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EAGLE-EYED Love Island fans have called out a show feud between two former BFFs.

The pair formed a close bond during their stint in the ITV2 villa – and continued their flourishing friendship in the real world.

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Love Island fans have called out a feud between two former show BFFs[/caption]

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Claudia Fogarty and Samie Elishi have unfollowed each other on Instagram despite forging a close friendship outside the villa[/caption]

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Claudia Fogarty, 30, and Samie Elishi, 24, were often seen on boozy days out or soaking up the sunshine on glam holidays together.

The Love Island duo also splashed out on a £300-a-night cruise to Mallorca back in 2023.

Yet loyal fans have now suggested their friendship has cooled – even to the extent they have unfollowed each other on Instagram.

One took to Reddit to muse: “I’m sure they were best mates for a long period of time after Love Island. They appear to have unfollowed each other and removed all photos of them together…”

Another commented: “Hmm wonder what happened in November?! They were hanging out, posting each other, interacting on IG and then nothing.

“Seemed like something must’ve happened then because that’s when they were last together for a Spacenk event on November 12th and then after that they stopped interacting with each other entirely

“Seems like Samie and Danielle (Claudia’s sister) also unfollowed each other as well.”

Another gushed: “Oh now that’s tea. they were best friends,” as one added: “Ohhh that is strange. They were very tight for a while.”

Another then bluntly put: “It’s going to be over a man isn’t it.”

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Claudia proved a source of support for Samie amid her thyroid cancer scare following their villa stint.

The brave TV star had a lump removed from her throat and shared a snap from her hospital bed shortly after her Hemithyroidectomy operation.

Claudia was quick to write at the time: “Love you so proud of you.”

As well as the lump, Samie also told this week how she’d need to have half of her thyroid removed.

Following the surgery she took to Instagram to update fans.

Alongside the snap of her in a hospital bed, she wrote: “Surgery complete guys!

“I feel absolutely fine, no drainage was needed or anything. I’m very lucky.

“I’m now on rest duty but will be vlogging the recovery. Every day I receive soo many supportive messages from you guys.

“Me raising awareness has lead to some of you having this surgery and getting lumps in your necks checked. If I can help one person that’s enough.”

Samie’s health concerns were discovered after Love Island viewers pointed out her lump.

She placed third on the hit-ITV dating programme with ex Tom Clare, behind winners Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan and runners-up Ron Hall and Lana Jenkins.

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They splashed out on a series of sun soaked holidays together after the ITV2 show wrapped[/caption]

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They also appear to have removed photos of them together from their social media pages[/caption]

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Claudia also supported Samie through a recent health battle[/caption]

FOR around a tenner, you could be in a different country in half an hour… without having to hop on a flight.

A little-known train ride connecting two countries in Europe is so quick, it is even used by commuters.

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The journey is often used by commuters travelling between Malmo and Copenhagen[/caption]

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The train is mainly underwater although comes up in the middle on a man-made island[/caption]

Connecting Sweden and Denmark, the 35-minute trip travels between Malmo and Copenhagen.

Called Øresund Bridge, it is half tunnel, half bridge, compared to the main road which only goes by bridge.

And with three trains an hour, you won’t struggle to hop on one either.

The plans for the bridge which goes over the Øresund Strait were first discussed in 1910, but was only only put forward in 1936 and was later abandoned.

It finally was given the go-ahead in 1995 and was finished by 1999, before going into use in 2000.

Swedish TikToker Laurence, originally from Canada, revealed how she does the commute every day.

In her video, she goes down a number of escalators before hopping on a train.

While it goes underwater, it does come up onto an island between the two countries, called Peberholm.

The artificial island is now home to 500 species of plants, as well as used as a resting places for birds.

Laurence said in the comments that she was “still amazed you can commute from one country to another in 30 minutes”.

She also raved about how clean the trains were.

Others were also impressed, with one saying “As an Aussie this blows my mind”.

Another said: “It’s crazy to think that a commute to a different country would be that easy.”

Tickets cost around €12 (£9.96) each way.

With both countries being in the Schengen Zone, there are no passport checks although shes says there are sometimes random checks on the train.

The bridge even featured in the Nordic noir series The Bridge, which aired on the BBC.

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You can even get tickets for just under a tenner each way[/caption]

It’s not the only underwater tunnel wanting to open between countries.

Connecting Rodby in Denmark and Puttgarden in Germany, the £4billion (€4.8billion) underwater tunnel will take just 10 minutes – faster than the current 45-minute ferry ride.

It hopes to open by 2029.

And a £5.1billion underwater tunnel wants to connect Spain to Africa in time for the 2030 World Cup in Morocco.

First suggested back in 1979, the 7-mile tunnel would connect Casablanca in Morocco and Madrid in Spain.

It would take just 5hr30 to travel between the two, with stops in Algeciras.

And here’s what the world’s longest and deepest road tunnel could look like – although would cost £36billion.

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The tunnel opened to the public in 2000[/caption]

A MODEL reckons it’s great to have a ‘work’ wife or husband and doesn’t consider it cheating to flirt with a colleague.

Bella Lexi, 47, is happily married and enjoys adding a little spice to her relationship as long as her hubby is ok with it.

The OnlyFans model, a former policewoman, reckons anyone who is secure in their personal life wouldn’t have an issue with their other half being close friends with a co-worker of the opposite sex.

The adult star, from Colorado, said: “I am all about a work wife or work husband.

“I see no issue in having someone you trust with work stuff more than others in your place of work.  

“And don’t feel like looking at sexy pics or porn are cheating either.

“I create both of those and I am not cheating with the people that buy it.  

“The one thing that would upset me, which some may not consider cheating, and I don’t even know that I label that honestly, is confiding emotional, family or personal things involving me with that person.  

“Some may say it’s ridiculous but to me it’s important that it stays with me and my partner.”

The ex-lieutenant added: “I think that flirting is just that.

“It doesn’t mean that the next thing you know you’ll be having an affair with that person.  

“Respect your partner’s comfort zone and boundaries that you have set together for sure.  

“Look, it feels good to know that someone finds you cute, beautiful or sexy enough to flirt with you, unless you aren’t a human.

“Be true to who you are and the rest doesn’t and shouldn’t matter.

“I love when I see some sexy lady flirt with my husband and how he lights up, just the same as I do, and we are going home together.”

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GARY LINEKER lifted the lid on what Mo Salah told him about his Liverpool future.

The Reds hero, 32, is out of contract at the end of the season – alongside Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold.

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Mo Salah talked to Gary Lineker about his Liverpool future[/caption]

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The Match of the Day host revealed the details of the private conversation[/caption]

Salah can now negotiate a pre-contract agreement with a new club outside of the UK.

He even admitted earlier in the season he is “more out than in” and that this is his “last year” at Anfield because there has been no update on an extension to his deal.

Liverpool fans are desperate for a breakthrough to ensure Salah stays after 236 goals and eight trophies in seven-and-a-half years – including two at Bournemouth this weekend.

A move to Saudi Arabia continues to be on the cards after Al-Ittihad bid £170million for the forward in 2023.

And Salah’s recent conversation with Lineker will have done little to alleviate supporters’ fears.

The outgoing Match of the Day host discussed his chat with the Liverpool star on his The Rest Is Football podcast.

And it could hint that Salah is leaning towards an exit.

Lineker said: “He’s a lovely guy. I spent ten minutes with him when I went to visit Arne Slot [for a BBC interview].”

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Alan Shearer replied: “Did you not get it out of him whether he’s staying or going or not?”

And Lineker added: “He asked me, ‘How old were you when you finished?’

“And I said, ‘Well, English football I finished when I was 32 and then I went to play in Japan for a couple of years.’

“And he went, ‘Ah, you went for the money did you?’

“And I said, ‘Well yeah I suppose so.’

“And he went, ‘Yeah, I might do the same.’ Then he winked at the press guy that was there.

“It was just a joke but he has got that cheeky sense of humour has Mo.”

But Salah’s joke may have a hint of truth in it.

Saudi chiefs are still determined to lure the Arab world’s greatest footballer to their mega-money league before he hangs up his boots.

And they won’t want to wait any longer to sign their latest marquee transfer – and follow in the footsteps of Cristiano Ronaldo.

A whopping £65m payday for just two seasons in the desert is potentially on the cards to tempt Salah to the Saudi Pro League.

And Turki Alalshikh, who has masterminded Saudi Arabia’s effective takeover of professional boxing, even fuelled speculation a deal could get done.

He posted a mocked-up image of the two-time African Footballer of the Year in an Al-Hilal shirt.

A HEARTBROKEN mum told how her son died after coming home from school with a headache and sent a chilling text.

Ethan Treharne, from Surrey, was just 15 when he returned from a Duke of Edinburgh trip and complained of having a headache.

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Mum Nikki recalled her son sending a chilling text before he was blue-lighted to hospital[/caption]

His mother Nikki, 53, told how they assumed he was exhausted from the experience but their nightmare began just two days later.

She told SurreyLive: “I was at work when my husband called me to say not to worry but Ethan had messaged him from to school to say ‘Dad I need a doctor’s appointment, I can’t find my words and my face has dropped’.”

Ethan was rushed to A&E and within a few hours scans revealed the teen had a mass on his brain.

He was blue-lighted to Southampton for an emergency operation and diagnosed with a glioblastoma tumour, a very aggressive form of cancer.

The family were informed shortly after surgery Ethan’s tumor was incurable.

Nikki said: “We were blindly just going along with family life totally unaware that this deadly killer was lurking in his head.”

The brave schoolboy underwent three craniotomies, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

But Nikki slammed the care her son received and the treatments as “barbaric and exhausting”.

She said Ethan was experiencing daily seizures after undergoing radiotherapy, as well as the gruelling side effects of chemotherapy.

Steroids courses were “one of the worst drugs”, according to the mum, who said they made her son unrecognizable.

The family travelled to Germany to access more alternative treatments that weren’t available to Ethan in the UK because he was under 18.

Ethan tragically died when he was 17-years-old.

Nikki has since created a support group to help other families in grief called The Angel Mums, which also raises donations for brain cancer treatment and care in the UK

She said: “No parent will ever get over the loss of a child – it’s unfathomable.

“I often think when people say to me ‘I don’t know how you do it, I wouldn’t survive’, that I really don’t have a choice. I also have two other children that need me.

“You don’t survive either – the person I was before is gone. I am forever changed as Ethan is forever 17.”

Nikki and The Angel Mums are also trying to raise awareness around brain tumors.

They are the biggest killer of children and the under 40s, but “receive the lowest allocation of funding”, said Nikki.

The determined mum highlighted how treatment has remained the same for three decades but only has a 7% chance of working.

She compared the statistics in stark contrast to research and progress for breast and blood cancers.

Nikki warned: “We should be given the chance to save frozen tissue as standard during surgery as this is what is needed for immunotherapy.”

The Angel Mums fundraise for the Tessa Jowell Foundation through a JustGiving page.

A DEVASTATED mother has paid tribute to her “beautiful babies” after a nine-year-old girl and boy, 16, were killed while riding a scooter.

Roman Casselden and his little sister Darcie were struck down by a car on Saturday evening while playing in near their home in Essex.

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Roman, 16, and Darcie, nine, were tragically declared dead at the scene[/caption]

The horror happened in Walthams Place, Pitsea, at around 6.25pm and the driver failed to stop at the scene.

In a message posted on Facebook, the children’s heartbroken mum Emma Keeling, paid tribute to her “beautiful babies”.

She wrote: “My two beautiful babies Roman and Darcie sadly lost their lives last night in this awful accident. The driver fled the scene.

“We are currently grieving at this difficult time.

“I wish to thank everyone who has offered their support and to the paramedics, air ambulance crew and members of the public who tried in vain to save them.”

The children’s’ father Alec Casselden made a number of grief-stricken posts on social media describing his heartbreak over their deaths.

Darcie and Roman are thought to have been playing on an e-scooter when tragedy struck, according to local media reports.

Essex Police confirmed a man and woman, both in their 20s, have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.

They both remain in custody.

A GoFundMe has been set up by a friend in support of the family to raise money for funeral expenses.

They wrote a message with the appeal which read: “I have been given permission on behalf of my friends, the family of young Roman and Darcie, who tragically lost their lives on Saturday Feb 1 2025 in Pitsea.

“Tragedy has struck our community, leaving two young lives lost far too soon. We are heartbroken for the families and loved ones of these precious children.

“In this devastating time, we want to come together to support the families with funeral expenses and other needs. Any donation, big or small, will help ease their burden.”

Roman has been remembered as a talented footballer, playing through the Achievement Through Football (ATF) charity.

One tribute to him from a former teacher read: “Two beautiful souls taken far too soon. You were such a good kid, a joy to teach in PE.

“Our time together watching you gain confidence in football club and seeing you play for the school, seeing that beamy smile when you scored and hearing Mr Billingham screaming your name celebrating is a great memory.”

Another read: “I can’t believe you are both gone. ATF will not be the same anymore. You were both taken too soon. You will never be forgotten.”

Members of the grief-stricken community also left floral tributes at the scene.

“You were both lovely people. I will always love you and remember you,” one read.

Someone penned: “I’m so sorry that you both have been taken away far too young.

“My thoughts and prayers are with everything that had the joy to know you both, especially your family.”

Residents claimed the 30mph road, Ashlyns, where the children were hit needs more speed calming measures.

One local said: “This is a built up area with lots of children crossing the road to reach the park, playground and nearby schools.

“But cars come zooming down like it’s a 60mph country road. There’s been so many crashes recently – even one involving a police car.

“It’s sad that it takes a tragedy like this to highlight the issue but hopefully something will finally be done about it now.”

Councillor Gavin Callaghan, Leader of Basildon Council, added: “I was deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the deaths of two young children in Pitsea North West yesterday, after a road traffic incident on the Chalvedon estate.

“I can’t imagine the pain and anguish the parents and family of these two children are going through right now. We will be supporting the local community through this difficult time.

“If you saw anything or have any information on this accident, please get in touch with the police immediately.”

Stuart Hooper, temporary assistant chief constable, added: “My thoughts are with the friends and family of the girl and boy who have died this evening.

“Specialist officers are supporting them at this truly unimaginably difficult time. Our officers will be carrying out enquiries in the area this evening to establish the circumstances which led up to the collision so if you saw anything or have any information please get in contact.”

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LONDON tour guide, John Warland, who has visited hundreds of boozers in the English capital has named Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese as the city’s must-visit pub.

John is the founder of Liquid History Tours where punters are taken to some of the capital’s lesser-visited drinking holes.

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He has also written two books on the subject, Liquid History and Local Legends Hidden Pubs of London, making him a proper pub expert.

Speaking exclusively to Sun Travel, John said: “If you were to visit one pub, make it Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street”.

“It was originally built in the 16th century, then it burnt down in 1666 and got rebuilt in 1667 – and that’s what you enter to this day.

“It’s kind of dark and gloomy on the outside, with a little snickety entrance just off Fleet Street that has a beautiful view of St Paul’s Cathedral.

“It was mentioned in Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities – when Charles Darnay retreats there for a simple supper and a few fine wines.

“It’s a place that was frequented by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Taka Ray and Theodore Roosevelt, and it was the real social network until the 1980s when Fleet Street kind of comes to an end in terms of journalism.

“The pub itself has six or seven storeys in total, and you can descend to the bowels of the basement – there’s no music, there’s no jukeboxes and there’s no televisions.

“The pub is run by Samuel Smith breweries, so the drinks offering is traditional – it’s quite limited in its own respect, as there’s no Guinness, there’s no Smirnoff, but it’s a place to retreat from the modern world.

“Get a simple drink, sit by the fire – sit where Dickens sat, see where Dr Johnson possibly wrote some of his entries to the dictionary.

“That sense of layers of history… that’s an absolute sort of crackerjack, with all these nooks and crannies, despite being on the well-beaten tourist trail, between St Paul’s and Covent Garden.”

The pub is also home to another famous two-legged resident, who was so well-loved that they were stuffed and displayed behind the bar – Polly the parrot.

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John said: “Polly the Parrot can still be found behind the bar – she lived in the pub for years, then passed away in 1926, and because all the journalists loved Polly so much, they recorded her passing in around 200 newspapers from Cape Town to Montreal, New Zealand to Peking.

“She’s still behind the bar in a glass cabinet looking down on you as sort of the mascot of the pub.

 “I think a great historic pub should make you feel something, and this has 400 years worth of history, as well as being a lovely place to tuck yourself away with a pint of stout and a sticky toffee pudding.”

Expect to pay London prices for pints, with main meals starting from as little as £14.25

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese has a 4/5 star rating from thousands of reviews on TripAdvisor.

Punters described the boozer as “amazing” and “very Dickensian” in their online reviews.

One person said: “If Charles Dickens dropped in he would have found little has changed. From a narrow alley off busy Fleet Street, you enter thru old old doors and instantly get transported 500 years back.”

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Earlier this year, John named another pub to visit in London – you can read about it here.

Meanwhile, the Sun’s Head of Travel (Digital) Caroline McGuire thinks she’s found the most child-friendly pub in London, with a bowling alley and a huge slide.