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LADY Gaga has told how she wanted to keep her April Fools engagement under wraps, but her secret was outed at the Paris Olympics in July, when the diamond sparkler was caught on camera.
PAUS mega star Lady Gaga appears on the Graham Norton show this week[/caption]
AlamyThe star talks about her engagement to her love Michael Polanksy[/caption]
As well as discussing her latest role as Harley Quinn in the film, The Joker Folie a Deux, Gaga also revealed that her engagement happened earlier than people realise.
She said: “He proposed on April 1st and I thought he was joking. Then when we went to the Olympics we were filmed saying hello to the Prime Minister and I was caught on camera, saying, “This is my fiancé. I had wanted to keep it secret.”
The pop-star turned actress has had a rocky road on the ride to love, but it seems she has finally found the one.
After her last engagement to Christian Carino broke down, the star met Polanksy and the pair first went public with their romance at the Miami super bowl in 2020.
During the Covid 19 pandemic, they were said to have quarantined together at her Miami home and in 2021 she told the Hollywood Reporter: “My dogs and the man I love are my whole life.”
The couple are said to share a passion for charitable work, as Michael is a philanthropist and is said to be developing an app for Gaga’s Born this Way Foundation.
Indeed, earlier this week, Gaga told Buzzfeed that her main goal now was to start a family, she said:” I am so happy to be in love and I am so excited to have a family.”
The Graham Norton Show, BBC One, Friday 27th September 10.40pm. Also available on BBC iPlayer.
PAGaga was on the show to promote her latest role in the Joker film starring as Harley Quinn[/caption]
SplashLady Gaga has never looked happier since getting together with businessman Michael in 2020[/caption]
1 week agoWorld LeaksComments Off on SAS hero, 52, who died in parachute jump was dragged into pond after flying too low during in daring stunt
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Staff Sergeant Chris Good, 52, was representing Great Britain at the 10th World Canopy Piloting Championships in South Africa.
britishskydiving.orgStaff Sergeant Chris Good tragically passed away[/caption]
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093987108523The 52-year-old (first from left) was representing Great Britain at the 10th World Canopy Piloting Championships in Pretoria[/caption]
FacebookThe SAS soldier made a late turn ‘that was too low’ and slammed on into the ground[/caption]
The South African Parachute Association said Good was immediately recovered from the “swoop pond” and pronounced dead at the scene after paramedics were unable to resuscitate him on Wednesday.
Sgt Good had served in the “Who Dares Wins” regiment since 2004 and had been part of its top secret E Squadron – also known as the Revolutionary Warfare Wing – which works with MI6 spies.
Mark Bellingan, head of safety and training at the Parachute Association of South Africa said the fatal accident occurred on Sgt Good’s second jump of the day, at 10.18am.
He said Sgt Good was “an experienced skydiver with 5300 skydives”. In a statement he added: ”Canopy Piloting is conducted over a body of water.
“While setting up for his landing in the Distance category of the event, Mr Good appeared to initiate a turn that was too low.
“His initial impact was with the ground at the entrance to the swoop pond. He then proceeded to cart wheel ending up in the middle of the pond.”
Bellingan added: “He was removed from the water immediately.
“There was no success in resuscitating Mr Good and he was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
“A cause of death must still be established as nothing obvious was detected on the scene.”
Sgt Good joined the elite Parachute Regiment aged 17 and performed with their Red Devils display team before joining the SAS in 2004 and serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He won a gold medal at the UK National Championships last month and revealed that he was wearing a new type of harness to let him fly further and faster.
He wrote: “As always, a change or development can bring risk!”
He also explained in a YouTube video that the so-called Newton harness was a challenge.
He said: “The challenge for this year, I have moved on to a new harness for distance and speed.”
He added: “It’s the first chance I have had to put this over the water.
“It’s just learning how that changes everything that we have been doing for the last eight, nine years in a conventional harness.”
He had been funded to pursue his skydiving by the military’s Talented Athlete Sponsorship Scheme.
And he was based at Netherhavon, Wiltshire, home of the Army Parachute Association.
British Skydiving, the sport’s governing body, said Chris was “a cherished member of the team and an exceptionally skilled skydiver.”
They added: “His loss will be deeply felt within our sport.
“Our heartfelt condolences go out to Chris’s family and friends during this difficult period.”
An Army Spokesperson said: “It’s with immense sadness that we must confirm the death of Staff Sergeant Chris Good in a skydiving accident in South Africa on 25th September.
“Our deepest thoughts and sympathies are with Chris’s family and friends at this difficult time.”
FacebookSgt Good joined the elite Parachute Regiment aged just 17[/caption]
