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A SUPER saver decorated her patio for an alfresco lunch gathering for £100 from B&M.

From dinner plates to bug-repelling candles, Aimee shared her impressive haul with her 29.6k Instagram followers.

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Aimee treated herself to a selection of faux flowers to add a splash of colour[/caption]

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The lifestyle influencer, who lives in Wiltshire with her partner Sean, said she wanted to create the perfect space for entertaining guests.

Sharing a video of her summery accessories on @thecountryreno, she wrote: “This year is the year of our garden, after 18 months living here we are now ready to start making her ready for guests and entertaining, BBQs and sundowners.

“Our table was a Facebook marketplace bargain last year for £100 too, and now I’m headed to B&M with £100 to see if I could make something beautiful.“

She bagged herself an adorable lemon jug for just £3 after it was on sale from £5 and pretty farmhouse-style plant pots from £3.

“£100 feels like a lot of money but these days would barely get you a seat cushion in some shops but I knew that B&M would have some bargains and they did not disappoint!!

“I was surprised to see so many things on offer too – especially that lemon jug.”

To keep pesky insects away for those late-night tipples, she found citronella torches on bamboo spikes to give a feeling of being on a tropical island.

The candle and holders are just £4.

Aimee also jumped on the faux flower trend, which she joked meant she couldn’t kill them.

They vary in price, but range from £2 to £8.

She found hanging baskets filled with colourful and realistic plastic flowers, which she added to an outhouse wall.

Followers flocked to praise her haul, with one writing: “Such good finds! That lemon jug!

“You did a brilliant job finding this all and styling it beautifully together.”

“Great bargains and looks lovely,” echoed a second.

“Impressive job the wall hanging baskets look lovely in that position too x” said a third.

Remember that some products are limited to selected stores, so always check with your local shop before wasting a trip.

If, like Aimee, you want to transform your garden space as the weather warms up, B&M has you covered.

One product guaranteed to make your backyard the envy of your neighbours is the Stained Glass Hanging Decoration.

The purse-friendly buy comes in a wide variety of colours and patterns from stunning floral designs to captivating mandala patterns.

Priced at just £4 each, these beautiful hanging decorations will revamp your garden, without you having to break the bank.

Plus, when the sunlight catches on the stained glass, it will create a spectacular glow which will transform your garden into a paradise.

B&M said: “This unique Stained Glass Hanging Decoration will add a touch of colour and beauty to your garden.

“Perfect for hanging in your garden and adding to your outdoor decor.”

Another product guaranteed to give your garden a glow-up, is the Flower Solar Light.

The bargain buy comes in a variety of different colours, including yellow and pink, so is guaranteed to inject your garden with a stunning splash of colour.

It features an adorable flower design, with a sweet bee perched on top of it, which is bound to make you smile every time you sit in the garden.

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Heritage Gardening Hook Plant Pot is just £3[/caption]

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This lemon Jug is on sale for just £3[/caption]

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These pretty dinner plates are £2 each[/caption]

GERWYN PRICE claims he has plenty left in the tank – but won’t be content until he’s world champion again.

The 40-year-old won the PDC’s biggest prize back in 2021.

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Gerwyn Price believes he has another decade of success in him[/caption]

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The 2021 world champion is desperate to win a second title[/caption]

Price proved himself king of the oche as he downed rival Gary Anderson 7-3 four years ago.

But he hasn’t made it past the quarter-finals at Ally Pally since.

Gezzy was KO’d in the final four of the Nordic Darts Masters by Rob Cross on Saturday.

It followed a successful Premier League campaign for the Welshman, reaching the finals at London’s O2.

Price claims he is more than happy to keep competing for the next decade at least.

And he’s made sure to put to bed any lingering questions of retirement.

Price told talkSPORT: “I’m sticking around for the next 10 years.

“I mean, one World Championship, it’s not good enough.”

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Price turned pro in 2012 after picking darts over rugby.

He’s been the winner of seven major PDC titles – but admits as time goes on, he may be forced to pick and choose events.

The Iceman continued: “I would never give up totally.

“But the Pro Tours and Europeans, depending on how many it’s going to be at that time, because it’s getting more and more every year, but I’ll stop doing those.

“I would never give my Tour Card up. I’d still do events and if they invite me to the Premier League and World Series, I’ll still do them.

“But none of the lower events and just stop the travelling.”

Darts’ hectic pro schedule has become a major talking point among the sport’s elite.

Nathan Aspinall recently branded the calendar “absolutely obscene”.

The Asp fumed: “For us to take a weekend off, I have to pull out events.

“So I’m losing ranking money because I just need a few days off.

“And I’ve done that over the last couple of weeks because I was in a tight position in the Premier League, I really wanted to make the playoffs.”

AS an actress, she’s got Hollywood at her feet – with bigwig directors lining up to work with her, and a slew of movies in the pipeline. 

But Sydney Sweeney isn’t just resting on her laurels on set.

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Sydney Sweeney has cemented herself as a Hollywood sex symbol[/caption]

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She split from her fiancé Jonathan Davino in February[/caption]

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Since then, she’s leaned into her pin-up status – even releasing a soap made from her bathwater for ‘dirty little boys’[/caption]

Instead, the very savvy star is cashing in on the side with enough money-making brand deals to fund a small nation, and she’s leaving no doubt as to what those deals all hinge upon: her irresistible sex appeal. 

After all, while Hollywood is built on beauty, there are few stars who can fully embody that bombshell energy of yesteryear – in the guise of Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren – and become a brand unto themselves in the process. 

Yet Sydney manages to toe that line – and it’s no coincidence that she’s fully embraced her sexiest, and most marketable, self yet in the wake of her relationship ending earlier this year. 

According to brand and culture expert Nick Ede, the 27-year-old knows what her selling power is. And with her single status now confirmed to the world, she’s leaning into that bachelorette image. 

Hollywood bombshell

“She’s a modern-day sex symbol – and it feels like brands are really buying into her,” Nick tells us. 

“They want to be associated with her, and they love the fact that she’s single because it means she’s potentially obtainable to guys.

“Meanwhile, women feel like she’s more relatable because of the likely heartbreak she’s had, so they want to support her too. 

“There’s lots of opportunities in this from a branding point of view – and with 25m Instagram followers, she’s got a lot of influence!”

Last week, the Euphoria star confirmed reports that had been circulating since February, that, after seven years, she’d broken up with fiancé Jonathan Davino.

Speaking to The Sunday Times Style magazine, she said she was now single, adding, “I’m learning a lot about myself, spending more time with my friends. And I’m loving it.”

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She walked the carpet alone at the Met Gala in May[/caption]

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And one thing she’s seemingly learnt about herself is that she’s a highly valuable commodity, who can command big figures from companies begging her to promote them. 

Indeed, over the past few months – and coinciding with her break-up – Sydney has aligned herself with more brands than ever, fronting their ad campaigns and posting branded content to her social media.

Big brand deals

Some of her recent brand partnerships include the likes of MiuMiu, HEYDUDE shoes, Armani makeup, Samsung, Laneige, Kérastase, Ford and Dickies. 

Meanwhile, her recent – very tongue in cheek – campaign for Dr Squatch, which saw her release a range of soap made out of her own bathwater, proves the fact that she knows her sexy image sells. 

Joking that the idea was born from “dirty little boys” who “wouldn’t stop asking” for her used bathwater, Sydney cheekily posed for the men’s soap company in a bathtub. 

Would she have done so willingly if she were still engaged? Possibly. 

But she couldn’t fully represent that attainable fantasy to her mostly male market with a ring on her finger. 

She owns herself and she owns the way she looks

Brand and culture expert Nick Ede

“When she was still in her relationship, it didn’t really feel like she was being so overtly sexual with her social posts, and she wasn’t doing as many brand collaborations,” says Nick. 

“But now that she’s single again, and she’s not getting married, it feels like she’s come out of that spell. Now, she’s out there, and she’s owning it.

“I think that’s what’s great about her – she owns herself and she owns the way she looks. 

“She’s a bit like Sabrina Carpenter – they both own their sexuality and it’s up to them what they push and what they don’t push.”

Of course, this isn’t the first time that Sydney has leaned into her desirability to earn the big bucks. 

In 2023, she starred in the romcom Anyone But You – but it was the press tour to promote the movie that had fans running to the cinemas, as they couldn’t get enough of Sydney’s “are they – aren’t they” chemistry with co-star Glen Powell. 

The pair have both been open about how they harnessed the rumours surrounding their relationship to feed fans’ frenzy, and ultimately guarantee box office success.

To that end, they happily flirted for the cameras and cosied up together on red carpets – despite the fact that Sydney was still coupled up with Jonathan at the time.

Clearly, the actress isn’t afraid to ham it up for the cameras – and also blur the lines between film and reality. 

As Nick tells us, she’s “not pretentious nor prissy” when it comes to press and publicity, and she enthusiastically embraces her image as a pin-up. 

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Starring in an ad campaign for Miu Miu[/caption]

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She’s also promoted Kérastase alongside fellow pin-up Emily Ratajkowski[/caption]

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Leaning into the romance rumours with Anyone But You co-star Glen Powell[/caption]

She even fashioned a T-shirt last year that read: “Sorry for having great t**s and correct opinions” across her chest – in response to some complaints about her sexualised image. 

What’s important to note is that – while bombshells of the past like Marilyn Monroe were beholden to others, including film studios and directors – Sydney is fully in control of her image. 

On camera, she hasn’t shied away from her sexy looks in the past – especially with envelope pushing roles in Euphoria and the erotic thriller The Voyeurs. 

But, given that – up until recently – she was engaged in real life, it was confined to make believe. 

Now, her sexy image seems more real than ever, and brands are clearly buying into the narrative… which is, ultimately, Sydney’s bottom line. 

Money minded

As the actress herself has explained, she’s driven to make a lot of money, which comes from her parents’ financial struggles during childhood. 

When she was 16, her parents, Lisa and Steven, had to sell their home in Washington, forcing the family (she has one younger brother, Trent) to live in one bedroom together in a Holiday Inn hotel for eight and a half months.

Three years later, her parents filed for bankruptcy. 

Since then, she’s been determined to make a better life – both for herself and her parents – and has grafted hard to up her earning potential.

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Posing with her parents, Lisa and Steven, and brother Trent at the latter’s graduation[/caption]

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She and Trent had to share a bedroom with their parents after they were forced to sell the family home[/caption]

Clearly, her efforts have paid off. While Sydney earned $2m to star in Anyone But You, she’s since upped her film fee to around $7.5m – earning her a reported net worth today of approximately $40m. 

And she spends it well, admitting she’s “obsessed with Zillow” (America’s version of Rightmove), and has invested in a highly lucrative property portfolio that includes homes in Bel Air, Los Angeles, Florida Keys, and several more properties in the Pacific Northwest. 

She also has a vintage car collection – which she last added to with a $68,500 Fiat Jolly.

Meanwhile, the savvy star has also cemented herself behind the camera in Hollywood, producing Anyone But You and her recent film Immaculate.

She’s also producing her two upcoming movies – The Housemaid, and an untitled biopic about the boxer Christy Martin.

However, as she herself has previously said, the acting and producing gigs only go so far – especially in today’s economy. 

“They don’t pay actors like they used to,” she said in 2022. “And with streamers, you no longer get residuals”.

On brand

That’s where the brand deals come in. According to Nick, Sydney’s massive following – which eclipses most actresses working today – guarantees her a sizeable income from sponsored content. 

That means that, the way things are going, she could easily double her fortune in no time. 

“She could absolutely double it – I think she could be making hundreds of thousands per post,” he explains. “She’s wearing clothes from the likes of Miu Miu and jewellery from De Beers – ultra fabulous stuff. 

“And she recently did a deal with Samsung Galaxy – deals like that can bring in six figures, definitely. 

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Yet another ad campaign – this time for Armani Beauty[/caption]

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Posing for Samsung Galaxy – in a deal that could be worth six figures[/caption]

“With 25m followers, she’s up there with the Kardashians. Sydney’s really captured the zeitgeist.”

As for where she goes from here, the sky’s the limit for the star – who’s somehow achieved the impossible: straddling the worlds of old Hollywood and new-age social media.

Some stars in the past have tried and failed to be both commercial and respected in acting circles, but Sydney’s somehow struck that balance. 

If she were a mediocre actress, she couldn’t have done this

Nick Ede

According to Nick, her brand comes down to some excellent strategising and talent management. 

“If she were a mediocre actress, she couldn’t have done this,” he says. “Look at Megan Fox, who kind of ruined her career because her sexuality came before her acting. 

“Sydney’s different – she’s got really great range, and also has that respect of Hollywood, which allows her to do these brand deals. 

“She’s very clever – and the team behind her must be really clever as well. Everyone understands what she’s doing. 

“She’s peppering the deals with movies and she’s not over-saturating in either arena – that means we’ll keep buying into her.”

As for where she goes from here, it seems the sky’s the limit for Hollywood’s ultimate It Girl. 

She’ll soon be starring as boxer Christy – in a film that’s already being pegged for Oscar success.

Meanwhile, in the meantime, she’s proving she’s got enough self-awareness – and cheekiness – to cash in on her sex appeal. 

It seems that, as long as people are happy to buy soap made of her bathwater, she’ll continue to sell it.

And – in the process – Sydney’s cleaning up very nicely indeed.

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She adopted a dog, Sully, following her relationship split[/caption]

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Sydney first sexed up her image starring as Cassie in Euphoria[/caption]

 

BOXER Keyshawn Davis was reportedly escorted out by police after a backstage brawl with his brother’s opponent.

Keyshawn was due to headline a homecoming show in Norfolk, Virginia with his brothers Keon and Kelvin on the undercard.

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Keyshawn Davis was reportedly escorted out by police after a backstage brawl[/caption]

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It came after Kelvin Davis’ loss[/caption]

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Nahir Albright’s brother is in the purple[/caption]

But the 2020 Olympic silver medalist missed weight by 4.3lb and was stripped of his WBO lightweight world title.

And opponent Edwin De Los Santos later pulled out of fighting Keyshawn at a revised weight – but was still paid his full purse.

The show still went on and Keon scored a knockout win but Kelvin was stunned on points by Nahir Albright.

And later in the night, ESPN footage captured the moment Keyshawn was involved in a backstage brawl with Albright.

In an interview with ESPN, Albright claimed he was “jumped” by Keyshawn and Keon.

He said: “They started walking up to me all tough, putting his head against mine, and then grabbed me.

“Then I was about to swing, but my team and everybody, they grabbed Keyshawn and everything, and it was crazy.”

Albright also alleged that Keyshawn headbutted him and added he is contemplating whether to take legal action.

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The Davis brothers declined to comment when asked by ESPN.

Keyshawn beat Albright by decision in 2023 – but the win was overturned to a no-contest when he tested positive for marijuana.

Now Albright says there is unfinished business between the two that he plans to settle one way or another.

He said: “It’s definitely unfortunate, but it added fuel to the flame. Keyshawn, you gotta run it back with me – in the ring, not outside of the ring.”

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Nahir Albright, left, beat Kelvin Davis[/caption]

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Keyshawn Davis was stripped of his WBO lightweight belt after missing weight[/caption]

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