a grin. The Freemans don't respond. We just hear a couple whistles and the whoop-whoop-whoop of an ax spinning straight into a stranger's head. It won't surprise you to learn that Hailey prefers to call her kids 'soldiers' and hectors them to obey her rules from 4:30 a.m. until bedtime. In lieu of traditional schooling — those have long since shuttered — she makes them write essays on 'The Proletarian's Pocketbook,' an inspirational book of quotes with contributions from Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and Karl Marx. At some point, one of her three daughters will be lying comatose and Hailey will still be barking commands. 'You can't be laid up like this too much longer,' she insists, and it's a credit to Deadwyler that even in this absurdist moment, we see the fear under her armor. Clutching a rifle as she creeps toward danger, Deadwyler looks equal parts intimidating and scared. Yes, she's a badass but her strength is rooted in pain. This is Thorne's debut feature, and he's so determined to impress that things can feel heavy-handed. He's decorated the Freeman's bunker with faded newspapers screaming about famine and bloodshed — facts they know so well that they surely don't need to use them as wallpaper. His allusions can be as distracting as they are resonant. '40 Acres' is an evocative title but how does it tie into this family's story? The boundary between historical fact and dramatic symbolism is blurry. Given that the film is set and shot on location in Ontario, we spend too much time wondering how much Americana the Canadian-born Thorne and his co-screenwriter Glenn Taylor want us to layer over it. When we hear talk of Union soldiers in the woods, the reference is more confusing than anything. Did the country create a new army and coincidentally give it the same name? Yet, Thorne has made a resolute portrait of a woman who can't break free of generational trauma. The same ancestor who founded this homestead left his own family behind in Georgia; that cold resolve is Hailey's inheritance too. At night, she turns on the shortwave radio to eavesdrop on other starving families without being tempted to help. The family has one outside contact: an on-air acquaintance named Augusta (Elizabeth Saunders), who trades her moonshine for their weed at a nearby depot. A tough biddy herself, she brings out Hailey's deadpan (and unprintable) sense of humor. We're glad the script eventually lets us meet Saunders' Augusta so we can see she's as formidable and endearing as her voice. But the eldest child, Manny, needs more from the world. The lonely young man steps forward as the heart of the story after he spots a girl his age, Dawn (Milcania Diaz-Rojas), swimming in the nearby river. Strong and battle-hardened with a white scar down his back, he's grown up getting mocked for flubbing a kill shot to the heart. But O'Connor has a lovely gentleness about him, even when, in a morbid touch, cinematographer Jeremy Benning has him spy on the beauty through the crosshairs of his gun scope. Manny has no idea how to flirt, and he certainly can't bring a date home when his mother's mantra is, 'Shoot first, don't ask questions.' But his hesitant connection with Diaz-Rojas' Dawn is sweet and credible, given the circumstances. She also turns out to be no pushover herself, yet even she sees the Freemans as misanthropic freaks. Todor Kobakov's gripping score is built of swirling notes and low horns that mix well with the hip-hop needle-drops on Manny's old-school yellow-and-black cassette player. The tension in it prepares us from the get-go that violence is coming. The script is family-centric — honestly, it really only cares about Manny and Hailey — so we never know much about the nameless baddies. (The credits list 13 'drifters' and 20 'cannibals.') But I like how they're written as always trying to come across harmless. You're forever on guard. The tone of '40 Acres' is so grim that we seize onto its brief moments of warmth, like when Greyeyes' kind and grounded paterfamilias is aghast that his daughters have disinterred a packet of fast-food BBQ sauce. 'Colonial diabetes!' he snorts. Greyeyes also gets the movie's two flashiest fight scenes, one involving a crucifixion, another lit only by muzzle fire. But if Manny is the film's heart, his brutal mother is its spine. There's not one false beat in Deadwyler's performance, even when she's squashing joy and making us want to strangle her. This future she's battling is figurative, yet her desperate self-reliance — her inability to trust others — is deeply relatable to anyone struggling to get by without a safety net. She's given up on humanity. Still, there has to be a better way to survive.
Daily Mail
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Myleene Klass, 47, puts on a cheeky display in a tiny red bikini as she showcases her new swimwear range
Myleene Klass put on a cheeky display in a red bikini as she showcased her latest range from her new swimwear range with Freemans in Italy on Instagram. The former Hear'Say singer, 47, flaunted her toned physique as she modelled her red scalloped edged bikini. Her bright coloured two-piece consisted of high-waisted bottom briefs and a halterneck top. As she twirled around in the pool, Myleene's clip saw the bikinis interchange to a black and white polka dot version as she soaked up the sun abroad. To accessorise, Myleene paired her look with a matching bandana tied around her head and a huge pair of statement sunglasses. Alongside her sizzling clip, the brunette beauty penned: 'it's back! Red scalloped edged bikini from my range.' The vacation snaps come after she revealed a surprising new career move earlier this month. Posing in her new uniform, she shared that she is now a trained volunteer with St John. Ambulance in a recent post on Instagram. The former singer had been studying a course to become a first aider after twice saving her daughters from choking. Announcing that she had passed the course, Myleene captioned her post: 'Check out my new office! 'Thank you for your countless messages of love and support. Im so proud to be a part of the @stjohn_ambulance family, serving my community officially and as ambassador. 'I don't think anyone (myself included) realises how much work and study goes into it. 'It's easy to take the guys in green coats for granted thinking they just volunteer for events and sporting fixtures, but honestly, the practical and written exams, the A&E doctors training and testing you, the kit prep alone and the weekly top up reminder classes, whilst alot are also massively reassuring, and all actions are carried out with dignity to the patient as the priority at ALL times. 'I can safely confirm, you and your loved ones are in the best of hands.' To accessorise, Myleene paired her look with a matching bandana tied around her head and a huge pair of statement sunglasses The vacation snaps come after she revealed a surprising new career move on Instagram earlier this month Myleene, who has spoken regularly about women's health issues in the past, opened up last week about 'feeling exhausted' after noticing she's been experiencing the symptoms of perimenopause. Myleene - who admitted she's at the 'right age' for perimenopause - revealed she has been struggling to sleep and experiencing migraines. 'I don't get the hot flushes that my auntie used to talk about,' she said, 'but I do get completely exhausted and don't sleep at night. The migraines are so terrible! 'I've got a supportive partner. The first thing I do is wake up, open my eyes and he puts a coffee in my hand. He's great, we do it together.' Myleene and her boyfriend Simon Motson have been together since 2015 and share her youngest son, five-year-old Apollo. Before splitting with ex-husband Graham Quinn in 2012, they had two daughters, Ava, 17 and Hero, 13.
The Irish Sun
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Myleene Klass stuns in polka dot bikini as she soaks up the sun on holiday in Italy
MYLEENE Klass spots an opportunity to give her followers a treat as she poses in a polka dot bikini on holiday. The radio host, 47, posted snaps from her break in Italy against a background track of The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations. 3 Myleene Klass poses in a polka dot bikini on holiday Credit: Instagram 3 Radio host Myleene posted snaps from her break in Italy Credit: Instagram 3 Her cossie and matching bandana were from her latest Freemans collection Credit: Instagram Her cossie and matching bandana were from her latest collection with Freemans, who she is a brand ambassador for. Earlier this year Myleene revealed what really gets her in the mood during an appearance on Loose Women. Referencing Brooke Shields' autobiography, in which she details her thoughts on sex as a 59-year-old woman, Jane Moore put the same question to her fellow panelists. Myleene, who shares five-year-old daughter Ava with her husband Graham Quinn, revealed what gets her turned on now she's a busy mum. Read more on Myleene Klass The model explained that when it comes to getting in the mood for women, it's a' slow burn'. "I think all these ideas of tequila and setting the mood and music, it's not about those five minutes, it's about the whole day," she said. "It's about the cup of tea, it's about kindness, put a shelf up and things are going to look way more promising for the evening." Myleene went on to say that being proactive about tasks in the home and looking after your partner and family is her idea of "foreplay." Most read in Celebrity "It's not just what goes on in the bedroom, it's actually what goes on in your relationship." And while she acknowledged that society doesn't find this idea as "enticing," she said that putting time and effort into a relationship is the biggest turn on. Myleene Klass recreates iconic I'm A Celebrity bikini moment as she strips to swimwear
Scottish Sun
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Myleene Klass stuns in polka dot bikini as she soaks up the sun on holiday in Italy
Myleene revealed what really gets her in the mood for sex during a Loose Women appearance recently SPOT OF KLASS Myleene Klass stuns in polka dot bikini as she soaks up the sun on holiday in Italy Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) MYLEENE Klass spots an opportunity to give her followers a treat as she poses in a polka dot bikini on holiday. The radio host, 47, posted snaps from her break in Italy against a background track of The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 3 Myleene Klass poses in a polka dot bikini on holiday Credit: Instagram 3 Radio host Myleene posted snaps from her break in Italy Credit: Instagram 3 Her cossie and matching bandana were from her latest Freemans collection Credit: Instagram Her cossie and matching bandana were from her latest collection with Freemans, who she is a brand ambassador for. Earlier this year Myleene revealed what really gets her in the mood during an appearance on Loose Women. Referencing Brooke Shields' autobiography, in which she details her thoughts on sex as a 59-year-old woman, Jane Moore put the same question to her fellow panelists. Myleene, who shares five-year-old daughter Ava with her husband Graham Quinn, revealed what gets her turned on now she's a busy mum. The model explained that when it comes to getting in the mood for women, it's a' slow burn'. "I think all these ideas of tequila and setting the mood and music, it's not about those five minutes, it's about the whole day," she said. "It's about the cup of tea, it's about kindness, put a shelf up and things are going to look way more promising for the evening." Myleene went on to say that being proactive about tasks in the home and looking after your partner and family is her idea of "foreplay." "It's not just what goes on in the bedroom, it's actually what goes on in your relationship." And while she acknowledged that society doesn't find this idea as "enticing," she said that putting time and effort into a relationship is the biggest turn on.
