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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Nova's Lauren Phillips and her aviation millionaire fiancé Paul O'Brien jet into Sydney together in rare public sighting
Lauren Phillips has been engaged two years but keeps her romance very private. The Nova radio host and her fiancé Paul O'Brien made a rare public appearance together on Sunday however as they arrived at Sydney Airport. The 41-year-old dressed down as she made her way across the terminal with her aviation businessman partner. Lauren opted for a black suede jacket over white shirt and added a pair of cream trousers, as well as matching sneakers. She appeared to have on minimal makeup with her brunette locks down and straightened. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Paul meanwhile kept things comfortable in a pair of blue jeans and a white hoodie, as well as a brown boots. He wheeled along a white suitcase and black sports bag as he left the airport to grab a ride. The couple, who are based in Melbourne, largely avoided being photographed together but headed off in the same vehicle. Last year, Lauren has revealed she has 'gone off' Paul after he decided to do some home decorating while she was away. Lauren said on her Nova 100 Jase & Lauren Show that while she was on a recent work trip to Fiji her entrepreneur partner took his chance to remove a couch he 'hated' and replace it with another model. 'He has this hatred for this beautiful sofa I bought for our new home, Lauren explained to co-stars Jase Hawkins and Clint Stanaway. 'Upstairs, beautiful sofa, white linen, stunning, in the living room. I love it,' she gushed. 'It's linen so you near melt into it.' Lauren said Paul did not like the couch and thought that it belonged in a teenager's bedroom. So when Lauren jetted off, Paul seized his chance. 'He's gone all Darren Palmer on you,' Jase exclaimed as Lauren replied: "He's gone all Shayna Blaze on me. It (the new couch) looks like it belongs in a dentist's reception area.' After pulling up a photo of what he assumed was a similar couch, Jase said it reminded him of the iconic couch on which contestants faced elimination on the Channel 10 reality series Big Brother. 'Is it a big corner one like that? You know what it looks like, the Big Brother couch! You know when Gretel calls them all!' he exclaimed. Lauren added that their other co-host Clint had the exact same opinion when he visited her house the night before. 'Stop, stop, stop,' Lauren exclaimed. 'Because last night Clint came over, And what was the first thing that came out of your mouth?' 'This is the Big Brother couch,' Clint replied. I said the same thing!' Jase punctuated the story by uttering an iconic line from the reality series. 'It's time to go, Paul,' he said. Phillips announced her engagement to multi-millionaire partner live on-air in 2023. She shared the exciting news with her co-host, and spoke about the surprise proposal in Mykonos. O'Brien runs high-end aviation charter group AVMIN and has several celebrity clients, including Matt Damon, his wife Luciana Barroso, Chris Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky. 'We went to Europe for the holidays. We had a few days in Rome just the two of us and I thought if he was going to propose, it would've been the two of us,' she began. 'Then we went to Mykonos and met up with all of our friends and turns out I was the only person who didn't know about it. He proposed in front of all our friends. I had no idea and then next minute he was down on one knee.' The brunette beauty said the public proposal was such a surreal experience that at first she thought Paul was teasing her. 'I think I thought he was joking. It was an out of body experience. I don't think I even looked at the ring. I just hugged him and cried and then we stood up and we all celebrated.' She could not contain her joy when discussing the ultra-romantic proposal. 'Everyone said, "you didn't say yes," and I'm like "of course it is a yes!" We then called my family who were at home at the time. He asked my dad. He is a gentleman,' she added. The notoriously private couple have been dating since early 2020 and lived together in Byron Bay. Paul previously dated former Sunrise host Samantha Armytage from 2018 - 2019. Lauren started dating Paul while she was living in Melbourne at the start of the Covid pandemic in early 2020.
CTV News
5 days ago
- General
- CTV News
‘I was trapped': Nearly 100 people needed to be rescued from Toronto elevators during heat wave
Tenants in a North Toronto apartment tower have been without one elevator for months, and then lost the other one in the middle of a record heat wave. Tenants in a North Toronto apartment tower have been without one elevator for months, and then lost the other one in the middle of a record heat wave. CTV's Jon Woodward reports. Nearly 100 people needed rescuing from Toronto elevators that broke down or got stuck during the city's recent record-breaking heat wave, according to figures provided to CTV News by Toronto Fire Services. The rising temperatures, humidity, and sometimes power outages were all factors in the 96 rescues in three days – more than triple the usual call volume – as critics also wonder if weaknesses in provincial elevator regulations played a role. 'In the heat wave, you have moisture. These are mechanical units. They're often very safe, but sometimes they stop in the heat, and we respond,' said Toronto Fire Services Division Command Paul O'Brien in an interview. Residents of a north Toronto building at 45 Driftwood Ave. told CTV News they believe they're responsible for a disproportionate number of those responses. One of the two elevators in the 14-storey building hasn't worked for about five months due to a fire. The other went down a few days ago, tenants said. 45 Driftwood Ave. elevator The elevators at 45 Driftwood Ave. is seen in this undated photo. 'During the heat wave three days ago, I was trapped in the elevator. I was there for 32 minutes before the fire department came to take me down,' said Ola Adekolu, who lives on the seventh floor. She needs the elevator as her knees are so arthritic. 'We were sweating like crazy, four of us in the elevator,' she said. Another tenant, Marcia Walker, said when she uses the elevator, she is wary, wondering if she'll have to jump out at any time. 'I was lucky that it's only one time that I've been stuck in the elevator, but there are other times that it seems like the elevator wanted to get me stuck, and so what I did is I go like this,' she said, gesturing as if she was pulling the door open. 'I push the door open, and I run,' she said. Element Elevators, the company responsible for elevator maintenance at the building on Driftwood, told CTV News that the elevator has likely been on the fritz because of an unusual control system that was designed in Ontario but whose designers have since passed away. 'They are few and far between. Limited tech support and no documentation whatsoever to guide us,' said Bogdan Rus, the company's vice president of operations. 'It's a tricky situation,' he said. As for the other elevator, it was damaged in the fire, and he's waiting for the owners, Terrace Wood Apartments, to work through insurance complications related to the fire. An entirely new elevator system can cost between $200,000 and $300,000, he said. Rus said he was able to fix one elevator a few hours after CTV News visited on Friday. He shared some videos of the control room and the functioning system. Terrace Woods Apartments does wish to fix the other elevator but is hamstrung to some extent as the fire that damaged the elevator began in the unit of a tenant who didn't have insurance, said Ravi Sivalingam, the owner's representative. 'We are genuinely empathetic to the situation, and we don't want to frustrate our tenants, but our hands are tied as to what the elevator company can do to get the parts to restore the second elevator,' he said. The area's MPP, Tom Rakocevic, said he believes this situation is indicative of a failure of a provincial inspection regime that was called out in a provincial auditor-general's report in 2018. MPP Tom Rakocevic MPP Tom Rakocevic speaks with a woman at an apartment building in North York. (Jon Woodward) 'It's been seven years since, and it's happening not just here but across the city,' Rakocevic said. Ontario's elevator watchdog, the Technical Standards and Safety Authority, said owners of residential elevators are required to report outages that last more than 48 hours. Those figures show an increase from 28 a month in June 2022- May 2023 to 29 a month in 2023-2024 and 34 a month in 2024-2025. 'As reporting requirements are only a few years old, it's not clear if there are more outages or the reporting has improved. Also, please note that these numbers do not account for any increases in the total number of residential elevators installed in the province,' wrote TSSA spokesperson Alexandra Campbell. O'Brien said elevators are generally safe, and if you are stuck in one, stay calm and don't try to escape, which can lead to a much more dangerous situation, he said. 'Do not try and self-rescue,' he said. 'There's usually a bell or a phone system, and they're usually monitored by a security officer on scene. Just remain calm. If you're feeling a little hot in there, sit down, we will get to you,' he said.
Irish Times
22-06-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
GAA live updates: Down play Galway in preliminary quarter-final
Fixtures: All-Ireland football preliminary quarter-finals Down v Galway, Páirc Esler, Newry, 1.45pm (GAA+) Donegal v Louth, Ballybofey, 4pm (GAA+) Tailteann Cup semi-finals Wicklow v Limerick, Croke Park, 2pm (RTÉ) Kildare v Fermanagh, Croke Park, 4pm (RTÉ) All-Ireland MFC semi-finals Tyrone v Roscommon, Breffni Park, 1.30pm (TG4) Kerry v Mayo, Cusack Park, Ennis, 3.30pm (TG4) 5 minutes ago Yesterday's preliminary quarter-finals both went to form, with Dublin and Kerry into the next round. One of the underdogs today, Down, could banana skin for a Galway side who qualified from their group in third. Paul O'Brien explains the strengths and weaknesses of this Down side, as they eye up a big shock. [ Tactical analysis: Down will need to share scoring burden around more to knock out Galway ] 6 minutes ago Hello and welcome to live coverage of today's GAA action. We'll be here throughout the afternoon to give updates on the final two preliminary quarter-finals of the All-Ireland football championship, the Tailteann Cup semi-finals, and the All-Ireland minor semi-finals too.
The Independent
27-05-2025
- General
- The Independent
Liverpool crash witness recalls car missing him by inches: ‘Panic, screaming, commotion'
Witnesses to the Liverpool FC parade car crash recalled the terrifying moment the vehicle missed them by just inches, as 'panic, screaming, and commotion' set in amongst crowds gathered in the city centre on Monday (26 May). Paul O'Brien, from County Meath in Ireland, said he saw the vehicle driving through the crowd 'at quite a considerable speed'. He told The Independent that fans were 'heroic' as they jumped onto the vehicle to slow it down, with others pushing Mr O'Brien and his family aside as they were in the car's path. Four children were among the 27 people rushed to hospital following the crash, while 20 others were treated at the scene for minor injuries.
New York Times
27-05-2025
- General
- New York Times
How a Day of Soccer Celebrations Turned to Chaos in Liverpool
The mood in Liverpool had been jubilant. Paul O'Brien and his family had flown in from Ireland to celebrate their soccer team's Premier League title. 'Everyone's singing all day, everyone having a good time, everyone talking to one another,' Mr. O'Brien recalled. 'And then…' Standing along Water Street in the heart of Liverpool on Monday, Mr. O'Brien, his son and his parents suddenly found themselves being shoved, hard, by a surging crowd. Out of nowhere, a dark-color car was barreling down a street jammed with pedestrians. Had it not been for the people pushing them out of the way, Mr. O'Brien said on Tuesday, they might have been in the car's path. 'We didn't realize until we were pushed,' Mr. O'Brien said. 'And then we actually realized, 'Oh, something went on here.' There were people lying on the ground. But the people of Liverpool were amazing. Those people were very brave to push kids and people out of the way.' In an instant, the joyful day had turned dark. At around 6 p.m. on Monday, police said, a 53-year-old British man plowed his vehicle into the crowd, injuring almost 50 people, including 27 who were sent to one of several hospitals in the area. Two people, including a child, were seriously injured. A fire department spokesman said that four people had to be pulled from underneath the car. The impact of the vehicle slamming into the sea of pedestrians quickly rippled through this proudly working class city on England's northwestern coast. The car swerved into a large crowd on Water Street. LiveRpool The car stopped here after hitting dozens of people. Direction of soccer parade U.K. The car swerved into a large crowd on Water Street. The car stopped here after hitting dozens of people. LiveRpool Direction of soccer parade U.K. Source: Satellite image by Google Earth By Josh Holder Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
