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Daily Mirror
01-07-2025
- Daily Mirror
Horror accident leaves Brit DJ, 24, in coma after landing 'amazing' job
EXCLUSIVE: The young DJ had landed the "amazing" opportunity of supporting the likes of Tom Zanetti at a club in the Greek holiday hotspot but is now in a coma after the horrific accident A promising DJ has been left in a coma after a tragic quad bike accident in Zante. Kai Roberts, from Pembrokeshire, Wales, was spending the summer season in the Greek party hotspot, supporting the likes of Tom Zanetti. But at the weekend, disaster struck. On Sunday (June 29), the quad bike he was riding with a friend slammed into a wall. His friend escaped with minor injuries but when Kai was rushed to hospital, doctors found a bleed on the brain and he was placed in an induced coma. His devastated girlfriend, Kya Gillane-Heywood, who had been by his side in Greece, has now spoken of her shock. Speaking to the Mirror from the holiday hotspot, she told us: 'It is horrible. It is weird because we are all still in shock so it doesn't feel real but at the same time it is just crazy because it is so real if that makes any sense? I don't know how to describe it.' Kai works full-time at a dairy factory back home in Pembrokeshire, Wales, and DJs most weekends. He recently had an 'amazing opportunity' to take a DJ residence at Ikon club in Zante for the summer where has been supporting acts like Zanetti. Explaining what happened, Kya said: 'It was Sunday and it happened around 5pm. They were out on the quads and obviously then they had the accident. 'One of the girls is out here with me, she found out and I didn't have my phone with me at the time. She came and found me and told me so I rang the other boy he was with to see what was going on. 'At that point they didn't think it was as serious. It turned out when he got to the medical centre, they transferred him straight to the hospital and they did a CT scan and he had a bleed on the brain.' Kai, who has been there since June 1 and was due to return home on July 1, was then placed in an induced coma so he could be flown to mainland Greece. He is now in intensive care with a team of neurosurgeons. The last update Kya heard was that Kai remained in a coma and had not gotten any better or worse. But with no improvements being made to his condition, his family members, some of whom have flown to Greece to be by his side, are anxiously waiting for more positive news. His girlfriend has started a fundraiser, which has already raised over £5,000, and she told us why funds were vital. She said: 'Kai has a lot of friends everywhere because he is an amazing person and everyone loves him. 'We are not sure if the insurance will cover him and that is not what we have been sorting at the minute so the cost to his family coming out to be with him. 'Potentially medical costs because when he does recover, which hopefully he will, he will not be able to work. So it will support him and his family.' A station manager at Pure West Radio, where Kai hosts a house music show, has also spoken about the accident. Toby Ellis said: 'It's been an incredibly difficult 24 hours for all of us at Pure West Radio as we come to terms with the news about one of the PWR Dance Family DJs, Kai Roberts, who has suffered a serious head injury following a quad bike accident in Zante yesterday.' And speaking about a fundraising event at different clubs on Saturday July 26, he added: 'This is the first time all of these nightclubs have been on the same bill together.
The Sun
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Towie star sparks romance rumours with Celebs Go Dating hunk as they cosy up for snap
A TOWIE stunner has sparked rumours of a romance with a former Celebs Go Dating star after they shared a very cosy snap. Fans have been left convinced that the two reality stars are dating and were quick to insist they make a great couple. 3 3 3 DJ Tom Zanetti took to Instagram to share a photo of him and ex- Towie star Yazmin Oukhellou hugging as he kissed her on the cheek. Tom captioned the upload: 'Always the best time with @yazminoukhellou her banter is unreal, she is just too quick with it haha. 'Such a strong girl, who's been through so much but u would never even know, she is always smiling.' His followers rushed to comment on the photo and many commented that Tom and Yazmin make a great couple. One wrote: 'I thought this was a couple reveal… you make a hot couple.' Another said: 'Lucky man, lucky girl.' And Yaz further fuelled rumours by adding: 'Love you loads.' Yazmin made her Towie debut in 2017 and her relationship with James Lock played out on the show. The former couple had a very on/off relationship, with them first splitting up in 2019 after James was accused of partying with a group of women in a room at a hotel in Turkey. Although they rekindled, the duo eventually called time on their relationship in 2021 after a series of blazing rows in Dubai. Yaz - who quit Towie for good in 2023 - suffered heartbreak in 2022 when her boyfriend Ja ke McLean was tragically killed in a car accident in Turkey, which also left her with horrifying injuries. Jake was understood to have been driving in Bodrum when he lost control of the car. Yaz later told The Sun she was forced to snap her own arm to escape the wreckage. She said: 'I didn't want to admit to myself that he could be dead. 'So I thought, 'Right, I can either lay still and bleed to death, or snap my own arm to try to save us — I had no choice. 'So I somehow snapped my arm through pure adrenaline and panic. I climbed out of the car, and I was kind of holding my arm together with my left hand.'
Forbes
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Rock Band' With Your Hands: VR Game ‘Beatable' Looks Incredible
Everyone's drummed with their hands, so it's frankly mind-boggling that it's taken until 2025 for a company to adapt this simple human urge into a mixed-reality experience. XR Games has created Beatable to finally gamify the pastime, and it looks like an incredibly affordable must-buy experience on Meta Quest. Beatable, which enters early access on the Meta Horizon Store today, only costs $9.99 and lets you play music using your hands on a table. There's no danger of smashing your Meta Quest controllers, running through over half a dozen plastic Rock Band drum sets (guilty!), or missing an input on an elaborately designed virtual rig — this is as tactile as they come. Really, it might be the most intuitive physical game ever made for VR headsets. All you need is an appropriately raised flat surface (e.g. tea tray, footstool, very docile and level-spined dog) for tapping, clapping, and finger snapping. It hopes to make the genre more of a real-world, tactile experience, and really, it needs to be seen to be believed — a record-setting performance by XR creative director Chuan Liu, filmed without the bells and whistles of post-production, shows how the mechanics work, and just how scalable the game could be for veteran rhythm-action players. Beatable is pushing itself as the prime way to turn your real-life space into a studio — and part of the game. While you're fully in control with your hands to make beats and gestures to hit notes, XR Games has also built in calibration tools to keep it as accurate as possible. If you want to remove yourself from your surroundings, that's fine too, as you can ditch the mixed-reality settings. XR's Beatable soundtrack has launched with songs from artists local to the developer — including multi-platinum British DJ Tom Zanetti, bhangra group RDB, and Gamini Khurara — plus tunes from its previous, delightfully fun release Zombieland: Headshot Fever. It aims to curate an audio experience that doesn't rely on a load of stock rhythm-game songs at you, much like vanilla Beat Saber. It sounds like XR is excited for more musical expansions, and if Beatable proves to be a hit, the best thing it could do is offer deep support for musicians and creators to add their own tracks, and even adapt others in the public domain, much like the superb Trombone Champ. All strictly legal, of course — but opening the floodgates for more content is always critical to long-term success. If you want to become an early adopter (I'm picking it up for the weekend), XR Games offers a Discord for those who want to give feedback or swap scores. It's early access right now, but the simplicity of the idea could send Beatable to the moon. Let's hope this one takes off.
