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Seinfeld and Analyze This star dies at age 93

<p>Comedian and actor Pat Cooper has passed away peacefully in his Las Vegas home at 93 years of age.</p> <p>Cooper was known for his regular appearances on <em>The Howard Stern Show</em>, and his role in the film <em>Analyze This </em>alongside Robert De Niro, as well as its sequel <em>Analyze That</em>.</p> <p>His producer, Steve Garrin confirmed the news of the star’s death to <em>Fox News Digita</em>l.</p> <p>"There was nobody like Pat Cooper, who burned every bridge that he went over. I put out a lot of the fires!" he joked.</p> <p>“He was one man who was honest. You could depend on him. You could trust him. If he gave you his word and said he was going to do something, he did it. And he helped so many people,” Garrin added.</p> <p>The Brooklyn-born comic also made a brief appearance in a <em>Seinfeld </em>episode titled <em>The Friar's Club</em>, where he played himself, after his reputation as the roast-master at the Friar's Club - where comedians throw their best jokes at each other - garnered the attention of Larry David.</p> <p>“I was sitting at his table in his kitchen and the phone rings, and it’s Larry David,” Garrin recalled the moment Cooper was asked to appear on the show.</p> <p>"He picks up the phone, and he hangs it up. I go, ‘What was that?’ He says, ‘Some nut.’ The phone rings again, and he picks it up, and he hangs it up.</p> <p>“I said, ‘What’s going on with you?’ and he goes, ‘Some guy says he’s Larry David,’ and I said, ‘Well, maybe if he calls again, see if it is,’” Garrin added.</p> <p>A few comedians have paid tribute to the star.</p> <p>“Rest in Peace Pat Cooper. No one ever had the fire for as long as you did. An absolute force of nature and one of the greatest comedians I’ve ever seen,” wrote American comedian, Bill Burr, on Twitter.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Rest in Peace Pat Cooper. No one ever had the fire for as long as you did. An absolute force of nature and one of the greatest comedians I’ve ever seen.</p> <p>— Bill Burr (@billburr) <a href="https://twitter.com/billburr/status/1666843262714535937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2023</a></p></blockquote> <p>“RIP Pat Cooper. I was lucky enough to interact with him on the radio, as well as Tough Crowd. We lived in the same neighbourhood and he always took the time to stop and talk for a few minutes in front of his apt,” tweeted American comedian Jim Norton.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">RIP Pat Cooper. I was lucky enough to interact with him on the radio, as well as Tough Crowd. We lived in the same neighborhood and he always took the time to stop and talk for a few minutes in front of his apt. His energy was limitless. Pat was an unstoppable, hilarious force.</p> <p>— Jim Norton (@JimNorton) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimNorton/status/1666619128273068032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2023</a></p></blockquote> <p>“His energy was limitless. Pat was an unstoppable, hilarious force,” he added.</p> <p>Cooper is survived by his wife, Emily Conner, two daughters and a son.</p> <p><em>Image: Grant Lamos IV/ FilmMagic/ Getty Images</em></p>

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Chilling new theory into death of Aussie real estate agent in Bali

<p>The family of Charlie Bradley have shared an emotional plea for answers, asking anyone with information on Charlie's final hours to come forward. </p> <p>The 28-year-old real estate agent <a href="https://oversixty.com.au/news/news/aussie-real-estate-agent-found-dead-in-bali-street" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tragically died</a> in Bali, after being found unresponsive outside a hospital in north Kuta, several hours after leaving a club on April 16th.</p> <p>Charlie's family are asking for anyone with information on his whereabouts between the hours of leaving the club and being found at the hospital to come forward, as they try to piece together what caused his untimely death.</p> <p>Charlie's sister Beth Bradley has told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11994795/Charlie-Bradley-Bali-death-sinister-new-theory-emerges-hunt-continues-man-filmed-him.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Daily Mail Australia</em></a> that she suspects her brother may have been a victim of methanol poisoning, after being assured by his friends that no drugs were taken.</p> <p>"Charlie doesn't drink beer - he sticks to spirits," she said.</p> <p>"There's a lot of methanol poisoning in Bali. It seems that a lot of the bars pump their alcohol with ethanol themselves to save them money in terms of producing it."</p> <p>"The body can't hack that much which can end up with you having hallucinations, not being able to walk, shaking and multiple other symptoms."</p> <p>Ms Bradley said she had "wracked her brain a million times over" in a search for answers for what happened to her brother and believes this was the most plausible. </p> <p>"Every time I've Googled people dying in Bali it seems to be a very similar situation and it seems to be happening more as of late," she said.  </p> <p>While Beth stressed that this was just a theory, she believed methanol poisoning could explain an unusual phone call she received from a doctor who treated her brother at Siloam Hospital in Kuta.</p> <p>"The doctor told me that a man had brought Charlie into the hospital and that he showed him a video of Charlie standing, looking confused and shouting," she said.</p> <p>"He then fell to the ground and was rolling around. He stood up, fell again and banged his head on the floor - five times. By the time he received Charlie at the hospital, Charlie had passed away."</p> <p>The family now face an agonising wait to repatriate Charlie's body for a post mortem examination in Australia to determine his cause of death. </p> <p><em>Image credits: Facebook</em></p>

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D.B. Cooper, the changing nature of hijackings and the foundation for today’s airport security

<p>Though many Americans may associate airport security with 9/11, it was a wave of hijackings in the late 1960s and early 1970s that laid the foundation <a href="https://theconversation.com/an-entire-generation-of-americans-has-no-idea-how-easy-air-travel-used-to-be-166082">for today’s airport security protocols</a>.</p> <p>During that period, a hijacking occurred, on average, <a href="https://today.ku.edu/2019/06/10/first-soviet-hijacking-triggers-insights-cold-war-boundaries">once every five days globally</a>. The U.S. dealt with its own spate of mile-high crimes, convincing reluctant government officials and airport executives to adopt the first important airport security protocols.</p> <p>The subject of <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21063148/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0">a new Netflix docuseries</a>, hijacker D.B. Cooper emerged as something of a folk hero during this era. While other more violent hijackings might have played a bigger role in prompting early airport security measures, it was the saga of Cooper that captured the imagination of the American public – and helped transform the perception of the overall threat hijackings posed to U.S. air travel and national security.</p> <h2>Incidents become impossible to ignore</h2> <p>The first airplane hijacking happened in <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/hijacking">1931 in Peru</a>. Armed revolutionaries approached the grounded plane of pilot Byron Richards and demanded that he fly them over Lima so they could drop propaganda leaflets. Richards refused, and a 10-day standoff ensued before he was eventually released.</p> <p>That remained a somewhat isolated incident until the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings">late 1940s and 1950s</a>, when several people hijacked airplanes to escape from Eastern Europe to the West. In the context of the Cold War, Western governments granted these hijackers <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/hijacking-and-right-asylum-aerial-piracy-and-international-law-p">political asylum</a>. Importantly, none of the airplanes hijacked were flown by U.S. carriers.</p> <p>Beginning in the early 1960s, however, hijackers began targeting U.S. airlines. Most of these individuals were <a href="https://www.tsi-mag.com/the-cuban-hijackings-their-significance-and-impact-sixty-years-on/">Cubans</a> living in the U.S. who, for one reason or another, wished to return to their native land and were otherwise blocked due to <a href="https://www.thecubareader.com/blog/the-strange-story-of-the-us-cuba-hijacking-accord">the U.S. embargo</a> against Cuba.</p> <p>U.S. officials responded by <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/46502">officially and specifically making hijacking a federal crime</a>. Though the new law didn’t stop hijackings altogether, the crime remained relatively rare. When they did occur, they usually didn’t involve much violence.</p> <p><a href="https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/15042-take-me-to-cuba-the-skyjacking-craze-of-the-1960s">Officials wanted to downplay hijackings as much as possible</a>, and the best way to do this was to simply give the hijacker what they wanted to avert the loss of life. Above all, airline executives wanted to avoid deterring people from flying, so they resisted the implementation of anxiety-inducing security protocols.</p> <p>That changed in 1968. On July 23 of that year, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/on-this-day-el-al-flight-426-hijacked-by-pflp-674735">hijacked an El Al flight</a> from Rome to Tel Aviv. Though that 39-day ordeal ended without any loss of life, it ushered in a new era of more violent – often politically motivated – hijackings of international airlines.</p> <p>From 1968 to 1974, U.S. airlines experienced <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11326472/hijacking-airplanes-egyptair">130 hijackings</a>. Many fell into this new category of politically motivated hijackings, including what has become known as the <a href="https://www.hsdl.org/c/tl/dawsons-field-hijackings/">Dawson’s Field hijackings</a>. In September 1970, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked four aircraft, including three belonging to U.S. carriers, and forced them to land at Dawson’s Field in Libya. No hostage lives were lost, but the hijackers used explosives to destroy all four aircraft.</p> <p>Additionally, and more worrying to U.S. officials, two different groups of hijackers, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-23-mn-48746-story.html">one in 1971</a> and <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/06/06/detroit-skyjacker-airplane-explanation/85314438/">another in 1972</a>, threatened to crash planes into nuclear power plants.</p> <h2>Cooper inspires copycats</h2> <p>Amid this dramatic rise in the number of hijackings, on Nov. 24, 1971, a man known to the American public as <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/db-cooper-hijacking">D.B. Cooper</a> boarded a Northwest Orient 727 flight from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle. Shortly after takeoff, he showed a stewardess the contents of his briefcase, which he said was a bomb. He then instructed the stewardess to take a note to the cockpit. In it, he demanded US$200,000 in $20 bills and four parachutes.</p> <p>Upon arrival in Seattle, Cooper allowed the other passengers to deplane in exchange for the money and the parachutes. Cooper then ordered the pilot to fly to Mexico but low and slowly – <a href="https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/db-cooper">no higher than 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) and under 200 knots (230 mph, 370 kph)</a>. Somewhere between Seattle and a fuel stop in Reno, Nevada, Cooper and the loot disappeared out the back of the aircraft via the 727’s <a href="https://saverocity.com/taggingmiles/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2016/07/727-Aft-Stairs.jpg">aft stairwell</a>. No one knows for sure what happened to him, though some of the money was recovered in 1980.</p> <p>Cooper wasn’t the first person to hijack an American airliner and demand money. That dubious honor belongs to <a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,909374,00.html">Arthur Barkley</a>. Frustrated with his inability to get government officials to take seriously his dispute with the IRS, on June 4, 1970, Barkley hijacked a TWA aircraft, demanding $100 million and a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court. Barkley’s efforts failed, and he ended up confined to a mental institution.</p> <p>The idea that Cooper might have succeeded, however, clearly inspired several imitators. While it remains uncertain whether Cooper lived to enjoy the fruits of his escapade, none of his imitators did. They included <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/richard-floyd-mccoy-jr">Richard McCoy, Jr.</a>, <a href="https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_1aac5de6-6eb4-5245-a126-7adf324d5eb2.html">Martin J. McNally</a> and <a href="https://www.wfmz.com/features/historys-headlines/historys-headlines-skyjack-of-1972/article_940d5703-8e18-528b-80c4-443b3607b6b0.html">Frederick Hahneman</a>, all of whom successfully parachuted out of the aircraft once they received their ransom payments, only to be eventually caught and punished.</p> <h2>Tightening the screws</h2> <p>In response to the spate of more violent and costly hijackings, the U.S. government established the <a href="https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/a-brief-history-of-airline-security-hijackings-and-metal-detectors/">first anti-hijacking security protocols</a>. Most of them aimed to prevent hijackers from getting on aircraft in the first place. The measures included a hijacker profile, metal detectors and X-ray machines. Specific to Cooper, airlines retrofitted aircraft with a devise known as a <a href="https://www.wikimotors.org/what-is-a-cooper-vane.htm">Cooper vane</a> that made it impossible to open aft stairwells during flight.</p> <p>The protocols put in place in the 1970s also laid the foundation for the expansive security measures taken after 9/11. A series of court cases upheld the constitutionality of these early measures. For example, <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/328/1077/1428246/">United States v. Lopez</a>, decided in 1971, upheld the use of the hijacker profile.</p> <p>More importantly, in <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/454/769/438142/">United States v. Epperson</a>, a federal court ruled in 1972 that the government’s interest in preventing hijackings justified the requirement for passengers to pass through a magnetometer at the airport. And in 1973, the Ninth Circuit Court, in <a href="https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-davis-51">United States v. Davis</a>, declared that the government’s need to protect passengers from hijackings rendered all searches of passengers for weapons and explosives as reasonable and legal.</p> <p>These rulings upholding early anti-hijacking measures helped create <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/post-9-11-challenges-aviation-security-homeland-security-law-and">the strong legal grounds</a> for the rapid adoption of the more rigorous security protocols – including detailed identification checks, random pat-downs and full body scans – adopted after 9/11.</p> <p>The mystery surrounding the fate of Cooper may have afforded him an outsized place in American popular culture, but his crime should also be remembered as one in a consequential wave of hijackings that finally forced the U.S. government, airline executives and airport officials to adopt the first versions of the security measures travelers take for granted today.</p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images</em></p> <p><em>This article originally appeared on <a href="https://theconversation.com/d-b-cooper-the-changing-nature-of-hijackings-and-the-foundation-for-todays-airport-security-185562" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a>. </em></p>

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Bradley Cooper's unexpected new partner

<p dir="ltr">Bradley Cooper is dating Huma Abedin. </p> <p dir="ltr">Huma is Hillary Clinton’s top aide and the ex-wife of disgraced politician Anthony Weiner who was sentenced in 2017 to 21 months in prison for sexting with a minor.</p> <p dir="ltr">The Hollwood actor and Huma were introduced by mutual friend Vogue editor Anna Wintour and have been “quietly” seeing each other, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/07/12/bradley-cooper-dating-huma-abedin-thanks-to-anna-wintour-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Page Six</a> reported. </p> <p dir="ltr">“Bradley has been quietly dating Huma for a few months now, [and] they’ve been keeping it really quiet,” a Hollywood insider told the publication.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Bradley broke up with [actor] Dianna Agron and started dating Huma.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The insider is also saying that Huma has told close friends that she is seeing someone new but did not disclose who it was. </p> <p dir="ltr">“They are perfect for each other. They’re both into power and politics and human affairs.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Page Six reports that the pair arrived at the Met Gala together on May 2 before parting for the red carpet to not make their relationship obvious. </p> <p dir="ltr">Huma is currently in the final stages of her divorce from Weiner who she shares a 10-year-old son with. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I had my heart broken, dragged out, stomped on, humiliated. I lived with shame, in shame, for so long,” she previously told The Cut. </p> <p dir="ltr">“In hindsight, I was in extreme trauma.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Bradley was dating actress Dianna Agron before Huma.</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Images: Getty </em></p>

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Natalie Barr and David Koch taken to task over interview

<p dir="ltr"><em>Sunrise </em>hosts David ‘Kochie’ Koch and Natalie Barr have been slammed for allowing a controversial critic to go on their show in the wake of the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp trial.</p> <p dir="ltr">US commentator and critic Cooper Lawrence appeared on the breakfast show on Wednesday slamming Heard following her loss against ex-husband Depp. </p> <p dir="ltr">She said that the <em>Aquaman 2</em> actress was still trying to “continue the toxic relationship” with Depp despite filing for divorce herself in 2016. </p> <p dir="ltr">“Remember they had divorced in 2017, things were over, she said I want him to move on, I want to move on, but then she wrote this article and she’s been poking the bear ever since because she still wants him in her life even if it’s in a negative way … They do have a toxic relationship and she clearly wants to continue it,” Lawrence told the hosts. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I was kinda looking for her to be more likeable and more honest here and to say all the things we’ve been hoping she’d say all along which she does for like two seconds, but then she goes back to her whole, ‘Johnny’s an abuser, he’s a liar, etc’ … it’s weird.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The 36-year-old lost the defamation case in which Depp argued that she had defamed him by referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse” in an op-ed for The Washington Post in 2018. </p> <p dir="ltr">Depp was awarded $14.4 million (AUD) in damages after the jury ruled his side. </p> <p dir="ltr">Heard has an interview coming up in which she admits to having “so much regret” with her marriage to Depp.</p> <p dir="ltr">Lawrence accused the actress of “lying again” and that she just wanted the attention on herself. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I think she’s on the ‘you need to listen to me tour’,” Lawrence said. </p> <p dir="ltr">“Yet she has these awkward moments that she had during the trial where you’re kind of like ‘Wait, are you lying again?’ It’s like she can’t get her own story straight that she memorised for this interview, and she’s not even under oath.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Australian feminist writer Clementine Ford called out the program for allowing Lawrence on the show, particularly when Heard in fact won the case in the UK.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Why is @sunriseon7 so invested in wheeling out people to continually pile on to a woman who has already had 12 out of 14 allegations of domestic abuse against her agreed with in a UK court? Why is it so important to them that their viewers be fed the villainous woman fiction?” she tweeted. </p> <p dir="ltr">Others agreed with Ford but there is still strong support for Depp after he won the case. </p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Images: Sunrise</em></p>

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Dr Harry Cooper marries partner in sweet ceremony

<p dir="ltr">Dr Harry Cooper, best known for his time on <em>Better Homes and Gardens</em>, has married his long-term partner, Susan “Suze” Sheeran, in a ceremony ten years in the making.</p> <p dir="ltr">The couple shared exclusive photos of their special day with <em>Woman’s Day</em>, telling the publication it was a day they waited their whole lives for.</p> <p dir="ltr">“It was a magical day and I wouldn’t change a thing!” Sheeran told the publication.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I’ve waited all my life for this bloke … he’s a real genuine person - what you see is what you get.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Cooper and Sheeran tied the knot at their 125-acre property in Port Macquarie earlier this month, with just 42 of their closest friends and family joining them for the intimate ceremony.</p> <p dir="ltr">Sheeran glowed in her white lace gown, with Cooper complementing her look with his cream two-piece suit and panama hat and a four-legged friend joining them for the ceremony.</p> <p dir="ltr">“It was Suze’s idea to have Wendy in the wedding, our 12-year-old black Australian stock horse mare, as our ring-bearer,” Cooper explained.</p> <p dir="ltr">“We got Wendy at Christmas time for her to ride.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Sheeran added: “She was dressed up in roses … it was just wonderful.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The <em>Better Homes and Gardens</em> vet admitted he teared up when he saw his bride coming down the aisle.</p> <p dir="ltr">“She was just stunning … I’m all choked up just thinking about it,” he told <em>Woman’s Day</em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">The 78-year-old also recalled the moment he first laid eyes on Sheeran, saying it was love at first sight when they met at a friend’s backyard barbecue.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I saw a blonde lady sitting down at the end of the table … and I thought she was so good looking,” Cooper said cheekily.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Our friends disappeared swimming and we weren’t prepared for that, so we got talking and had a lot in common.</p> <p dir="ltr">“She’s very caring, she’s so hardworking and I’m so lucky to call myself her husband.”</p> <p dir="ltr">“We just connected - we clicked straight away,” Sheeran added.</p> <p dir="ltr">To see more photos from the couple’s wedding and their exclusive interview, you can read the full <em>Woman’s Day</em> story <a href="https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/celeb-news/dr-harry-cooper-surprise-wedding-exclusive-71463" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-dd637b07-7fff-d132-4d66-5a4f104d5055"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Images: Matt Jorgensen Wedding Photography (Woman’s Day)</em></p>

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"Worried sick": Ronan Keating's son Cooper rushed to hospital

<p>Ronan Keating and his wife Storm have been "worried sick" after their son was rushed to hospital this week. </p> <p>The former Boyzone member took to Instagram to share photos of 4-year-old Cooper in a hospital bed with an oxygen mask on. </p> <p><span>"Not the 24hrs I had imagined," he captioned his post. "But ya never know what life has in store."</span></p> <p><span><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="/nothing.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/5574dde3b455418aa749f97ea178fe45" /><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7844365/ronan.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/5574dde3b455418aa749f97ea178fe45" /></span></p> <p><em>Image credit: Instagram @rokeating</em></p> <p><span>"This little guy is an absolute Trooper," he added. "I'm blown away with his strength and charm." </span></p> <p><span>"Mum &amp; Dad are a mess worried sick and he takes it in his stride."</span></p> <p><span>Ronan went on to thank the dedicated staff at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital who took care of Cooper. </span></p> <p><span>While it is unclear why Cooper was admitted to hospital, a flood of get well wishes came from his 421,000 Instagram followers.</span></p> <p><span>Ronan married his wife Storm in 2015 after they met on the set of the Australian version of <em>The X Factor</em> in 2010. </span></p> <p><span>Since their wedding, they have welcomed two children: son Cooper and one-year-old daughter Coco.</span></p> <p><span>Ronan also has three other children from his previous marriage to model Yvonne Connolly: Jack, 22, Missy, 20, and Ali, 15.</span></p> <p><em>Image credit: Getty Images</em></p>

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"I lost her": Dr Harry Cooper breaks down as he speaks about personal tragedy

<p>Aussie TV vet Dr Harry Cooper opened up about two personal losses he's endured in an emotional latest episode of Anh's Brush With Fame.</p> <p>The 77-year-old struggled to hold back tears as he spoke about the heartbreaking news he received from his eldest child Tiffany in 2010.</p> <p>The 37-year-old mum-of-three called her father to seek advice, complains she was feeling sore on one hip. He told her to go see a doctor.</p> <p>“The X-ray came back and I said, ‘Read it to me. Read the report.’ It said there was a ‘fuzziness’ on the head of the greater trochanter (between the hip and femur).”</p> <p>“I said, ‘I want you to demand a biopsy. Don’t ask for it, demand it.’”</p> <p>Cooper said he instantly knew something was very wrong.</p> <p>“I put the phone down, walked out to the veranda, looked to the sky and I said, ‘Take me. Children are supposed to outlive their parents. Take me.’ Because I knew what that meant … when you see fuzziness on the head of the greater trochanter, you know there’s a tumour there. Any vet in the world could tell you that,” he said, fighting back tears.</p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height:500px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7842105/screen-shot-2021-06-30-at-15709-pm.png" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/b0c93efe10b64bd4989cceaefc3f2f32" /></p> <p>And he was right, Tiffany had colon cancer and tragically succumbed to the illness in February 2012.</p> <p>“She fought it for 14 months, and then I lost her,” he said. “And the last thing she said was: ‘I love you, Daddy.’”</p> <p>Speaking to Newscorp, Cooper said that after his daughter passed, he relied heavily on his two other children, as well as Tiffany's husband ("the greatest guy in the world"), but mostly his partner and "rock" Susan Sheeran.</p> <p>Dr Harry's popular show Harry's Practice ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003 - but halfway through its run, viewers were shocked to find out his beloved TV sidekick Rosie the dog died suddenly.</p> <p>Cooper also spoke about this loss during his appearance on Brush With Fame.</p> <p>He explained he was filming on the mainland in May 2000 when he got the call from his home in Tasmania to say that Rosie was not doing well.</p> <p>“She had a tumour on her liver … it’s inoperable,” he said. “So I said to my colleagues in Launceston: ‘Don’t let her wake up, mate. Put her down.’”</p> <p>Cooper choked back tears as he recalled his close bond with his beloved pet, who made it to age 11 and earned a huge fanbase among viewers of Harry’s Practice.</p> <p>“I always said, I didn’t make Rosie … Rosie made me. Of all the animals in my life that I owe something to, I owe it to Rosie.”</p> <p>Cooper said he received “something like 12,000 cards, letters and parcels” when Rosie passed. “Rosie will always be the best dog ever,” he said, his eyes filling with tears.</p> <p>Anh’s Brush With Fame airs 8 pm Tuesdays on ABC.</p>

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Little boy who drowned on school camp to receive proper farewell

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A large memorial service is being planned after Victoria’s latest COVID-19 lockdown ends for the little boy who drowned while on school camp.</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/health/caring/tragedy-strikes-family-as-little-boy-dies-on-first-overnight-school-camp"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cooper Onyett drowned at Belfast Aquatics pool</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Port Fairy on May 21 while on his first overnight camp with his grade two class from Merrivale Primary School.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though the family had </span><a href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/health/caring/mum-of-little-boy-who-drowned-hit-with-second-heartbreak"><span style="font-weight: 400;">originally planned to farewell Cooper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in their hometown of Warrnambool on Friday, their appeal to be exempt from Victoria’s lockdown rules for the number of guests at the funeral was denied.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Under the lockdown restrictions, the family held a small service of eight people.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“She had been incredibly understanding given the tragic circumstances, but she wants to be able to bring the community together, bring Cooper’s friends together and have that farewell that he deserves,” Federal Minister Dan Tehan said on Sunday.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The tragic incident is still under investigation by the coroner.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I am really disappointed in how this played out. The Acting Premier gave the family a glimmer of hope yesterday morning that there might be an exemption,” Member for South West Coast Roma Britnell told 7NEWS on Friday.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“She will celebrate Cooper’s life after the lockdown.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During Friday’s press conference, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton commented on the decision, saying it would be one of the most difficult ones the exemption team would have to make.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I can’t express enough sorrow for the family. The exemptions team did assess the request and speak to the family. I wasn’t personally involved,” he said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I understand the request was declined.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A GoFundMe page set up to help the family cover the costs of Cooper’s funeral has already raised more than $110,000.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image credit: 7NEWS</span></em></p>

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Mum of little boy who drowned hit with second heartbreak

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The family of a boy who drowned during a school camp has been hit with more tragedy less than a week after his death.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cooper Onyett, 8, died last Friday while visiting the Belfast Aquatics pool in Port Fairy, in Victoria's southwest, with his grade two class from Merrivale Primary School in Warrnambool.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But, his large memorial planned for Friday, May 28 has been put in jeopardy due to the new restrictions announced by Victorian health authorities on Thursday.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Without an exemption, the funeral will have a maximum capacity of 10 people, not including staff.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ms Meinen told 3AW radio she was hoping to “gain some exemption” to allow the community to attend.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’ve got a whole school that’s mourning for a friend,” she said, adding that the family needed support from their community during the tragic time.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’ve all been so strong and to rip away the support that we’ve really opened to is just something that I just think would be so detrimental,” she said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The family are likely to be granted an exemption to hold his funeral during Victoria’s snap lockdown.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Acting Premier James Merlino said he had discussed the matter with Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton, but said it would be up to the public health team to make an exemption.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is a particularly tragic case … it’s every parent’s worst nightmare - giving your kids a kiss, they’re excited to go off on camp and then we have this tragic incident,” he told reporters on Thursday.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“But we do have extenuating circumstances,” he said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A </span><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-cooper-onyett?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&amp;utm_medium=copy_link&amp;utm_source=customer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GoFundMe</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> page has been started to help pay for funeral expenses and support the family had already raised more than $97,000 as of Friday, including a single anonymous donation of $50,000.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image credit: 7NEWS</span></em></p>

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Tragedy strikes family as little boy dies on first overnight school camp

<p><span>The Victorian family of Cooper Onyett, who died during a school camp are demanding answers for his death.</span><br /><br /><span>Little Cooper passed away at the Belfast Aquatics pool in Port Fairy on Friday during his very first overnight school camp.</span><br /><br /><span>His mother Skye says she is still waiting for answers over what happened to her eight-year-old boy.</span><br /><br /><span>A GoFundMe page has been set up, and in just three days, Cooper’s death has raised almost $90,000.</span><br /><br /><span>“Cooper was a wonderful, adorable, cheeky boy who put a smile on everyone’s face that he met!” a family member wrote.</span><br /><br /><span>“Our hearts are shattered. Love you always Cooper.</span><br /><br /><span>“You will forever be loved and missed more than words can say!”</span></p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7841395/school-boy-death-2.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/5fe3528178ba4e4586b07b34ed0c2282" /><br /><br /><span>On Sunday, Stawell Soccer Club held a minute’s silence to pay their respects to Cooper and his family.</span><br /><br /><span>The pool has been closed since Friday and counselling has been held for staff.</span><br /><br /><span>“On behalf of the management committee at Belfast Aquatics, we send our sincerest condolences to the family and friends of the boy who tragically lost his life on Friday while swimming at our pool,” Belfast Aquatics Committee of Management Chairperson Anne McIlroy said in a statement.</span><br /><br /><span>“This is a very difficult time for everyone, and as a committee we are rallying around the staff at Belfast Aquatics who are inconsolable about what has occurred.</span><br /><br /><span>“Counselling sessions are being held today for both the pool staff and members of the public who were at the pool at the time of this tragic accident.”</span><br /><br /><span>The coroner is investigating.</span></p> <p><em>Images: Facebook / 7News</em></p>

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Secret lover of Claremont killer’s first wife breaks silence

<p>The flatmate who is blamed for destroying Bradley Robert Edwards' marriage has spoken out and admitted he feels sickened that his actions could have been for the trigger for the Claremont killings.</p> <p>The secret lover, who has kept his identity a secret due to legal reasons, has broken his silence on his affair with Edward’s first wide.</p> <p>While appearing on the<span> </span>Nine News Perth special, the man revealed a paternity bombshell.</p> <p>He had a daughter with Edwards' ex-wife 24 years ago and now wonders if the child could be his.</p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7838057/sscott-1.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/d2121c5f86f4428f80b8f45e5f992adf" /></p> <p>Edwards' ex-wife always said the man was the girl's father, but then came revelations from his former partner on the stand.</p> <p>She told the court that while she was with the new man she had also been sleeping with Edwards.</p> <p>The secret lover admitted "I can't help but think, in the back of my mind, is this child mine?”</p> <p>The 60-year-old met Edwards' first wife towards the end of 1993.</p> <p>He had been going through a divorce and she was unhappy.</p> <p>"So I moved in. And it was awkward at first. I was trying to be more friendly towards him, hoping that the attraction with her would fade," he said.</p> <p>"I miss those times, playing softball, being friends with him."</p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7838055/sscott-3.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/a07f3eda7ac1474cbd7e649879312c52" /></p> <p class="first"><em>Sarah Spiers, Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer all disappeared from Claremont in the 1990s.</em></p> <p class="first">A man already accused of killing Jane Rimmer</p> <p>He said the Telstra technician was unaware that his wife would sneak into his room on Sunday mornings.</p> <p>"When we got caught kissing, I thought nup, I'm not hanging around here.</p> <p>"It's the fear of what he had under the bed.”</p> <p>The rival lover revealed it was a rifle and a baseball bat.</p> <p>He said: "I just didn't want to not wake up in the morning. You just can't sleep with that kind of fear."</p> <p>Edwards told him to stay, but he moved out within weeks.</p> <p>She soon followed.</p> <p>The same night, the usually mild-mannered Edwards made an explosive phone call and it would be the last time they spoke.</p> <p>"He said, "You're having an affair with her." I said, "You're stupid. You know I am".</p> <p>“He said, I know where you live, and I'll come and kill you, he said."</p> <p>Not long after, Edward’s wife fell pregnant to her new lover.</p> <p>Prosecutors claimed Bradley Edwards attacked women he didn't know when his life was in turmoil.</p> <p>His marriage broke down around the time Sarah Spiers vanished.</p> <p>Around the time of Jane Rimmer’s murder, Edward’s ex-wife dropped her pregnancy bombshell.</p> <p>But despite that, and despite the decades old threat to kill, the 60-year-old believes Edwards is no killer.</p> <p>"I don't think so. I really, deep inside, really don't think it was him," he said.</p>

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Coronavirus contact-tracing apps: Why most of us won’t cooperate unless everyone does

<p>As governments look to ease general social-distancing measures and instead use more targeted strategies to stop coronavirus transmission, we face a social dilemma about the limits of cooperative behaviour.</p> <p>Consider the controversy over contact-tracing phone apps, which can help authorities identify people with whom someone diagnosed with COVID-19 has recently come into close contact.</p> <p><a href="https://045.medsci.ox.ac.uk/for-media">Oxford University research</a> suggests such apps could effectively stop the epidemic if 60% of the population use them, though even with lower uptake they still have some value.</p> <p>The Australian government’s goal is for <a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/news/coronavirus-mobile-tracking-app-may-be-mandatory-if-not-enough-people-sign-up-scott-morrison-says">40% of the population</a> to use its app. It is hoping people will do this voluntarily.</p> <p>That’s double the uptake so far achieved in Singapore, which launched its <a href="https://www.tracetogether.gov.sg/">TraceTogether</a> app <a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/about-one-million-people-have-downloaded-the-tracetogether-app-but-more-need-to-do-so-for">on March 20</a>. This despite a six-nation survey (including Australia) suggesting Singaporeans are the most relaxed about the <a href="https://www.consultancy.asia/news/3126/singaporean-attitudes-to-personal-covid-data-differ-to-overseas-counterparts">personal privacy concerns</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p>My research into cooperative behaviour suggests there’s no reason to believe voluntary uptake will be higher anywhere else.</p> <p><strong>What is a social dilemma?</strong></p> <p>Economists define a <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.ps.31.020180.001125">social dilemma</a> as a situation where individual interests conflict with collective interests. More specifically, it is a situation in which there is a collective benefit from widespread cooperation but individuals have an incentive to “free ride” on the cooperation of others.</p> <p>For example, we would have collectively benefited if everyone had shown self-restraint in buying toilet paper and other items in the early weeks of the crisis. But selfish behaviour by some created a crisis for everybody else.</p> <p>Economists, political scientists and evolutionary biologists have used social dilemma paradigms for more than half a century to study the evolution of cooperation in societies.</p> <p>One of the most influential contributions to the field was a 1981 paper, <a href="https://ee.stanford.edu/%7Ehellman/Breakthrough/book/pdfs/axelrod.pdf">The Evolution of Cooperation</a>, by political scientist Robert Axelrod and evolutionary biologist William Hamilton. The paper’s key point is this: cooperation depends not on altruism but reciprocity.</p> <p><strong>Most cooperation is conditional</strong></p> <p>My <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165176518302453">research</a> (with behavioural economist Christian Thöni of the University of Lausanne) confirms this.</p> <p>Based on reviewing 17 social dilemma studies involving more than 7,000 individuals, we estimate no more than 3% of the population can be relied on to act cooperatively out of altruism – independent of what others do.</p> <p>About 20% can be expected to act selfishly (i.e. free ride).</p> <p>The majority – about 60% – are “conditional cooperators”. They cooperate if they believe others will cooperate.</p> <p>Another 10% are so-called “triangle cooperators”. They behave similarly to conditional cooperators, but only to the point where they believe enough people are cooperating. They then reduce their cooperation.</p> <p>The remainder – about 7% – behave unpredictably.</p> <hr /> <p><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/329637/original/file-20200422-82672-vo1c6z.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip" alt="" /> <span class="caption">This infographic illustrates the four cooperation types and levels of cooperation over time. Altruistiic cooperation does not depend on others. Conditional cooperation depends on others cooperating. Triangle cooperation is similar to conditional cooperation to a point, then falls away. Free-riding behaviour is always uncooperative and can only be modified by the fear of punishment.</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">Stefan Volk</span>, <span class="license">Author provided</span></span></p> <hr /> <p><strong>The need for punishment</strong></p> <p>The most important group to consider in social dilemma situations is, of course, the majority.</p> <p>Conditional cooperators are very sensitive to what they believe others will do. They will only pay taxes, save water, donate to charities or protect the environment if they believe most others are doing the same.</p> <p>To maintain their cooperation, therefore, it is essential to uphold their beliefs in equality and egalitarianism, where everyone does their part, nobody gets preferential treatment, and nobody gets away with free riding.</p> <p>Research by Swiss economists Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher has found just a small minority of free riders is sufficient to cause a <a href="http://eebweb.arizona.edu/Faculty/Dornhaus/courses/materials/papers/Fehr%20Fischbacher%20human%20altruism.pdf">breakdown of cooperation</a> over time.</p> <p>Conditional cooperators will reduce their own cooperation as soon as they realise one or a few others are not complying with the collectively agreed rules. This in turn causes others to reduce their cooperation. It creates a downward spiral.</p> <p>What stops this happening more is that many conditional cooperators will punish free riders, even at their own expense.</p> <p>Fehr and Fischbacher <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513804000054">demonstrated this</a> through experiments involving “ultimatum games”.</p> <p>They observed games in which one person got to propose how to split a pot of money between two players. If the other player rejected the split, neither got money.</p> <p>In another scenario, the allocator was free to make the split however they liked. But a third party unaffected by the split could spend money from their own allocated pot to deny the allocator income. In 55% of cases, third parties were prepared to spend money to punish allocators who didn’t split the money fairly. Fehr and Fischbacher called this “altruistic punishment”.</p> <p>Their results also showed anticipation of punishment deterred non-cooperative behaviour by free riders and reassured conditional cooperators’ beliefs in maintaining their commitment to collective cooperation.</p> <p><strong>Two-factor validation</strong></p> <p>The evidence from behavioural economics research indicates two mechanisms are essential to ensure cooperative behaviour on COVID-19 measures.</p> <p> </p> <p>First, the majority of us must be reassured others are doing the right thing. This involves showcasing exemplary acts of cooperation and granting no preferential treatment to any kind of interest group.</p> <p>Second, we must be assured others aren’t getting away with uncooperative behaviour. In other words, free riding must be swiftly and visible punished.</p> <p>Without these conditions, an expectation of widespread cooperative behaviour is merely a hope.<!-- Below is The Conversation's page counter tag. 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Big inheritance: Gloria Vanderbilt leaves bulk of her fortune to son Anderson Cooper

<p>Before she passed away last month, Gloria Vanderbilt told her son, journalist Anderson Cooper, that he should not expect any trust fund.</p> <p>“My mom’s made clear to me that there’s no trust fund,” Cooper said in a 2014 interview with Howard Stern. “There’s none of that.”</p> <p>However, the <a rel="noopener" href="https://pagesix.com/2019/07/01/gloria-vanderbilt-leaves-almost-everything-to-anderson-cooper/" target="_blank"><em>New York Post</em></a> reported that the late socialite left Cooper almost all of her estate, which was estimated to be worth US$200 million.</p> <p>Vanderbilt’s will, which was reportedly filed in court on Monday, stated that Vanderbilt’s eldest son Leopold Stokowski will get her Manhattan pad, but “all the rest” of her property is going to the CNN news anchor.</p> <p>Her will did not leave anything to Vanderbilt’s middle son, Chris Stokowski, who has reportedly been estranged for 40 years.</p> <p>Cooper has previously said he does not believe in inheriting money.</p> <p>“I think it’s a curse,” he said. “From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some pot of gold waiting for me, I don’t know that I would’ve been so motivated.”</p> <p>Vanderbilt – the great-great-great granddaughter of railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt,<span> </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/a-life-in-pictures-remembering-gloria-vanderbilt" target="_blank">died at the age of 95</a> on June 17 after a long battle with stomach cancer.</p> <p>She made her success as a fashion designer and businesswoman with her own lines of <a rel="noopener" href="https://people.com/style/gloria-vanderbilt-built-denim-empire/" target="_blank">denim</a>, apparels, fragrance and household goods.</p>

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Why Anderson Cooper won't get a cent of mum Gloria Vanderbilt's $290 million fortune

<p>Socialite, heiress and fashion icon Gloria Vanderbilt passed away this week with an estimated $290 million to her name.</p> <p>However, her surviving three children, which include CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, aren’t expecting to inherit any of the remaining wealth.</p> <p>It’s an arrangement that they’ve all been aware about for years.</p> <p>Cooper revealed to Howard Stern during a radio interview reported by <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/anderson-cooper-wont-inherit-mom-gloria-vanderbilts-fortune-2014-4?r=US&amp;IR=T" target="_blank">Business Insider</a> several years ago that he’s not getting anything from his mother.</p> <p>“My mum’s made clear to me that there’s no trust fund. There’s none of that,” explained Cooper.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BT4tS_4l7UR/" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BT4tS_4l7UR/" target="_blank">My mom just joined instagram @gloriavanderbilt. She thinks it is the best thing ever. she has 30k followers and can't believe that many people would want to follow her. Now she emails me several times a day asking for advice about what to post next.</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/andersoncooper/" target="_blank"> andersoncooper</a> (@andersoncooper) on May 9, 2017 at 2:06pm PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>However, it’s something that Cooper is OK with.</p> <p>“I don’t believe in inheriting money. I think it’s an initiative sucker. I think it’s a curse.”</p> <p>He justified his point by saying he’s “doing fine on my own”.</p> <p>“Who has inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in their own life? From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some pot of gold waiting for me, I don’t know that I would have been so motivated.”</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvo7a-BHEkx/" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvo7a-BHEkx/" target="_blank">Just came across this photo with @andersoncooper and Carter. It was probably taken around 1979. It seems like yesterday.</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/gloriavanderbilt/" target="_blank"> Gloria Vanderbilt</a> (@gloriavanderbilt) on Mar 30, 2019 at 9:40am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Ms Vanderbilt also spoke about her difficult relationship with her inheritance, telling <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/style/gloria-vanderbilt-death-dead.html" target="_blank"><em>The New York Times</em></a> about her experience.</p> <p>“I’m not knocking inherited money,” she explained.</p> <p>“But the money I’ve made has a reality to me that inherited money doesn’t have.</p> <p>“As the Billie Holiday song goes, ‘Mama may have and Papa may have, but God bless the child that’s got his own’.”</p> <p>At the time of her passing, Ms Vanderbilt had reportedly already spent a great deal of her fortune, as well as donating to charity. </p>

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Inside Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Esposito's 4-month marriage

<p>Years before the movie career of Bradley Cooper erupted and he sealed his fate as a Hollywood star, he was previously married to fellow actress Jennifer Esposito for just four months.</p> <p>Although the relationship between the two ended over 12 years ago, Esposito, now 45, commented on an Instagram picture of Cooper and Lady Gaga getting a little too close during their super-charged and intimate performance of <em>Shallow</em> from<em> A Star is Born</em>.</p> <p>The post by actor and comedian David Spade captioned the image, “Is there any chance these 2 aren’t ------?”</p> <p>The actress responded to the post, writing, “Ha.”</p> <p>The cheeky caption and humoured response had an adverse reaction from fans, who were curious as to why she chose to comment.</p> <p>Here’s a brief timeline of the short-lived relationship between the massive Hollywood actor and <em>NCIS</em> actress, Esposito.</p> <p><strong>The pair were not open about their relationship</strong></p> <p>Before the couple tied the knot in December 2006, Esposito refused to confirm if she was seeing Cooper in January of that year.</p> <p>When asked at the <em>InStyle</em> Golden Globes party if the pair were an item, she responded coyly, “I’m not answering that.”</p> <p>Just a few months after they were first spotted together, their relationship had moved to the next level and confirmation of their engagement hit the tabloids in October 2006.</p> <p><strong>Their relationship was short-lived</strong></p> <p>The couple's sweet wedding took place in the south of France in what was described as a small affair. And although both Cooper and Esposito are said to have enjoyed their time together, just four months later they announced their split.</p> <p>In 2011, Cooper was a guest on Howard Stern's radio show and touched on the failed relationship.</p> <p>"It was just something that happened. The good thing is, we both realized it […] Sometimes you just realize it," Cooper said, according to <em>Us Magazine</em>. "It just wasn't right. It's interesting […] things happen!"</p> <p><strong>She had a few interesting words for her “master manipulator ex”</strong></p> <p>Esposito released her first memoir titled <em>Jennifer’s Way: My Journey with Celiac Disease – What Doctors Don’t Tell You and How You Can Learn to Live Again</em> in 2014.</p> <p>In the book, she divulged into a failed relationship that “hit an all-time low,” without actually mentioning who the person she shared the relationship with was.</p> <p>“He was funny, smart cocky, arrogant and a master manipulator,” the actress wrote. “I didn’t necessarily find him that attractive, but I figured that I could enjoy his sense of humour and nonsense for a while.</p> <p>"I should have noticed the red flags from the beginning – actually, they were more like an entire marching band squad of red flags – but I ignored them because, honestly, I didn't think the relationship was really going to go anywhere," <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2vodBQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA81&amp;lpg=PA81&amp;dq=I+should+have+noticed+the+red+flags+from+the+beginning%E2%80%94actually,+they+were+more+like+an+entire+marching+band+squad+of+red+flags%E2%80%94but+I+ignored+them+because,+honestly,+I+didn%27t+think+the+relationship+was+really+going+to+go+anywhere,&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=SWV20KfnsP&amp;sig=ACfU3U2B6qXB4v5fD3lHZKBZsugCSwGIDg&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiFodCl69ngAhXNqYMKHcAbDbYQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=I%20should%20have%20noticed%20the%20red%20flags%20from%20the%20beginning%E2%80%94actually%2C%20they%20were%20more%20like%20an%20entire%20marching%20band%20squad%20of%20red%20flags%E2%80%94but%20I%20ignored%20them%20because%2C%20honestly%2C%20I%20didn't%20think%20the%20relationship%20was%20really%20going%20to%20go%20anywhere%2C&amp;f=false">she wrote</a>.</p> <p>She also added, “We had fun, but he also had a mean, cold side. His personality could flip on a dime.”</p> <p>Although there was speculation about Cooper being the “master manipulator,” the actress never confirmed this and even went as far to say she would not speak further on the matter in a statement.</p> <p>“This book is about my journey with celiac disease and only that,” she said at the time. “To refer to anything other than the subject at hand or to make this book about anything else is an insult to me and this disease that plagues so many.”</p> <p><strong>New relationships</strong></p> <p>Since their break up, both Cooper and Esposito have moved on and pursued other relationships. The actor has been dating model Irina Shayk since 2015 and they share a two-year-old daughter together, and in 2014 the actress married British model Louis Dowler, who famously dated Kate Winslet.</p> <p>Adding fuel to rumours that Lady Gaga and Cooper could be more than just friends, a representative for the <em>A Star is Born</em> actress confirmed she had split with her fiancé, Christian Carino.</p> <p>Scroll through the gallery above to see a few sweet photos of Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Esposito while they were together in happier times during 2006 and 2007. </p> <p>Did you know about Bradley Cooper's short-lived marriage to Jennifer Esposito? Tell us in the comments below. </p>

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Why this heartwarming Aussie photo has touched Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan

<p>It was the <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/health/body/the-touching-moment-queensland-paramedics-grant-patient-dying-wish" target="_blank">incredibly moving photo</a> that not only went viral around the world, but caught the attention of Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan.</p> <p>In November last year, the Queensland Ambulance service posted a picture on its Facebook page of Hervey Bay paramedic Graeme Cooper standing alongside the stretcher bed of a terminally ill woman, known only as Joyce, at a beach looking out to sea. It was taken by patient transport officer Danielle Kellam. Sadly, Joyce passed away two days later.</p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 330.955px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7821518/ambulance-teddy-bear.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/309c8ea67fff432b8586d7ee9040ce1c" /></p> <p>The palliative care patient had asked the paramedics if they could stop at the Hervey Bay beach, as they transported her from her home to hospital, and they granted her wish – with the moving photo touching hearts all over Australia and the world. </p> <p>Kensington Palace invited paramedics Cooper and Kellam to meet the Prince and Duchess when they toured Fraser Island yesterday, as the royals were also so touched by the image. </p> <p><iframe width="640" height="360" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="https://au.news.yahoo.com/tender-love-story-behind-emotional-030703297.html?format=embed" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; encrypted-media"></iframe></p> <p>The seeds for Joyce’s beach visit were sewn a week before the photograph was taken when the paramedics were en route with taking Joyce home from hospital to be with her family in the final days of her life, reports <em><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/good-news/paramedics-who-touched-hearts-worldwide-to-join-harry-and-meghan/news-story/c2683d372a33defc08c6d3bdf6fbde73" target="_blank">news.com.au</a>.</em></p> <p>Joyce told the paramedics how much she loved the ocean, particularly the beaches of Hervey Bay, located on the Fraser Coast Region of Queensland, because of the romantic times she had spent there with her husband. They loved to stroll the beach together, having retired in Hervey Bay as they were so taken with the area.</p> <p>Kellam and Cooper were so moved by her wish that they gladly, and kindly, granted it. They spent 15 minutes at the beach before continuing on to the hospital.</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fqldambulanceservice%2Fposts%2F1703854822979571%3A0&amp;width=500" width="500" height="733" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe></p> <p>“She loved it. She was really happy, so grateful too. Just one of those people you want to give and give to,” Kellam said in an interview with <em><a rel="noopener" href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/tender-love-story-behind-emotional-viral-image-083547014.html" target="_blank">7News</a>.</em>  </p> <p>"If you can do something special for them, even though their life is coming to an end, it can give them a fulfilment and that fulfilment is something that’s a blessing for us to be able to give,” Cooper added.</p> <p>“It was no mean feat just to stop and be able to just give her one last pleasure in life because at the end of the day this lady was going home to die.”</p> <p>Joyce had chosen a spot where the paramedics could place her by the water’s edge, and she was able to feel the saltwater and sand of the beach one last time. The heroic pair had the idea to fill up a bag with water and sand.</p> <p>Meeting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex yesterday, Kellam and Cooper presented the expectant pair with souvenir teddy bears, much to Duchess Meghan’s delight.</p>

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