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Victoria Beckham reunites with Mel C and Emma Bunton at Geri Horner’s 50th
Victoria Beckham wows in a black silk gown as she reunites with Mel C and Emma Bunton at Geri Horner’s 50th and shares sweet video with Baby Spice
Victoria Beckham, Mel C and Emma Bunton reunited at Geri Horner’s 50th birthday celebration on Saturday night.
The fashion designer, 48, shared a sweet moment with Emma as they had a cuddle and listened to their hit song Wannabe before hitting the dance floor with their fellow band members.
Posh Spice looked incredible in a black silk backless gown with a chic floral pattern, while accessorising with dazzling diamond jewellery.
Iconic: Victoria Beckham, Mel C and Emma Bunton reunited at Geri Horner’s 50th birthday celebration on Saturday night
Victoria opted for a bronzed makeup palette which accentuated her natural features, while pulling her brunette locks back into a bun.
Emma, also known as Baby Spice, looked effortlessly chic in a little black dress, while carrying a quirky hear shaped handbag.
Mel C, best known as Sport Spice, showed off her sensational style in a skin-tight black mini dress with mesh panelling.
Close: The fashion designer, 48, shared a sweet moment with Emma as they had a cuddle and listened to their hit song Wannabe
Victoria shared the stunning snaps and videos to her Instagram, captioning it: ‘Love you @EmmaLeeBunton and @MelanieCMusic xx VB’
Victoria shared the stunning snaps and videos to her Instagram, captioning it: ‘Love you @EmmaLeeBunton and @MelanieCMusic xx VB’
In one clip, Victoria and Emma looked emotional as they embraced each other while watching their music video Wannabe on a big screen.
Ginger Spice turned 50 in August and had planned her party for September but postponed it due to the Queen’s death.
Gorgeous: Posh Spice looked incredible in a black silk backless gown with a chic floral pattern, while accessorising with dazzling diamond jewellery
The singer is an ardent royalist whose tribute to Her Majesty was broadcast as part of the Party At The Palace during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June.
On Saturday, Geri was finally able to celebrate in style and was spotted dancing with her Spice Girls bandmates to their hit Say You’ll Be There as she celebrated the big day.
They made their way onto the dance floor and iconically danced to their 1996 song at her lavish Oxfordshire home.
All stars: Geri Horner enjoyed her 50th birthday celebrations with her loved ones at her Oxfordshire home on Saturday night (Clockwise L-R: Geri’s husband Christian Horner, Geri, Emma Bunton, Victoria Beckham, Mel C, Geri’s daughter Bluebell, Rylan Clark)
Sporty Spice Mel C was also at the bash and, while she wasn’t pictured, Mel B was also thought to be in attendance, meaning all five members of the iconic band reunited at the event.
Geri hosted the party with her Formula One racing boss husband Christian Horner, 48, at the home they share together.
The singer was pictured with Christian, her daughter Bluebell, 16, who she shares with director and screenwriter Sacha Gervasi, her bandmates and television presenter Rylan Clark.
Fame game: The Spice Girls were a smash hit in the 90s, achieving huge success worldwide (L-R: Mel C, Emma Bunton, Mel B, Geri and Victoria Beckham pictured at the BRIT Awards in 1997)
Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley leaving Boston Red Sox booth after 2022, his 50th season in MLB
BOSTON — Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley said Monday he will be leaving the Boston Red Sox broadcasts at the end of the season, his 50th in major league baseball.
Eckersley, who was drafted by Cleveland as a California high schooler in 1972, went on to pitch 24 seasons for Cleveland, Boston, the Cubs, Oakland and St. Louis, becoming both a 20-win starter in 1978 and a 50-save reliever in 1992. He won the AL Cy Young and MVP awards in 1992 while playing for the Athletics.
He joined NESN in 2003 and stood out for his outspoken and colorful analysis on the Red Sox broadcasts.
“After 50 years in Major League Baseball, I am excited about this next chapter of my life,” Eckersley said. “I will continue to be an ambassador for the club and a proud member of Red Sox Nation, while transitioning to life after baseball alongside my wife Jennifer, my children and my grandchildren.”
Eckersley, 67, was a six-time All-Star who went 197-171 with a 3.50 ERA in a career in which he pitched 100 complete games as a starter before pioneering the role of the one-inning closer and earning 390 saves.
Barbara Mandrell returns to the Opry for 50th anniversary
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country Music Hall of Famer and Grammy winner Barbara Mandrell retired from music more than two decades ago, but the Grand Ole Opry still feels like home to her.
Mandrell, 73, made a rare public appearance on Saturday night at the Opry to celebrate her 50th anniversary of being an Opry member.
“Here we are at home again,” Mandrell told The Associated Press in an interview backstage at the Opry House before the long-running radio and TV program. “50 years. Not everybody gets that blessing.”
Born in Texas and raised in California, Mandrell was just 23 when she became a member in July of 1972. But she was already a seasoned entertainer by the time she came to Nashville, after her teenage years were spent playing steel guitar and appearing regularly on the California-based country TV show “Town Hall Party.”
Over her decades-long career, the actor, multi-instrumentalist and singer turned millions of fans onto country music in the ‘70s and ’80s, not only through her popular TV show “Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,” but also through hits like “Sleeping Single in a Double Bed,” “If Loving You is Wrong (I Don’t Want to be Right)” and “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool.”
She became the first country artist to earn back-to-back entertainer of the year awards from the Country Music Association, crossing over with R&B covers and bringing glamour and showmanship to the genre. Her performances were a showcase of her musicality, whether she was singing to the top of the rafters, playing pedal steel, the banjo or the saxophone.
“It’s called show business. You need to show them something,” Mandrell said. “Otherwise, they could sit at home and listen to your recordings or listen to you on the radio. You’ve got to give them something that entertains them.”
With her sisters Louise and Irlene, Mandrell used the power of television to bring new ears to country music, as well as gospel music. Her musical guests were a mixture of R&B, pop and country artists.
“So many would say things like, ‘I never listened to country music, but now, boy, I’m watching every Saturday night and I love it,’” Mandrell said.
This Saturday night, Mandrell was still a champion of country music. Before the show began, Mandrell watched Carrie Underwood from side stage as Underwood did her soundcheck of “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool,” stopping to give her a hug and greeting Underwood’s band members.
Underwood said growing up, Mandrell’s voice was always around.
“She has been such an inspiration to me and so many others that stand on the shoulders of great female artists like her,” Underwood told the Opry crowd.
During the Opry show, Mandrell enthusiastically applauded the all-female artist lineup, including CeCe Winans, Linda Davis and Suzy Bogguss, as they performed her hits.
“I already feel on top of the world. I feel the deepest of gratitude and excitement because I am such a huge fan of these ladies,” said Mandrell.
From her seat in the middle of the crowd, Mandrell waved and blew kisses at her fans, who snapped photos of the country star.
Mandrell hasn’t played music or sung — other than in church — since she retired in 1997. Her last concert ever was held at the Opry House and made into TV special called, “Barbara Mandrell and the Do-Rites: The Last Dance.”
Dressed smartly in a hot pink pantsuit and surrounded by 50 vases of roses bought by her fans, Mandrell gave another goodbye from the same Opry stage 25 years later.
“I chose my home to do my final performance on and it was this one,” Mandrell said. “God bless you!” she told fans before she walked off stage into the shadows.
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Kenan Thompson: Ending ‘SNL’ After 50th Season ‘Might Not Be A Bad Idea’
This September will mark Kenan Thompson’s record-setting 20th season on “SNL,” but he’s not sure how much longer that will last.
Not that Thompson wants to leave, but he can see a future where the long-running variety show is no longer on the air ― and it could be sooner than you think.
The 44-year-old comedian recently appeared on Charlamagne The God’s “Hell Of A Week” interview show where he addressed long-standing rumors that “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels might leave the show after its 50th anniversary season in 2024-25.
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Thompson, the longest-running cast member in the show’s history, thinks Michaels’ departure could logically mean the end of the show itself ― and he’s OK with it.
“There could be a lot of validity to that rumor, because 50 is a good number to stop at,” Thompson went on. “That’s an incredible package. He will be, probably, close to 80 years old at that point, and you know, he’s the one who’s had his touch on the whole thing.”
Thompson thinks that Michaels’ departure might give NBC an excuse to “slash the budget” ― and that could affect the quality.
“At that point, you can’t really do the same kind of show,” Thompson said. “So that’s unfair to watch it just really go down kind of in flames for real because of those restrictions … Capping it at 50 might not be a bad idea,” he said.
“[Michaels] is such a legend that he keeps off those corporate wolves, if you will,” Thompson said. “They spend a lot of money on that show every week. It’s an expensive show, but it’s a one-of-a-kind thing.”
Michaels started the “cap it at 50” rumors last December when he told CBS that he’s committed to “SNL” through the 50th anniversary.
“I have a feeling that’d be a really good time to leave,” Michaels said. “But here’s the point: I won’t want the show ever to be bad. I care too deeply about it. It’s been my life’s work. So, I’m gonna do everything I can to see it carry on and carry on well.”
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NYC to mark Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, 50th birthday, MTA unveils special MetroCard
BROOKLYN, New York City (WABC) — New York City is preparing to honor the late rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls and the Notorious B.I.G., who would have turned 50 on May 21.
The MTA, in partnership with Rhino Entertainment, has announced that MetroCard vending machines at four Brooklyn subway stations will be loaded with limited edition cards honoring the Bedford-Stuyvesant native.
Wallace grew up in Central Brooklyn and released two Grammy-nominated studio records during his career, which was tragically cut short at the age of 24 in a still-unsolved murder.
His debut album, Ready to Die, has reached multi-platinum status, while his follow up, Life After Death, is diamond certified.
Biggie is legendary in New York’s rap music industry and is widely considered one of the greatest rappers of all time.
MetroCards featuring a portrait of Notorious B.I.G on the reverse side will be available for purchase starting 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, May 21 on a first come, first serve basis.
Cards will solely be available at the vending machines that accept all forms of payment, including credit, debit and cash at the following stations in Central Brooklyn:
–Lafayette Avenue C
–Clinton-Washington Avenue C
–Clinton-Washington Avenue G
–Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, R, Q
Mayor Eric Adams proclaimed May 21 to be “Christopher ‘The Notorious B.I.G.’ Wallace Day.”
Wallace’s son, CJ Wallace, accepted the honor from Mayor Adams Thursday afternoon.
CJ Wallace was 5 months old when his father was killed.
Several events are planned, including:
Friday:
–Empire State Building will host a lighting ceremony to honor the 50th birthday of the Notorious B.I.G. at 4 p.m.
–2nd Annual B.I.G. Dinner Gala in honor of Notorious B.I.G.’s 50th birthday celebration at Gustavino’s at 8 p.m.
Saturday:
–Christopher Wallace Birthday Block Party May 21 at 226 St James Place in Bed-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, from 1 p.m. until 7 p.m. in front of Christopher Wallace’s childhood home.
June 10:
–Lincoln Center will host an orchestral tribute to The Notorious B.I.G. on June 10, featuring music arranged and conducted by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson.
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Climate change, COVID loom over Alaska’s 50th annual Iditarod Sled Dog Race
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 5 (Reuters) – Forty-nine mushers and their teams of huskies trotted through Alaska’s largest city on Saturday to start the 50th annual running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an event transformed by climate change and commercialism since its humble beginnings.
The starting gate has been returned to downtown Anchorage, a year after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted organizers to launch the 2021 race from a secluded riverside spot north of the city and off limits to the usual crowds of spectators.
Contestants forged through unusually warm and sloppy
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conditions on the first day of the run, with temperatures hovering between freeze and thaw. Wet snow soaked teams and spectators lining the city trail.
Fortunately for the mushers and dog teams more accustomed to crisp, cold weather, the 11-mile (17.7-km) Anchorage portion of
the race is merely ceremonial, with timed competition starting
on Sunday at Willow, about a 75-mile drive north.
The overall trail has been restored to its traditional 1,000-mile (1,600-km) distance from Anchorage to the Bering Sea gold-rush town of Nome after a COVID-forced shortening of the course last year. Still, several pandemic restrictions remain in effect.
Mushers, volunteers and fans gathered for this year’s renewal of Iditarod festivities in Anchorage were instructed to mask up and take other precautions to prevent the spread of the lingering virus.
The pandemic also forced one last-minute switch. Nic Petit, a top musher, had to pull out of the race after testing positive for COVID-19. Four-time champion Jeff King, who had planned to sit out this year’s contest, then stepped in to drive Petit’s dog team to Nome.
King got the call from Petit on Tuesday afternoon. He said Petit is trusting him to manage “a really nice dog team.”
“I think he knows I know what I’m doing,” King said at the downtown Anchorage start area.
Other returning winners are Dallas Seavey, who claimed a record-tying fifth victory last year, and his father, Mitch Seavey, a three-time champion who holds the Iditarod speed record of eight days, 3 hours and 40:13 minutes.
Riley Dyche?s dog team during the ceremonial start of the 50th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S. March 5, 2022. REUTERS/Kerry Tasker
The field also includes Pete Kaiser, who in 2019 became the first Native Yup’ik musher to win the race, 2018 champion Joar Leifseth Ulsom of Norway, and four-time winner Martin Buser.
Those and others should be contenders for this year’s title, said Leifseth Ulsom. “A whole bunch of them are really good teams,” the Norwegian said in the Anchorage starting area.
Seventeen of this year’s mushers are women. The Iditarod is one of the few high-profile sports evens where women and men compete on equal footing.
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
The Iditarod has come a long way in the half century since it began in 1973 as a low-budget, novelty event that drew a field of all-amateur mushers and took the winner 20 days to complete.
Now, top Iditarod contestants are professionals with high-tech gear bearing sponsors’ logos. Teams are tracked by global positioning satellite, and live coverage is beamed worldwide to audiences through internet streaming services. Winners typically reach the finish line in just nine days.
The modern race attracts major corporate backing, though in recent years,animal rights activists who condemn the race as cruel to the dogshave pressured some companies to drop support.
Climate change has wrought some of the greatest changes in the world’s most famous sled-dog race, as it has for much of life in the far north.
Three times, most recently in 2017, unseasonably warm conditions forced the Iditarod to move its day-two restart – following the ceremonial Anchorage launch – much farther north, to Fairbanks.
In 2020, flooding swamped the ultra-thin Bering Sea ice that teams had to skirt near the end of the race. Three racers and their dogs had to be rescued from the coastal site only 25 miles (40 km) from the Nome finish line. Contestants who followed had to be rerouted farther inland to avoid standing water.
The course, though running at full length again this year, has still been altered somewhat, with checkpoints relocated to minimize contact with Native Alaska villages that remain vigilant against renewed coronavirus outbreaks because of scarce healthcare resources.
Organizers say such precautions are fitting for an annual race that honors a famed dog-sled relay run nearly a century ago to deliver diphtheria serum to Nome in 1925.
“Vaccinations and dogs and Iditarod go way back, to the beginning of the race,” said Paige Drobny, a musher from Cantwell, Alaska, who is promoting vaccination on behalf of her sponsor, a Fairbanks healthcare consortium.
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Christina Applegate shares a message on her 50th birthday after MS diagnosis
Applegate celebrated her 50th birthday on Thanksgiving Day with a message for her fans on Twitter. “Yup. I turned 50 today. And I have MS. It’s been a hard one,” she wrote.
“Sending so much love to all of you this day,” Applegate continued. “Many are hurting today, and I am thinking of you. May we find that strength to lift our heads up. Mine currently is on my pillow. But I try.”
Multiple sclerosis affects the central nervous system. It’s considered an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks its own healthy cells. It affects quality of life and can be disabling.
In her announcement earlier this year, the actor known for her roles in “Bad Moms,” “Married … with Children” and “Dead to Me” shared that it’s not been easy living with the disease.
“But I have been so supported by people that I know who also have this condition,” Applegate said. “It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road keeps going.”
There is no cure for multiple sclerosis — known as MS — but many people are able to manage their symptoms and adapt to new lifestyles after diagnosis.
Researchers believe that the disease is the result of both environmental and genetic factors, but the underlying cause is not known.
Woman jailed for throwing killer litter from 50th floor in CBD
SINGAPORE — After an argument with her boyfriend, a woman threw a speaker, a soundbar and a television set from her 50th-floor unit along Shenton Way.
Lluen Saenz Maria Isabel, a 49-year-old Peruvian, was jailed for seven weeks on Tuesday (19 October), after she pleaded guilty to one count of committing a rash act which endangered the safety of others.
In mitigation, her lawyer told the court that her then-boyfriend, now husband, had cheated on her during his trips to Batam. The couple had been living together for about two years in a 50th-floor apartment at V on Shenton, a 54-storey residential tower along Shenton Way
Saenz, a teacher at the Canadian International School, was about to end their relationship last year when the man assaulted her. She retaliated by flinging several objects over the apartment’s balcony railing.
Argument after dinner at Vivocity
On 21 February last year, Saenz’s boyfriend admitted that he had cheated on her. He attempted to patch up with her and agreed to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
Six days later, the couple watched a movie at Vivocity and had dinner at a restaurant, where they shared two bottles of wine. During the dinner, Saenz asked her boyfriend about the lady with whom he had cheated on her with. The man provided her with the information she sought and the pair later took a taxi back to their apartment.
At their apartment, Saenz accused the man of lying. She demanded that he leave the house and told him she would move his things out. They got into a minor scuffle and Saenz then moved the man’s television onto the balcony.
He told her that it was going to rain, but Saenz said she did not care, and threw the television over the balcony railing. The television landed at the carpark of the former Singapore Conference Hall and Trade Union House along Union Street.
The woman then broke a soundbar against the railing on the balcony and flung it off. The soundbar landed on the road. Saenz also threw down the man’s speaker, which also shattered on the road.
Her boyfriend later packed his belongings and left the apartment, which was in a mess.
At around 1am, security staff from the neighbouring building which housed the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, came to the main lobby of V on Shenton and complained that there was a broken television next to their van at the carpark.
A security supervisor from V on Shenton called the police at about 1.34am on 28 February. The security supervisor saw the boyfriend leaving and told him that the police were coming.
On 16 June 2021, Saenz restituted $1,000 to her boyfriend for the objects she threw off the balcony.
Litter posed high degree of danger to human life
Deputy Public Prosecutor Andre Ong sought eight weeks’ jail for Saenz, stating that the items thrown were not small and posed a high degree of danger to human life. Saenz had also thrown the killer litter at 1am on a Friday morning, which posed a danger to pedestrians and cars.
Saenz’s lawyer Anil Singh, said that his client had been an educator for 24 years. She arrived in Singapore in 2010 and began teaching at United World College on a part time basis before becoming fully employed by Canadian International School. She had tendered her resignation earlier this year due to her court case.
Singh added that Saenz’s husband’s conduct had much to be desired during their relationship. The last straw for her had been his infidelity during his Batam trip.
The pair tried to talk things over during and after their Vivocity visit, but Saenz wanted to call off the relationship, and told him to leave. The husband lost his temper when Saenz sought to collect his belongings for him and punched her, prompting her to throw his things over the balcony railing.
Singh added that Saenz had paid a heavy price, as it is unlikely that she could teach again due to her criminal history. However the relationship between the couple has improved since they married, and the man is now a devoted husband, according to his wife.
As Saenz realised she will be repatriated, she and her husband will be leaving Singapore.
Singh asked for a high fine, or a jail term of three to four weeks.
For committing a rash act which endangers the safety of others, Saenz could have been jailed up to six months, or fined up to $2,500, or both.
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