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‘People have lost their self-awareness’: The train guards tackling out-of-control passengers

“Behaviour on trains has definitely got worse over the past year,” says 33-year-old ticket inspector, Gregg*. “Feet on seats, litter, loud phone calls, loud music, people watching whole films without headphones. When I politely ask people to move their feet or keep the volume down I no longer feel I have the support of the other passengers – even though I’m trying to make the journey more pleasant for them. I get the sense nobody likes us since the rail strikes.”

In a candid discussion about her romance, Matías Gruener, son of renowned singer Susana Zabaleta, opened up about his mother’s surprising relationship with comedian Ricardo Pérez, a member of the popular podcast “La Cotorrisa.” The relationship has taken many by surprise due to the significant age gap; while Zabaleta is 60, Pérez is only 30. Yet, Matías expressed overwhelming support for the couple, stating the most important aspect is his mother’s happiness.

Interviewed by Mich Rubalcava, Matías shared his joy for Susana’s newfound love, emphasizing the life lessons he and his sister have learned from her. “Ricardo Pérez llegó a cambiar nuestra vida: nos enseñó cosas que nosotros no sabíamos de la vida y también nosotros le hemos enseñado y es bonito ver cómo sigue existiendo el amor,” Matías remarked, conveying how Pérez has positively impacted their family.

Genevieve Roberts explores the hot topics and parenting issues she encounters while raising her three children – two daughters and one son – in her weekly column, Outnumbered

When Richard Herring answered a phone call from his GP that would change the way he looked at life, he could hear his children, at home because it was lockdown, playing in the next room. The doctor broke the news that the comedian probably had testicular cancer.

“It felt like a film, we’d all been laughing together and then the GP’s voice was shaking. He sounded scared,” he remembers. Herring spent the next 90 seconds pinballing through emotions – and is reassured that his first concern was for his children, Phoebe and Ernie, then aged six and three.

“It was initially – and mainly – ‘oh God, how will they cope with losing a parent and not having a dad’, and I want to be there to help them through the more difficult teenage years,” he says. A good friend had recently died of a really terrible cancer, leaving a seven-year-old son.

“I was crying, and quickly realised that although it was partly for the kids, I was also crying partly for myself. I didn’t want to die. I was annoyed that after all the work I put into the kids, they wouldn’t remember anything about me, and they’d have a new dad within a year and I’d be forgotten. I also thought it would be better if I die straight away, before they have a chance to remember me, so it doesn’t psychologically damage them.”

He spent the next weeks under a non-medical self-diagnosis that he had two months left to live. So he tried to make events memorable for his children, building a snowman, only the snow was speckled with dog and cat poo from his lawn, and wondering how to make several hundred thousands pounds in 60 days to see them through university.

It was only a month later, when his testicle was removed and he was given the diagnosis of completely curable cancer with a 99 per cent survival rate, that he realised he didn’t have to live every day as his last. 

But his understanding of mortality has remained. “It’s obviously not nice to lose a body part but equally, instead of dying, I’m glad I had that time to understand what the absence of myself would mean.”

Herring was 47 when he became a parent. While I’ve been described as a “geriatric” mother, it’s not a description – or insult, if you’re feeling sensitive – often aimed at dads. “I became a dad late and that is the fear – that you’ll leave them too soon. And you can still die as a younger man. Even if cancer doesn’t take you, there’s a million other ways you can exit early. It’s not a bad thing to be prepared and think what it means to you,” he believes. “There are no guarantees.” This is my recurrent 4am fear – and one I’m sure I share with a huge number of parents – but it must feel much sharper after a cancer diagnosis.

On a more prosaic level, he’s more tired than when younger. “I feel an affinity with kids because I’ve quite a childish brain and I love playing stuff,” he says. “But I’m not as much fun as I thought; I’m too exhausted. My wife plays more than I do.”

All the same, Herring is pleased he had children in his fifth decade. “Before 40, I struggled to remain committed in a relationship; my job was all encompassing. Until I met Katie, I wasn’t ready to properly settle down,” he says. “I’d never been in a relationship longer than two years. I love my job, but it doesn’t feel the most important thing now. If I had to do one thing, it would be a Dad – I suppose that’s what everyone thinks but it’s not even close – that’s more of my identity now. I always really wanted kids and I would have risen to it. But it might have been more difficult to have a stable relationship [working away].”

Cancer brought Herring’s priorities into focus. “I want to spend as much time with the children as I can,” he says. I’m chatting to Herring while he’s on his way to Cardiff to perform his show Can I Have my Ball Back? He’s sold out gigs nationwide turning the most serious of subjects into moving, heartwarming material. He’s aware of the irony of leaving his children to talk on stage about how much they mean. “I was away three days last week and my son said: ‘If you want to go again, you have to ask my permission and I’m not giving you permission.’ He missed me, and I missed them as well.”

His work schedule, which includes book writing and podcast recording at Leicester Square theatre (I’d highly recommend watching) alongside touring (three or four nights is the longest he’s away), allows him more family time than the average parent. “I’m lucky. I’m working from home a lot, and really appreciate being around,” he says. Phoebe’s now 10, while Ernie’s seven.

“They’re in a lovely space, we have fun and conversations and create stuff – and they don’t fight too much. Even though I was never going to die, I had the feeling I was going to die, so it all feels like extra time. We went on a 10-mile bike ride in Cheddar and I thought: ‘We would never have had this.’” 

Herring delights in Ernie’s glee at his own jokes and says Phoebe shows affection by trying to get him to laugh – and trying not to laugh at his jokes. “We communicate through humour,” he says. “She’s very good at burns and has a good wit.” They were recently watching Would I Lie to You together and he was delighted they laughed at the same bits. “They both make little videos so there’s every danger they’ll follow the same route,” he says, though he certainly wouldn’t push them into a comedy career.

While cancer gave him a sense of perspective, he was always a laidback parent who rarely shouted. “I’m quite patient: I sort of see them as hecklers and if you lose your cool then you’ve lost. So I try not to let them get to me. Sometimes I fail though,” he says.

This sounds like a brilliant attitude: I resolve to treat my own children as mini-hecklers when my patience wears thin. “I might raise my voice once a month, but not in a serious way, just to try to control the situation. And that happens less since the cancer, too. I find most of the stuff they do that’s bad quite funny. I try not to laugh,” he admits. “My wife takes things more seriously and more to heart. I’m quite good in the morning, even when I’ve been at a gig, and I wake up early anyway now, so I usually take the mornings regardless.” 

Would he describe himself as a “gentle” parent, I ask, conscious the term has taken a bashing of late. ‘Yeah, I’m pretty gentle,” he says. Herring recognises himself in some of his son’s behaviour: he remembers as a child feeling upset by criticism but pretending it wasn’t bothering him by ignoring it, so when he sees Ermie doing the same he just feels “empathy – and guilt for passing it on.”

While he’s not anti-technology – Phoebe recently got her first smart phone and used it to have a “brilliant conversation” with him about how she baked a cake – he’s treading carefully with internet use. “It’s on the understanding that we get to look at it all the time,” he explains. “My wife wants to stop them looking at YouTube, which I’m not sure is the best way. I think the thing is to be with them when they’re doing it, so you can monitor. It’s a terrible minefield, because things come up so quickly.”

Herring’s parents, both teachers (his dad was headteacher of his school) were stricter than he is with his children. “I think they slightly envy our generation for being a little bit more friendly with our kids. They were and are good parents. My dad instilled a sense of decency in me, an underlying thing even though my job is the opposite,” he says.

“I don’t remember my dad not telling me loves me, but I don’t remember much of him telling me he loves me. I had a happy childhood, though, and don’t feel especially screwed up – especially for a comedian. There’s a few things in life where I go: ‘Am I doing that to try and impress my dad?’ He has a couple of times said he’s proud of me the last 10 years, whereas I tell my kids I love them and I’m proud of them all the time, probably ten times a day, which is too much.”

I’m left wondering if it’s ever possible to tell children we love them too much.

Richard Herring is on tour with his critically acclaimed new stand-up show, Can I Have My Ball Back? For more info and tickets, visit richardherring.com

Midwives and a junior doctor told Mrs Tierney that a Caesarean section had been ruled out for the evening of 9 October as they wanted to wait until morning.

However, in the early hours of Sunday morning when Martina could no longer get off the bed due to the pain, she told a midwife she could not feel the baby move.

At about 05:30 two CTGs and a scan could not find a foetal heartbeat, and Martina was told the baby had died.

“I was just numb, however those feelings turned to anger because I hadn’t been listened to. That anger then turned to guilt because maybe I should have shouted louder – but I know I did shout – just no-one listened,” Martina said.

Ryan Tierney said losing his daughter Molly and everything that happened both prior to her death and following it had been “harrowing”.

He said “the ombudsman’s report has been scathing”, claiming that there had been “an attempted coverup, notes went missing and falsified, we are fuming”.

“Our daughter was perfect, absolutely perfect and that’s what makes it all so frustrating, it was all completely avoidable,” Ryan said.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan paid tribute to her late father, Krishnaraj Rai, by sharing a heartfelt post on Instagram on Tuesday night. The Bollywood star posted a picture of her father along with an emotional message, expressing her eternal love for him and gratitude for his constant blessings.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan remembers late Father Krishnaraj Rai in heartfelt tribute

She wrote, “Love you eternally dearest darling Daddy-Ajjaaa. Thank you for all your loving blessings always.”

Aishwarya Rai’s father passed away in 2017 at Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital after reportedly battling cancer for several years. He was an army biologist by profession. As a tribute, the Bachchan family had called off all celebrations in their home that year.

Krishnaraj Rai is survived by his wife and two children, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Aditya Rai. Aishwarya is married to Abhishek Bachchan, but rumors of trouble in their marriage have been circulating for a while. Speculation grew stronger after the couple made separate appearances for the media at Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s wedding last year.

Additionally, Aishwarya later posted photos from her daughter Aaradhya’s birthday celebration, but none of the Bachchan family members, including Abhishek, were seen in them. This further fueled speculation among netizens about possible issues between the couple.

Although Abhishek and Aishwarya have remained silent on the rumors, Amitabh Bachchan had previously shared a post that appeared to address speculation about their family’s personal matters.

“I rarely say much about family, because that is my domain and its privacy is maintained by me… Speculations are speculations… they are speculated untruths, without verifications… Verifications are sought by the seekers to authenticate their business and commercials of the profession they be in .. I shall not challenge their desire to be in the profession of their choice… and I shall appreciate their effort in serving society… But untruths… or selected question marked information can be a legal safeguard for them that inform… but the seed of suspected belief is sown with this most used emblem… the question mark…?” he said.

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Tejasswi Prakash and Karan Kundrra, the lovebirds of the entertainment industry, have been dating for a while now. Every year, rumors of their marriage go viral on the internet, and fans get heartbroken as their favorite couple often denies these speculations. However, it now seems that Tejasswi and Karan will finally get hitched this year. Yes, this news was officially confirmed by Tejasswi’s mother on Celebrity MasterChef.

In the latest episode of Celebrity MasterChef, Tejasswi Prakash’s mother made a special appearance in the family week to support her daughter. After Tejasswi presented her dish to the judges, Farah Khan questioned Tejasswi’s mother, “Shaadi kab hogi? (When will the wedding happen?).” Replying to the filmmaker’s question, Tejasswi’s mom said, “Issi saal ho jayegi (The wedding will happen this year).”

Farah Khan and the other judges were astonished to learn this news. Meanwhile, Tejasswi Prakash looked shocked and mentioned that there had been no discussion on this topic. Farah then teased Tejasswi with Karan’s name, leaving the actress blushing. Farah then said, “One person will be unhappy.” Tejasswi asked, “Who?” The filmmaker responded, “Chef Vikas.”

Farah teased Tejasswi saying that Chef Vikas Khanna would be unhappy thinking how Tejasswi got married as soon as he left the show. 

While Tejasswi Prakash avoided commenting on her marriage rumors, her mother’s announcement has definitely left fans on cloud nine. However, Karan Kundrra is yet to comment on this news. 

Recently, on Celebrity MasterChef, Tejasswi also expressed her wish to have a simple wedding. She said, “I am not big on that. I am okay with a normal court marriage. Hum log fir ghumenge, phirenge aish karenge types (We will then roam and have fun).”

Speaking about their love life, Tejasswi Prakash and Karan Kundrra fell in love during their stint on the controversial reality show, Bigg Boss 15. It was a Diwali celebration in the show during which they realised their love for each other. After they expressed their feelings for one another, the duo have been going headstrong since then. 

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In certain areas of England, around a quarter of children have suffered tooth decay as young as aged five. To combat this, Labour Health Minister Stephen Kinnock is rolling out a new programme. Supervised toothbrushing will be rolled out in schools and nurseries, along with 23 million free toothbrushes distributed to up to 600,000 children.

This is, in a sense, an admirable initiative. It’s deeply concerning that so many children, namely in poverty, are experiencing such failure of basic care. However, where the Labour Party are laying responsibility for said failure is perniciously misguided. The party’s official X account gloated that the culprit for these children’s poor health was “14 years of Conservative neglect.”

Any child whose milk teeth are rotting … are first and foremost victims of inadequate parenting

I appreciate X is the political playground — any opportunity to take a swipe at your opponent, however low-hanging the fruit, is taken. Still, a red flag flutters when the state implicitly assumes responsibility for the welfare of the nation’s children while erasing the role of their parents. At a push, Labour could have claimed Tory cuts to NHS dentistry were partly to blame for unprecedented levels of tooth decay (although, there is data to suggest that the health of children’s teeth actually improved under the previous government), but even that is swerving the real cause. While dental check-ups are an important part of maintaining healthy teeth and gums, fundamentally the best way to avoid decay is to limit sugar intake and brush regularly with fluoride toothpaste. Any child whose milk teeth are rotting because these — very basic — foundations are not being taught are first and foremost victims of inadequate parenting. 

The reality is a lot of social problems have poor parenting at their root. This is entirely obvious and yet massively taboo to acknowledge — just typing the words makes me feel like I’m asking for Helen Lovejoy or “Karen” memes to be sent my way. Politically, criticising parents or suggesting they should take more responsible for their children’s welfare or behavioural problems is unspoken electoral suicide. Nowhere is this more evident than when it comes to education. Teachers or the “system” become scapegoats for problems like the rise in childhood mental health issues or SEND children (i.e. children with learning difficulties). Since the disastrous school closures during the COVID pandemic, ill-defined “anxiety” has been conveniently used to explain away the rise of disrespect, falling discipline standards and screen addiction affecting children’s behaviour. 

Yet it’s been almost half a decade since things got back to normal and there’s been enough time for schools to get their house back in order. The real issue, as the teacher Laura Hudgens has argued, is that the sensible restrictions on screen time and standards of routine and discipline — both things which were massively relaxed by parents to placate their children during the lockdown — haven’t been reinstated. Her article was sent to me by a teacher friend on behalf of her fellow staff, who had welcomed it for summarising how they all (secretly) felt: it is time the red pen was turned on mum and dad.  

We must be honest about whether we as a society are more interested in helping the child or condemning the parent

Bring back shame is the (muttered) mantra of many in response to the decline in parental responsibility. Well, while I concede our culture of pathological empathy is causing more harm than good, walking the line between small-c christian kindness (“judge, lest ye be judged”) and enforcing a sense of pull-your-socks-up (or brush-your-kids-teeth) is particularly difficult when poverty is seen to be a factor. Also, let’s not forget that when people say “bad parenting”, what they often mean is “bad mothering”. A while ago, amid a trend of people going to their local supermarkets in pyjamas and slippers, mothers were particularly pilloried and held up as an example of all-round cultural decay. While I do find this an inexcusably slovenly practice  and agree it sets an appalling example to kids, let’s ignore the glee that underpins shaming, and that is often mixed with a heavy dose of classism and sexism. We must be honest about whether we as a society are more interested in helping the child or condemning the parent.

Any of us who did grow up in a small village will recall a family who were notorious for being “that family”, whose children wore dirty clothes, always seemed to have lice and were casually left out of the birthday party invite distribution. I remember “that” family very vividly in my own village. The Campbells (let’s call them), made up of a single mother, three sons and a daughter, all who showed up at school each day with a breakfast of Monster Munch crisps and bottles of Irn Bru. They were all clinically obese and their teeth, unsurprisingly, were rotten.  

On one hand, I look back at the mother and see a woman who, as we’d say in Scotland, had clearly had a “tough paper round”. Barely thirty, unemployed with four tearaway children in a tiny flat above a chip shop and no man in the picture, I’m going to go out on a limb and assume she herself didn’t grow up with a white picket fence around her house and fresh vegetables in the fridge. I cringe when I remember the mockery and judgement she and her children had reigned down on them. Then again, it’s hard to think of an excuse — regardless of upbringing — a parent could have for plying their children with fizzy drinks before eight in the morning. At what point do these efforts of empathy towards parents in deprived areas become the bigotry of small expectations — another form of classism?

It seems we are in something of a vicious circle: wanting officials to stop enforcing parental responsibility while outsourcing more and more of our common sense to the state. Journalist and mum-of-two Ella Whelan wrote of her irritation at an NHS campaign encouraging parents to cuddle and play with their babies because it insinuated the average British parent was a neglectful idiot. I sympathise with her sentiment but evidently, in a country where 600,000 children are not being taught at home how to brush their teeth, what seems like basic “well, duh” parenting practices to most of us aren’t being upheld.

This is a national disgrace and the government only worsens things by treating actual parents like a middleman they can cut out. On top of everything else, it places more strain on educators already stretched with the amount of nurture they are expected to deliver on top of meeting learning targets. (Many disdainful comments in response to Labour’s post have said things along the line of: “What’s next – teachers being expected to potty train kids!” As someone who works part-time in a nursery, I beg, don’t give them any more ideas). 

The old adage about the difference between catching a fish for a man and teaching him how to fish so he can feed himself for a lifetime rings relevant here. By all means, let the state give the nation’s children 23 million free toothbrushes if they need it, but it’s very wrong to shy away from the fact that it should be parents and primary caregivers alone who should be teaching this sort of life skill.

Chet Hanks recreated a humorous moment during his first-ever talk how appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show on Tuesday. 

The Shameless actor, 34 – who notably is the son of Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson – made his way to the main stage and sat down next to the host towards the beginning of the interview.

He then excitedly expressed, ‘Before we get started, this is my first time on a talk show ever.’

Barrymore responded to the news with a shocked look on her face as the actor then asked for permission from Drew to do ‘something that I’ve always wanted to do.’

He slowly stood up and then jumped up onto the couch and tossed his arms up into the air – referencing to Tom Cruise doing the same action on The Oprah Winfrey Show 20 years earlier in 2005. 

The Never Been Kissed star quickly understood the reference as both she and the crowd erupted into cheers and laughter. 

He then leapt off and landed on one knee and continued to make excited motions with his arm before running to Barrymore and high-fiving her. 

‘Do you guys get the reference?’ he asked the audience and then the host quickly chimed in with, ‘Oh my God! Tom Cruise!’

In 2005, the Mission Impossible actor – who was dating Katie Holmes at the time – had announced his love for the actress during the past interview on Oprah. 

‘What has happened to you?’ the TV personality had asked Cruise after he jumped onto the couch and he replied with, ‘I’m in love!’ 

During his latest appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, Chet also opened up about being ‘100% sober’ and gave a special shoutout to his ‘supportive’ parents amid his journey. 

At one point during the interview, the TV personality shared that he has been sober for a total of ‘three and a half years.’ 

Chet also shared that both his father Tom and mom Rita Wilson have been ‘super supportive’ of him and added that he ‘doesn’t take it for granted’ while greeted with applause from the live audience. 

‘I’m really, really grateful for both my parents. I’m at the age where I’m just really grateful for them. I really cherish the time that I have spent with them. They’ve stuck with me through thick and thin.

‘And I really am so grateful for where I’m at, where we’re all at, the things that I’ve got going in my life, all the beautiful people in my life, my relationships, my loved ones,’ he continued. 

‘I’ve gotten to the point where I fully understand those are the most important things by far and everything else is just a bonus.’ 

Drew also stated that she has been sober for ‘five years’ and referenced to alcohol as ‘poison.’

The actress then expressed, ‘I had massive support from my friends, too. And honestly there’s just days where I don’t know how they didn’t give up on me and I don’t know how they stuck by me and with me for so long. 

‘Like, they had faith that one day I would get there but what I’ve learned along the way is that family – whether it’s blood or found – do make you feel shy and embarrassed when you aren’t doing the right things, and the most proud when you are.’ 

Chet agreed and stated, ‘I think you just naturally end up feeling embarrassed a lot when you’re messing up. 

‘And when you are doing the right thing, you make your loved ones more proud. So I think that’s a pretty natural thing going on especially with family.’ 

Last year in July, Chet discussed his past addiction to cocaine and the effect it had on his family during an appearance on Bradley Martyn’s Raw Talk.  

‘I’m a f**king cokehead, straight up. Not anymore, but that is my drug of choice – cocaine, bro, like Tony Montana,’ the Project X actor said, referencing to Al Pacino’s character in Scarface. 

‘You’re like, “I know this dude’s a f**king cokehead, but I want a little bump.” I would go do coke with the cokeheads, and they would be telling me, like, “Yo, chill, bro. … Wait a second. Give it like 15 minutes.” I couldn’t get enough of that s**t.’

On his past addiction, the star then shared, ‘It’s terrible. It eats away,. You just, like, wither away ’cause you can’t eat, you can’t sleep.’

He also recalled how his parents staged an intervention for him when he was a teenager and also sent him to a ‘wilderness camp’ in 2008. 

‘I had been a really good, innocent kid my whole life. And then one day I just make that leap, take that step and it was like, ‘What the f**k.’ Where has my child gone.”‘ 

Chet continued, ‘Smoking weed, getting drunk, and doing stupid s**t. It was regular, but it was such an abrupt change that it was concerning.’ 

The star has previously claimed that his substance abuse issues began when he was just 16-years-old, but later checked into rehab in 2015. 

And during an episode of Surreal Life: Villa of Secrets on MTV which aired last year, he had the chance to celebrate two years of sobriety. 

‘Two years ago today, I was coming off a three-day coke binge where I didn’t eat, sleep or barely drink any water for three days straight,’ he said at the time. 

‘When I got to Vegas, I weighed 190 pounds. At the end of it, I weighed 163. I lost 27 pounds in three days. So my disease is gnarly. It’s not pretty.’

The actor further recalled, ‘I went straight from Vegas. Checked myself into rehab, again. Here I am 31 years old, broke, strung out, sucked up, just skinny. Just at rock bottom.

‘And I just knew, man, if I don’t change my life in a drastic way, either I’m not even going to be around or something bad, so bad is going to happen that my life might as well be over.’ 

The son of Tom Hanks has been keeping busy with his latest sports comedy series titled Running Point – which was released on Netflix last month on February 27. 

Alongside Chet, the cast also includes Kate Hudson, Brenda Song, Justin Theroux, Drew Tarver, Scott MacArthur and Max Greenfield. 

The premise is: ‘Isla Gordon (Hudson), overlooked her whole life, is appointed President of the LA Waves basketball team, a family business. She aims to prove she was the right choice despite skepticism,’ per IMDB. 

Chet took on the role of pro basketball player Travis Bugg in the series – which was renewed for a second season this month. 

When it came to preparing for his character, the star told Men’s Health this month, ‘I hired a private basketball coach and added that on top of my training regimen.

‘He just ran me through all the basic stuff, like drills that any athlete who plays basketball would be familiar with.’ 

The actor also talked about being open about his sobriety and told the outlet, ‘It’s not hard to talk about, because a lot of people struggle with addiction. 

‘They might not want to admit that to themselves. Maybe they’re just kind of stuck. If telling my story can encourage them to get out of their own way, that’s important to me.’

In regards to also working on his mental health amid his sobriety journey, Chet expressed, ‘I mean, being sober is the ultimate thing you can do to better your mental health. 

‘If you’re prone to addiction, I feel like it’s the only way you can start to manage your mental health. It’s when you’re not sober that the problems with your mental health get worse.’ 

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan took to Instagram to commemorate the death anniversary of her father, Krishnaraj Rai.

Published: 星期三,3月 19, 2025 05:04 上午 GMT-06:00

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, a celebrated Bollywood actress, took to Instagram to commemorate the death anniversary of her father, Krishnaraj Rai. In a poignant display of remembrance, she shared a picture of his photo frame, draped in garlands, showcasing a touching gesture of honoring his memory. The post also featured a heartwarming image of her daughter, Aaradhya, leaning her head on the frame, seemingly seeking blessings from her grandfather.

Aishwarya’s heartfelt message accompanying the photos expressed her eternal love for her father, highlighting the enduring impact he had on her life. The post serves as a testament to the enduring power of familial love and the importance of remembering those who have passed.

In the caption, the actress wrote, “Love you eternally dearest darling Daddy-Ajjaaa. Thank you for all your loving blessings always.”

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan‘s emotional tribute to her late father, Krishnaraj Rai, resonated deeply with her followers. Netizens showered her with love and respect, expressing their heartfelt sentiments through emojis.  One comment, “Such a lovely gesture Aishwarya, your father might be so happy to see you,” perfectly captured the essence of the actress’s touching gesture. 

Aishwarya had previously celebrated her father’s birthday on November 20, 2024, sharing a dedicated post and glimpses of her daughter, Aaradhya, who had just turned 13.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan‘s most recent cinematic outing was in the historical drama “Ponniyin Selvan: II,” directed by Mani Ratnam and released in 2023. Her performance in the film garnered praise from both critics and audiences. While Aishwarya has yet to announce her next project, her husband, Abhishek Bachchan, recently starred in the dance drama film “Be Happy.”

Rising Filipino actor Anthony Jennings is taking on his first international solo lead role in the upcoming horror-comedy-drama “Mother Maybe,” directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sonny Calvento (“Her Story”), it was revealed at the Hong Kong FilMart.

The genre-blending feature, set to begin filming in the final quarter of this year, follows Marco (Jennings), a young man who reunites with his long-lost mother during a high-stakes Asian game show, only to discover a terrifying secret: at night, his mother transforms into something monstrous.

“Anthony has this natural charm that makes him so easy to watch,” Calvento said. “He can make you laugh one moment and make you cry the next, which is exactly what this role demands. This balance of comedic timing and emotional depth makes him the right fit for Marco.”

The film represents a bold examination of the overseas Filipino worker experience, using supernatural horror as a lens to explore the emotional toll of migration. For Calvento, the project is deeply personal. “My family deviates from the traditional close-knit Filipino structure. My mother left when I was two, and talking about her was forbidden at home,” Calvento said. “At its heart, this film is my tribute to my mother. A monster separates us, but perhaps, through this story, I can bring us closer again.”

Jennings, known for his work in the hit series “Can’t Buy Me Love” as Snoop Manansala, has built a resume across romance, drama, and action genres. His recent projects “Incognito” and “Sosyal Climbers” have dominated Netflix Philippines’ charts, with the latter breaking into Netflix’s Non-English Global Top 10.

“Mother Maybe” is a tri-national co-production between Southern Lantern Studios (Philippines), E&W Films (Singapore), and Volos Films Ltd. (Taiwan). The project has secured significant industry recognition, winning the TAICCA Development Grant at Full Circle Lab Philippines and the Malaysian Development Lab for Feature Films in 2022, followed by multiple accolades including the TAICCA x CNC Award for Best Project and the MPA Grand Award at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest in 2023.