Naturally, there’s been a complete an utter media frenzy surrounding Taylor Swift’s, well… swift transition into her new, picture perfect relationship with actor Tom Hiddleston.
But now, a fan theory has emerged suggesting that the 10-time Grammy award winner’s new romance is all for show, and when we look at the evidence, we can’t help but wonder – have we all been played?
The people of the internet have done some sleuthing and have finally come to the conclusion that Taylor and Tom have been filming a music video for the release of her new album this entire time.
Let’s look at the evidence.
Hmm… Now that we think about it, Hiddleswift’s romance does look like a scene from a Nicholas Sparks movie.
Taylor is due for a new album
History would indicate that the blonde beauty typically releases a new record every two years. In 2014, she released 1989. 2012 saw the release of Red, and two years prior to that the world was treated to Speak Now.
The starlet also tends to release a single a few months prior to the whole album drop, so if this theory checks out, a new single would debut in September – which is also around the time of the Emmys in which Tom is expected to be nominated for an award.
The paparazzi have been able to get uncharacteristically close to the ‘it’ couple.
All paparazzi images have come from the same agency
The couple have been snapped all over the world, in many different locations, from the beach in Long Island to the Colosseum in Rome.
Apart from the fact that on each occasion they look picture perfect and ready for their close up, all images have been available to the media from the same image agency.
See Taylor and Tom’s PDA-filled European holiday in the clip below. Post continues…
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Body language experts say their PDA “looks staged”
“Whether Tom and Taylor are loved-up or not their poses do look staged and rather self-conscious.”
She added, “Either they are using their PDAs as a form of press release to announce their current state of romantic bliss or they are just keen to show both stars in a positive light in terms of desirability and acting ability.”
The couple have taken very big steps in a very short amount of time.
In celebration of July Fourth, the Bad Blood songstress hosted an epic bash with her infamous squad and her new beau.
Snaps from the day were paraded all over social media, but none was more telling than the loved-up snap uploaded by Tay’s best friend Britany LaManna.
In the PDA-packed pic, the 26-year-old sits on the 35-year-old’s lap as they the gaze into each other’s eyes beside married couple, Ryan Reynolds and his pregnant wife Blake Lively, who we must say look a tad more natural in each other’s company.
Earlier that same day, the handsome Brit was pictured with a fake heart tattoo adorned with a ‘T’, which matched perfectly with his ‘I heart T.S.’ singlet.
A strange thing to wear just weeks into a new relationship, don’t you think?
A dad was taking his children to the park one day when they were stopped in their tracks by a ghost.
Scotty Denton from Warwick, Rhode Island visited a playground but refused to let his children go on the swings because a ghost was already there.
In the video, which has already been viewed over 4.8 million times on Facebook, a blue swing can be seen swinging in the air despite there being no wind or anyone around.
They’re both cheeky, charming men who are using their royal stature for the greater good, but it seems Prince William and Prince Harry went head-to-head yesterday in their own ways.
The Duke of Cambridge has been a long-time advocate for ending bullying and on Monday, he released a powerful video for the UK’s National Stand Up To Bullying Day.
“Bullying is an issue which can affect any one of us, regardless of age, background, gender, sexuality, race, disability or religion. It can happen for many reasons. It is often stupid and cruel and can take many forms,” the 34-year-old said in the video.
“It is important that we recognise that bullying is not just confined to the playground or classroom, and it does not only affect children and young people. It exists all around us, in peoples’ homes, in the workplace and in their wider communities,” he continues.
Watch Prince William speak on bullying below. Story continues after video
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The two brothers have always had a close bond
The next day, his younger brother Prince Harry was out promoting youth sports in northwest England, showing his support for local projects that help social development.
But upon his arrival, a group of women were patiently waiting for the handsome prince, singing “I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”.
One of the women even propositioned him for a kiss which he politely turned down, and then he turned down a request to kiss one of the babies!
But it was all in good fun, with Harry saying that if he did, the little bub would likely cry.
We can’t decide which brother is the better royal – we love them both!
Watch Prince Harry politely decline a baby kiss below
She was abducted and 11 and had two children with her kidnapper – now she’s raising them alone.
Jaycee Dugard was just 11 years old when she was abducted by convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife on her way to school.
For the next 18 years, Jaycee was the couple’s prisoner, being held against her will in their Californian home and raped repeatedly.
Two years after she was abducted, Jaycee – then just 13 – became pregnant. She went on to have two daughters with Garrido.
By the time she was finally rescued in April 2011, the girls were 11 and 15.
Jaycee shortly after her release in 2011.
Now, seven years after she was freed, Jaycee, 36, has opened up about life with her two girls.
Despite their challenging start to life, the girls are doing well – one is at university and the other is about to start – and Jaycee is thrilled with the young women they have become.
“I’m so excited for them and so proud of all the challenges they have overcome,” she writes in her new book Freedom: My Book of Firsts, exclusively extracted in People magazine.
“My daughters are both so important to me, and I am so proud of who they are growing up to be. I’ve done my best to protect them over the years, just like any other mother would do for her kids.”
The genetically-blessed royals, who welcomed their first child together earlier this year, have opened up about the changes in their lives since becoming first-time parents.
“It’s amazing,” the brunette beauty told Sweden’s Svenskdam during a visit to Stenhammar Palace, situated just 120 kilometers south of Stockholm.
“He is very sweet and well-behaved,” the former reality television star revealed as she looked adoringly into her son’s stroller, where he napped peacefully, sucking on a dummy.
The new mum just can’t get enough of her sweet son.
When asked who the newborn takes after, mum Sofia quipped, “He’s a little mixture of both of us! And it’s different every day.”
And papa Carl couldn’t agree more! “The first time has been a shift, of course, but it is still absolutely amazing and wonderful,” he beamed to which Sofia agreed.
“Having children changes your whole life.”
The now family-of-three pictured taking their darling son for a stroll in the sun.
The new parents welcomed their sweet bub into the world on Tuesday April 19 at 6:25pm at the Danderyd hospital in Stockholm.
Just hours after he became a dad, the Prince spoke to reporters in a press conference at the hospital.
When asked if he had cried during the birth, he remarked, “Yes, actually. Of course. Couldn’t stop.”
“For me and my wife, this is obviously a great day with a lot of emotion,” he mused.
“Words cannot describe.”
The face of pure love!
After a few days spent enjoying the company of their new cherub, the oh-so-dashing Prince and his stunning wife revealed the name of their darling son.
An official announcement from the Swedish Royal Court confirmed that the mini-royal will go by the name of Prince Alexander Erik Hubertus Bertil, Duke of Södermanland.
The majestic name and title was announced by Carl Philip’s father, King Carl XVI Gustaf at a cabinet meeting on Thursday April 21.
Prince Alexander is set to be christened on the 9th of September in Stockholm’s Royal Chapel.
Australia is renowned for its venomous snakes, scary spiders and even painful plants – but the animals that pose the biggest risk to our lives might surprise you.
Between 2000 and 2010, there were 254 reported and confirmed animal-related deaths in Australia, according to the latest report from an online database of coronial cases.
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That’s probably not surprising, considering our country’s reputation – home to some of the world’s most deadly snakes, pretty scary spiders, plus some surprisingly venomous critters such as the cone snail, box jellyfish and blue-ringed octopus.
And let’s not forgot our most ferocious predators, sharks and saltwater crocodiles.
We even have a plant that, while not fatal, has a sting so excruciating it may have once been investigated for use in biological warfare.
These are the horror stories that spread across the globe and give our continent its fearsome reputation – however, the animals that really risk our lives are far more commonplace.
Horses and cows and dogs, oh my!
Back in 2011, Australia’s National Coronial Information System (NCIS) released its most recent report into the trends and patterns surrounding animal-related deaths in Australia, covering the first decade of this century.
Of the 254 confirmed and reported animal-related deaths during that 10-year period, horses, cows and dogs were the most frequent culprits, accounting for 137 deaths.
Horses (including ponies and donkeys) were the most ‘deadly’ animal in Australia, causing 77 deaths in 10 years, mostly related to falls. Cows (including bulls and cattle/bovine) accounted for 33 deaths – 16 by causing motor vehicle accidents, the rest by crushing, piercing or ‘unknown’. The majority of the 27 deaths caused by the third biggest killer, dogs, were from attacks, with those deaths mostly occurring in children under four years old and in elderly people.
Next up was our beloved kangaroo, which (indirectly) caused the deaths of 18 Australians from 2000-10 (mostly related to car accidents), followed by bees which killed as many people as sharks (16 each). Only at seventh and eighth place on the list do we encounter the notorious snakes (14 fatalities) and crocodiles (9 fatalities), followed by emus which caused 5 deaths, all indirectly from motor vehicle accidents.
Other deadly animals included fish, sheep, goats, camels, cats and jellyfish, which caused 39 deaths combined.
Almost three-quarters of victims were male and most of the deaths occurred either on public roads, in the home and on farms.
Shoot the messenger?
In case you hadn’t cottoned on yet, it turns out most of our perception of risk is somewhat out of whack when it comes to judging the likelihood of a deadly encounter with certain animals (what’s scarier, surfing near a river mouth at dawn, or visiting a friend’s dairy farm?).
“Our perceptions of the probability of an event has been shown to depend on its availability – how easily we are able to bring such events to mind,” explains Professor John Dunn, from the University of Adelaide’s School of Psychology.
“Events appear on the news and/or are talked about because they are noteworthy, unusual, or dramatic. As a result, these kinds of events are more available and hence we overestimate their probability of occurrence,” he says.
John points to a 1978 study, in which participants were asked to predict the likelihood of dying from certain of causes. The authors were able to show that the subjects’ over- and underestimates of certain risks could be predicted based on how often those causes of death appeared in local news stories.
“If availability was related to the actual frequency of occurrence of the event then we would be well-calibrated – that is, our judgments of the probability of an event would coincide with their actual probability,” says John.
I was lying in bed one evening, while my husband was in the lounge. I checked my emails on my phone and one came through titled with only my husband’s name.
It was an email from a girl I knew nothing of. She said “a friend of hers” and my husband had been conducting an affair for the past 12 months. She sent pictures of them together in our hometown. There were pictures of love letters, and intimate texts where my husband cruelly compared our styles of lovemaking.
My world shattered.
We had been together for eight and half years. We had a son together, barely more than a toddler. We never fought, he was my best friend, and in the blink of an eye all of the dreams that I had for our lives together were smashed to shards that were slicing my heart.
I confronted him immediately whilst he sat relaxed on the couch. I asked him who this girl was. He didn’t deny anything. He couldn’t. The evidence was there, however he said that he had just ended the relationship and that was why she had done this. It wasn’t “a friend”, it was his jilted lover who had contacted me.
I cowered in a ball in a corner of the kitchen like a small child. I felt sick. There was a lot of talk that night but I just couldn’t make sense of it all.
Sleep was scarce as I lay in bed on the very edge of my side, not wanting to be touched by the man whom I had once wanted to be so close to.
I told him he was in charge of our son for the day and I left the house before the sun rose as I couldn’t stay there a moment longer. I had already planned to meet a friend for brunch so I walked and walked until it was a respectable time to call.
I arrived at her house and we talked and cried, and we talked some more. He had been so sorry, he was so devastated at the pain he had caused. It was awful to watch, but I couldn’t deal with his pain and sorrow, he caused this.
I had had suspicions that something was awry. We’d been living overseas for his work for a few years. We had planned this before we married – a romantic adventure to begin our lives. We had our son in one country, then moved to another and then again and he gradually grew more and more distant.
We had always had mismatched libidos but I was content with our sex life. He wanted it more than it was occurring but never really initiated anything to show that was the case, so he spent a lot of time watching porn and masturbating and I was ok with that.
When we arrived back in Australia he became quite secretive. He spent hours texting on his phone. I would ask whom he was chatting to and he would say work or a friend but guys don’t text banter for hours. It seemed odd.
He became incredibly protective of his phone and one day he left it in the bathroom while I was in there. I heard it vibrate. I looked on the screen and it was just initials of someone I didn’t know. I left the bathroom and handed him his phone asking if there was anything he wanted to tell me.
“Nope,” he said. “Nothing.” And I let it slide.
Although I was suspicious, I couldn’t put the link together. He was always either at home or at work. He travelled a lot with work so I couldn’t work out where he would have the time to carry on an affair.
The first time he did something to bend my trust was in the first year and half together. He left his Facebook account logged on and I had a snoop and I found some flirty and sexy private messages. I asked him about them and he said they were nothing; an old friend who was like a sister. It was “cheeky banter”.
The second and third time it happened I told him I didn’t want to live like this with him sending flirty messages as if he was a single guy. He always made it out to be nothing. Eventually, he made me think that I was the one with the problem for not being ok with it.
We had been having relationship issues for a little while when the hammer dropped. We were rarely intimate and I was trying to get us back on track after the birth of our child. I would put on sexy underwear and make a special evening but he suddenly wasn’t interested. He told me that he needed time and space in order to rekindle with me so he left for three weeks.
I later found out that he spent those three weeks with his lover, who had flown to Australia for the occasion. They had shacked up together in an expensive apartment downtown.
The email I was sent included photos of them sightseeing. Here I was thinking he was trying to sort his head out. It was devastating … and yet, I wanted to stay.
He convinced me the affair was over, and it was a terrible lapse of judgment that would never happen again. He stayed at a friend’s house for a week and a half because I needed space but he kept telling me we needed to be together to work it out. Could he please come home? He missed our son … what was I doing to our family?
We began counselling and I felt I was getting somewhere but he just wouldn’t open up. I was willing to try. I wanted my family to stay together if not for me, for our son. One day I thought we could make it, and the next I was so bereft I felt like I may drown in my tears. I felt like I was going crazy but I was grieving, and he was so manipulating.
Six weeks after the initial email I received a second email, this time without the façade of the “concerned friend”.
It was her.
“Please get your husband to stop messaging me and just leave me alone,” she said, with accompanying images of texts from him saying that they could still find a way to be together.
I was done. The tiny bridge of hope I had for our relationship had been burned and I needed to face reality. I took our son, and I left that day.
That was one year ago.
I recently received an email from myself from one year ago that I wrote with futureme.org. The woman writing that email was hopeful she could work things out as it was before the final email, and she was so scared about how her life would look if this marriage ended.
My life looks good. It looks different to how I planned but sometimes stuff just doesn’t work out, and the only way to survive is keep moving forward.
Hillary Clinton will not face charges for putting US national security at risk by sending personal emails containing highly classified information.
Hillary Clinton will not face charges for putting US national security at risk by sending personal emails containing highly classified information.
FBI Director James Comey says that while Clinton was “extremely careless” there was no “intentional misconduct”.
“No charges are appropriate in this case,” he said, despite the fact that “it was possible that people hostile to the US had gained access to her personal email account”.
A year-long FBI investigation found Clinton had sent or received 110 emails on her personal email server that contained classified information, despite being repeatedly warned the server was not secure and could be vulnerable to hackers.
Barack Obama yesterday urged Americans to support Hillary.
Clinton’s spokesperson said she was relieved the threat of criminal charges had been removed.
“We are pleased that the career officials handling this case have determined that no further action by the (Justice) Department is appropriate,” Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement.
“As the secretary has long said, it was a mistake to use her personal email and she would not do it again. We are glad that this matter is now resolved.”
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