The show had been scheduled to open today (Thursday, August 6), at Sunderland Empire, but has now been postponed until Thursday, August 13, due to “technical requirements”.

The delay has led to the cancellation of performances originally planned for the first week – and affected ticket holders have been offered vouchers to rebook.

However, one fan claimed: “The same tickets are more! How do you work that out?”

Another simply said: “Not impressed!”

The postponement came just days before the start of the show’s UK tour, which was originally meant to begin in Woking before being shifted to Sunderland.

Burlesque the Musical is based on the 2010 film starring Christina Aguilera and Cher, which featured hit songs such as Express, Show Me How You Burlesque, and Cher’s Golden Globe-winning You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me.

The stage adaptation made its debut in Manchester in the summer of 2024 before moving to Glasgow and then London’s Savoy Theatre.

It was due to return to London for a run at the new Arts Theatre in Marble Arch this September, but that engagement has now been postponed until 2027.

The revised schedule means Sunderland is now the first stop of the tour, though its run at the Empire will be shortened by a week due to the delays.

The last-minute change has caused frustration for many who had planned to attend during the original opening week.

He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2015

A rapist who died inside a Cambridgeshire prison “had been dead for some time” before his body was found by prison officers. Jason Sedgwick, 40, died at HMP Littlehey on January 25 following convictions for a number of sex offfences which happened in Long Eaton in Derbyshire more than 10 years ago.

He pleaded guilty to rape in 2015 and was handed a 16-year jail sentence. Derby Crown Court heard how he had raped a woman on the grounds of Long Eaton Library after a night out. He was also sentenced for two sexual assaults which happened before the rape. He denied the charges but was found guilty by a jury on both counts.

The Prison and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) launched an investigation inth Sedgwick’s death in January after his cause of death was confirmed to be cardiac arrhythmia and ischaemic heart disease. The PPO found that prison officers failed to properly check on Sedgwick during routine head counts, which meant he had likely been dead for some time before his body was found.

The report also found that his health was not properly monitored. Sedgwick had a BMI of 40 in 2022, which is well above the NHS‘ ‘obese’ threshold which is set at 30. In a post-mortem, Sedgwick’s weight was recorded as 128kg, 10kg less than when his last BMI measurement had been taken four years prior.

Sedgwick was transferred to HMP Littlehey in June 2021 from HMP Nottingham, and before this change he had seen a nurse and had been prescribed 28 days’ worth of medication for sciatica, anxiety and depression. But when a GP saw Sedgwick for a medication review 10 days before his death, he was still taking the sciatica medication, which he was then advised against because of the risk of developing stomach and kidney issues.

Sedgwick said he wanted to continue on the medication as it was managing his pain and his blood pressure was acceptable. But the PPO found that he didn’t regularly attend the prison’s healthcare department and he hadn’t undergone an NHS health check before his death. The health check would have measured his liver function and cholestrol levels to determine his risk of having a heart attack or a stroke.

Following his death, more than 1,000 tablets were found under his bed. Whilst toxicology reports didn’t identify an excess of medication in his system at his time of death, the PPO said it was “concerning” that this had not been monitored.

The PPO also said that the officer’s head count on the day of the 40-year-old’s death was “ineffective”. When Sedgwick’s cell was checked during the 7am roll check on the day of his death, the prison officer didn’t turn on the night light. He claims it was dark and he didn’t have a torch as these aren’t provided by the prison. He claimed he could hear Sedgwick snoring and “interpreted it as a sign of life before moving on with his checks”.

At 8.45am on the same morning, another officer started unlocking prisoners and when opening Sedgwick’s cell, found him face down on the floor. When he was found, he was “cold and rigid”. An ambulance was called and he was pronounced dead at 9.21am.

The prison’s head of safety told the PPO that at the time of Sedgwick’s death, the prison didn’t give staff torches however they have now been purchased for night staff.

An inquest into Sedgwick’s death on July 9 concluded that he died of natural causes. He’s the 42nd inmate to die at the prison since January 2022. Of those previous deaths, 37 were natural causes and four were self-inflicted.

The Prison Service has been contacted for comment.

Cambourne residents have voiced strong objections to retirement flat plans, with concerns over expected amenities including a pub for the South Cambridgeshire town

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CambridgeshireLive readers have been debating proposals for Cambourne’s centre, the prospect of a new pub, and whether previous pledges have been honoured. Numerous comments centred on trust, finances, and what the town genuinely requires at present.

Residents have been left feeling frustrated over plans for retirement apartments after being “promised” a pub or community facility. Should the application receive approval, land off Back Lane, north of the Holiday Inn Express in Cambourne, would be transformed into 58 retirement apartments.

South Cambridgeshire District Council’s Planning Committee is scheduled to examine the proposals at a meeting on August 12, 2026. Cambourne Town Council said the application has “attracted significant interest and objections from members of our community”, noting that the Committee’s decision will be “an important one for Cambourne”.

The application, lodged by McCarthy Stone Retirement Lifestyles Limited, seeks to provide 58 apartments for individuals of retirement age and older. Of the 58 apartments, 39 would comprise one-bedroom units and 19 would be two-bedroom properties.

One of our readers, Fatsi comments: “We were promised 2 million pounds of new shops, then they said there were sewer pipes in the way. They closed down the police station and still haven’t told us why. We were promised a McMullens pub on that land, and all we get in Great Cambourne is retirement flats they can’t sell.”

Calumen Nomen said: “Pubs are closing by the dozen. No one is going to open a new one as long as this miserable excuse for a government is in place.”

2ndincommand writes: “Developers say all sorts of things in their applications. When Cambourne was first mooted, there was a golf course and an ice rink in it. What happened to them?”

Over on our Facebook page, Kevin S asks: “Does any company WANT to put one of their pubs there?”

Jayne R comments: “Retirement apartments, when I went to the concept centre years ago, when Cambourne was in its infancy, there were no plans for anything like that or social housing. Now they want a pub? Oh well, another slum in the making. Cambourne already has plenty of retirement flats which aren’t selling. More social facilities are needed in the centre of the town.”

What do you think would be the best option for Cambourne? Leave your thoughts below in the comments section or HERE.

A former Cambridge professor embroiled in a plagiarism scandal once claimed he was awarded an MBE in an interview he later asked to be scrubbed from the web, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Jason Arday resigned on Wednesday from the university, where he had become a poster boy for diversity as its youngest ever black professor, after an investigation was launched into dubious claims on his CV.

It followed an avalanche of revelations about seemingly tall tales from the 41-year-old’s past, as well as allegations he had copied parts of his PhD from another student.

The latest bizarre development earlier today involved claims he was paid ‘1.4million’ for his memoirs.

The saga now threatens to overshadow the expected publication next week of his memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, which describes how he overcame autism so severe it left him non-verbal until the age of 11 to rise to the top of academia.

Yet one particularly extraordinary episode from his life does not feature anywhere in the book, despite Professor Arday once talking about it on a podcast: being awarded, but apparently declining, an MBE.

In a 2023 interview with the Before Our Friends Die podcast, he described how his supposedly prolific fundraising for charity had led to him being offered the honour in 2017.

The episode has since been deleted from the show’s YouTube channel, but audio of the interview has been obtained by the Mail.

Arday’s biography ‘Great and Unfortunate Things’ is due to be published on Tuesday in the US

Critics have accused Professor Arday, pictured on This Morning in 2023, of taking chunks of his PhD thesis from research by another student, leading him to admit errors in his work

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In it, Professor Arday says: ‘In 2017, I was awarded an MBE for services to charity. For me, there were two things: there’s a lot of people who do amazing work and helped me get to that point, so if there’s a way of acknowledging it, that would be the first thing.

‘But the thing that’s probably bigger than that is – for me personally – you can’t critique empire and do work on race and accept that kind of award.

‘There are situations where you get your integrity compromised and you’ve got to make a choice.’

Professor Arday does not explicitly state he turned down the award, but there is no mention of his name in either the New Year’s Honour list or Birthday Honours list for that year.

Nor has the academic described being awarded an MBE or grappling with such a seismic life event in his 336-page memoir or any of the talks and interviews he has given either before or since.

The Cabinet Office does not comment on individual honours and details of individuals who have refused honours are kept confidential.

Sources have told the Mail that the reason the podcast mysteriously disappeared from the internet was due to a request from Professor Arday himself.

The academic is understood to have contacted the podcast hosts last year and asked that they delete the episode from their archive, citing unspecified ‘security’ concerns.

Professor Arday was approached for comment about his purported MBE award and asked why he had ensured the podcast was deleted, but no response was provided prior to publication.

It comes after The Guardian revealed on Thursday that Arday told them publisher Simon and Schuster had offered ‘1.4million’ for a ‘pre-empt’ deal, a high early offer for a book before auction.

Industry experts suggested the payment was very high but possible if the company’s UK and US arms had teamed up to buy the book and sought worldwide rights.

But one senior publisher said a book like this would normally sell about 5,000 copies – and with £2 of royalty per copy, that would equate to an advance of £10,000.

Arday gave no currency for the amount during his interview, which is likely either £1.4million or $1.4million (£1million). Simon and Schuster has not confirmed the sum.

Separately, it has been revealed that the head of Arday’s former Cambridge faculty claimed that he was appointed after the university listened to its black students.

Professor Hilary Cremin, head of Cambridge’s faculty of education, spoke prior to Arday’s much-heralded appointment as professor of sociology of education in 2023.

She told the BBC that these conversations with black students had helped Cambridge to ‘face up to some of the structural issues that people face’ at the university.

Professor Cremin was asked questions by Arday about his appointment, including: ‘How can this become the norm?’

She replied: ‘We’ve listened to the voices of our black scholars and our black students and some of it has not been easy to hear, to be honest, but we’re able to face up to some of the structural issues that people face.’

Arday also asked Professor Cremin what she thought about people claiming his was a ‘tokenistic appointment’.

She replied: ‘The board of electors on your interview day were absolutely unanimous. We are so lucky to have you. You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do.’

Questions about the academic’s life and career have not been quelled by his dramatic resignation as professor of sociology of education at Cambridge on Wednesday night.

Professor Arday had struck a defiant tone in his resignation statement, refusing to accept any wrongdoing and condemning ‘an unrelenting level of public scrutiny and personal attack’ against him.

But in a surreal twist, social media users were quick to notice that his statement was judged to be AI-generated when run through specialist detection software.

Pangram – which is widely considered to be one of the most accurate AI detection tools available – returns a conclusion that ‘100 percent of this text is AI’ when asked to analyse Professor Arday’s statement.

The company, however, warns its tool has a ‘non-zero error rate’ and says its findings should be treated as ‘one signal among many’, rather than as conclusive proof, in disciplinary or legal proceedings.

Professor Arday was approached for comment about whether he used AI to write his resignation statement, but no response was provided prior to publication.

The announcement by Cambridge that the former star academic would be investigated over claims about his ‘academic qualifications and honorary appointments’ also led to an apparent exodus among his supporters.

Sir Simon Baron-Cohen, the celebrated psychologist, and Sonita Alleyne, master of Jesus College, where Professor Arday was a fellow, quietly removed their names from an open letter published by the Left-wing campaign group Good Law Project which had accused ‘Right-wing newspapers’ of trying to ‘smear’ him with ‘fake accusations of plagiarism’.

Professor Arday was initially backed by Cambridge, which had condemned a ‘vile campaign to undermine his credibility’.

But after the Daily Mail revealed a string of universities disputed Arday’s claims that he held academic posts with them, the university yesterday announced it was taking action.

Announcing its investigation into Professor Arday this week, the University of Cambridge said: ‘While we are fully aware of the public commentary and concerns around this matter, it remains vital that any process is thorough and adheres to both university policies and employment law.

‘We also fully recognise that there is a person at the centre of this situation, and we continue to provide support to him.

‘We are aware that Jesus College, Cambridge, will be taking their own steps in relation to some of these matters.’

Sarah Nelson, who was unable to get to work in Manchester, was one of a number of affected passengers who told BBC Your Voice about their disruption.

She said she faced a “nightmare” five-hour round trip to just get back to her home in Blackpool.

The remedial massage therapist’s train was stuck at Horwich Parkway for more than 90 minutes.

Chris, a technology consultant, travelled to Manchester from Scotland on Wednesday on business.

He said he would likely book a hotel for the night, despite the expense and inconvenience, describing the delay as “costly, inconvenient… frustrating”.

“We’re still being told there is no power to any of the trains, no electricity – and they don’t expect anything to run today until the end of the day,” he said.

“I will have to get a hotel here and see if I can get home tomorrow.”

A couple returning from a trip to Gibraltar were planning to get a train home to Clitheroe, Lancashire, after landing at Manchester Airport.

But Matt and Sarah had to book an Uber to take them home instead, adding it was “costing a fortune”.

Stacey was among passengers who were evacuated from a train that stopped prematurely in Manchester when signalling failed.

The 38-year-old office worker, who was travelling from Deansgate to Leyland, Lancashire, paid £60 for a taxi home.

“The train stopped when the signals went,” she said, praising the “phenomenal” staff for their “calm and professional” efforts organising a controlled evacuation from the viaduct.

The BBC has announced a guest star for a detective show that is set and filmed in Cambridge

Ludwig is set to return this month and the BBC has confirmed a very famous guest star.

Stephen Merchant, who is known for The Office and Extras, will have a role in the detective comedy, which is filmed and set in Cambridge, reports the Mirror.

The city has provided the setting for the popular show about puzzle maker John (David Mitchell), who ends up looking into crimes. And it will be back in the spotlight when series two gets under way later in August.

Viewers met John in 2024, as he investigated after the disappearance of his twin. James had been a detective chief inspector in Cambridge and when he vanished, John impersonated him in a bid to find out what had happened. He ended up getting embroiled in cases himself, and when season two picks up he’ll have an actual role working for the Cambridge Police Authority.

Stephen will feature in the fourth instalment, where he will portray an arrogant snooker champion called Danny Sloane who comes into conflict with John.

Ludwig has been a huge hit with viewers, who have posted messages online calling it “superb” and saying they are “obsessed” with it.

“A breath of fresh air,” one posted on IMDb.com, as another commented: “Now that’s how you make good television!”

They went on: “Finally, after so many years of dull, soulless and depressing television. After so long having to put up with awful writing and too many politics being shoved down the throats of the viewers…

“After all that we have Ludwig. And it’s perfect!”

Another remarked: ” Superb cast, beautifully constructed plot lines, equally beautiful over arching ‘7th plot’ (James’ disappearance). David Mitchell finds his new spiritual home… easily his best work since Peep Show.”

Someone else said it was “one of the best mystery shows” of the year. adding: “We are always on the look out for engaging, well-written, finely filmed, and perfectly performed series. Ludwig checks all of the boxes.

“This particular show is a warm blend of mystery and light humour… with a great cast of characters.”

Series two of Ludwig will premiere on Thursday August 20 at 9pm on BBC One. The first three episodes will drop on iPlayer at the same time.

As it stands, a cumulative impact zone is in place across Soho, Covent, Garden, Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus and parts of Fitzrovia and Mayfair. This designation allows the council to refuse applications for bars, clubs, and other licence applications on the basis that it could lead to more crime or public nuisance.

The family of a British woman found dead in a suitcase in Athens after allegedly being killed by an Afghan migrant has spoken out for the first time.

Sharif Ahmadzai, a boxer from Afghanistan, is being held in connection with the death of Elisabeth Jane Ross after he refused to enter a plea on Thursday. 

Ms Ross had been a regular visitor to Greece, volunteering with NGOs helping refugees, homeless people and other vulnerable groups, particularly those from Afghanistan or Iran.

The Briton, who was from Edinburgh, arrived in Athens on June 26 and had initially been staying with Greek friends in the Keratsini district, the country’s main seaport close to the city.

Police confirmed she moved to Rethymnou Street in the city centre on July 2 and was volunteering with a Christian-based NGO working with refugees – two weeks later her body was discovered in an abandoned building.

In a statement on Thursday, her family said: ‘Lisa will always be remembered by us as kind, principled and selfless.

‘Her integrity was absolute, and she dedicated her life to helping others in need.

‘We are in deep pain, and we ask for time and privacy as we come to terms with our loss.’

Sharif Ahmadzai, a boxer from Afghanistan, is being held in connection with the death of Elisabeth Jane Ross, after he refused to enter a plea on Thursday 

Ahmadzai appeared in court on Wednesday morning where was asked to provide his version of events

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Ahmadzai, 26, is accused of manslaughter, robbery and illegal gun possession and exercised his right to silence and did not respond to the charges as toxicological test results are still pending, according to a legal source. 

His American wife has given an emotional testimony, describing how she had a realisation that Elisabeth, also known as Lisa, could be dead.

US-born Christian Alaina Hall told police that she had met Elisabeth through volunteer work in Athens and had last seen her on July 12, after a Bible study meeting, Greek news outlet Protothema reports.

Days later, she heard news that a body had been found stuffed in a suitcase in a derelict building in Athens.

Later that night, Alaina recalled waking up with a ‘terrible’ feeling.

The following morning, she sent a message to Elisabeth and received two replies, which raised her suspicions.

‘These messages were not in Lisa’s style, both in terms of her level of English and the use of emojis that she never used.’

Alaina added that she tried to call Elisabeth but never received a response.

In her testimony, Alaina also told police she grew suspicious of her husband after she woke to find him missing on the evening of July 15, and, after checking his shared location, she saw that he was at Elisabeth’s flat.

When she confronted him, he told her that he was out watching a football match, but had gone to Elisabeth’s apartment to use the toilet.

‘I don’t know what to tell you, but all of the above made me feel strange. Especially combining the dates, the messages and my husband’s behaviour, I have various thoughts that make me feel uncomfortable,’ she told police.

Officers started probing Ahmadzai after his wife allegedly reported her husband had been behaving suspiciously on July 30.

Detectives found CCTV footage which allegedly shows him leaving the apartment where Elisabeth was staying with a suitcase and dropping it where her remains were found on July 16.

Earlier this week, Protothema reported that Ahmadzai told police in a statement on Saturday that he did not kill the 38-year-old, claiming he found her dead before panicking and taking a series of unjustified actions.

During the testimony, he said: ‘I never did harm to anyone. I want you to understand me and believe me. I was just in a panic.’

Ahmadzai is suspected of killing Ms Ross (pictured) before putting her body in a bag and dumping it in a derelict building

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This is the moment the Afghan professional boxer walks through the streets of Athens carrying a suitcase allegedly containing the body of Briton Elisabeth-Jane Ross

He claimed he had visited the house where Elisabeth was staying, and found her lying on the bathroom floor.

‘[She] was spitting something like water out of her mouth. I spoke to her two or three times, but she didn’t respond. I froze. My legs went numb,’ he said.

The 26-year-old claimed he then panicked and left the house, where he encountered an elderly man near a bus stop. He reportedly asked the man what he should do after finding a dead body.

‘[The old man] told me that he worked with hospitals and he knows about them and what I should do is remove it from the house, or I will get into trouble. I sat and thought about what he told me for a few hours.’

He then admitted that he returned to the apartment the next day and placed Elisabeth’s body in a black suitcase, before placing it in the boot of the red Peugeot he was driving.

‘I started in the Peugeot, arrived near my house and parked it,’ he said, ‘I got out of the car, took the suitcase out of the trunk and walked to an abandoned building across from the Panhellenic University.

‘There I found the old man I told you about who gave me the advice. He told me to leave the suitcase with him, and he would take care of it.’

Ahmadzai told police he had taken Elisabeth’s phone and bank cards.

‘In addition to Lisa’s cards, I also took her mobile phone. From that, I sent some messages to people close to her to reassure them that she was okay. ‘

‘I don’t know what I was thinking. I wasn’t thinking clearly. I gave all the money I took out of Lisa’s cards to the old man because he was blackmailing me that he would tell everything to the police.

Ahmadzai pictured with his American wife Alaina Hall. Her testimony has been revealed for the first time

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‘As far as I know, this old man’s name is Nikos, and he frequents the place where I left the suitcase.’

He appeared in court on Wednesday, where he denied killing Ross but claimed that an ‘old man’ had persuaded him to move the body.

In addition to ‘intentional homicide’, he has also been charged with robbery and weapons offences.

Ahmadzai reached the island of Lesvos in 2016. He then converted to Christianity and married US-born Christian Alaina Hall in 2023 before they set up a ministry helping refugees in Athens.

Angelina Jolie‘s older brother James Haven came out as gay on Thursday as he emotionally opened up about entering a ‘new chapter’ in his life. 

The 53-year-old actor, who is the son of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, took part in a candid discussion on his ex-wife and close friend Romi Imbelli’s Substack livestream. 

Haven and Imbelli married in August 2024 during a ceremony in Laguna Beach, California. It was later revealed that she filed to annul the marriage just 15 days later. 

In the clip, Imbelli explained that she wanted to give Haven the ‘opportunity to speak on this’ after he also released a statement which was shared to her Substack.

‘Today’s a new day,’ she explained. ‘We get to be this and you get to be, Gem, what are you?’ 

He let out a laugh to ask, ‘Is this the cue?’ before he told viewers, ‘I’m gay.’ 

He let out a laugh to ask, ‘Is this the cue?’ before he told viewers, ‘I’m gay’; seen in 2017 in Beverly Hills 

Haven also read the statement and explained, ‘When I was a little boy, I was absolutely obsessed with the Disney princesses. 

‘I would sneak glitter onto my cheeks, swipe mascara onto my lashes, and for those moments, I felt like magic.’

Jolie’s brother added that he ‘didn’t have the language back then to explain why I just knew it made me feel more like me.’

He further expressed, ‘It was never about pretending to be someone else. It was about letting a part of myself shine that had always been there.’  

As years passed, Haven had started to question ‘if that sparkle was something I had to hide to be accepted by the “normal” boys around me. 

‘Like so many gay kids, I learned to question parts of myself long before I learned to celebrate them.’ 

Haven also shared that he was ready to tell the truth. 

‘Not because he’s changed, but because he’s tired of hiding. Coming out isn’t about becoming someone new, it’s about allowing everyone else to meet the person who has been here all along.’ 

Jolie’s brother added that he ‘didn’t have the language back then to explain why I just knew it made me feel more like me’; seen in 2014 in Hollywood 

The actor added, ‘I hope my family and others can choose love over fear, understanding over judgment, and connection over the beliefs that may have kept us apart’; Haven (left) seen with Voight and Jolie in 1988 in L.A. 

The actor added, ‘I hope my family and others can choose love over fear, understanding over judgment, and connection over the beliefs that may have kept us apart. 

‘I hope they can look beyond the labels and simply see me with the same heart, the same laugh, the same soul they’ve always known.’ 

Haven explained that the ‘little boy with glitter on his face and mascara on his lashes was never confused, broken, or something to be ashamed of. 

‘He was simply gay. He was joyful. He was brave before he even knew it.’ 

Haven also talked about stepping into a ‘new chapter’ and feeling ‘free’ in his life through an additional Substack video. 

‘Today is August 6, 2026 and I, James Haven, begin a new chapter in my life. After many years of healing from childhood trauma, I am now free to live the life I believe I was always meant to live.

‘One of hope, one of peace, and one of love. So, as my story unfolds, I want you all to know that I do it with an open heart with nothing but love for myself and for all of you.’ 

He sent gratitude to those who read his statement and for ‘allowing me to be what I was meant to be.’ 

Daily Mail has reached out to reps for Jolie for comment, but has yet to hear back. 

Haven also talked about stepping into a ‘new chapter’ and feeling ‘free’ in his life through an additional Substack video; seen in 2017 

During the livestream, Imbelli told Haven that she had a feeling he had been gay when they married, but did not want to admit it to herself

During the livestream, Imbelli told Haven that she had a feeling he had been gay when they married, but did not want to admit it to herself. 

‘I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t want to believe. I knew it and I wanted to support you and love you,’ she said. 

‘And then I didn’t want to believe it because then it would mean losing you in that capacity, which I couldn’t.’

Imbelli, who has known Haven for over 20 years, said that he was still her ‘life partner’ following the split. 

‘We will do life together. You are not my close friend. You are my love. And you happen to be gay,’ she said. 

Page Six also reported on Thursday that Haven will officially launch his own weekly podcast titled Save Haven with James Haven, although a release date has yet to be announced. 

Imbelli, who is preparing to release a memoir titled Breathe Mija, also shared a post to her Instagram account that included photos of both her and Haven. 

Page Six also reported on Thursday that Haven will officially launch his own weekly podcast titled Save Haven with James Haven, although a release date has yet to be announced; seen in 2014 

‘I wasn’t here to out someone I love. I was here to help set someone free. There is a difference. In return he set me free,’ she wrote.

‘Forgiveness, grace, and unconditional love have carried us to this moment. We ask only that you give him the same compassion as he learns to walk through this world with his head held high, exactly as God made him.

‘Love doesn’t always fit into the boxes we’re taught it should. Sometimes it transforms. Sometimes it changes shape. Sometimes it asks us to let go of what we imagined so we can embrace what is true.’

She added, ‘I’ll always love him. Just not as his wife, but as my family, my best friend, and one of the greatest loves of my life…’ 

Haven and Imbelli married in August 2024 after knowing each other for over 23 years at the time. The following year in March, Imbelli announced that she had filed for an annulment

Haven and Jolie are both the children of Voight and Bertrand. The siblings infamously shared a controversial kiss at the 2000 Oscars and Golden Globes (seen above)

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Haven and Imbelli married in August 2024 after knowing each other for over 23 years at the time. 

The following year in March, Imbelli announced that she had filed for an annulment. 

Legal documents revealed that Romi filed for an annulment on August 27, 2024, just 15 days after the wedding took place. 

Haven and Jolie are both the children of Voight and Bertrand. The siblings infamously shared a controversial kiss at the 2000 Oscars and Golden Globes.  

Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Thursday aimed at restricting the right of birthight citizenship despite the Supreme Court ruling that the right was respected under the Constitution.

At a ceremony on Thursday the president was flanked by Stephen Miller, the architect of his deportation program, as he unveiled two orders targeting birthright citizenship and “birth tourism”, which Republicans argue is a massive source of fraud.

The first will identify “certain categories of children of aliens who are not entitled to birthright citizenship”, which according to an Axios report will largely be used to restrict the children of foreign diplomatic staffers from being eligible for citizenship if they are born in the U.S.

Trump told reporters that he believed the orders were legal, despite the Court’s ruling. Miller used his moment in the spotlight to attack the concept of birthright citizenship and argue that it had never been the intent of the drafters of the 14th amendment to the Constitution.

“As the president mentioned, the 14th Amendment was passed exclusively in the aftermath of the Civil War, so that to ensure that the children of slaves would be citizens. It had no other meaning and purpose outside of that, and that’s been clear, obviously, since the day that it was passed,” said Miller. “This is not something that is even seriously contested by anybody.”

“The president is using his authority as commander in chief to sign first an executive order using the new rule the Supreme Court issued to expand the definitions of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship,” Miller said.

A White House staffer added during the event that there was “absolutely nothing” that would run “afoul” of the recent court ruling on the subject.

Trump used his own remarks to bash the Supreme Court justices for an “unfortunate” and “unfair” decision, which struck down an executive order aimed at preventing birthright citizenship from being extended to the children of undocumented immigrants and temporary protected status (TPS) holders.

“We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright was close, but a very very unfortunate decision. So we’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair,” Trump told reporters.

“This was done right after the Civil War. This was for the babies of slaves, and what’s happening now? People are building businesses around it. From wealthy people are building businesses around birthright citizenship. That’s not the way it’s supposed to work. It’s a disgrace. They’re buying their way in, and we’re not going to let it happen,” said the president.

“Birth tourism” allegations were central to the Trump administration’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court, where U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer claimed that billions of people are “one plane ride away from having a child who’s a U.S. citizen.”

But a 2020 analysis from the anti-immigration think tank the Center for Immigration Studies found that the number of “birth tourism” cases hover around 20,000 to 26,000 per year, or less than 1 percent of all American births.

There are already restriction in U.S. law banning persons from obtaining tourist visas “for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States.”

Trump’s new orders direct the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to crack down on that practice.

In June, the president suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Supreme Court, which ruled 6-3 in favor of upholding the broad protections of birthright citizenship in the face of a Trump order that would have banned some children of immigrants from receiving citizenship rights upon birth. The order targeted newborns whose mothers or fathers were undocumented or were under temporary protected status.

Trump’s latest order is still likely to come under legal challenge. The court’s order noted that many of the distinctions between classes of immigrants made by the administration in Trump’s orders simply did not exist in the 14th amendment to the Constitution.

The words used throughout Trump’s order — “mother,” “father,” “lawful,” “temporary”— are absent from the 14th Amendment, Chief Justice John Roberts noted in his opinion.

“For a simple reason: they did not matter,” he added.

Alex Woodward contributed reporting.