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Steve is a cheater and Jenny wants everyone to know, with a pub now weighing in on the drama with an apology
If your name is Steve or Jenny, you probably had some wisecracking friends make a few jokes about your relationship this week. Or maybe they were giving you some serious side-eye.
You see, a guy name Steve got called out for his filthy cheating ways in a bold, full-page newspaper ad taken out by Jenny, his scorned lover/girlfriend/wife.
The ad on page 4 of the newspaper in Queensland said: "Dear Steve, I hope you're happy with her. Now the whole town will know what a filthy cheater you are. Fom Jenny. PS. I bought this ad using your credit card."
Image: Facebook/mackayandwhitsundaylife
The cost for this kind of ad is reported to be between $1,500 and $2,000.
The newspaper, Mackay and Whitsunday Life, was forced to post about the ad on their Facebook page after being inundated with messages after it went viral. In their post, they said:
"1. We do NOT know who Steve is, but apparently he’s been very very bad.
2. We won’t be revealing any details about Jenny.
3. We have not charged the credit card in question."
Their post has had nearly 7,000 reach and nearly 4,000 comments, with several commenters called Steve quick to profess their innocence and clarify they are not the Steve in question.
There was also a comment from a Jenny whose partner is Steve: "So all my friends are aware. I am not the legend ‘Jenny’ and my ‘Steve’ has not been bad."
Plenty of people had praise for Jenny’s tactics as well.
"You go Jenny...love your work," wrote one Jenny. "#belikejenny," wrote another.
"You seem very intelligent and creative Jenny, you will be just fine!” one commenter wrote, while another noted: “See how Jenny blames Steve for his decisions and leaves the other woman out of it? Jenny seems like a good woman."
And the Greater Whitsunday Distillery, located near Mackay, offered up a consolation, writing in the comments: "Hey Jenny, if you're reading this send us a message! The next round of drinks with the girls is on us!"
Pub in Adelaide offers an apology
Now a pub in Adelaide has weighed in and apologised to Jenny on behalf of all the Steves out there.
"Dear Jenny, I'm sorry. From all the Steves," stated the sign. The pub's Facebook page explained that their Duty Manager is named Steve, so they let him write the message for the day.
Image: Facebook/hwyhotel
But was it just a publicity stunt?
Some people were cynical about the ad, though, wondering if it was just a way to get some publicity for the newspaper.
"A work of fiction created as a publicity stunt," said one person, while another wrote, "The word on the street (in Queensland) is it was a scam/publicity stunt..... Either way it was clever!"
Whatever the truth is, one commenter found a positive in it all: "Oh well at least Karen’s will get a break for a while."
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In case you have missed the trends there's a new viral app circling the clouds and it actually makes me want to post pictures again.
BeReal is a social media platform that launched about a year ago but is currently the most downloaded app in Australia.
It looks like it's recent rise in popularity is down to the frustrations that has left users actively opposing the changes to feeds on Instagram.
These include a move to more video-based posts and the introduction of recommendations.
How BeReal is different to every other social media is that it determines when you post, every day the BeReal user is notified at a random time to post a picture of what they’re doing right that second.
While the time you’re asked to post changes every day it's actually EVER user that is notified for that one time.
Once you receive the notification, you've got two minutes to take your picture. The ultimate catch is that you can’t choose something from your camera roll or edit a picture, making it an active photo of what you are doing in that moment with less "fakeness".
The other unique feature is that the app takes simultaneous pictures from the front and back camera. This creates an image of what you are doing and the environment you are doing it in, so those toilet selfies should be a whole lot more interesting.
You also can’t see other people’s photos until you actually post your own, and once you’ve seen everyone’s pics, that's it, there's no going back to look again, it's all gone and the app is useless til the next day, meaning you can get back to your life.
While you are scrolling it will even let you use emojis on other people's posts, but it takes those emojis and lets you take an image of yourself doing that emoji, thumbs up, smile, laugh, making it even more real.
BeReal is available on Apple Store and Google Play.
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What price would you put on your freedom is the premise for this psychological thriller now streaming on Apple TV+ and if you haven't heard of it yet there's a good chance you will come award season as this mini-series is sure to win everything.
Taron Edgerton stars as a high school football hero and decorated policeman’s son turned mobster that is sentenced to 10 years in prison.
That is until he is offered a lifeline by the FBI. His freedom in exchange for entering a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriending suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser) to elicit a confession.
The story is based on a true story and adapted from a book called "In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption" which was written by the real-life James Keene who Edgerton portrays across the 6-episode limited series.
Edgerton's performance as James "Jimmy" Keene will keep you glued to your television, while the magnificent Paul Walter Hauser as serial killer Larry Hall will have you frightened beyond belief.
Both actors deserve huge praise for a true masterpiece of performance.
The series also stars the late Ray Liotta as Jimmy's father. Sadly he passed away before the release of the show and you'll note that the third episode of the series is dedicated to his memory. Ray's daughter Karsen Liotta plays a part in episode 5 "The Place I Lie" which is another fitting tribute.
As this will be one of Liotta's final performances it's a wonderful reminder of what a powerful actor he was as his screen presence is unmistakable.
"Black Bird" is streaming now on Apple TV+
The book "In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption" is available on AMAZON here
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Anne Heche in 2017 (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP, File)
US actress Anne Heche, the Emmy-winning film and television star whose dramatic Hollywood rise in the 1990s and accomplished career contrasted with personal chapters of turmoil, has died of injuries suffered in a fiery car crash in Los Angeles last week.
She was 53.
Spokeswoman Holly Baird on Sunday said Heche "been peacefully taken off life support."
Heche had been on life support at a Los Angeles burn centre after suffering a severe brain injury when her car crashed into a home August 5, according to a statement released on Thursday by a representative on behalf of her family and friends.
She had not been expected to survive the crash, in which her car was embedded in the house as flames erupted.
She was declared brain dead on Friday, but had remained on life support for possible organ donation. Her heart stopped Sunday.
Heche played opposite Harrison Ford, Johnny Deep and other stars during a steady screen career that contrasted with personal chapters of turmoil.
An Ohio native, Heche first came to prominence on the soap opera Another World from 1987 to 1991. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role.
In the late 1990s she became one of the hottest stars in Hollywood, a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films.
In 1997 alone, she co-starred with Depp in Donnie Brasco and with Ford in Six Days, Seven Nights.
Around the same time, her personal life led to even greater fame, and both personal and professional upheaval.
She met talk show host Ellen DeGeneres at a the 1997 Vanity Fair Oscar party and they began a three-year relationship that made one of Hollywood's first openly gay couples.
But Heche later said her career was damaged by an industry wary of casting her in leading roles. She would remember advisers opposing her decision to have DeGeneres accompany her to the premiere of Volcano.
After she and DeGeneres parted, Heche had a public breakdown and would speak candidly of her mental health struggles.
In 2000, soon after her break-up with DeGeneres, Heche was hospitalised after knocking on the door of a stranger in a rural area near Fresno, California. Authorities said she had appeared shaken and disoriented and spoke incoherently.
She later had a son with camera operator Coleman Laffoon, to whom she was married from 2001 to 2009. She had another son during a relationship with actor James Tupper, her co-star on the TV series Men In Trees.
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