Individuals who do so much for the wildlife and our planet always have our deepest respect. These people teach us that if we really care, we can do a lot for the creatures we share this Earth with.
Damian Aspinall is one of them. He is a well-known wildlife conservationist who has raised and released a number of zoo-bred lowland gorillas in Gabon. Now, it was time for him to meet two of them and see how they are doing in their natural habitat. But he didn’t go alone. His wife Victoria accompanied him and she was equally eager to get to know them.
Both Djalta and Ima were released into the wild back in 2003 after Damian raised them as small babies at the Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent.
The encounter with his old pals that was about to take place that day surprised everyone.
Namely, Western Lowland gorillas are known as territorial animals who don’t get affectionate with humans easily. That meant there was a possibility for them not to welcome Damian into their home.
People even warned them to be extra cautious, because Victoria had never met the pair of apes before, but how the animals reacted when they saw their caretaker left everyone in awe.
They were extremely welcoming and affectionate both with Damian and his wife. The bond was instant.
The photo of Victoria in Ima’s lap stole the hearts of everyone who got to see it. It really showed how gentle and playful these animals can be.
The two played together and exchanged lots of hugs and kisses. The best part of it all was when the gorilla stole Victoria’s hat and put it on.
Both Damian and Victoria are extremely lucky to be able to spend time with such gracious and huge creatures.
The video of the encounter is so sweet, it will definitely make you go aww!
Elvis Presley, “The King of Rock&Roll,” is still considered an icon and a legend. His music has continued to live long after his passing as he gave the world some of the best songs ever written and performed.
Well, what Presley was to America, another legend of his own, Tommy Steele, was to England. The two musicians were very close friends who learned from one another and appreciated each other’s talent and passion for rock&roll.
Today, Tommy Steele isn’t part of the showbiz as much as he was before because he turned to other things that fulfill him, such as acting in musicals, but he remains one of the best English musicians there are.
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Born in 1936, in Bermondsey, London, England, Steele was forced to spend a lot of time at a hospital as a young child.
“The war had been over three or four years, and I was trapped in a hospital bed,” he told Herald Scotland. “It was only when these red spots exploded on my ankles the docs realized I had the King’s Disease.
“When I learned of the madness I panicked – and so did my mum.”
At the time he joined the Merchant Navy at 16, someone taught Steele three chords and he was able to play pretty much every country song.
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On a trip to the U.S., Steele saw Buddy Holly perform and he just knew that music was his thing. “When we got New York I bought the sheet music to a load of rock ’n’ roll songs and by the time I got back to London I could play them all.”
Although rock&roll wasn’t a huge thing in England back then, Steele promoted it, and soon, his first solo, the single Rock With theCaveman, reached No. 13 on the UK Singles Chart.
“All of a sudden, I’m the first rock ‘n’ roll singer because no one my age played guitar or could sing country in England,” Steele told the Daily Record in 2008.
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Being icons, Presley and Steele crossed paths eventually and became very good friends. Up util recently, everyone believed that Presley only visited Great Britain once, when he was getting from military service in Germany to the U.S. In fact, there is a sign at Prestwick Airport in Scotland proudly proclaiming that it is the only place in the UK ever visited by The King. Well, it turns out Presley was in England back in 1958, according to Steele’s long-time friend, theatre producer Bill Kenwright.
Speaking on BBC’s Radio2, Kenwright said, “I remember [Tommy] telling me about when Elvis came to England very quietly,” as quoted by The Guardian.
“Evidently Tommy got home one night and the phone rings. A voice says, ‘They tell me you’re good.’ Tommy says, ‘Who’s this?’ Kenwright continued. “‘Elvis’ says the voice. ‘Get outta here,’ says Tommy. ‘Are you as good as me?’ says Elvis … and they started this mock rivalry.”
“It all came from that. It’s quite something isn’t it – the thought of them wandering around London together? But the impression I got was that they never got out of the car… It was more like, ‘There’s Buckingham Palace… there’s the Houses of Parliament.’
“Tommy is a very private person who doesn’t go into the past. It’s only me who makes him talk about it.”
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Steele, on the other hand, is pretty discrete about meeting Presley privately.
“What actually happened many years ago is something secret and memorable,” he told Reuters. “It was an event shared by two young men sharing the same love of their music and the same thrill of achieving something unimaginable.
“I swore never to divulge publicly what took place and I regret that it has found some way of ‘getting into the light’
“I can only hope he (Presley) can forgive me.”
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There is also this fun story involving the two. Apparently, Steele was a huge name in Sweden, and a Swedish magazine once organized voting asking people to decided who the real rock&roll star was, Steele or Presley. Steele ended up winning “the match.”
“[Elvis] called me and asked if I’d heard that you could vote on who was the best one of us in Sweden,” Steele recalled. “Even though he is, and forever will be, “The King”, I bloody won.”
Speaking of his friendship with Presley, Steele said,
“It was all about me and Elvis, we were the guys that gave 1950 its rock ‘n’ roll face, and we succeeded.
“Elvis was my friend, and there was never a rivalry between us. We did our thing, and there was plenty of room for both of us. But Elvis is the greatest, he is and will forever be “The King”. He already knew it back then.”
At the age of 48, Victoria’s Secret angel Heidi Klum, is still considered one of the most famous and most beautiful women on the planet.
The German-born beauty, who worked in her home country for a couple of years, moved to the States to expand her career and ended up on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1998. From that moment on, she received many offers from many fashion brands and placed herself on the very top in the fashion industry.
People Magazine named her one of the world’s most beautiful women in 2011. However, Heidi hasn’t limited her career to modeling only. She has also appeared in several TV series, and tried herself as a designer, businesswoman and an artist. She and Tim Gunn were hosting the reality television series Project Runway for 16 seasons before they moved on to the project Making the Cut which premiered in March 2020.
When she was 23, Heidi married New York hair stylist Ric Pipino who proposed to her atop the Empire State Building.
Pipino spoke of his love for the model openly and their wedding was in the spirit of the German culture with the two even sawing a log in half using a two-handled blade, which is part of Heidi’s home country’s tradition. But their marriage ended in 2002 after the two grew apart.
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Soon after, Heidi got involved with the Italian businessman and a huge name in Formula 1, Flavio Briatore. In May 2004, Heidi gave birth to her daughter Helene, but father Briatore wasn’t present as the couple broke up shortly after Heidi announced her pregnancy in December 2003. At the time she brought her girl into the world, the famous model was dating musician Seal.
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In 2005, Heidi and Seal tied the knot in Mexico.
“Seal and I feel very lucky that we found each other. He’s my best friend. He would never go in through a door first. He always opens the door for me and steps back so I walk through,” she said. The couple had three biological children together, Henry, Johan and Lou, and Seal officially adopted Helene ‘Leni’ in 2009.
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What Heidi and Seal had was described as special and unique by many. They were very much in love and were considered one of the best and cutest celebrity couples. “I’m sure people say things or write things about us. But we don’t look at that, and it’s better that way,” Heidi, who sometimes referred to her and her husband as the “colorful” couple once said.
Sadly, after seven years of marriage, the model filed for divorce in 2012.
“While we enjoyed seven very loving, loyal and happy years of marriage, after much soul-searching, we have decided to separate,” the couple said in a statement.
“We have had the deepest respect for one another throughout our relationship and continue to love each other very much, but we have grown apart.”
However, despite the love and respect they had for one another, they apparently didn’t have a prenup, so everyone expected for things to heat up when the time came for their assets to be divided. Magazines were writing at the time that Heidi was worth between $50 and $70 million, while Seal’s net worth was around $15 million.
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Both Heidi and Seal showed the world that no money would ever stand on their way of remaining on good terms for the sake of their kids. Just after the divorce, which took three years to be finalized, they signed a postnup. They also showed they were mature when it came to the custody of their children which is still “a confidential information.” What is known, however, is that neither of them have requested spousal support, according to the American blogger Perez Hilton. He labeled Heidi and Seal’s divorce “the easiest breakup.”
The only thing Heidi asked for was to get her name back. When she got married, she took her husband’s surname, Samuel, and once she untied the knot, she became Klum again.
From what has been known, the kids are spending most of their time with Heidi, although their parents share the custody. However, just recently, amid the coronavirus pandemic, Heidi filed an emergency motion after Seal wouldn’t let her take them to Germany where she has been currently working. Eventually, they came to an agreement and Heidi was allowed to go to Germany together with her kids and Seal was given the right to see them before and after their trip. He was also entitled to visit his kids in Germany and Heidi “shall cooperate and work together to make arrangements for.”
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In 2019, Heidi married guitarist Tom Kaulitz from the German rock band Tokio Hotel. She said she feels very happy and as though she has a partner for the first time in her life. Interestingly enough, Seal said something very similar about the new person in his life.
Meet the Gardners, one of the most adorable and most special families. If you ask why, just wait until you hear their incredible story.
Ashley and Tyson knew they were meant to spend their life together the moment they met. They also knew they wanted to be parents. But that seemed to be a bit harder than they both expected.
They were trying to conceive for more than eight years and spent most of their savings on expensive treatments that would help them become a mom and a dad.
When they went to the hospital, Tyson decided to film the moment when the doctors tell them whether the IVF treatment was successful or not because he really wanted to film his wife’s reaction in case they were told they would become parents. Tyson was somehow sure that it will work for the best this time, and he was right.
The so much-anticipated news finally came and the couple was over the moon.
All this family was hoping for was to have a child, but they never assumed that God would give them way more than that.
The ultrasound showed not one, two, or three, but four babies.
What’s more, they were expecting two sets of identical twins.
“When we first found out we were having quadruplets, it was pure terror and pure joy at the same time,” Ashley said on her website.
“The doctors said we only had a 40% chance of having one baby, so to have all four to come at once was a huge blessing and a huge miracle.”
Doctors said that Ashley’s pregnancy was sort of a miracle because it only occurs once in 70 million cases.
This was all overwhelming for the parents-to-be but they were more than happy to take on the role of mom and dad and start the adventure of parenthood along with their bundles of joy.
Carrying four babies wasn’t at all easy, but the thought of having them in her arms made Ashley pull through. Luckily, the delivery went smoothly and there were no complications.
“But I didn’t know anyone who’d had quadruplets. I didn’t know if it was physically possible for a woman, I knew nothing about it. I had vertigo and morning sickness for the first 16 weeks. I couldn’t eat anything and I lost 20 pounds in my first trimester. My body hurt, my bones hurt and my hips would dislocate every time I rolled over.”
Babies Evangeline, Indie, Esme and Scarlet said hi to the world and were perfectly healthy.
Learning of Ashley’s miraculous pregnancy, many media and TV shows picked up their story and invited them to be their guests.
People sent the Gardners their best wishes along with a bunch of clothes and other supplies for the babies as they were aware the family would have troubles covering all the expenses.
“My heart was truly touched by the amount of nappies and baby outfits that turned up by our door when they were born,” Ashley said. “There really are amazing, kind, good people out there and I’m so grateful to those who follow our story and love these babies.”
This family is definitely one of the most adorable we’ve ever met. The little girls are cute beyond words and are lucky to have such caring and loving parents like Ashley and Tyson.
If you want to learn more, check out the video below.
Jack Nicholson’s career in the movie industry is beyond impressive. He’s one of two actors ever to be nominated for the prestigious award Oscar every decade from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Over the span of 60 years, Nicholson played remarkable roles. His distinctive eyebrows, awesome looks, and deep voice made him the perfect fit for the roles of many villains. Of course, he has never limited himself in playing just certain kinds of characters, but showed versatility not many can achieve.
Nicholson got into the world of movies when he made his debut in the low-budget crime flick Cry Baby Killer in 1958, playing a teenager who mistakenly believes he committed murder. From that moment on, the sky was the limit for young and talented Nicholson who will later be widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of his generation and beyond.
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Today, Nicholson is 83-years-old and retired from acting. And although everyone knows him best for his talent and successful career, there is a story of his personal life that many people find intriguing.
Most of his life, Nicholson believed that his grandparents were his parents when in fact he was the son of their daughter June whom they presented to Nicholas as his sister. It took 37 years for him to learn that June was in fact his biological mother.
The truth was revealed when a Time Magazine reporter asked Nicholson about that. He refused to believe something like that could be true, but then his other sister Lorraine who was actually his aunt confirmed the reporter’s story.
His mother and grandma took the secret to their graves and he didn’t get the chance to confront them.
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Speaking of the secret that had been kept from him for so long, Nicholson said, “It was pretty dramatic event, but it wasn’t what I’d call traumatizing…I was pretty well psychologically formed.”
Allegedly, when June gave birth to Nicholas, she was just 18 years old and wasn’t married, so her parents presented her son as their own.
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There were many speculations about who Nicholson’s father could be, but nothing was ever confirmed.
Nicholson seemed not to be mad or bitter at his mom and grandmother for keeping the secret. He was reported saying, “I didn’t have to deal with it with them. They were dead. I am that kind of person-what do I feel-and had the tools to know what I feel. Gratitude. I’ve often said about them: Show me any women today who could keep a secret, confidence, or an intimacy to that degree, you got my kind of gal.”
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We believe that how he dealt with the huge revelation speaks a lot about him as a human being. Nicholson isn’t just one of the greatest actors of all time, but an incredible individual as well.
Whether you like her or not, one thing about Oprah Winfrey we all have to agree about is that she is one hell of a show host.
However, her life hasn’t always been an easy one. She was forced to go thorough some harsh times when she was very young, but those experiences only made her stronger and more determined to succeed.
Oprah is in a relationship with her partner of many years, Stedman Graham. In fact, the two have been engaged for 29 years, but never said I do. Some magazines were speculating that the couple is planning to tie the knot at an intimate ceremony in their lavish Montesito home but they haven’t commented on the rumors.
The truth is that they have both said many times in the past that getting married could only complicate things and that if they had married, their relationship wouldn’t have lasted.
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Throughout her career, Oprah interviewed a number of influential people, including Michael Jackson, President Barack Obama, Whitney Houston, Harry and Meghan, and a lot more.
At the start of her career, Oprah was one of the few women in predominantly male industry. That, however, never stood on her way of rising to stardom.
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In 2011, after 25 successful years, she decided to end the worldwide famous The Oprah Winfrey Show. But that didn’t mean the end of her career.
“I love this show, this show has been my life, and I love it enough to know when it’s time to say goodbye,” she said. “Twenty-five years feels right in my bones and it feels right in my spirit. It’s the perfect number. It’s the exact right time.”
Her show won eight Daytime Emmy Awards and brought Oprah a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. She also earned the People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Talkshow Host” four times. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
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Speaking of her private life, Oprah revealed that she doesn’t have many friends. On her podcast Making Space, she explained, “So, I don’t have a lot of friends. Everybody knows Gayle [King]. There’s Gayle, there’s Maria, there’s Bob [Greene]. And that’s, that’s about it, you know? Gayle and Maria I met around the same time and I never really expanded that circle. Until recently, I’ve become friends with a couple of people in my later adult life, in the past five years.”
She believes it’s not important to have a great number of close people around you, but for those few to be real ones.
Ever since her friend Gayle got divorced back in 1994, she’s been the “third wheel” in the relationship between Oprah and Graham.
“I’m a proud third wheeler,” Gayle told ET. “I make no apologies for that. I got divorced back in 1994 and I’ve been their third wheel ever since. The good news is that Stedman is always very welcoming, so it never occurs to me when she says, ‘We’re going to so and so,’ I’m like, ‘When?’
“It doesn’t occur to me that I’m not invited,” she added. “But throughout the years, we’ve gone on some great trips together. And that’s not gonna change.”
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Oprah and Graham don’t have any children, and they are perfectly fine with their decision because that’s something they both wanted.
“He’s never demanding anything from me like, ‘Where’s my breakfast? Where’s my dinner?’ Never any of that, which I believed would have changed had we married,” Oprah Winfrey said of her fiancé, according to Yahoo.
“No question about it — we would not stay married, because of what that would have meant to him, and I would have had my own ideas about it. I have not had one regret about that.
“At one point in Chicago, I had bought an additional apartment because I was thinking, ‘Well, if we get married, I’m going to need room for children,’” she added.
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Oprah said she believed motherhood requires responsibility and “sacrifice.”
“I realized, ‘Whoa, I’m talking to a lot of messed-up people, and they are messed up because they had mothers and fathers who were not aware of how serious that job is,’” she told People.
“I don’t have the ability to compartmentalize the way I see other women do. It is why, throughout my years, I have had the highest regard for women who choose to be at home with their kids, because I don’t know how you do that all day long. Nobody gives women the credit they deserve.”
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Today, Oprah lives in an estate worth staggering $100 million. Recently, she shared with her fans that she got her COVID-19 vaccines.
“A mother is an angel is disguise,” they say, and I am positive everyone agrees with this saying.
Mothers always hold a special place in their children’s hearts and lives. They are caring, loving, patient, and would do anything for their children’s well-being. That said, we should always find the time to remind them how much we love them and how much they mean to us while we still can.
Michelle A and her brother, who is a pilot for United Airlines, surprised their mother in a way she never expected.
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Namely, Michelle and her mom were on board, but the mother had no idea her son was the captain pilot on the flight. As she got into her seat, the pilot announced that there was a special passenger on board. He then said, “If you were a Capital Airlines stewardess, would you mind raising your hand?”
Michelle’s mom was surprised. She used to work as a flight attendant for Capital Airlines some 60 years ago before they merged with United Airlines because she wanted to focus on raising her three children.
The mom raised her hand, not knowing what was going on. Her son, the pilot, then said that she was the greatest mom ever.
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As everyone was clapping, the mom couldn’t contain her emotions. A moment later, the pilot came to her and gave her a big hug, reminding her just how much he loved her.
“You had the greatest dad ever,” she said to him and then turned to the passengers in the seats beside her and added, “His father was a pilot.”
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People loved the video so very much that it reached over 26 million views. It looks like everyone loves seeing a mom being thanked for everything she does for her family.
“You know life’s too short not say how you feel about your parents. I have the upmost respect for this Captain/son to do this for your Mom. I lost my mom way too soon to cancer so this means everything to me, I have the upmost respect for the captain to do what he did,” one viewer wrote.
Another, who happened to know the pilot personally, added, “I LOVE HIM!!!!! HE is my favorite Captain on United… extremely professional and kind to passengers. When I started out as a flight attendant, he was patient unlike other pilots lol. His mom must be incredibly proud for raising a fine gentleman!! Beautiful video and heartwarming. Thank you for sharing. We need more Captains like him!!! ❤”
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What a beautiful surprise, don’t you agree?
If you want to witness the precious moment this family shared check out the video below.
Faith in God is a personal choice. While some people’s trust in the divine is infinite, some deny God’s existence.
13-year-old William Maillis is a prodigy. He finished high school at the age of just nine and graduated from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. When he was just five years old, William could finish a 209-page geometry textbook in a single night.
In the future, he sees himself as an astrophysicist who would prove the existence of God.
Although he’s still very young, William challenged the theory of late Stephen Hawking who used to say: “Before we understood science, it was natural to believe that God created the universe, but now, science offers a more convincing explanation. What I meant by ‘we would know the mind of God’ is we would know everything that God would know if there was a God, but there isn’t. I’m an atheist.”
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William on the other hand says, “We know the universe has an age, right? 13.8 billion years. So, 13.8 billion years ago, the entire universe was reduced to a singularity, a particle smaller than a quark.”
He then adds, “However, if gravity is always working, i.e.: if you jumped off this building, you’re not going to fall 15 seconds later, you’re going to fall immediately, so, if gravity was always working, and the singularity was always there […] then the universe should have no age, it should be infinitely old. But it’s not, it’s 13.8 billion years old.
“And something can’t come from nothing, because it would have to exist in order to cause itself to exist, which is illogical. So, therefore, something other must have created the singularity, and that something other me observe as God.”
His beliefs also have to do with the fact that his father is a preacher who taught him that there is a powerful force behind the creation of the universe. William is convinced that force is God himself.
“I want to be an astrophysicist so that I can prove to the scientific world that God does exist,” he shared in an interview with HCHCMedia.
We can all agree that William is extremely smart. His father says that no matter his formal education, William is just like any other boy his age. In his spare time, he does what his friends do; playing computer games, watching TV and practicing sports.
If you are interested to learn more of this prodigy’s way of perceiving things and everything that surrounds us go to the video below.
