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Usain Bolt spotted in WIGAN celebrating Premier League cult hero’s 46th birthday at swanky restaurant
USAIN BOLT made a surprise appearance in a swanky restaurant in Wigan to celebrate Bolton legend Ricardo Gardner’s birthday.
Bolt, 38, rolled credits on his legendary career, which saw him winning eight Olympic gold medals and 11 world titles, after the 2017 World Championships in London.
The sprinting legend, who holds the record for the fastest times on the 100m and 200m events, still has an army of fans and turns heads everywhere he goes.
The Jamaican great proved it during a surprise visit in Wigan‘s La Casa Astley restaurant on Wednesday.
The Olympian linked up with his good friend and fellow Jamaican athlete Gardner who was celebrating his 46th birthday.
Bolt posted a photo of them two on social media with the following caption: “Big up me g on him strong @ricardobibigardner love and love alone.”
La Casa Astley are no strangers to celebrity customers, having previously hosted the likes of Manchester United legend Sir Alex Ferguson and boxing star Tommy Fury.
And the Italian eatery suggested Bolt is a regular customer as it appears he has also visited at least three times this year alone.
La Casa Astley posted the following: “We’re thrilled to welcome back the legendary Usain Bolt to La Casa!
“Always a pleasure serving the fastest man on earth – where great food meets great company.”
Restaurant manager Pietro Garrafa admitted there were a lot of surprised faces once Bolt walked through the front door.
Garrafa told the Manchester Evening News: “I just started a week ago, but I know that quite a few celebrities come to us because our food is very authentic.
“I didn’t take the reservation, but I was shocked to see him when he came in.
“Everyone was asking for pictures and he and Ricardo were lovely, there was a family of Bolton fans who were dining there too and Ricardo took a picture and spoke to them.
“Bolt was very kind and we kept the restaurant open until midnight for them, we loved it.”
Bolt’s mate Gardner spent 14 years at Bolton until his retirement in 2012 and amassed a total of 21 goals and 12 assists in 397 appearances.
The former left-back has now crossed over to coaching in his homeland having managed Jamaica‘s Under-20s as well as Harbour View and Portmore United.
Prince Harry’s tattoo shop visit without Meghan is major hint couple could have separate plans for future, warns expert
PRINCE Harry’s tattoo shop visit and upcoming solo trip without Meghan is a major hint the couple could have separate future plans, claimed an expert.
The Duke of Sussex, 40, was spotted at a tattoo parlour in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and stayed for over an hour yesterday.
It was also revealed Harry will be jetting to Lesotho and South Africa early next month without Meghan Markle.
This comes after the duke attended at a string of events in New York unaccompanied by his wife, who stayed behind in Montecito, California.
Their separate appearances, including Harry’s surprise TV stint and tour of a haunted maze on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, has sparked rampant speculation regarding their future together.
Royal expert Hugo Vickers hailed the upcoming Lesotho and South Africa trips.
He told The Sun: “I rather commend what he’s doing with this, because this is more outgoing.
“It’s like when he does things with the Invictus Games and things like that.
“But there seems to be a pattern forming, even in these last few days, that he is going out on his own and doing things.”
The expert suggested there could be multiple reasons for the divide.
“One could be that, you know. He does indeed wish to establish himself more as the old Harry,” he said.
“It could be quite simply that Meghan Markle has responsibilities with her young children, and therefore feels she has to stay at home with them.”
But he added: “There is a separation of, you know, of their different engagements, and that he’s going to be going more solo, in which case watch this space.”
Meghan and Harry have put on a largely inseparable front since quitting the UK and moving to the States in 2020.
But Mr Vickers warned the duke may have grown tired of Meg’s presence – and the negativity it attracts.
“It always seems to me that when she’s around she’s dictating the narrative, and that he kind of is very compliant and just goes along,” he said.
He may wish to build some bridges, and that is a good sign
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“A lot of the things that he says publicly I have always suspected are dictated by her. So I do wonder a little bit whether he isn’t trying to establish himself more in his own right.”
However, the expert hinted Meghan could still be behind everything.
He said: “It could be that she commends this idea because it gives him more of a a profile and sort of ups his game, and therefore, when they go out together in public, they’re more valuable.”
But Mr Vickers did not believe Harry’s light hearted solo endeavors, such as the tattoo shop and Jimmy Fallon appearance, “did him any credit”.
“He’s done a lot of good favours to them, but very little to himself. In my view,” said the expert.
Speaking of Harry going solo across the past few weeks, Mr Vickers suggested he could be pining for his old way of life – especially as he reflects on turning 40.
“I mean I can understand it, that he must miss his friends, and he must miss the the system to some extent,” he said.
“I mean, you know, he was appointed Captain General of the Royal Marines. That’s a very important position.
“He could have done a lot of things. The late Queen gave the two of them the whole of the Commonwealth to explore and work on, which is a massive and terribly important organization.
Meghan Markle & Prince Harry’s brand is over-hyped & under-delivers
By Matt Wilkinson and Summer Raemason
MEGHAN Markle and Prince Harry’s brand “over-promised” and “under-delivered”, slammed an expert.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have tried their hand at several business ventures but author Mark Borkowski told The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show it’s “like trying to brand snow in a hail storm”.
The couple raised eyebrows when they ‘reinvented’ themselves and controversially changed the Archewell website using their royal titles.
Their personal projects have since swirled in drama, from Megan’s promise of a cooking show about love and friendship – to Harry’s series on the elite sport polo.
Talking to The Sun’s royal editor, Matt Wilkinson, Mr Borkowski said: “They stuck together and didn’t take advice, and it became a catalogue of these things, they over-promised a lot of their products they were going to bring.
“It started off being this brand that was going to set up a well-meaning foundation, they’re going to do this great work.
“It was over-hyped and over-promised, and when you over-promise, then under-deliver, then you become the story.
“There’s a feeding frenzy around the negativity, there was never any positivity.”
He added: “They cannot carry on doing the same thing, what’s happened to this new jam brand that she’s bringing out? I mean how ridiculous is that, who does she want to be? The next Martha Stewart?
“I think you see desperation slipping in now and that should be an indication to say ‘let’s start again and learn from the royal family, post Diana‘, bring people in who know their stuff.
“Build a team out of that, instead of ‘yes people’ to do what you want, backed up by some Rottweiler of a lawyer who’s going to send out letters to every last person.
“The way they’re going about it is akin to trying to brand snow in a hail storm.”
It comes after Meghan’s lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard suffered a fresh blow earlier this month.
Since announcing the company, the former Suits actress is yet to roll out anything other than jams and dog biscuits – products that have only been gifted to her A-lister pals so far.
Meghan has also faced multiple hurdles in her launch, including ‘struggling’ to secure a CEO, her team filling in the official forms incorrectly, and failing to send enough cash.
These issues came in addition to a bitter dispute over exclusive rights to the name American Riviera Orchard.
Her team, led by top US attorney Marjorie Witter Norman under Meghan’s fledgling Mama Knows Best LLC firm, applied to the Patent and Trademark Office in the States for legal protection to exclusively trade using the name ‘American Riviera Orchard’.
But the application, filed in March, has been rejected and now she has three months to amend the request – or it will be removed from the register.
She has been told she can’t have exclusive rights to ‘American Riviera’ because it is a commonly used place name to describe the California coast.
“Evidently that wasn’t enough for Meghan.
“I don’t think he’ll want to come back as a working member of the royal family, but he may wish to build some bridges, and that is a good sign.”
On the future of Harry and Meghan’s relationship, Mr Vickers added “personally think it’s quite likely to not end too well for [Harry]”.
Regarding rumours swirling their marriage, the expert suggested they may stay together – to preserve their image.
“It is possible that they need to keep stay together to keep their brand,” he said.
“But actually, as we’ve seen, with a number of other people who’ve acquired titles, she probably would hang on to the Duchess of Sussex title, even if she wasn’t with him.
“There’ll probably come a time when she feels she can do it on her own.
“That’s what I’ve always secretly thought in the background.
“But at the moment I guess she does need him, and you know they have a young family, and I’m sure they take that very seriously, and young children need to have their parents around them.
“So there are many reasons for them staying together other than the brand.”
It comes after Harry spent this week in New York on a solo trip without wife Meghan Markle.
The duke revealed what ‘gives him hope’ and honoured Princess Diana while he discussed mental health while talking at an event for the Halo Trust – a landmine charity which was close to Di’s heart.
Harry addressed winners, Chiara Riyanti Hutapea Zhang from Indonesia, and Christina Williams from Jamaica.
He kicked off his New York trip with a glitzy dinner.
He was pictured during a high-level dinner organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Big Apple on Sunday.
Next Monday he is scheduled to host the WellChild awards in London.
Royal expert Phil Dampier said: “It is significant that he is doing so much on his own now.
“They are living more separate lives as it looks like Harry is trying to carve out what exactly his future is.
“I suspect Harry has been feeling very much like a spare part.
“He wants more fulfilling roles for himself so we may well be seeing more of him here.”
The Sussexes have been contacted for comment.
Wayne Rooney hailed for management style as Plymouth surge up Championship table under Man Utd legend
PLYMOUTH ARGYLE star Ibrahim Cissoko has sung the praises of manager Wayne Rooney after he netted twice against Luton.
Argyle beat the recently relegated side 3-1 last night to climb up to 14th in the Championship table.
Cissoko started the game on the bench – but came on after 58 minutes to wrap up the three points with two brilliant finishes.
It was the 21-year-old winger’s third goal in seven league games this season.
And Cissoko has hailed Rooney for his good start to the season, telling Sky Sports: “For me, he is the perfect coach because he lets me have the freedom to play.”
And the Manchester United legend returned the compliment, saying: “He’s a fantastic player and he showed his ability tonight when he came on.
“It wasn’t so easy telling him he wasn’t playing.
“But I felt late on in the game, I said to him yesterday, ‘Just trust in me, you’re going to come on and win us the game’.
“It’s always great as a manager when that happens and it shows to be true.”
On his side’s performance so far this campaign, Rooney added: “We were underestimated at the start of the season before we kicked a ball and then especially after the first game.
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“But I think we’ve shown real character, we’ve shown the type of team we want to be, we’re getting the ball forward and creating chances.
“It’s a big win for us against a good Luton team. It’s a big win for a lot of our young players.
“I was delighted for the lads tonight, delighted for the fans – great atmosphere again, so a great start to the weekend.”
Perhaps Rooney will celebrate with another midweek trip the pub he was spotted singing karaoke in last month.
SAS hardman Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham feared he’d killed Strictly star during filming when they collapsed on a mountain
SAS hardman Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham feared he’d killed Pete Wicks during filming when the Strictly star collapsed on a New Zealand mountain.
The former special forces hardman had to call in medics when Pete suddenly struggled to breath and fell to the floor during a gruelling challenge.
And in shocking scenes Billy, 59, warns: “He ain’t going to make it, he’s going to die.”
The drama unfolds in Sunday’s episode of the Channel 4 series as the remaining recruits are forced to pull a sled up a snowy mountain.
They are supposed to be in pairs but Pete, who as teamed up with comic Tez Ilyas, 41, ends up going it alone.
But the move proves too much for the reality star who starts to struggle and then sensationally collapses with Billy ordering in medics on a special snowmobile to rescue him.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun about the incident, Pete, 36, explained: “Look, that was a tough challenge. I collapsed.
“I just pushed myself to a limit and I was very dehydrated.
“Weird enough, I think I’m the only person that gets heat exhaustion in the fucking snow. I hadn’t looked after myself and it’s a fine line between getting stuff right and wrong.”
It’s the former TOWIE star’s second shot at the course after he was medically withdrawn in a previous series after breaking his ribs.
And Pete feared history was going to repeat itself.
He added: “I just thought, ‘here we go again’. The only difference with this was that it wasn’t an accident.
“At least I pushed myself. I didn’t feel like I’d reached my limit yet. But of course it was a fear of being pulled out again, you know, striking out twice.”
Asked why he even bothered to take on the show for a second time, he continued: “I’m not entirely sure if anyone else would ever go back and do it twice. I must be the only nutter that agreed to do it!
“My nan used to say I’m like a cockroach, pretty unhealthy but I’d survive a nuclear war.
“I’m mentally a lot stronger than I am physically, it’s probably 90% mental and 10% strength.
“I am starting to get a beer belly and tits but maybe I’ll do something that I’m actually proud of because there hasn’t been much of that.”
Returning to the show, which was filmed last year, was a big decision for Pete who admits that part of his reason was to prove to fans he’s not a failure.
He explained: “I was medically withdrawn, I felt like I hadn’t given it my best, and that bothered me. So when I got an opportunity to go back, I jumped in.
“I think I probably learned along the way that I was maybe trying to prove something to other people and that’s not what I needed to be doing.
“It was about testing myself and doing it for myself, which I thought was the reason I was doing it initially, but actually, I think it was more down to the fact that I was trying to prove to other people for some reason, and that was wrong.”
Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins airs Sunday and Monday nights on Channel 4 at 9pm.
‘It’s nothing short of a disgrace’ rages Sky Sports pundit as ‘carnage’ League One club at risk of going bust
FORMER Reading star Ady Williams has labelled goings on at his old club a “disgrace” after Rob Couhig’s proposed takeover fell through this week.
Former Wycombe owner Couhig, 75, had satisfied EFL chiefs and had invested at least £5million into the Royals.
But the American has now been paid back, after Reading owner Dai Yongge failed to complete a deal.
Fans have frequently protested against Dai, whose several late payments in recent years have led to multiple points deductions and relegation from the Championship.
Reading are currently operating on money received via a sell-on clause in Michael Olise‘s £8million sale to Crystal Palace in 2021, after the French winger joined Bayern Munich in the summer.
Following the collapse of Couhig’s takeover, Royals fans planned a further protest for during today’s home match against Huddersfield.
Reporting from the game for Sky Sports, former Reading favourite Ady Williams pulled no punches on the club’s situation.
Reading born Williams, who played more than 300 times for his hometown club, said: “What’s happened at this football club at boardroom level and off the pitch is nothing short of a disgrace.
“It’s carnage at the moment. Rob Couhig came in, as Jobi (McAnuff) said it looked like this was going to be the deal and I was thinking Reading fans can finally put this to bed, all these embargoes and protests and pitch invasions and whatever it may be.
“But Mr Couhig pulled out for whatever reason and we’re back to square one. It’s a tragedy, it really is.
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“For these Reading fans and the backroom staff and the players and manager – everybody connected with the club – it is carnage off the pitch.”
In the 18th minute of today’s match, Reading fans held up red cards with the message: “Dai family sell Reading FC.”
The Royals then went behind in the 21st minute, via Matty Pearson’s opener.
But Ruben Selles’ side were level on the half hour via Harvey Knibbs’ effort, before claiming a 57th minute lead via Ben Elliott.
Earlier this week, Selles admitted his frustration at the situation.
The former Southampton boss, 41, told the BBC: “I have had enough of this situation now.
“All the bad situations that can happen in football have happened to me in the last 16 months.
“I have a fantastic group of players that have been fighting against those situations but it gets to a point where you cannot anymore, you are repeating the things in the cycle.
“I’m not a person that likes to quit but I do need to reflect on where could be the ending point because I’m not happy with everything that’s happened.”
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