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Daily Mail
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Molly-Mae Hague blasted by fans for 'always moaning' as she says 'I've not done one fun thing all summer' despite multiple luxury holidays
Fans have blasted Molly-Mae Hague for 'always moaning' as she told fans she's 'not done one fun thing all summer' despite jetting off to multiple destinations. The former Love Island star and business owner, 26, made the admission in her latest YouTube vlog which landed this week. Molly said in the life update: 'I said to a friend the other day, that I'm going to make it to the end of summer having not done one fun thing.' She then spoke to her sister and said: 'Zoe, I haven't socialised once. I'm going to get to the end of this summer having not done one social fun thing. 'I haven't a life. That's not good is it. Summer will end and I've not done one fun social thing.' It left some fans open-mouthed as they called out how she failed to acknowledge the three holidays she's already been on this year. Some comments read: 'She's a millionaire, she can literally wake up tomorrow and do whatever the hell she wants', 'Wimbledon, lunches, Spain, Dubai, France, Centre Parcs... let's normalise that', 'This was so jarring because she can casually spend 6k in Dior on an outfit to log to Wimbledon then complains she has no time for herself', 'Why does she always want us to feel sorry for her?' The mum-of-one - in this year alone - has been on no expense-spared trips to Dubai, Budapest and even Disneyland in 2025. Back in March she and Tommy Fury took baby Bambi on a family holiday to the United Arab Emirates, marking a reunion holiday for the clan. Just a month later Tommy had treated Molly to a European trip as the pair enjoyed downtime in Budapest. During their break, they stayed at The Pullman, a five-star hotel where prices start from at least £500 per night. Meanwhile, in May the dotting parents took Bambi to Disneyland Paris where they enjoyed a lavish stay at the park's resort. It comes after her candid complaints about a recent £86,000 motorhome holiday her family went on - after Tommy said their daughter Bambi shouldn't be spoilt with five star trips. The family were travelling on a swanky Elddis Avalon 255 motorhome. Yet Molly-Mae revealed the trip had been struck with delays, leaving Bambi 'overtired and overstimulated'. She explained: 'Tommy has bought a motorhome and we spent our first weekend in the motorhome this weekend. Obviously, being us, we went in feet first and decided to go to the Isle of Man. 'Tommy's family were spending the weekend in the Isle of Man. I was feeling spontaneous so we literally booked the ferry to the Isle of Man an hour before we needed to leave. 'We'd never used the motorhome before, we needed to pack it up, sort Bambi, I just had this wave of 'you only live once, have a bit of fun. 'Bambi doesn't need to be so perfectly routine every day, she's not a newborn anymore. 'I've got so stuck in my ways with the fact that her routine is her routine and I don't really steer away from it. 'I'm not gonna feel bad for that because that is what works for me and that is what works for Bambi and Tommy, so that's fine.' She then added of when things started to go wrong: 'So anyway, booked the ferry, packed the motorhome up and nearly didn't make the ferry but that's another story and then there was a two hour delay. 'This ferry, which was already gonna get us in at 11:30pm, which was already severely triggering me because Bambi goes to bed at 7pm, was not fine. It was giving me a prime example as to why the routine works for us. 'It was one of those moments where strangers come up to you and are like 'can I help? Is there anything I can do?' 'She was screaming that much for four hours straight. The boat basically had a malfunction and it wouldn't move for like two hours so we had a huge delay. 'She was so, so, so overtired and overstimulated - Bambi is so routine, she is the opposite of flexible.' And when they arrived things continued to go downhill, as she said: 'We managed to get to the Isle of Man at 1:30am in the morning. 'We didn't know where we were, what we were doing, we were going to a different campsite to Tommy's family. It was just a lot. 'We had to make our bed out of this sofa, I was like 'I'm really out of my depth, I'm struggling. The next day, Bambi was so tired, she was just screaming, literally screaming, so, so unhappy. 'Me and Tommy were looking at each other like 'what were we thinking?. I was having a breakdown.' She went on in the vlog: 'Bear in mind this motorhome of Tommy's is his pride and joy, he's obsessed with it…I kid you not, the next day he was like 'I'm selling it, the minute we get home I'm putting it up for sale, I hate this motorhome.' 'It wasn't even the motorhome's fault. For our first time, stupid move.' They even considered getting an early ferry home but once they met up with Tyson Fury and his wife Paris, things improved. She said: 'We were actually going to get on a ferry that day to come home because we were so out of our depth, we couldn't do it. 'But then, when we met up with them, we were like 'no, we're gonna stick it out, we can do this.'
Times
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Lonely in London? Don't believe it: just ask my baking club
I 'm looking at a blackberry focaccia, Chelsea buns and a tahini Basque burnt cheesecake. Which will I go for first? I need to pace myself, because there's also the sweet potato bebinca, a Goan dessert with whipped Chantilly cream, that I've got my eye on. Where am I? One of the artisanal, Instagram-friendly bakeries that are springing up all over the capital? Far from it: I'm in the back room of a self-described boozer in Camberwell, south London, for the latest Band of Bakers meeting. Going strong since 2012, Band of Bakers has become one of the many small but perfectly-formed groups that keeps Londoners attached to their local communities, even in a city with a reputation for being unfriendly, anonymous and cold. I joined in 2021, desperate for some in-person socialising after the restrictions of the pandemic. Having seen other friends move out of the capital or lose their free time to the demands of parenting, I hoped to impress with a whisky-glazed gingerbread. I immediately clicked with fellow bakers who were equally sick of solo banana bread-making and bonded with others who had seen sourdough starters go south.
BBC News
30-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
Warwickshire's Country Club Socials' numbers on the rise
Daisy Fossett had found making friends in a rural community was not easy and she often felt isolated. So, the 25-year-old from Shipston, did something about it and set up the Country Club Socials with the aim of meeting other young people in her area with similar experiences."I had moved back home after uni and started to work in the family business, which is on a farm, but I realised my usual friends weren't around anymore - I thought, 'What am I going to do on a Saturday night?'," Ms Fossett events take place once a month at the Old Farm House, in Idlicote in Warwickshire, where anyone aged 18 to 38 can gather to socialise. She said although the young farmers groups was an option she felt like it was "only a big community if you're 16 to 24 and I fell out of that age bracket.""I didn't want to go to [young farmers'] anymore and be around mainly 16-year-olds, but equally the local pub wasn't much of an option, either because you probably wouldn't meet anyone you're own age or anyone new." she explained. 'Form real friendships' Ms Fossett, is being helped by boyfriend Ryan McGinley, who said the increase in numbers at each events shows the club is serving a need."This is open to everyone, whether you're a plumber, a car dealer or an estate agent or farmer," he said."There's a real need to do this, give people a social life and a place to form new real friendships."A lot of young people have a fear of missing out and think, 'Oh God, am I doing enough with my life?', which doesn't help if you're feeling isolated."Ms Fossett agreed and said the mid-20s age was a "weird" time."In you early 20s, you're likely at university or have moved out of the city and are partying," she said."On the other end, late 20s to early 30s, you're thinking about marriage and kids."But mid-20s we're in such a weird time, especially if you've moved away for work I don't know how you would meet people out your own age." Follow BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
Telegraph
28-06-2025
- General
- Telegraph
Marriage Diaries: I'm worried my wife's newly divorced friend is leading her astray
'I'm just going out with Janet for a few drinks.' It's a sentence I'm hearing a lot from my wife, recently. The Janet in question is her recently divorced best mate, whose split from her husband has swiftly been followed by a period of sustained socialising in which my wife has become her wing-woman. I've always really liked Janet. She's extremely warm and, well, lots of fun. And the fact that she's my wife's oldest friend means I'm not at all surprised that she wants to hang out with her and vice versa. Janet has decided to turn the negative of her divorce into a big positive and embrace the sudden lack of someone waiting for her at home by going out to meet whoever might be waiting for her elsewhere. Don't let that paint the wrong kind of picture, either, it's not like Janet's on some horny, hell-raising bender, she has her kids every other week and with her husband moving out of the house they shared, she's just making the most of the opportunity and lack of responsibility on her free weekends. However, she has stolen my wife, and we do have school-age kids, which leads to plenty of weekend responsibilities, and some of the escapades that Janet gets her involved in are starting to impact my life. Most of these escapades can usually be prefixed with the word ' boozy '. From brunches to lunches, even a picnic in the park, a lot has recently turned 'boozy', and I wouldn't be surprised if my wife called me next week to tell me that the museum visit they have planned has turned a bit 'boozy'. Last weekend, after a Friday night out with Janet, she was still too hungover the next day to go to a birthday party on Saturday afternoon, leaving me to go it alone with a gaggle of primary school parents, only 32 per cent of whom we like. Usually, we would look out for one another at such events, knowing full well who the 68 per cent are and realising that if one of us is engaged in conversation with one of them for more than five minutes that we'll need rescuing. There have been three separate instances like this since Janet, not that I'm keeping count. It doesn't always involve alcohol. Sometimes it's just that she has plans with Janet at the weekend that trump our plans because Janet 'needs her right now,' and I'm not sure what the expiration date on 'right now' is for recently divorced best friends. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that my wife is enjoying the opportunity to let her hair down after the last few years with me, where we had settled into an, admittedly, slightly less exciting daily routine that involves work, dinner and an evening in front of The Traitors. So, maybe every marriage needs a Janet, at some point, to shake things up. Although there's now talk of a girls' holiday, which is not happening, given the perilous state of our finances at the moment and the fact that we can't even afford a family holiday ourselves. So, I'm frantically searching my database of eligible fellas in the hope that I can set Janet up with one of them and things might start to calm down a bit. Unfortunately, most of my mates are now either married or golfers, and I know Janet well enough to know she's allergic to golfers. However, there is a very good friend of mine who has been a confirmed bachelor for years, and he could be the Janet antidote that I have been searching for. They'd be perfect for one another. Janet would get a new partner in crime. I'd get my wife back, everyone wins. White Lotus instead.
New York Times
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Is the Local Weed Store the New Place to Hang Out?
A cannabis dispensary might seem like an unlikely place to play mahjong, the Chinese tile game typically associated with older Asian and Jewish adults, but that's where Leah Flacco showed up on a recent Wednesday evening in Manhattan. The game has grown in popularity with younger generations, so at a table inside Alta Dispensary in NoLIta, Ms. Flacco, 36, shuffled and matched groups of tiles among friends and strangers. The event was one of a growing number taking place at New York's cannabis dispensaries, where retailers have been making space for people to socialize. 'We want more dispensaries to do these sorts of things,' Ms. Flacco, who works in financial technology, said. 'It's hard to make friends in this city.' From intimate classes to block parties, hosting events has given dispensaries in New York a way around rules limiting their ability to market their businesses. As many Americans choose to drink less alcohol and seek connection offline, the activities allow the sellers to offer places where people can gather. Dispensary owners also hope that some of the visitors will become customers and that the events will help their businesses gain acceptance among neighbors who might still hold negative views of cannabis. Meredith Nydam, 37, said she had invited her friends, including Ms. Flacco, to mahjong night because she wanted to do something other than a happy hour. 'I don't need to go to a bar,' Ms. Nydam said. 'I can come here.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
