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By ELEANOR HARDING

Louis Walsh had seen Westlife sing in Dublin before the alleged incident


Louis Walsh last night denied allegations that he indecently assaulted a man in a nightclub toilet.

The X Factor judge said: ‘The allegations made against me are wholly false and with no foundation.

‘I will happily cooperate fully with the police and am 100 per cent confident that after a full investigation I will be fully exonerated.’

An anonymous 24-year-old, who is understood to be a single father, told police that Mr Walsh, 58, touched his groin after they struck up a conversation, according to The Sun newspaper.

According to the unsubstantiated claims from the alleged victim, the attack happened in the early hours of April 10, when Mr Walsh is said to have visited Russell Court Hotel in Dublin.

Earlier in the evening, Mr Walsh had attended a concert by Westlife, the Irish boyband he created.

The man allegedly told police he chatted with Mr Walsh in the hotel’s private Global Bar, before the pair moved on to its well-known Krystle nightclub.

His statement to officers claims the TV star then indecently assaulted him in the nightclub’s toilets.


The venue: The alleged assault is said to have taken place at the Krystle nightclub, inside Dublin's Russell Court Hotel


According to The Sun, a police source said the investigation was ‘ongoing’ and that officers have taken CCTV footage from the nightclub and will also study film from cameras in the hotel.

A spokesman for Mr Walsh said: ‘He vigorously denies all of the allegations. If contacted by the police he will willingly co-operate with any investigation. Louis categorically denies any wrongdoing and will fight to clear his name.’


Famous: The nightclub is one of the most popular and exclusive in Dublin
Last night, the alleged victim refused to comment.


Mr Walsh is on the judging panel for this year’s X Factor, alongside Gary Barlow from Take That, Kelly Rowland from Destiny’s Child and N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos. The Irishman first appeared on the programme in 2004 alongside Simon Cowell and Sharon Osbourne.

Mr Walsh became well-known in the 1990s for creating the group Boyzone after deciding to create an Irish version of Take That.

Under his management, they achieved international success, selling more than 12million copies worldwide



Back to work: Louis Walsh arrives at the London Studios for X Factor yesterday


He later used the same formula to produce Westlife, co-managed by Boyzone member Ronan Keating. Mr Walsh launched his television career as a judge on the Irish edition of reality music show Popstars.

After finding a band on that show he was brought across to London to star in Popstars: The Rivals on ITV. It was on this show that he found UK fame, as mentor of the winning group, Girls Aloud.

During his time on the X Factor, Mr Walsh had success with classical-style boyband G4, who went on to have a chart-topping album and completed two tours of the UK.


source: dailymail

By Paul Bentley


Revealing all? Oprah is said to be lining up an historic interview with Simpson


O.J Simpson has confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he murdered his former wife, it has been reported.

The talk show host made headlines recently saying that one of her regrets was never having got the shamed former sportsman to confess to the killing.

And it appears her wish may well have come true with reports Simpson has already told one of her producers in an interview from jail that he knifed ex-wife Nicole in self-defence - a confession he will now repeat to the talk show queen during a spectacular televised sit down interview.


The chat, which would be held in prison, would be a huge coup for Oprah, whose network, OWN, has suffered a massive hit in ratings recently.

Simpson is currently serving a nine-year sentence at Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Centre, after he was convicted of robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas in October 2008 after a botched heist to retrieve his memorabilia he said was stolen by dealers.

He was famously acquitted in October 1995 of the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman despite huge amounts of evidence against him.

According to the National Enquirer, the interview is set to be filmed after Simpson confessed he killed the pair in self-defence to a producer from inside prison.

'Oprah has been in touch with O.J. for the past year,' a source told the magazine.

She contacted him in prison to explore the possibility that he might give her an interview.

'He has always been a big fan of hers, but for a long time he was reluctant to say he did the crime or give the details of how it happened.'

According to the insider, Simpson recently decided to go through with the confession after he was contacted again by one of Oprah's producers.

'He told the producer: "Tell Oprah that yes, I did it. I killed Nicole, but it was in self-defence. She pulled a knife on me and I had to defend myself",' the insider was quoted as saying.

He reportedly then went on to give a full account of what happened on the night of the murders on June 12 1994.

Confession? O.J. Simpson and his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, when they were a couple in 1993

Murdered: Ronald Goldman was an American waiter and an aspiring model


The former couple had got into an argument after Nicole was said to have snubber Simpson when he interrupted a meal she was having at a restaurant with their children.

'O.J. said he went home and kept getting angrier and angrier and worked himself into an absolute rage,' the source told the Enquirer.

Simpson allegedly told the producer he 'didn't like the way she treated me in front of the kids at the restaurant. I didn't like that she was routinely having guys have sex with her at her condo with the kids there.

'I went over there to give her a piece of my mind,' he was quoted as saying.

When he arrived and no one answered at the house, he started pounding the door and shouting, according to the report.

The door allegedly then swung open and Nicole was standing there with a kitchen knife in her hand.

'O.J. told the producer, "she was yelling go away! Go away! And waving the knife around at me. At one point she was lunging at me with the knife and I was just trying to talk to her. Nicole stepped out of the apartment - slashing the knife in the air.

'"I was in such a rage that something just snapped. I couldn't take her constant taunting of me with other men or her using drugs and drinking while my kids were living with her. I went beserk.

'"Before I knew what I was doing I took the knife away from Nicole and started slashing at her. I cut her over and over again until she was lifeless. I was shocked at my own anger - I had killed the woman I had loved for so long.."'

Evidence: A glove that was found at Simpson's home - originally said to have been the pair to another which was bloodied from the violent murders


Weapon: A German-made 15-inch knife similar to one originally said to have been sold to Simpson five weeks before the murders


He allegedly went on to tell the producer he also knifed Ron Goldman in self-defence as he tried to attack Simpson when he turned up at the home soon after and spotted Nicole's body on the floor.

The shamed former sportsman was acquitted on October 3, 1995 of stabbing to death his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman after perhaps the most famous trial in modern history.

After the bodies were found in a pool of blood on her driveway in Los Angeles driveway, Simpson, who has until now maintained he did not commit the murders, began a bizarre slowspeed car chase with police.


Almost 100million people are thought to have watched the events live on television as the sports star held a gun to his head while being driven by a friend.

He was allegedly headed for the Mexican border with $5,000 dollars and his passport when he was tracked by authorities.

Eventually, 27 police cars trailed him until he surrendered on his mansion's driveway an hour and a half later.

Despite huge amounts of evidence against Simpson, including bloodstains in his car, a glove holding DNA from the three, a sock engrained with traces of his victims' blood on his bedroom carpet and tapes of a terrified Nicole begging police for help as Simpson hit her - he was acquitted of the murders.

If the confession is made to Oprah on television, Simpson will not, however, suffer legal consequences.

Under the law of double jeopardy, a second trial is forbidden following an acquittal.


source:dailymail

By Sarah Fitzmaurice


Car park canoodling: Michelle Keegan flashes her engagement ring for the first time as she and fiancé Max George share a kiss outside a supermarket


She said she was taken by surprise when he boyfriend of six months popped the question.

But being betrothed has clearly finally sunk in for Michelle Keegan, who showed off her engagement ring today.

The Coronation Street actress and her singer fiancé Max George were snapped sharing a kiss in Manchester.


The couple had just done a supermarket shop and were taking the bags to the car when they stopped and smooched in full view of the cameras.

And Michelle, 24, flashed her marquise diamond as she pushed the trolley along and then moved in for a kiss.

George, 22, who is in boy band The Wanted, proposed with a ring and a puppy and this week, Michelle spoke about the surprise proposal.

Young love: Michelle and Max can't stop smiling as they hold hands and head into the supermarket

Domestic bliss: Michelle and Max already look like a married couple as they pushed their trolley filled with food shopping


The Corrie stunner revealed that he caught her off-guard but admitted: ‘I seriously can’t wait to spend my future with him.’

Writing in her Love It! Magazine column Michelle said: ‘Bleedin’ heck, I can’t believe I’m engaged to Max!’

She added: ‘It’s dead exciting because I really didn’t see it coming.’

Loved-up: Michelle Keegan has spoken for the first time about boyfriend Max George's proposal, and says she can't wait to marry him


Max presented Michelle with an engagement ring which the actress described as ‘gorgeous’ shortly before her birthday earlier this month as well as a chihuahua called Pip.

Michelle posted a picture of her new pet to her Twitter page and said: ‘The best birthday present ever!!!!!! Little Pip! @MaxTheWanted xxx’

It's love: Max and Michelle got engaged just before her birthday, and the actress said she had no idea it was coming

No wonder she's smiling: The Corrie actress looked stunning in a simple grey dress which she teamed with a brown waist belt as she celebrated her birthday earlier this month


The actress, who has been dating the singer for six months, chose not to wear her engagement ring on her birthday night out in London earlier this week, but couldn’t keep her eyes or her hands off her boyband hunk.

While Manchester-born Max is based in London with the rest of his band members, Michelle lives in their home town filming the Weatherfield-based soap.

And with their successful careers, the actress has revealed the couple have no plans to wed this year.

Keeping her busy: Max bought Michelle an adorable puppy for her birthday

Smitten: The Wanted star Max couldn't keep his eyes off his stunning fiancée at the Soccer Six tournament at the beginning of June


Explaining she said: ‘We’ve got so much going on with our careers and I’ve got my hands full with my cute seven-week-old Chihuahua. ‘

When news of their engagement broke a friend told The News of The World: ‘They might have only been dating a few months but they want to spend the rest of their lives together.

Michelle, who used to date Hollyoaks star Anthony Quinlan for two years from 2006 to 2008, also used her magazine column to reveal that her future husband isn’t domesticated but said: ‘I’m confident that will change soon.’

To read the rest of Michelle's column see this weeks Love It! magazine on sale now.


source:dailymail

  First off, do coaches wear full uniforms now for little league games? Time to grow up Peter Pan. And does he seriously think he can get away with that pitch to the black Mickey Mantle here. Everyone knows you have to stay on the outer portion of the plate with #7. After he recovers from the brain hemorrhage, he will be a better pitcher for it.

  He's a horrible role model though, gotta get that glove up, coach. Pretty sure the little pitcher next to him was gonna make that play, if Mr. Mysonsucks-Butbatsfirst, would have gotten his bulbous head out of the way. Now we got a man on second whose probably gonna steal third and home and your car.