A salon owner has hit back after a woman claimed their sign fell on her in the wind.
The weather’s been on an absolute mad one recently, with Storm Eowyn giving the UK and Ireland another battering. Several areas were placed under a red warning by the Met Office as strong winds caused a danger to life.
And as plenty of homes and businesses have faced destruction and damage, Flawless by Danielle in Glasgow had its sign knocked off on 24 January.
Owner Danielle Ferguson said she rushed to try and fix it but a woman had already been photographed underneath it – only for the ‘truth’ soon to be revealed.
Danielle was shocked by the claim (Kennedy News and Media)
She explained: “The wind was blowing walls down and all that. It blew the sign down. That sign was very thick. The sign was that good it didn’t come off the frame. It was the frame that blew down due to the wood being old.”
Having got a message from a client, the 30-year-old braved the weather to retrieve the sign as others came to help her.
“A lady said there was a woman that had obviously seen that the sign was still down and she’d tried to put her leg under it and get a photo as if she’d been hurt. I was annoyed. I can’t believe somebody would do that,” Ferguson slammed.
She says she ended up getting messages from the ‘horrible’ stranger, including snaps of her ‘injured’ and claiming the sign ‘fell on her leg’.
The woman apparently faked the images (Kennedy News and Media)
The salon owner reckons the woman was faking it and took the images in order to make a claim against her.
“I’m more shocked than anything at the fact somebody would do that. It’s honestly horrible,” she added.
“Obviously I have to replace the full sign and the frame and then someone’s potentially trying to put a claim in against me. I’m just like ‘no’.”
The salon owner wrote about the incident on Facebook (Kennedy News and Media)
Ferguson shared the ordeal on social media to warn people against it and while she was angry, is ‘just laughing’ at the comments.
“The thing is you could sit and say maybe it was just a bit of banter. But it wasn’t because she messaged me directly,” she explained.
“She messaged me saying ‘look what happened. The sign fell on top of my leg’. I said to her she was a ‘liar’ because a lady had told me that somebody had done that and she’d seen them do it.”
She says the woman was insistent ‘it fell’ and when she tried to lift it from the pavement it ‘went on her leg and she fell’.
The sign was blown off by the wind (Kennedy News and Media)
“She messaged me a photo of her leg under it. That’s how obviously it makes it funny because there’s no way that she’s done that. When she sent them to me I said ‘you’ve done that on purpose’,” Ferguson continued.
The incident was not reported to police with the owner ‘so grateful’ someone told her what they’d seen.
Having to invest in a new sign, she wants it to be clear people ‘can’t get away’ with this behaviour.
“You can’t get away with doing stuff like that. That’s absolutely horrible,” Ferguson said.
“She’s still a person at the end of the day. I know that what she’s done is wrong.”
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Topics: Social Media, Weather, Business, UK News
If you tuned into This Morning earlier today, you will have watched the woman who hilariously fell through a window share her side of the story – although you might have struggled to recognise her with her clothes on.
Footage of Lisa Rowland’s side-splitting mishap which occurred on 20 June last year has gone viral in recent days, forcing her to relive the moment she tumbled through a transom window and got trapped upside down while her chest was on show on national television. It was a day to remember, that’s for sure.
Take a look at this:
Hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary could barely keep their composure while interviewing the mum on Friday morning (2 February) to get to the bottom of how she ended up ‘hanging like a bat’ in front of her entire street.
Most social media users will be well aware of the incident, seen as though it has been viewed more than 20million times and has been shared on every online platform known to man.
Rowland, accompanied by her sister and resident booster-upper who is also called Lisa, explained that she had left the house in summer last year to complete the school run, take her dog to the vets and to go shopping – but halfway through the supermarket, nature called.
During her appearance on This Morning, when asked why she didn’t empty her bladder before she left, she responded: “I don’t think that far ahead – as we can see.”
After rushing home to relieve herself, the mum made the horror realisation that she had left her house keys inside while she was anxiously crossing her legs on her doorstep.
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But Rowland then spotted a window of opportunity which she says was the ‘only option’ for her to get into her property.
She hatched a plan with her sister Lisa which involved her getting a leg up off the windowsill and slipping through the open window – while her sibling comically balanced one of her legs on her shoulders.
But as she was hoisted upwards, it soon became clear that her legs wouldn’t fold through as she expected.
Donning a bandeau maxi dress, Rowland struggled to slide through as she intended and got stuck half in, half out of the tiny window – but then things really went t*ts up.
That’s because the fabric of her dress had got caught up in the kerfuffle and ended up lowering itself – leaving her upside down with her naked chest on full display, all while Aretha Franklin‘s I Say A Little Prayer is playing in the background.
Her sister Lisa was left doubled over in amusement as she saw her sister suspended in mid-air with her knockers out and admitted she had to give up trying to help her as soon as ‘the left one’ also emerged from inside the dress.
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“When I turned around and actually saw her lills hanging out it was like…I was completely dead,” Lisa laughed.
Recalling the moment, Rowland told This Morning: “I tried to put it [her boob] back in! If you look, I tried while I was hanging and then they both…I let go of everything.”
It turns out she really did let go of everything – including all control of her bladder.
Although you may have forgotten due to all the chaos that ensued, the mum really needed a wee.
She told Alison and Dermot: “I weed. Yeah. I did. I couldn’t move, I was hanging like a bat. When I fell to the ground covered in urine, I think I was past the point of panic! I think I’d passed every point.”
Lisa chimed in: “She come out the house and she was like literally, it’s gone down my neck. I couldn’t breathe, there was nothing I could do.”
When asked if she had also lost control of her bladder, the sister said ‘no comment’ – but you can hardly blame her if she did p*ss herself while that’s going on.
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Luckily for us lot, Lisa’s partner decided to film the whole thing as she knew it was ‘going to go one of two ways’, however, it wasn’t any of them who shared the footage online.
Rowland explained she didn’t even know it was circulating until she got a phone call saying: “You’re all over Facebook!”
She continued: “I didn’t know whether to laugh, cry, or lie. When I saw the amount of positive comments….the response, everyones just like – the laughter! I love a bit of laughter. If it’s laughter it’s all good.
“We didn’t put it on any social media, we sent it between my mum’s friends. Some woman – cheers Ruth in Northern Ireland! No one knows her, we don’t know her, we don’t know how she got it. But thank you Ruth, we’ve had a nice day out out of it.”
Rowland has now started wearing her house keys on an elastic around her neck to ensure she never ends up in a similar situation again, as one whirl through the window while drenched in her own wee is enough to last her a lifetime.
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Topics: Viral, Social Media, This Morning, ITV, TV and Film, UK News, News
It’s seen as normal in today’s society to under-go ‘tweakments’ including the likes of botox or filler.
But one woman with ‘the world’s biggest cheeks’ has been forced to clap back at trolls who have left her negative comments about her appearance.
36-year-old Anastasiia Pokreshchuk from Kyiv, Ukraine has come under fire for the amount of filler she’s had as haters say she ‘looks like an alien.’
Pokreshchuk has become a viral sensation after under-going surgeries and multiple rounds of filler to achieve her desired look.
The model has gone through a myriad of different procedures, including plenty of filler in her cheeks and jaw as well as a boob job, along with lip filler and botox.
Although she says she feels confident in her skin and ‘feels really pretty’, she’s opened up about the hate she’s received online after making the drastic changes to her face.
Pokreshchuk, who has documented her transformation on her Instagram, has seemingly had enough of the hate and took to social media to clap back at a comment which said that ‘nobody would find her attractive’.
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She snapped back at the comment with an insightful response, writing: “I don’t understand this kind of thinking at all. I don’t understand how I can think about my appearance based on what others say.
“I don’t care what others say because this is my face and I have to like it, not you. This is my face and my life.”
She followed up the comment by adding that the most important thing is that she’s happy in herself, adding: “You will not live my life for me, okay?”
The model revealed that she started forking out for procedures when she was just 26-years-old, and that she’s spent ‘thousands upon thousands’ on her look.
In an interview on This Morning two years ago, the model went head-to-head with a plastic surgeon on whether she had gone too far.
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When asked if she was happy with her look, she responded: “Yes, I’m very happy. I look at my pictures from years ago and I think that I’m ugly. I didn’t like how I looked, but you can change it no problem. I didn’t like my face, I looked like a hamster.”
Dr. Harris also added to the conversation and claimed there was a ‘danger’ around modern beauty standards.
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He said: “I’m talking about distortion and over-treatment. In my opinion, she looks to be over-treated.
“Looking at her professionally, I would say she looks distorted. It becomes too much when the look becomes exaggerated, we need to consider the risks.”
When asked if a doctor had advised that she stopped her procedures, she replied: “No, the people who do my work, they know me well. They know I’m a normal person. They know I’m not crazy or stupid.”
Featured Image Credit: Instagram/justqueen88
Topics: Health, News, Mental Health, Instagram, Social Media
The woman who was infamously called out by Joey Swoll just days ago has hit back at the criticism in her own social media post.
The bodybuilder and fitness influencer called out the woman on social media after she displayed an ‘inappropriate’ exercise in the gym. Take a look:
Joey Swoll is known in the fitness community as an all-round good guy who tries to keep toxicity away from the gym by calling out influencers who may be ruining the gym experience for others.
The 37-year-old is the self-branded ‘CEO of gym positivity’, accumulating a following of millions, with over 7.4 million followers on TikTok alone.
He recently called out a woman for filming an ‘inappropriate’ exercise, asking her to: “Please stop filming this content at the gym.”
While saying that he’s one for gym humour and comedy, there ‘is absolutely a line’ that she crossed as minors in the gym shouldn’t be exposed to this, or potentially even worse, be featured the background of the video.
Swoll also said that if it was his gym, he would ask her to leave and not come back.
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With over 4.4 million views on TikTok, the video has divided users on social media.
Well, the woman herself has since responded to the video on her Instagram page with a number of videos promoting self-love, saying that she has ‘always been an outsider’ since her school days.
Known as @strongbyfelicity, her latest video seems to address the situation further, saying that this is why she has stayed public and hasn’t gone private.
Following an increase in trolls and hate comments, Felicity has said that she ‘won’t let people bully’ her into going private or removing comments, stating: “It really doesn’t show who I am.”
She said that she is proud of who she is, and going private would show the ‘keyboard warriors’ and ‘trolls’ that they won.
“These people all don’t know me, you can think whatever you want, that I’m a s**t, I’m a h*e, I’m a c**t, I really don’t care,” she said.
Instagram/@strongbyfelicity
“You guys are putting so much effort to bring a woman down.”
Possibly referencing Swoll himself among others, she said that even ‘big influencers’ don’t understand the hate she goes through.
She claims that they are trying to ‘bring down micro-influencers’ like herself who are on the come-up.
“Nothing that you guys can say can change who I am or make me feel differently about myself,” Felicity said, while also saying that she knows that the people that matter are in her corner, and that nothing will make her quit.
Users in the comments showed their support, with one saying: “Don’t worry, the ‘Joey Swoll’ hatred will soon blow over.”
Another put: “There you go! Stay strong and true to yourself!” while a third said: “Go off Villainess”.
Felicity also explained the exercise from the video in question in the caption of an Instagram post.
She explained: “I’m conditioning my leg and glute muscles for mobility and to put my legs behind my head.
“It is an advanced yoga pose that I’ve been working for a long time.
“I like to get creative with different machines because I didn’t get this flexible by trying to be ‘normal’ in the gym.”
She says that the weights help with stretching, and she also got hate in the past for posting this exercise.
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Topics: Health, Instagram, Social Media, TikTok, Joey Swoll
The diving specialist who was involved in finding Nicola Bulley has hit back at his portrayal in a new documentary around her case.
Peter Faulding has taken to social media to clear his name after he says that he and his team were portrayed ‘unfairly’ in the BBC documentary that was released on Thursday (3 October).
The Search for Nicola Bulley hit screens across the UK this week, in which Faulding was accused of creating a ‘false alarm’ to family and loved ones as he claimed that the missing mother wasn’t in the river.
Bulley disappeared back in January 2023 after dropping her kids off at school and taking her dog for a walk along a Lancashire river.
Nicola Bulley went missing on 27 January 2023 (PA)
The last text that she sent out was also revealed during an inquest last year, as she texted fellow mum Lucy about arranging a playdate with her daughter, to which she replied: “I said my daughter would love to come and play.”
At 8:59am on 27 January, 2023, Nicola responded, confirming a time with a smiley face, while Lucy also revealed that a few of the mums had plans to meet for drinks later that day.
It was confirmed following a post-mortem though, that she had accidentally fallen into the water, drowned and died before being found weeks after she disappearance.
But three days into the search, Faulding suspected the involvement of a third party, stating to reporters at the time: “I said that if Nicola is here, I’d find her, if Nicola was in that river, I would have found her, I can guarantee you that, and she’s not there.”
Three weeks later, Bulley’s body was recovered from the river, though in a YouTube video posted later on, Faulding claimed he found evidence that her body was in the river by using sonar after just six minutes into the search, before police ignored him.
Faulding claims that he found the body after just six minutes, contrary to his earlier comments (PA)
On Friday morning (4 October), he took to X and posted a link to a statement, writing: “It is with deep regret that I have had to release these documents and images to defend myself and my team’s professional reputation.”
He posted the statement on the Specialist Group International Underwater Search Team website, which said: “The BBC Documentary ‘Finding Nicola’ which aired on Thursday, October 3 has once again portrayed myself and my team unfairly and I want to set the record straight.
“It is with regret that I feel the need to release this information to the public, evidence that my search for Nicola Bulley was sadly successful, but was not fully investigated or disclosed to the public.”
He continued: “My statement that ‘if Nicola was there, I would have found her’ comes from nearly three decades of experience.
“Since 1999, I have pioneered the use of side scan sonar for forensic and underwater search in the UK. I make no apologies for being confident in my and my team’s skills.
“I stand by my previous statement outlining our version of events that I located the body of Nicola Bulley at 10.34 on 7th February within 6 minutes.”
Bulley’s disappearance made national headlines last year (Family Handout/PA Wire)
Faulding added that it was ‘never our intention’ to cause any issues with the investigation or the family, as he stands by the belief that his findings have ‘not been thoroughly investigated’, claiming that police never requested his sonar data.
“Without this very important data, no information to support the images would be available and no conclusions would be possible to make,” he claims. “Yet, unnamed experts made conclusions in the College of Policing Report based on basic PDF images alone.”
The diving specialist also released images that are allegedly of these sonar scans, showing the shape of a body in the river in the ‘fetal position’ on 7 February, almost two weeks before her body was discovered on 19 February.
A review into the handling of the search in November 2023 suggested that he ’caused unwarranted distress and false alarm’ to the family’, while the report suggested that he caused ‘public confusion’ over her appearance.