Alannah Keyser breaks silence after ‘Love Island USA’ removal
Love Island USA bombshell Alannah Keyser is speaking out after her abrupt exit from the reality dating show.
In a TikTok posted on Saturday, June 27, Alannah addressed a resurfaced video of herself singing along to a Roddy Ricch song containing a racial slur, while also disputing screenshots that circulated online.
“Hi everyone, I’m coming on here to address some things that have been circulated online,” Keyser began.
“I do want to begin by addressing the video of me singing along to a Roddy Ricch song that contains a racial slur. I’m sorry to whoever has seen that video and has been offended by it. That was never my intention,” she said.
“The video is from six years ago and that word is just not in my vocabulary anymore.”
The 21-year old admitted the backlash was difficult to process.
“When I first found out everything that was going on, it really broke my heart,” she said, adding, “But this has definitely been a learning lesson for me. And it sucks that I didn’t get a chance to really show my personality and who I am.”
Peacock confirmed Alannah’s departure during the June 25 episode.
According to the network, the resurfaced video and online posts only became public after she had entered the villa and therefore were not available during the show’s pre-filming vetting process.
Keyser’s removal comes after another contestant, Vasana Montgomery, was also kicked off over a similar controversy.
The Princess of Wales has shared an inspiring new photograph of herself smiling on a mountainside after completing Britain’s gruelling National Three Peaks Challenge on Sunday.
The Princess opened up about her own cancer journey in one of her most personal messages yet.
Dressed in hiking gear and surrounded by breathtaking scenery, Kate looked happy and determined as she reflected on the physical and emotional journey that inspired her latest challenge.
The future Queen revealed she undertook the demanding trek not only to test herself, but to “explore life beyond diagnosis” and raise awareness of the lasting impact cancer has on patients and their families.
In a heartfelt Instagram caption, the Princess spoke candidly about how cancer affects every part of a person’s life-not just physically, but emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.
Sharing her own experience, she explained that recovery requires far more than medical treatment alone, saying she wanted to shine a light on the importance of holistic healthcare and the support patients need long after diagnosis.
Her challenge was completed in aid of The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity, the hospital where Kate received treatment and of which she and Prince William are Joint Patrons.
Funds raised will help expand access to complementary therapies alongside clinical care and support research into integrating holistic care into cancer treatment across the UK.
The Princess successfully climbed the highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales-Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) within 24 hours.
Covering around 23 miles with more than 10,000 feet of ascent, the remarkable endurance challenge is considered one of Britain’s toughest outdoor feats.
She completed the trek with support from Mountain Rescue before being greeted at the finish by Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis and members of the Middleton family.
In recent months she has visited cancer centres, met patients, and repeatedly shared the importance of supporting not only those living with cancer but also the loved ones who walk the journey beside them.
Her latest message ends with a powerful reminder that resonates with countless families: “Please know you are not alone.”
The humble sausage toll could be set for a modern makeover.
Scientists are working on a way to make one of Britain’s favourite snacks healthier without ruining its distinctive flaky pastry.
An estimated 10-15 million sausage rolls are sold in the UK each week, but a single one can contain more than 60% of an adult’s recommended daily saturated fat intake.
Now, researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh are developing a new way to make their layered pastry, stating this could “significantly” cut the amount of saturated fat.
If successful, the team has said the process could be applied to a range of popular pastries to make them healthier.
Scientists are working on a way to make one of Britain´s favourite snacks healthier (PA)
Professor Stephen Euston, from Heriot-Watt’s School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, said: “We want to lower the level of saturated fat while keeping the taste and texture that people love.
“We’re focused on sausage rolls, but this also applies to other baked goods that contain laminated pastry such as croissants, Danish pastries and sweet or savoury turnovers.
“Reducing the saturated fat content of these ubiquitous snacks could have a very positive impact on the nation’s health and waistlines.”
The puff pastry used in sausage rolls and other baked goods relies on fat for its distinctive flaky texture.
The team is hoping to find a way to replace the solid fats currently used with healthier liquid oils like sunflower or rapeseed, which are lower in saturated fat.
This involves using a process called oleogelation to turn them into a “solid-like fat”.
The team hopes this will mimic the behaviour of traditional fats, and deliver the same flaky texture.
“Making flaky pastry is surprisingly complicated,” Prof Euston explained.
“The fat is not just there for flavour; it plays a crucial structural role in the pastry.
“You need the fat sitting between the layers of dough so that when the pastry bakes, steam forces those layers apart and gives you that flaky texture people expect.
“Simply replacing the fat with a healthier oil doesn’t work, because liquid oils lack the structure needed to separate the pastry layers.”
Now researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh are developing a new way to make their layered pastry, saying this could ‘significantly’ cut the amount of saturated fat (PA)
The team said they are focusing on oils from crops that can be grown in the UK, in order to minimise the impact of the approach on the environment.
As well as potential health benefits, Professor Euston said the research could benefit bakers as well.
Traditional laminated pastry often has to be chilled repeatedly during production so that the fat layers do not melt as the dough is folded.
Prof Euston said: “We are hoping our oleogels will stay stable at higher temperatures, which means manufacturers may not have to chill the pastry as much.
“If we are lucky, they might not need to chill it at all.”
The 10-month project is seeing researchers at Heriot-Watt working with industry collaborators New Food Innovation and AB Mauri.
The team has been funded by the UK Research and Innovation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UKRI EPSRC), with the aim of moving their modified pastry from the lab into the kitchen, and putting its taste to the test with real people.
Dr Andrew Bourne, UKRI ESPRC’s executive director for innovation and partnerships, said: “UKRI EPSRC’s Impact Acceleration Awards use public funding to turn promising research into practical solutions, and this project does exactly that.
“By taking innovative food science out of the lab into the kitchen and testing it with everyday consumers, it has the potential to make the nation’s favourite snacks healthier and make a genuine difference to our health and wellbeing.”
Alongside pastry, the researchers are also exploring whether the same technology could reduce saturated fat in vegan cheese alternatives.
President Donald Trump takes a firm stance on Iran’s economic downturn and ongoing nuclear negotiations, emphasizing that U.S. forces are ready if diplomacy fails. John Roberts and Sandra Smith report on the White House cabinet meeting, where Trump discussed Iran’s high inflation and lack of sanctions relief. Dr. Mahsa Tehrani questions the trustworthiness of the Islamic Republic.
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Tehran has deployed a new front on Western social media, including a covert influence campaign to sway Americans and undermine President Donald Trump’s push for a nuclear deal, experts warned Sunday.
Following the February U.S. strikes on Iran that decapitated much of Tehran’s leadership and the signing of an interim memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Tehran and Washington, the analysts also claim Iranian officials are relying more on digital proxies to project centralized control.
“Iran’s leadership now lives on X because it is a decapitated leadership,” counterterrorism expert Dr. Omar Mohammed told Fox News Digital.
“The regime has moved its legitimacy contest onto a platform, and once you are fighting there, you optimize for it,” Mohammed, of the George Washington Program on Extremism, added.
The administration’s memorandum of understanding with Tehran has exposed a divide among Republicans over what constitutes victory after the military campaign against Iran.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“There are English, screenshot-ready lines, memeable contempt and civilizational pride. It is adaptation under pressure — an influence operation forced by the fact that the men running Iran can no longer stand at a podium.”
After Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed on Feb. 28, the regime’s senior leadership was largely eliminated, and the new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is in hiding. Mohammed said Iran’s digital messaging has since become more centralized.
“The coordination between the leadership is visible: You watch the same lines reposted verbatim by the judiciary chief, the vice president and the security council within minutes,” the expert explained.
“That is a central media shop pushing copy, not officials independently moved by the same spirit at the same moment. And the register gives it away.”
According to Mohammed, the regime’s X accounts serve as a manufactured proxy for the leadership vacuum while exploiting political divisions in the United States, a strategy that he says surfaced even more after Trump signed a new peace deal on June 17 in Versailles.
“Tehran is not aiming at the United States as a single entity,” Mohammed said.
New Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and President Donald Trump are shown side by side as opposing figures in the Middle East.(Vahid Salemi/AP; Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)
“It reads Washington as two power centers and pitches to both — working to embarrass the deal the president owns while speaking the language of multipolarity back to the worldview it attributes to the vice president.”
In the wake of the signing and the first round of negotiations in Switzerland, for example, Trump said on Truth Social that unfrozen Iranian assets would be used to buy American agricultural products, including soybeans, wheat and corn.
The Treasury Department, he wrote, would release the Iranian assets “into escrow, controlled by the United States, and will be used for the purchase of food and medical supplies, exclusively from the United States, including corn, wheat and soybeans from our great American farmers. These are things that are desperately needed by Iran.”
The regime’s posts from its lead negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, mocked the claims as “trash talks.”
“America falsely claims our unfrozen assets will buy their agriculture. Interesting. The only crop we’re harvesting is what you planted: decades of mistrust. It’s organic, abundant, and homegrown. But apparently the U.S. only exports GMO soybeans, broken promises and trash talks,” Ghalibaf wrote on X.
“The agriculture jab is aimed straight at Trump, who personally sold the frozen-assets release to American farmers as a corn-and-soybean windfall, so mocking ‘GMO soybeans and broken promises’ is built to embarrass the deal he owns,” Mohammed claimed.
Vance tells Fox News Digital the U.S.-Iran deal tests whether Tehran will trade decades of isolation for sanctions relief and renewed Western ties.(Fox News Digital)
“Tehran gains if it can discredit the deal the president is selling,” he added.
“That is also not a 64-year-old Iranian speaker writing for himself; that is a young social media team writing in his name,” Mohammed said.
Mohammed also noted Trump’s posts are his own, with the “account and the man the same.”
“The Iranian accounts are the reverse. They come from an institution manufacturing a public presence for a leadership that can no longer appear in person,” he said.
As ordinary Iranian citizens continue to face strict internet restrictions at home, Tehran’s elite enjoy open access to foreign platforms to target Western audiences.
Tehran has deployed a new front on Western social media, including an influence campaign to sway Americans and undermine President Donald Trump’s push for a deal, analysts warn.(Hamed Malekpour / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
Alp Toker, of internet monitoring firm NetBlocks, told Fox News Digital that the regime had “learned” asymmetric information warfare.
“These regimes are learning to combine social media, AI and internet censorship as tools for asymmetric information warfare, benefiting from a global audience while sidestepping accountability to their own citizens,” he said.
“There is a two-tier system in which government officials can use the platform freely to promote their agenda while denying access to their citizens, as they do in Iran.
“It’s a double-edged sword — you get more open politics at the cost of regime propagandization.
“Iranian authorities, among others, are getting better at gaming this system,” Toker added.
Mohammed said the parallel systems — a heavily censored internet at home and what he described as an “open megaphone” aimed at Western audiences — provide the strongest evidence the campaign is an external influence operation rather than organic domestic speech.
Emma Bussey is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked at The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, across desks including foreign, politics, news, sport and culture.
• Joined ESPN in 2011 • Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours • Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018
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The 2026 World Cup might be the final curtain call for some of the game’s greats, but it will also be remembered for a tournament where generational talents took their first steps on the world stage.
Some would have heard of Yan Diomande before they saw him play a full match. Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool have been frequently mentioned as suitors alongside nine-figure transfer fees, with news Sunday that he’s leaning towards PSG. All the while, in his own understated way, as the hype grows, Diomande, 19, just goes about his business, ruining defenders and thrilling those watching.
He has been one of the breakout stars of the past season, but he only played top-flight football for the first time 15 months ago. One of his close friends and former roommates James Eliuda at the private sports training and educational institution DME Academy in Daytona Beach has been fully aware for a while of the man they call “Dio.”
Diomande was one of several African soccer players who had been recommended to the DME Academy and opted to take spots in their program. “We got sent a video of him from the under-17 AFCON and the minute you watched it, you thought, ‘Oh well, this is going to be fun,'” Todd Eason, director of soccer at DME from 2021 to 20224, tells ESPN.
Diomande arrived at DME in mid-September in 2022 from his home in the Ivory Coast. Eliuda had already been there a week by the time Diomande arrived. He met his roommate at reception, helped him with his bags up the steps and showed him to their room.
There was a language barrier to navigate. Diomande spoke French; Eliuda spoke Arabic. “I could understand English but didn’t have the confidence to talk it. He could understand a couple of words, but that was it. So we used very basic sign language. Like miming if you wanted to eat, or ‘how are you?’ Thumbs-up and things like that. Obviously, football. When we got into the room, he mimed that he wanted me to take a photo of him. He later explained that it was to let his mum he’d arrived OK.”
After the photo, some students from Puerto Rico knocked on the door and asked if they were up for kicking a ball about. Eliuda thought Diomande would prefer just to sleep, but he was adamant they go and play.
“I thought he’d be tired after his long flight, but then he picked up the ball,” Eliuda says. “He was doing things different to anything I’d ever seen. He started juggling the ball on his shoulders, he was doing crazy stuff already.”
The two learned English from language app Duolingo, and at school alongside their football sessions. Eliuda is a central midfielder, so he had Diomande running up and down the wings next to him. Training boiled over. “He’d get mad in training sometimes, we got tired, and you’d end up kicking each other a little bit. He’d get mad, so he’d get the ball off the goalkeeper and just start dribbling around everyone. You try to be aggressive to get it back, but he’s quicker and stronger than me.”
Eason had a translator with him, but Diomande soon took over the duties, translating Eason’s advice in training into French for the two Senegalese players. “That’s when I realized how intelligent he was as language wasn’t needed for his understanding of the game,” Eason says.
“He was a nervous lad though at the start, and struggled sometimes to control his emotions. He was always concerned about his mum and home, and he took time to adapt to the culture here.” Diomande struggled with the different food, and also differences in manners and customs. “He did make a family at DME though with his friends.”
Eason remembers Diomande’s loyalty. “The Senegalese lads picked on James a little bit, so in a training session, Dio went after the two of them to shut them up. He was so protective of his friends and people he’s loyal to. He thought James was being treated unfairly, so he thought ‘I’m going to take care of this.’ He went into a tackle, took one of them out, and after that they knew that Dio was in control.”
The team from DME played against other academies and club teams. Their first match together didn’t go to plan.
“We played another academy, and he elbowed a kid. It was a set piece, and this guy was kicking his ankles, stepping on his heel, so Dio just hit him,” Eason says. “I was like, ‘What just happened?!’ Dio got a red card. Afterward, he apologized to the team, he wasn’t yet quite acclimated. In the next couple of matches, he’d go down after a slight touch. I told him that wasn’t on. So then he took the kicks, adapted and moved on. He’s so quick to learn.”
But Diomande soon found his stride. “I couldn’t challenge them. Every time I put him in the game, I thought ‘this is far too easy for him,'” Eason says. In February, MLS clubs came to Florida for preseason. Eason knew Eric Boucher at Colorado Rapids, and he trained with their second team. That was too easy. So he went up to train with their senior team in Orlando. They had to sort it with his school, but they made it work.
“I got a call from one of the coaches saying, Dio had just made our senior captain Keegan Rosenberry look foolish. We had to do something about it. Whatever level you threw him into, he rose to it. I just couldn’t find any competition that would humble him. And that’s where I put in a call to a team down in Orlando.”
Eason pointed them toward affiliate local United Premier Soccer League side Frenzi. “We have a connection with DME through our owner, so we offer some of their players semi-professional football,” Tyler Weston, then coach of Frenzi and now head soccer coach of Liverpool International Academy Maryland, tells ESPN.
“We’ve had a Puerto Rican international here, and other decent players like James and Dio. I remember the call from Todd, he said, ‘Hey we have a kid from the Ivory Coast who could be good, I think this would help develop his mindset.’ Then we saw him play and wow, I thought ‘Hey, we have, we have something really special here.’ Dio was thrown into the mix and stood out right from the beginning.”
The question was where to play him. Weston favoured a 3-5-2 at the time. “I played a sort of heavy left side, with three at the back, and I made a controversial call early on. I picked him at wingback. He’d never played there, but when I asked him he said: ‘Coach, wherever you need me to play, like, I, I can do it.’ He had such a calm demeanor.
“I know it sounds crazy now that he was at wingback, but his engine was just unbelievable. He completely bought into our team ethos that our success is defined by the opportunities we give to these players.”
MLS teams were taking notice. Eason and Diomande’s agent had received calls from “five to 10 MLS teams” wanting to know more. “Dio knew about that, but never once did he say or even hint ‘I’m too good to be here.’ When we were in hotels for away games, the dude would be up at 6 a.m., juggling in the parking lot and doing different sorts of stuff to get his body and mindset ready. It wasn’t always easy for him. The league had former MLS players in it, so they knew how to defend him, frustrate him. But he was composed: if a couple of reps weren’t successful, he’d reset himself.”
In 2023, Weston felt he had a squad capable of winning the UPSL. He namechecks Adrian Biaggi, a Puerto Rico international now at University of Central Illinois, Charles Ahl, at the Pittsburgh Riverhounds and Aidan Godinho, who was drafted to Montreal Impact at the start of the year. But the star act was Diomande.
As the season developed at Frenzi, interest grew in Diomande from MLS sides. He had a couple of trials midseason, “but nothing got in the way of Frenzi,” Weston says. “I spent the whole season wondering when we’d have to say goodbye to him. I was preparing for the conversation where you say, ‘Hey, you know, this might be the time where you have to jump into a new environment. We love you, but this is the right opportunity.’ But he was adamant he wanted to finish the season and win the championship.”
He was there with his friends, playing in the same team as Eliuda and Ghanian striker Charles Christian. “I remember this match against Legacy, a team from Gainesville. It went to extra time. Players were flagging, but not Dio. In the 118th minute, he was still sprinting up and down the wing. It was genuinely astonishing.”
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Frenzi reached the final of the UPSL and played Sporting Wichita. Diomande scored their opener, but the game went to extra time. A match report read how in the 115th minute “Diomande exhibited remarkable precision and composure, elegantly curling the ball into the bottom right corner of the net.” It secured Diomande the golden boot and Frenzi their first UPSL title.
“You knew he was way past MLS and was already one of the greatest players ever in the history of the UPSL,” Weston says. “He just made you go ‘wow.'”
Diomande was attracting interest from overseas. He trained at Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Bournemouth and Rangers. “I was young so I didn’t really know what was going on, but it was fun seeing players like [Michael] Olise and [Eberechi] Eze,” Diomande told reporters in May. He also trained with Colorado Rapids and Charlotte FC but didn’t want to start his career in the MLS. Eventually, it was Leganes who tempted him to La Liga, signing for them in late 2024, and joining them in January 2025.
“A lot of people don’t really know this story, but the owner of Leganes runs an investment group in Houston called Blue Crow, and I think he’s just bought Cascade, a USL club. But he was also funding the African group that was partnered with me that was identifying all these players. I think he fell out with his African partner, and so he took Dio and another player to Leganes.”
Diomande made his debut for Leganes against Real Madrid on March 29, 2025, and scored his first goal against Espanyol on May 11. He’d played 542 minutes in La Liga and that was enough for RB Leipzig who that summer activated his €20 million minimum fee release clause and took him to the Bundesliga. A year on and he had played in the African Cup of Nations and been crowned the league’s Rookie of the Season after a campaign which saw him score 13 goals and register 10 assists for Leipzig. And now Liverpool — his father’s team — and PSG are knocking on the door.
“I remember watching him play Olise at Bayern, and Olise got the better of him. I thought, ‘Finally, Dio’s met his match,'” Eason says. “Then he played him again and he was outstanding. He’s got this ability to adapt and his understanding, intelligence of the game along with his physical attributes and technical ability, well, he’s just a player that I just don’t think has hit his ceiling.”
Whatever decision he makes on next season — whether to take the leap to one of Europe’s elite clubs or remain at RB Leipzig — he will put his development and his family first. Ever since he arrived in Florida for the first time back in September 2022 and immediately sent a photo back to his mum, it has been about family. “He loves his family so much,” Eliuda says. “His sister, Roxane, meant so much to him, too but she passed away. He really loves his family, and he always talks to them, always wants to be around him.
“Being around him does inspire you. You’re inspired by how he plays, and how he conducts himself. You’re just not going to doubt him, are you? You know he’s going to show up.”
On Tuesday, Ivory Coast play Norway. Diomande will be there on the left wing. The cameras will be on him and Erling Haaland. But Diomande will be locked in.
Watching his every step, flick and dart, there will be a small pocket of people dotted up and down the U.S. who will smile knowing they played alongside the man they called Dio. “He’s so disciplined, and always makes the right choice based on the best environment for him to develop. I represented my national team under-15, U17s and U20s, and I’ve never seen anything like Dio,” Eliuda says.
“He’s the best person I ever played with, and I got to watch him play with my own eyes.”
Madonna gets honest about what is ruining art and music
Madonna, a pop icon whose life has been devoted to creating art, is vexed by artificial intelligence encroaching on the genre.
Known for a no-nonsense attitude, the singer candidly told Vogue Italia that AI is the “opposite of making art”.
She compared artists’ early days when they created art from a “very pure place”.
“Once you were around painters and musicians and dancers and artists in one place and working from a very pure place for each other. I value that experience a lot.
However, the situation has changed quite a bit now, Madonna said, adding That Streaming numbers have begun to dominate the music industry.
“Nowadays you don’t do that anymore. Now, to have a record deal, you think about how many followers you have.
The Grammy winner has even released a song that took a potshot at the industry’s fixation on numbers.
“That’s why in ‘Bring Your Love’ I say, ‘Don’t try to distract me with numbers’. For me it started not thinking about the charts, the streaming numbers.”
“Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks, and to me that is the opposite of making art.”
Given how ubiquitous technology and social media are, Madonna’s digital detox is to disconnect from them.
“Lately it’s been hard because of my record and so many things connected to it. But I do like to take breaks… and disappear.”
“Because that’s how you fuel your imagination,” she shared.
“You have to have stillness, and you have to have days where you’re just connecting to nature, my children, my horses,” Madonna concluded.
‘Love Island USA’ star speaks out after leaving show over racial slur video
Love Island USA contestant Alannah Keyser has broken her silence after leaving the villa and the resurfacing of old videos showing her using a racial slur.
The 21-year-old former contestant shared a TikTok video on Saturday, saying she wanted to address the controversy.
“I do want to begin by addressing the video of me singing along to a Roddy Ricch song that contains a racial slur,” she said. “I’m sorry to whoever has seen that video and been offended by it. That was never my intention.”
Keyser said the video was recorded six years ago and added that the word “is just not in my vocabulary anymore.”
She also denied screenshots shared online that appeared to show her using the same slur in messages.
“What has been shared does not reflect the truth,” she said. “It’s never been in my character to discriminate against anybody’s skin color. I do not support racism or discrimination of any kind.”
Keyser joined the show during the Casa Amor twist, which aired on June 21.
Soon after her arrival, a short video began circulating on social media that appeared to show her mouthing the racial slur while singing at a party.
She briefly appeared in Thursday’s episode alongside Zach Georgiou. After a commercial break, narrator Iain Stirling announced that she had left Casa Amor. No reason for her exit was given during the episode.
Keyser said learning that the video had resurfaced “really broke my heart.”
“This has definitely been a learning lesson for me,” she said. “It sucks that I didn’t get a chance to really show my personality and who I really am.”
The video ended with a written message saying she has always tried to spread positivity and will continue to do so.
Keyser is the second contestant to leave Love Island USA this season after old videos showing the use of a racial slur resurfaced online.
Before the season premiered, contestant Vasana Montgomery was removed from the show for the same reason.
Love Island contestant Gabriel Garland has left the villa just days after arriving as one of this year’s Casa Amor bombshells.
ITV recently confirmed the news in a short statement, saying, “Gabriel has now left the Villa and will not be returning.”
Reports state that Gabriel was removed after ITV was made aware of an incident from his past that had not been identified during the show’s background checks. The broadcaster has not confirmed the nature of the incident.
Gabriel was introduced alongside other Casa Amor contestants last week. After the announcement, some viewers questioned the show’s vetting process on social media.
Gabriel’s arrival at Casa Amor had already been filmed and will still be shown during Sunday’s episode.
His exit comes shortly after another contestant, George Knight, also left the villa.
ITV initially said George had departed for “private reasons.” However, reports later claimed he had received a formal warning for using offensive language before leaving the show. George has since said he chose to leave after producers informed him of a health concern involving an immediate family member.
ITV has not provided any further details about Gabriel’s departure.
Lionel Messi continues to remind the football world that he’s the greatest player of all time, with one GOAT move after another. He’s the all-time leading FIFA World Cup goalscorer — and will only extend his mark with every goal. And that he is doing it 20 years after first setting foot at the World Cup is even more remarkable.
Thanks to his hat trick against Algeria, Messi broke multiple records in his first 2026 World Cup match, including equaling Germany’s Miroslav Klose for most men’s World Cup goals in history. He also now holds the record for being the youngest and oldest Argentinian to score in the competition, and after the 3-0 win over Algeria, he became the oldest male player to net a hat trick at the World Cup.
In his second game this summer, against Austria in the group-stage match, Messi made history again, breaking the tie with Klose and becoming the all-time top scorer in men’s World Cup history with 17. And then he kept going. Shortly before the end of the match, he netted his second goal of the game, bringing his World Cup total to 18 goals and breaking the all-time tie he had with Brazilian women’s national team legend Marta.
In his third match vs. Jordan, he came off the bench to score one of his signature free kick to keep adding to his already legendary numbers. Messi now stands alone in FIFA World Cup history with 19 tournament goals and 123 overall as Argentina’s top scorer.
There is no doubt that the Argentinian captain, who is playing in a record sixth World Cup alongside Cristiano Ronaldo, will continue to keep opponents up at night. So the only natural thing to do is to not justcount his 2026 World Cup goals, but also rank them.
But it can’t just end there, so allow me to rank all 19 of them. Because every beautiful gem deserves its own appraisal. And yes, as you might expect, I will more than likely be adding even more.
19. Goal vs. Saudi Arabia | Nov. 22, 2022
Messi stepped up for the penalty after a foul on Leandro Paredes. But the shock of the tournament arrived when Herve Renard’s Saudi Arabia came out victorious. It would only be the spark that would eventually kickstart a historic World Cup-winning campaign.
18. First Goal vs. France | Dec. 18, 2022
For me, the 2022 World Cup final was the greatest I have ever witnessed, and it started with another spot-kick as Messi made it 1-0. Little did we know that this would only be the first chapter of an incredible footballing novel.
17. Goal vs. Netherlands | Dec. 9, 2022
Messi already had an assist for the opening goal, and he made it 2-0 before the Netherlands came back to make it very entertaining with another penalty. La Pulga placed it beautifully past Andries Noppert as the Argentina faithful celebrated from behind the goal.
16. Goal vs. Croatia | Dec. 13, 2022
Another clutch penalty after Julián Álvarez was taken down. Messi’s spot-kick was smashed into the top right corner as Dominik Livaković couldn’t do anything about it.
15. Second Goal vs. France | Dec. 18, 2022
A dramatic goal in stoppage time when Argentina took a 3-2 lead as Hugo Lloris failed to push away a shot from Lautaro Martinez, so Messi pounced. As we all remember, the night would conclude with a penalty shootout and a glorious third World Cup title, 36 years after Diego Maradona lifted the trophy in México.
14. Second Goal vs. Algeria | June 16, 2026
A prototypical Messi instinct is to react before anyone else. And that’s what happened here after Alexis Mac Allister’s effort was pushed away by Zidane, but not far enough. Messi pounced and earned his second goal of the night.
13. Goal vs. Jordan | June 28, 2026
Argentina, already through and having won the group, started without Messi, who did not need to play a whole 90 minutes. As if he ever needs a full match to create some magic. Leo entered the action in the 60th minute and 20 minutes later, he scored his second free-kick at a World Cup and his 19th career goal at the tournament.
It was a great finish, though I think the keeper and his wall could have done better. From another angle, you can also see Argentina’s stopper Emiliano “Dibu” Martínez conducting the Argentinian wall and telling them where to stand in order for Messi to find his path towards goal. It’s brilliant.
As a result, Messi also became the first men’s player to score in seven straight World Cup matches.
12. Third Goal vs. Algeria | June 16, 2026
There is probably more of a poetic, symbolic meaning to this goal as it officially marked his first ever hat trick at the World Cup. But it was also a delightful finish that sealed the three points and placed Messi in the history books.
Receiving a ball from Nico Gonzalez inside the box, the soon-to-be 39-year-old star made a quick assessment and shot at Zidane with an effort that went bottom-left. Once again, the goal was perfectly placed with tremendous accuracy and the stadium knew the outcome. We all did.
Messi, once again, gave us an evening to never forget.
11. Goal vs. Australia | Dec. 3, 2022
It took a dramatic save from Emiliano Martínez at the end of this one for Argentina to secure the victory, but it all started with Messi’s opener during what was his 1,000th career match. The goal started from a free-kick cross by Leo that ended up with him entering the box and, with a slight touch from Nicolas Otamendi, the Argentinian icon placed a low shot past Matt Ryan.
10. First Goal vs. Algeria | June 16, 2026
Messi, as he is turning, receives the ball from his Inter Miami teammate Rodrigo De Paul, and with his quintessential, almost omnipotent left foot, takes an effort just outside the box, smashing a powerful shot past Algeria’s Luka Zidane. Zinedine’s son probably saw it coming, but like many other mortals, it just can’t be stopped. It was the door that opened the floodgates.
Once again, as is always the case, it started and ended with Messi as he provided the ball out to the left to Julian Alvarez. The man from Atlético de Madrid saw his shot saved, Messi claimed it, then shot it. THAT one gets blocked, but because Leo never quits, the Argentinian captain headed toward the center of the box and smashed it in.
Pure determination.
9. Record-Breaking Goal vs. Austria | June 22, 2026
Of course, this is the goal that’s sealed in time, making him the all-time scorer in men’s World Cup history. After missing a penalty in the 14th minute, Messi made amends by scoring a delicious finish, thanks also to a wonderful dummy by Thiago Almada.
Messi took it the first time, and it was clear he was never going to miss. On the 40th anniversary of Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” against England in the 1986 World Cup quarterfinal, Messi created another eternal memory for Argentina.
8. Goal vs. Serbia and Montenegro | June 16, 2006
Messi’s first ever goal at the World Cup. Days before his 19th birthday, Messi came on from the bench with just over 15 minutes left. Carlos Tevez found the then-Barcelona teenager, who made a run inside the box and slotted it past the goalkeeper.
It may not be his greatest goal from an aesthetic perspective, but it’s one of the most meaningful.
7. Goal vs. Mexico | Nov. 26, 2022
Anxiety was rising with Argentina fans as La Albiceleste was currently at 0-0 against Mexico deep in the second half. But then came Leo as Di María gave him the ball just outside the box. The Argentina captain sent a powerful, low effort past Memo Ochoa for the opener and the South Americans erupted.
6. First Goal vs. Nigeria | June 25, 2014
Messi ended the group stage in perfection, scoring a brace against Nigeria. The first came in the second minute of action as Angel Di María hit the post and, like a bull charging at will, Leo entered the box and smashed it in. An absolute rocket.
5. Second Goal vs. Austria | June 22, 2026
Once again, as is always the case, it started and ended with Messi as he provided the ball out to the left to Julian Alvarez. The man from Atlético de Madrid saw his shot saved, Messi claimed it, then shot it. THAT one gets blocked, but because Leo never quits, the Argentinian captain headed toward the center of the box and smashed it in.
Pure determination. And also, pay attention to his touch just as he gets the ball inside the box. It is the definition of genius and elegance. But you have to slow down the highlight in order to truly appreciate it.
4. Second Goal vs. Nigeria | June 25, 2014
The second was Messi’s first and only free-kick goal at the World Cup. Nigeria came back with a goal but, in true fashion,La Pulga reclaimed his team the lead with a beautiful set piece. Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama could only watch and follow it in as he knew — as we all did — he was already beaten.
3. Goal vs. Iran | June 21, 2014
Iran held on as much as it could. But when you face Messi, that’s just never enough. In the 90th minute, Leo picked up the ball on the edge of the box and completely smashed a beautiful left-footed attempt heading towards the top left of goal. A piece of magic and one of my favorite goals.
2. Goal vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina | June 15, 2014
Messi didn’t score in the 2010 World Cup so he had to make amends four years later in Brazil. At 27, he was ready to make a statement and this is one of my favorite goals because you are now seeing prime Leo—running at full speed—unable to be stopped.
Messi drives towards goal, gives it to Gonzalo Higuain, gets it right back and, with a lethal left-foot finish that eventually becomes a trademark on the bottom left, scores. The best part is that he forced two Bosnian defenders to crash into each other in the process, as they were unable to stop the Argentinian.
They became two early victims of Messi’s wrath.
1. Goal vs. Nigeria | June 26, 2018
After causing havoc against the Super Eagles back in 2014, the African side was probably done with this guy by the time Russia 2018 arrived. But Messi was not and four years later, Leo scored what is in my opinion, his greatest World Cup goal.
He received a great pass from Ever Banega, and as he was tracked down by a defender, Leo took a touch as smooth as butter with his left knee, then with his left foot, brought it down to his weaker right foot and slammed it past the goalkeeper.
Hang it in the Louvre? It’s a goal so good that it deserves to have its own exhibition.
Why ex-FBI agent is ‘99%’ sure the Nancy Guthrie case will be resolved?
With over 100 days passed, some critics say the investigation into Nancy Guthrie has gone cold. Yet, a retired FBI agent disagreed with this.
Her name is Jennifer Coffindaffer, and she believes the mystery of the disappearance will be solved, as she is 99% sure.
“I’ve described the case as being red hot. It’s a case where there’s so much going on behind the scenes,” she shared.
As the former FBI agent explained, investigators behind the scenes are painstakingly going through several pieces of evidence, including DNA and CCTV footage, to determine who the suspect(s) are.
But Coffindaffer acknowledged that combing through the evidence will take time.
For example, the DNA evidence.
In a new interview with Men’s Journal, she said, “The DNA was always going to take several months to process.”
Then came the analysis of traffic and security camera footage.
Investigators have been weighing in on this particular evidence to find out which vehicle left the scene at the time of Nancy’s disappearance.
“Tracking at least one vehicle that would have left in that dark environment would take time.”
“You have to go from the choke points out into the various directions,” she continued.
“So finally, a vehicle would show up at that particular timeframe that would be commensurate with the time the crime was committed.”
Thus, Coffindaffer said, “That takes a lot of time for investigative analysts to literally sit there and just watch second after second of different green cams, nest cams, and traffic cams. That takes months in terms of time.”
Nancy has been missing since Feb. 1 from her home near Tucson, Arizona.
