Month: March 2023

Avril Lavigne and Tyga grabbed a bite to eat at an LA-based Italian restaurant (Picture: Backgrid)

Avril Lavigne and her new boyfriend Tyga looked iconic as they grabbed a bite to eat at an LA eaterie following the singer’s shock split from fiancé Mod Sun.

The hot new couple dined out at Italian restaurant Giorgio Baldi during a romantic date for two in Sant Monica over the weekend.

Avril rocker her typical Sk8er Boi look with a distressed black denim skirt, paired with a matching puffa jacket.

Meanwhile, Tyga complimented his girlfriend’s look perfectly in an all-black combo with the Batman logo on his trousers.

Avril wore her bleached blonde locks long, while Tyga finished off his look with a pair of shades.

The Canadian singer and the rapper seemed to confirm the rumours she was romantically entangled with rapper Tyga as they kissed in public after she parted ways from her musician ex last month.

The pair perfectly complimented each other in all-black outfits ( Picture: TPG / BACKGRID)

Avril recently split from her fiance Mod Sun (Picture: TPG / BACKGRID)

Mod Sun  – whose real name is Derek Ryan Smith – dropped down on one knee in a romantic display in Paris last year, and although Avril hasn’t spoken out about the split, he has.

The 35-year-old took to social media to express his devastation at parting ways with the 38-year-old icon.

In an emotional post, he wrote: ‘In 1 week my entire life completely changed…I just know there’s a plan for it all. I’ll keep my head up + always listen to my heart, even when it feels broken.

Mod Sun has spoken about their split (Picture: Getty Images for iHeartRadio)

‘Being surrounded by love every night on tour has been an absolute blessing. I have the best friends in the entire world, thanks for always having my back. See you on stage [sic].’

At the time of their engagement, Mod Sun took to Instagram again and penned some sweet words for his then-beau.

He wrote: ‘The day we met I knew you were the one. Together forever til our days are done. I had a dream where I proposed in paris. I pulled out a ring + asked you to wear it. I was on one knee as I looked in your eyes.

‘You’re too beautiful for my words to describe. I grabbed your hand + took one last breath…

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‘I said “will you marry me?” + she said “yes”.’ (Ouch!).

The pair met in 2020 and they had allegedly faced issues over the few months preceding their split, according to TMZ

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Julianna Bransden has been in ICU for two months (Picture: MEN Media)

A mother-of-two lost both her legs and is set to lose her fingers too after her ‘flu-like symptoms’ turned out to be sepsis.

Julianna Bransden, 44, spent Christmas with her family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic last December in Pembrokeshire, South Wales.

But the joyful festivities were ground to a halt when Julianna’s auntie in Northern Ireland was taken ill on Christmas Eve and unexpectedly died of sepsis days later.

A shaken and grieving Jullianna then went to bed when she started feeling under the weather on New Year’s Eve. Her family didn’t think anything more about it.

Julianna, a teacher of nearly 20 years, might lose her fingers as well (Picture: Lancs Live/MEN Media)

But the primary school teacher’s condition declined rapidly overnight and she became bedridden.

Julianna’s husband Tim said she couldn’t ‘lift her head off the pillow’ and was unable to check her phone, let alone get into a car or wait in A&E for hours.

Phoning 111, Tim was told his wife just needs to get some bedrest, but he decided to call for an ambulance anyway.

This decision might have saved his wife’s life.

In sepsis, the body’s immune system became a wrecking ball when reacting to an infection, destroying tissue and organs.

The earlier it is spotted, the better chance a patient has of surviving.

But knowing if someone has sepsis can be tricky as the symptoms – a fever, rapid heartbeat, slurred speech and breathing difficulty – look a lot like other ailments.

The mum’s aunt died of sepsis over Christmas (Picture: Lancs Live/MEN Media)

Sister Jac, who owns a veterinary practice in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, said: ‘The doctors told us after that Julianna’s body was basically compensating for her, and had hidden how bad and ill she really was.

‘She’s young and healthy but suddenly fell off a cliff. In a timeframe of 30 minutes, her heart had stopped twice.’

When she was first through to Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest, Julianna was suffering from aggressive pneumonia, influenza and invasive Strep A.

Jac added: ‘They said Julianna was in a 10-litre hydration deficit and was in septic shock.

‘When she first went into hospital, she was so dehydrated they said that her lips looked like if you touched them, they would have cracked completely.’

Julianna would then be diagnosed with sepsis and spent 66 days in ICU.

‘There was a nurse there that had been working for eight years, one for 22 and another for 10 and they all said they’ve never seen a patient crash that dramatically,’ Jac added.

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Julianna, who lives in Narberth, woke up from a coma with severe damage to her hands and feet and had to undergo surgery to amputate her legs below the knee.

She will also lose most of her fingers due to sepsis, which can cause the body to make too many blood clots, cutting off nutrients and oxygen from body parts.

‘We were just desperately praying that she would just survive. I think with sepsis, people just think you either die or you survive,’ Jac said.

‘But with Julianna’s condition, we want to raise awareness that it’s not just being in hospital and being a life or death situation.’

In 2015, 23,135 people died from sepsis, where sepsis was an underlying or contributory cause of death, per the Office of National Statistics.

Diagnoses of sepsis are on the up, the NHS adds, because medical professionals are getting better at spotting it early.

Treatment isn’t complicated or expensive and usually involved IV antibiotics, IV fluids and supplemental oxygen.

Hope isn’t gone yet, however. Julianna has begun to talk and will soon return home in a wheelchair, with her family raising money on GoFundMe to get their home adapted for her and to pay for prosthetics.

‘We’re now very confident that she’s coming home,’ Jac added, ‘her character as well.

‘She’s determined she’s not going anywhere.’

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The crash happened on a stretch of the A180 (Picture: Google Maps)

A toddler and a woman died in a crash with a lorry ‘while broken down’ on a road in Lincolnshire.

Humberside Police rushed to the A180 where the white lorry travelling westbound had collided with a stationary blue Ford Focus.

The incident happened between Stallingborough and Brocklesby, at about 9pm on Friday.

A 34-year-old woman and three-year-old boy were travelling in the Ford, which is believed to had broken down in a live lane of the carriageway.

The two sustained fatal injuries in the crash and were pronounced dead at the scene.

Their families have been informed and are currently being supported by specialist trained officers and partnering agencies at this incredibly difficult time.

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