Tuesday, October 1, 2024

There’s a new celebrity couple with quite the age-gap: ‘Yuck’


David and Victoria Beckham's youngest son Cruz, 19, is reportedly dating 28-year-old musician Jackie Apostel.

Cruz was seen exiting a hotel in Paris alongside Jackie, a singer-songwriter who was previously a member of the Brazilian girl band Schutz. The couple looked pretty casual, and Jackie was wearing a baseball hat, but it was definitely them.

The pair also turned up to support Cruz's mom's Victoria Beckham show in Paris, and Jackie even posted a photo of her wearing one of her designs on Instagram.

"The most beautiful show and the most beautiful dress," she wrote.

The new couple has been linked since June, and though Jackie has over 100,000 followers on Instagram, she's yet to reach the level of fame where her age is common knowledge.

Cruz Beckham was seen exiting a hotel in Paris alongside Jackie Apostel, a singer-songwriter who was previously a member of the Brazilian girl band Schutz. CYRIL PECQUENARD/SIPA/Shutterstock The couple also turned up to support Victoria Beckham's show at Paris Fashion Week. GC Images Jackie posted a photo of her wearing one of Victoria Beckham's designs on Instagram. TheImageDirect.com

When the two were hanging out, most fans assumed they were around the same age, but Hello Magazine has reported that two years ago, she introduced herself as 26-year-old in an Instagram post for Schutz, the girl group she exited.

Online people were divided by the potential couple's age gap.

"At an older age, the difference of a decade starts to make less difference, however, someone around twenty years old will be at a very different stage of development. Bit cringe really," one claimed.

"A 29-year-old going after a 19-year-old? I would not be happy if it were my son," someone else wrote.

"The age gap isn't the problem," someone else argued.

The 28-year-old has over 100,000 followers on Instagram. Instagram / @jackie.apostel

Someone else called the age gap "yuck." Another argued that Cruz dating an older woman would give him much-needed "experience," and one claimed the relationship was just a simple way for the 28-year-old to get her "name out there."

Cruz is the youngest son of the famous Beckham family. His brother Brooklyn, 25, is married to billionaire heiress Nicola Peltz and his other older brother Romeo, 22, is giving professional soccer playing a crack.

Cruz has also chosen the public life path. He has amassed over 2 million followers on Instagram, is a musician, and has dabbled in modelling.

The 19-year-old's primary focus is his music career, and he is clearly close with his famous family.

Cruz is the youngest son of the famous Beckham family.

Cruz quite often posts photos of himself hanging out with his brothers, mom and dad, or younger sister Harper.

He also has the word "Posh" tattooed on him in tribute to his mom's nickname in the Spice Girls.

When he turned 18, both his parents gushed about him. David Beckham said Cruz had the "most amazing energy and the biggest heart," and Victoria shared on social media that she was "so proud" of the incredible young man he'd become.

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As President Jimmy Carter turns 100 in hospice, celebrity home builders Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood pay their respects


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Twin Cities Habitat homeowner LeAndra Estis speaks at a news conference at Habitat for Humanity's Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project at The Heights housing development on St. Paul's East Side on Monday, Sept. 30. 2024. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)

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Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated large swathes of New Orleans, country crooners Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood figured they'd lend some star power to a weeklong homebuilding effort there led by Habitat for Humanity and the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project.

Celebrities participating in one-off charitable endeavors is nothing new, but what the husband-and-wife performers didn't expect was to discover the former U.S. president and First Lady bickering on the build site like any other married couple.

"They were arguing about a measurement of a board. They just couldn't get it," said Brooks on Monday, remembering his first build alongside the Carters, whom he found refreshingly normal. "Finally she just threw her hands up and said, 'OK. You can cut it again but it will still be too short.'"

The Carters had made history for their humility while sleeping in a church basement during their first build in New York City 38 years ago. They were no more presumptuous — and no less hands on — in New Orleans in 2007.

Continuing a tradition

Inspired by their hands-on volunteerism, Brooks and Yearwood have continued to participate in Work Project builds almost annually for the past 17 years, reuniting with the former first family to install dozens of homes at a time for low-to-moderate income homebuyers around the world. The country stars continued the tradition without them this year. Rosalynn Carter died last year; Jimmy Carter, who entered home hospice care in Georgia more than 18 months ago, turns 100 on Tuesday.

"You tell your girls when they're growing up, you tell anyone that will listen, you always want to be part of something that's bigger than anything you can do by yourself," said Brooks, addressing a tent full of media cameras during an afternoon press event Monday at the build site on St. Paul's East Side.

The occasion for their latest Work Project build is the Heights, the development unfolding on the 112-acre former Hillcrest Golf Course property off Arlington Avenue, where Habitat for Humanity is installing the first 30 of some 174 affordable Habitat homes.

The residences range from four-plex townhomes to single-family houses that will be sold to future Twin Cities Habitat clients at lower-than-typical interest rates and below-market prices.

'Not just an urban core problem'

The work site — the largest in the history of Twin Cities Habitat — was abuzz with roughly 1,000 volunteers on Monday, the first of five workdays that will draw some 4,000 participants in all, many coming from out of state.

According to the Minnesota Housing Partnership, even though wages have crept up in recent years, the rising cost of housing has far outpaced the increase. Owner incomes rose 2% across the past five years; home values rose 19% in the same period. A household would need to earn a combined annual salary of $98,500 to afford a median-priced home in Minnesota, a threshold that adds to the state's racial homeownership gap. Some 77% of white families in the state own their own home, compared to 29% of Black families.

"This is not just an urban core problem," said Chris Coleman, president and chief executive officer of Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, during Monday's media event. "This is a problem in rural communities, and urban and suburban communities. … You can't grow Polaris or Digi-Key (Electronics) up in northern Minnesota unless employees have a place to live."

That sentiment was echoed by Jonathan Reckford, chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity International, who said communities around the nation are struggling with housing costs.

"Ultimately, it's all about land and financing," Reckford said. "And if you look at the gap between what the median family can afford and what a house costs to create right now, it's the widest it's been in modern history.  … In many of our large metros, Habitat is either joining or creating large mixed-income communities."

'Decision-making power and self-determination'

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, who picked up a drill and lent a hand to the build on Monday, called homeownership an important path toward building wealth and stability for low-income families.

"When my business school dean said the word 'equity,' she was talking about … the right to decision-making power and self-determination," said the mayor. "Every hammer swing that we hear is the sound of a family being able to move into a home with equity. … We need more housing units."

Yearwood said the Habitat builds have become a week she and Brooks look forward to annually. Twice, the Work Project has taken them to Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, where the poverty was immediately apparent upon their arrival.

"You get off the plane in Port au Prince and you cry all the way to the build site," Yearwood said. "And then we went back the second year … you cry just a little bit less, because you do see improvement, even though it's tough. My favorite thing was to go back to the build site and … see the homeowners, and see the light in their eyes, and see them thriving. Everyone deserves that opportunity."

Originally Published: September 30, 2024 at 6:36 p.m.

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Who was the first celebrity to leave Strictly?


Strictly Come Dancing is back on our screens for another year, and Sunday night's programme gave us the first dance-off and elimination of this year's series!

Last week's programme saw all the couples take to the dance floor for the first time with no public vote.

But sadly the time had come for someone to be the first to leave the show.

Olympic champion Tom Dean and singer and actress Toyah Willcox ended up in the bottom two - but who survived to see another week?

Keep reading to find out!

Did the judges make the right decision? Who's your favourite celebrity? Let us know in the comments below!

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    Tom and his dance partner Nadiya Bychkova performed the cha cha to Boogie Wonderland by Earth, Wind and Fire.

    Then, Toyah and her dance partner Neil Jones danced a jive to Nutbush City Limits by Ike and Tina Turner in a bid to impress the judges and remain in the competition.

    After the dance-off, it was time for the four judges to cast their votes.

    Only Anton chose to save Tom and Nadiya, with all three other judges - Craig, Motsi and Shirley - voting to save Toyah and Neil.

    That meant it was the three-time Olympic champion swimmer who was the first to leave the show.

    When asked by Tess about his time on the show, Dean said he wished he could have "gone further and done more dances".

    "I've had the best time [over] the last few weeks and getting to work with Nadiya has been incredible," he added.

    "I've had the most fun and I wish we could keep going longer and longer. We'll still go out for loads of brunches, I'm sure."

    Nadiya was also full of praise for her dancing partner.

    She said that Dean was "a true gentleman", and that he had taught her "how to work really hard and how to put everything in".

    What do you think of the series so far? Who's your favourite celebrity? Let us know in the comments below!

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