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The Hanks-Wilson family is full of actors, from Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson (naturally) to their sons Colin, Truman and Chet. While not everyone in the fam has as impressive titles as the patriarch Hanks’ best movies on their resumes, his kids are continuing to make their own way. Ahead of starting to work on the Kate Hudson-starring comedy Running Point, the 34-year-old occasional rapper received some sweet and signature advice from his A-List dad.

The actor-model revealed the sage and on-brand guidance his Forrest Gump–starring pops shared with him ahead of filming, and long before the basketball series landed on the 2025 Netflix TV schedule. The words of wisdom, the Your Honor alum noted to Page Six, were three major points that align fittingly with the Hollywood hitter’s professional reputation. shared he’s always sought counseling from his father in the acting biz, saying:

I’ve always asked him for advice when it comes to acting and he’s always given me really great advice. He just said, ‘If you just know your lines, and you show up on time, and you’re nice to everybody, that gets you a long way.

A High Court judge has ruled in favour of the adoption of a 13-year-old boy by his aunt against the wishes of his birth mother.

In her judgment, Ms Justice Nuala Jackson said the boy had a “deep-seated and expressed need for family stability” and said his stability has been provided by his aunt’s family, with whom he has lived with since shortly after his birth, “over a considerable period”.

The boy was placed in the care of his birth mother’s sister and her husband, shortly after his birth in 2011, on account of “challenges in life” faced by his birth parents. One of the boy’s siblings was previously adopted by his foster family.

The judge said his foster family had said they had been his “de-facto family for all his life” and that granting adoption would provide the boy with “security and certainty”.

The foster family’s adoption application was supported by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, and the Adoption Authority of Ireland.

In a sworn statement to the court, the mother said she did not believe adoption was necessary. “He receives the love, care and attention he requires. I am incredibly grateful for the care he has received. But the level of care he will receive will not change by the adoption,” she said.

The boy’s father neither consented to nor opposed the application.

Ms Justice Jackson said her conversations with the boy indicated he wished to be adopted. “I think he simply wants stability and predictability and confirmation that his lifetime family unit to date will remain such,” he said.

She said making the adoption order was “proportionate” in the circumstances of the case.

In the proceedings, the birth mother complained of difficulties in getting access to her son. She said she “never received any adequate support from the Child and Family Agency” and said since the Covid-19 pandemic her access became “very sporadic”.

Ms Justice Jackson said there were, through no fault of the Child and Family Agency, “considerable access challenges and shortcomings” in this case before the pandemic.

However, she said it was “all too common” that access arrangements for children in care “were hugely impacted upon during [the pandemic] with consequent detrimental impact upon relationships with birth families”.

“It is important that the damage caused by the pandemic be proactively addressed and that it not be permitted to be an occasion of further disadvantage to families within the care system,” she said.

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Prince William’s wife Kate Middleton has delighted fans as she made much-awaited announcement about future move following a joyful baby news.

The Princess of Wales, who recently won her battle against cancer, sent fans wild as by revealing her big plans ahead of St Patrick’s Day.

Future Queen Kate, who’s mother of three children, has confirmed that she will visit the Irish Guards.

It comes after a family friend, the Duke of Westminster, announced that he’s expecting his first child with wife Olivia.

Royal expert Rebecca English turned to X (formerly) to break the news about Kate’s decision, writing: “A solo engagement for the Princess of Wales.”

“As Colonel of the Irish Guards she will attend its annual St Patrick’s Day, presenting traditional sprigs of shamrock to the soldiers – and, of course, Irish Wolf Hound regimental mascot.”

Kate Middleton will present long service and good conduct medals to members of the regiment while marking the annual celebration at the Wellington Barracks in London. 

She will also meet members of the guard, alongside the ‘Mini Micks,’ who are junior cadets from Northern Ireland, before taking part in the official photographs of the officers and sergeants.

The father of Southport attack victim Alice da Silva Aguiar has been “overwhelmed” by support after a London Marathon fundraiser for a commemorative playground approached £125,000.

Sergio Aguiar, whose nine-year-old daughter Alice was one of the three girls murdered in the Southport attack on July 29 last year, is helping raise £250,000 for a new playground at Churchtown Primary School, which Alice attended.

Mr Aguiar will be running the London Marathon in April alongside Jinnie Payne, the headteacher of Churchtown Primary, as well as other members of staff.

Mr Aguiar said: “We have been overwhelmed by the generosity of the local community so far, not to mention the support across the country.

“Our serious training is ramping up now, and we’re determined to get this done.”

The new playground, which was proposed by Alice’s parents, will contain a dedicated performance space and an indoor/outdoor library.

There are also plans to revitalise the early years’ playground with a den-building area.

“The amount we have raised so far is phenomenal, but we still have a long way to go,” she said.

Rudakubana, who killed Alice, Bebe, and seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, was jailed for a minimum of 52 years in January.

To find out more about the fundraiser, visit: www.gofundme.com/f/churchtown-primary-school.

JD Vance has gone nuclear on CBS for ‘harassing’ his mother-in-law in an effort to poke holes in his politics. 

The network had gone to Vance for comment for a story it ran on Wednesday about his mother-in-law Lakshmi Chilukuri. 

The headline reads: ‘She advanced DEI at her university. Her son-in-law, Vice President JD Vance, wants to end it nationwide.’ 

The crux of the story was how Chilukuri had taken strides to DEI at the University of California San Diego, where she works, while her son-in-law is trying to outlaw it in government. 

And the Vice President didn’t mince his words when asked by the reporter for a statement. 

‘This story exists because CBS has decided that harassing my mother in law is a reasonable price in order to attack President Trump. 

‘I don’t like DEI, and I’m proud of what our administration has done on that front.

‘But I love my mother-in-law. If she doesn’t share my views on DEI I suppose I’ll have to do what 99 percent of Americans do when confronted with a family member who doesn’t always agree with them: get over it. 

‘I’ll choose instead to focus on her kindness and the fact that she’s an incredible mother and loving grandmother to the most important people in my life.’ 

Chilukuri has worked for the UCSD for more than 20 years.

She was named the school’s provost in 2018, and has helped create its pilot course on race, ethnicity and gender in biology and medicine.

The CBS piece forensically analyzed her DEI work.  

It also discussed how Chilukuri served on the university’s biological sciences diversity committee, after  moving to the states from India with her husband Radhakrishna ‘Krish’ Chilukuri.

That was in the late 70s, after which she gave birth to daughter Usha – the US’s first Indian-American second lady – in 1986.

Usha met her future husband two decades later while attending Yale Law. The pair wed in 2014.

Chilukuri, in the meantime, was rising steadily through the ranks at her own place of work. 

In a letter to prospective students, she emphasized the school’s ‘steadfast adherence to principles that drive equity, inclusion, and an embrace of diversity’. 

‘As we come into the new academic year with the pandemic not quite yet in the rearview mirror, with issues of equity and systemic racism, anti-Blackness and anti-Asian racism yet unresolved, we have before us both opportunity and responsibility,’ Chilukuri wrote at the time.

The piece also pointed to the university’s penchant for diversity efforts as seen on its website, and Chilukuri’s high place within the school’s faculty.

Vance and his disdain for DEI was mentioned in what felt like the same breath, as well as his and President Trump calls to end ‘wokeness’.

The story asserted such stances have become ‘a hallmark of their administration’s first weeks’. 

UCSD’s endowment is more than $1.4 billion, per the UC San Diego Foundation’s website – putting it in the president’s prospective crosshairs. 

Earlier this week, Trump threatened to revisit the grants of Ivy League schools and elite institutions that are seen to support antisemitism. 

It’s unclear if UCSD will be one of them.  

Vance has spoken fondly of his mother-in-law in the past. 

She moved in with him to care for his then newborn son, Vivek, in 2020, taking a year away from her career to do so. 

‘You can sort of see the effect it has on him to be around them, like they spoil him and sort of all the classic stuff that grandparents do to grandchildren. 

‘It makes him a much better human being to have exposure to his grandparents, and the evidence on this, by the way, is like super clear,’ he said. 

Poppy Sinnott’s mum said ‘something in her gut told her something was seriously wrong’

The parents of a toddler who started to ‘click her tongue’ were told by doctors it was probably teething, however the cause was far more sinister.

Poppy Sinnott was one-years-old when her parents noticed she was staring into space a lot, clicking her tongue and then having seizures.

Her worried parents Katie and Colin took their daughter to A&E, however were allegedly told by doctors it was ‘typical baby behaviour’ and probably related to teething. However when their daughter’s symptoms worsened, including twitching which would cause her to frequently fall they demanded answers.

Katie said: “I felt completely helpless because we kept being sent home. My gut told me there was something seriously wrong. When Poppy started twitching on one side, which caused her to fall over as she’d just started walking, I knew we had to demand attention, scans, and answers.”

After weeks of pushing for answers, Poppy was admitted to hospital and she was given an MRI scan which showed a shadow on her brain.

Her mum added: “At that point, doctors weren’t sure if it was a tumour or an infection. She had recently had chickenpox, so they considered meningitis or encephalitis and treated her with intravenous antibiotics and antivirals for a month. I felt like I was living in hell, uncertain about what was happening and terrified that my baby might die.”

The toddler was treated with antibiotics but when a second MRI scan was done and a lumbar puncture, the family were given the devastating news their daughter had a brain tumour.

After being transferred to Manchester Children’s Hospital a biopsy confirmed Poppy had ganglioglioma – a non-cancerous tumour which would continue to cause as many as ten seizures a day even when medicated.

At this stage Poppy was suffering from as many as 10 seizures per day, despite being on the highest doses of two different epilepsy medications. With her condition deteriorating the desperate parents made the choice to send Poppy for an 11-hour operation to remove the mass, which Katie called the longest and most terrifying time of her entire life.

The mum from Preston said: “Her first surgery appointment was cancelled due to a lack of high dependency beds, but in November 2019, she was finally wheeled into the theatre. It felt like we were waiting for years. Finally, the neurosurgeon came out and gave us the amazing news that he’d removed the whole tumour. We were beyond ecstatic, and Poppy was amazing.”

Katie said Poppy, who is now six-years-old, was “amazing and bounced back so quickly” after the treatment and recently was given the all clear after five years of follow up appointments.

Following her diagnosis her family want to raise awareness of brain tumours and are hosting a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party at the end of March as part of Wear A Hat Day.

The JustGiving page is already at 40% of the £500 target, with Katie raising £200 in just two days. The mum from Preston said: “She hasn’t had a seizure since [the operation], and not a day goes by where we don’t feel incredibly lucky.

“I’ve been telling Poppy for ages that she could have a party to celebrate with our family and friends after her last appointment, and I wanted it to coincide with Wear a Hat Day so we could raise funds for this amazing charity and the cause.

“This will be a wonderful way to bring closure to this terrifying chapter in all our lives, including for her brother, Jack, who was deeply affected by witnessing his sister’s seizures.”

Katie also wants to urge parents to persist if they feel like something isn’t right with their child. She added: “When we received the all-clear, I felt happy but also worried about recurrence. We’re living in hope and are committed to fundraising for Brain Tumour Research to help find a cure. I urge parents to persist if they feel something isn’t right with their child. Video-recording symptoms can be crucial, as doctors need to see what’s happening to understand it.”

Ashley McWilliams, Community Development Manager at Brain Tumour Research, said: “We’re incredibly grateful to Katie and her family for their ongoing support. Katie’s determination to fight for answers for Poppy is truly inspiring, and it’s heartwarming to see them turn their journey into such a meaningful event for Wear a Hat Day.

“Brain tumours kill more children and adults under 40 than any other cancer, yet just 1% of the national cancer research budget has been allocated to brain tumours since 2002. Families like Poppy’s are helping to drive our mission for a future where brain tumours are no longer life-threatening.” To support Poppy and Katie’s fundraising efforts, visit click here.