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LOVE Island’s Scott Thomas emotionally announced his villa exit aired tonight, sending his co-stars into tears.
During Sunday night’s All Stars, Scott, 36, revealed he was leaving the show after struggling to form a genuine connection with Tina Stinnes, 29, and previously-dumped India Reynolds, 34.
His departure followed a tense argument with Elma Pazar and Tina, after which he decided the experience “wasn’t for him”.
Scott first broke the news to Luca Bish at the fire pit, telling him, “I just wanted to let you know first.
“I can’t force connections, and I feel like I’ve come here and done everything I wanted to do. I just have to be true to myself.”
Gathering the rest of the islanders, he made an emotional farewell speech, saying, “I don’t want this to be sad, guys, because I’ve had the best time ever, but I’ve made the decision to leave.
“I’ve had the best time ever. Every single one of you is amazing.”
The announcement left several islanders teary-eyed, with emotions running high as Scott packed his bags.
Having first appeared on series two of Love Island, Scott had been coupled up with Tina, 29.
However, after doubts crept in about their relationship, he ultimately decided to call it off.
His decision to cool things off led to a fiery clash with Elma, who told him he should “leave the villa” and “go” since “nothing was here for him”.
Padraic Joyce stays grounded as Galway hammer Mayo in huge league victory
PÁDRAIC JOYCE refused to get carried away after his Galway side thumped arch rivals Mayo.
The Tribesmen outclassed their Connacht foes at MacHale Park to cement their place at the top of Division 1.
It was Galway’s biggest win over Mayo since 1983 as forwards Shane Walsh and Cillian Ó Curraoin shot 17 points between them.
Eight of those were two-pointers from outside the new 40-metre arc.
Mayo had no answer to Galway’s wind-assisted shooting masterclass in the second half, with Kevin McStay’s team surrendering their half-time lead and crashing to a demoralising defeat.
Joyce said: “I’m happy with the performance and that led to the victory so, overall, I’m very happy.
“We did OK in the first half and we felt that we controlled a lot of the play.
“But we gave Mayo six or seven turnovers that led to scores. We’re not going to get carried away.
“It was February 2 today and there’s a long way to go.
“But it’s nice to have four points out of four. Over the years we probably would have been seen as a team that’s nice to play against.
“But we’re trying to bring some physicality on to the pitch.
“We have a lot of men over 6ft and they got stuck in today, which is pleasing.”
A crowd of 12,291 turned up at MacHale Park and while there was very little between the teams in the first half, it was a different story in the second period.
Galway played the game on their terms while McStay’s side struggled to get to grips with their opponents.
Jack Coyne, Jack Carney, Jordan Flynn, Aidan O’Shea and Tommy Conroy were again conspicuous by their absence.
McStay conceded: “There’s no getting away from the fact that we were well off Galway. It was their day.”
Mayo won the corresponding fixture last year by a commanding 2-12 to 0-10 margin at Pearse Stadium.
But yesterday’s defeat was a sobering one.
McStay added: “We had a good feeling this time last year but we have to suck it up and take it on the chin. They were the better team.
“I’m going to take some comfort from the fact that the season is still well ahead of us.”
Mayo’s second-half collapse seemed unlikely when they led by a point at the interval, having twice recovered from four-point deficits.
Seán Morahan marked his first league start with an early score. But a 45 from Conor Gleeson and a Paul Conroy effort edged Galway ahead for the first time.
And that set the tone for a first half which ebbed and flowed, with the pick of the scores coming from Galway’s Walsh and Conroy, while Conor Reid and Paul Towey were on target for Mayo.
The Green and Red were 0-9 to 0-8 ahead when the half-time hooter sounded.
But they were left chasing shadows for most of the second half once Galway found their shooting boots.
A string of fine two-point efforts from Walsh saw the visitors lead by seven points in the 49th minute to put the game beyond Mayo.
The Tribe added nine more points, including two two-pointers from Ó Curraoin and another from Walsh to seal their biggest victory over Mayo in 42 years and condemn their rivals to back-to-back losses.
Mayo’s day was summed up when captain Stephen Coen was dismissed after being booked for the second time.
MAYO: C Reape; S Callinan, R Brickenden, E Hession; S Coen, D McBrien, S Morahan 0-1; D McHugh 0-1, M Ruane; C Reid 0-2, F Boland, D Neary 0-3; P Towey 0-5, 1tp, F Irwin 0-1, R O’Donoghue 0-3f. Subs: D MacHale for Boland 44 mins; D O’Connor for Reid 47; E McLaughlin for Ruane 53; B Tuohy for O’Connor 56; C McHale for Irwin 61.
GALWAY: C Gleeson 0-1, 45; J McGrath, S Fitzgerald, D O’Flaherty; D McHugh 0-1, L Silke, S Kelly 0-2, P Conroy 0-3, C McDaid; J Maher, F Ó Laoi, C Darcy; C Ó Curraoin 0-8, 1f, 2tp, 2tpf; S Walsh 0-9, 2tp, 2tpf, S O’Neill. Subs: J Glynn for Kelly 47 mins; R Finnerty 0-2f for O’Neill 48; C Sweeney for McDaid 51; J Heaney for Ó Laoi 61; C Costello for Walsh 66.
REFEREE: N Mooney (Cavan).
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How Will Smith’s Hollywood exile after Oscars slap cost him $1BILLION…& sad truth about marriage ‘arrangement’ with Jada
AS Will Smith launched his big musical comeback with a spoof Matrix video, he declared: “I really like my life right now.”
That comes as a surprise, considering the disastrous three years the Fresh Prince has endured.
Ever since the actor and rapper jumped on to the stage and gave comedian Chris Rock a slap at the Oscars in March 2022, Will’s life and career has seemingly been on a downward spiral.
His split from wife Jada Pinkett Smith was played out in public, with the actress admitting to seeing another man.
Meanwhile, big-budget slavery movie Emancipation, for which he was reportedly paid £28million, sunk without a trace.
On top of that, the fallout from the Oscars debacle meant he missed out on a billion-dollar deal, and the Smiths’ production company Westbrook has been forced to lay off staff.
Will, who won an Oscar for 2021 tennis biopic King Richard, is said to still be angry that he copped so much flak for the attack on Rock, who had made a cruel joke about Jada’s alopecia.
Marital tension
The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air star, who dominated the box office during the late 1990s and much of the early Noughties with blockbusters such as Men In Black and Independence Day, is building towards a comeback.
Not only is Will, 56, releasing his first album in 20 years, he also has movie projects in the pipeline.
These include a possible sequel to 2007 hit I Am Legend and a remake of the 1987 Christmas classic Planes, Trains And Automobiles.
And last night his comeback continued when he was invited to be a co-presenter at the high-profile Grammy music awards.
But an insider told The Sun that the reason Will and Jada, 53, appear to still be together is because they cannot afford to divorce each other at the moment.
They said: “They’re still together on paper, but at this point the talk is that it’s more of a business arrangement than an emotional connection.
“The two companies they’re attached to serve as a vehicle for most of their money-making endeavours and it would most likely need to be split up or totally revamped if they were to put a formal end to the marriage.
“That is just not something that they have wanted to do.
“For logistical purposes it’s been more convenient for them to keep the status quo and do their own things in different places for the better part of five years.”
Before the moment Will’s “nice guy” reputation was turned on its head in front of millions of people watching the Oscars on TV, his life appeared to be perfect.
There was talk of the Smiths selling their production company for a billion dollars.
People thought I gave Will a look and ‘made’ him do it. But let me start with this: Nobody can make Will Smith do anything, and surely not me
Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada’s Red Table Talk show was a hit on Facebook and they had remade Bel-Air as a new TV series follow-up to the Nineties sitcom favourite.
Their children, Jaden, 26, and Willow, 24, had both launched successful showbiz careers and Will had rightfully received critical acclaim for his performance in King Richard, where he played the father of tennis greats Serena and Venus Williams.
But once the world had seen the normally mild-mannered actor as Mr Angry, another reality was revealed.
It was as if the red pill from the sci-fi movie The Matrix had been swallowed.
Afterwards it came out that Jada and Will had been living separate lives for six years.
The loving spouse act was, it turns out, a sham.
‘Hustle for opportunities’
Jada told The Sunday Times in 2023: “We hadn’t called each other husband and wife since 2016.”
During a Red Table Talk chat in 2020 she had already confessed to an “entanglement” with R&B singer August Alsina, who she met in 2015, but everyone thought the marriage had survived.
She also made it clear that Will was totally responsible for his own actions at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles three years ago.
Jada, 53, said: “People thought I gave Will a look and ‘made’ him do it. But let me start with this: Nobody can make Will Smith do anything, and surely not me.”
Will was said to be hurt by such comments.
Given all that marital tension, it is surprising the couple have not got divorced — particularly as they have been living in separate homes for the past couple of years.
Yet they were seen wrapping their arms around each in November after dining at a restaurant in Calabasas, California.
Two years ago Jada said: “We’ve been doing some really heavy-duty work together. We just got a deep love for each other, and we are going to figure out what that looks like for us.”
A source recently told People magazine in the US that they “haven’t completely severed ties”.
But Will is said to be more keen on bringing in the lawyers and making a clean break.
A different insider told another publication: “He knows he needs to be strategic as there’s $400million on the line. But he’s hurt and angry. He wants to divorce and end the charade.”
The potential sale of their company Westbrook fell through after the attack on Chris Rock, and according to the online news outlet Semafor, they had to let go of half their staff in 2023.
Reinvent himself
If he is going to reinvent himself, the actor needs to escape his past dramas.
Prolonging the Jada and Will on/off romance would not help that.
It would also make sense to draw a line under the Oscars slap.
Yet, Will keeps coming back to it. Last week when rapper Big Sean and
Will launched their new single Beautiful Scars on Instagram, the pair made a joke about the incident.
Big Sean said: “We’re not going to focus on that one.”
The lyrics to the song also appear to reference the scandal: “Life is confusing, I hate when I lose it, but I face the music, Go, ‘Why did he do it?’ See I’m only human.”
Another factor getting in the way of any reconciliation between the Smiths is Will’s work schedule.
He is releasing an album called Based On A True Story next month and will be going on a world tour from May until September.
Will has already performed a couple of sold-out shows in San Diego.
But none of the singles from the album have been chart hits so far.
It is unlikely he is going to achieve the success he did with DJ Jazzy Jeff in the early Nineties with such tracks as Summertime.
Will is like Tom Cruise. He only really relates to ultra-famous people like himself. And the harsh reality is very few A-list types have expressed much support towards him since the slap
An insider
Yet Will said the advice from his daughter was not to go after chart-toppers.
He explained: “Willow kept telling me, ‘Dad, don’t try to make hits, just make what you think and feel and if it’s a hit, it’s a hit. If it’s not, it’s not. Focus on expression and not trying to have it land in a certain way’.”
Will’s action movie Bad Boys: Ride Or Die did well enough at the box office last year for another one to be possible.
It was a particular success in Saudi Arabia, where Will has been pursuing opportunities recently.
The insider told The Sun: “Will continues to hustle for opportunities, which have been way harder for him to come by post SlapGate.
“He did have a hit with the recent Bad Boys sequel and there are folk out in Saudi and other parts of the world who have written him healthy cheques and funded his various investment opportunities.”
But like other shamed stars before him, such as Mel Gibson, it will take some time before Will is truly accepted again by Hollywood.
Planes, Trains And Automobiles as well as I Am Legend 2 would require a big budget to go into production and no major studio seems willing to do that at the moment.
Will might have to get the funding together himself for future projects.
According to the insider, many actors, actresses and directors are yet to forgive Will for slapping Chris.
They revealed: “As far as his social life goes, he’s very much like Tom Cruise in that he only really relates to ultra-famous people like himself.
“And the harsh reality is that very few of those A-list types have expressed much support towards him after ‘the slap’.
“He still has friends in town but a lot of those social opportunities don’t come his way any more because people are wary of being associated with him.”
It is that lack of support which really hurts the Hollywood mogul, who clearly wants to prove the doubters wrong.
Our source added: “It’s something that still stings for Will, big time.”
Marcus Rashford COMPLETES shock Aston Villa loan with view to permanent transfer to end Man Utd hell
MARCUS RASHFORD has completed his loan to Aston Villa until the end of the season.
The Manchester United forward, 27, agreed the temporary switch after falling out of favour under Ruben Amorim.
And Villa will have the option to BUY the Red Devils academy graduate come the end of the season.
It’s understood they will have to shell out a cool £40million should they wish to permanently acquire his services.
The Midlanders announced the signing by saying: “Aston Villa is delighted to announce the loan signing of Marcus Rashford from Manchester United.”
The deal to bring in Rashford is a major financial outlay.
The Villans are understood to be paying the majority of Rashford’s whopping £325,000-a-week wages – which he’s unlikely to get should he permanently move to Villa park in the summer.
Despite three goals in Amorim’s manager’s first two Premier League games, Rashford has not featured for his boyhood club since December 12.
A public bashing from Amorim has included the Portuguese chief saying he would rather put his 63- year-old goalkeeper coach Jorge Vita on the pitch instead of “a player who doesn’t give the maximum every day”.
Now, though, he has sealed his short-term escape out of Old Trafford.
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The loan switch comes after Aston Villa sold Jhon Duran to Saudi Arabian side Al-Nassr for £64million.
Rashford is keen to get his career back on track after a difficult few years under both Erik ten Hag and now Amorim.
And the chance to play in the Champions League again will undoubtedly appeal.
Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund, Monaco and AC Milan were all linked with the United academy graduate – although his mammoth £325,000-a-week wages proved an issue.
But now Rashford is staying put in the Premier League at Villa after the two clubs thrashed out a deal.
After the blistering start, Rashford and the manager’s relationship soured when Amorim was told the striker had been out on a Friday night – less than 48 hours before the Everton game.
He called the forward in for a meeting where Rashford denied the allegations – and they have not patched up their differences.
Rashford then angered Amorim further by publicly revealing he is “ready for a new challenge” away from Old Trafford.
The player reckons he has received unfair treatment – and there are thoughts there may have been orders from the top.
A source told The Sun: “Marcus thinks Sir Jim Ratcliffe wants him out of the club and has basically told head coach Ruben Amorim to get him out.
“He might just have met his match with Sir Jim.
“Marcus feels like he is being picked on.
“In the early days of training under Amorim, he was trying to learn new systems and other players were also struggling — but he was the one who was getting more vocal criticism.
“He knows he needs to leave but he’s shocked that no big team has pulled out all the stops to get him.
“There’s been interest but financially it’s a complicated deal and that’s put quite a few teams off.
“Marcus has been left bewildered by how quickly his relationship with Amorim has disintegrated.”
Ex-United stars Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand and Paul Scholes all weighed in on the Rashford debate before his loan was confirmed.
Ferdinand suggested the player could look to sue Amorim for his comments while Rooney and Scholes both laid into the forward.
Rooney said: “I went into Carrington on Sunday to take my kids to game day and Marcus Rashford was out on the training pitch with the fitness coach.
“But he was right over towards where the parents were walking past for the kids’ games.
“I looked at him thinking how embarrassing it must be for him as parents walked past. He’s there and all the parents are walking past him.
Marcus has let a lot of people down with his attitude… the sooner he’s gone, the better
Paul Scholes
“I was surprised when this started over two years ago, but now I’m not.
“I’ve spoken to Marcus a couple of times and I’ve given him my thoughts and feelings that he needs to leave the football club.
“Because whatever is going on in his life and at Manchester United, he’s not the same.
“For him to have a fresh start, he needs to leave the club.”
Scholes added: “I think Marcus has let a lot of people down with his attitude and I think that’s what the manager is trying to say.
“You think of the young players coming through the team and think of [Alejandro] Garnacho.
“They’re looking up to people like Marcus now and he’s 27, he’s clearly not training properly, he’s not living his life properly. They’re the examples these people should look at.
“In a way, he’s saying he doesn’t want to be involved with the team and the fact of letting his teammates down, he should be banished from the dressing room.
“If he’s in and around that and young people are seeing that as an example, the sooner he’s gone the better.”
