Jeremy Clarkson's other half, Lisa Hogan, has been inundated with heart-warming wishes following a festive post. The adored co-star of 'Clarkson's Farm', who recently celebrated her eight anniversary with Jeremy, posted to the show's X/Twitter page on Christmas Day. Here, she shared a video of the sheep at their property in Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire, some munching on bunches of hay. According to , the 51-year-old said: "Merry Christmas from all of us here on Diddly Squat Farm. "I hope you're having a good day and just remembering the people who aren't with their families and who are a little sad today. We are all thinking of you." Unsurprisingly, followers were quick to flood the comment section with their support. One user wrote: "Thank you and Merry Christmas to you and may the farmers be free to farm in the new year," while someone else posted: "Merry Christmas, Lisa and to everyone at the Farm! Thank you for everything You & Clarkson do to try to make it a better world." Another even wrote: "Merry Christmas from East Tennessee. Thank you for sharing your farm with us. Much love and blessings to you all." Jeremy was previously married to Frances Cain for 21 years before finding love again with Lisa. The pair initially sparked their romance back in 2017 when they met at a friend's Christmas gathering. While they are head over heels now, it wasn't always that way. In a previous interview with , Lisa said she made Jeremy work for it, after hearing of his 'reputation'. She said: "I was just about to leave and we were introduced and he said, 'No, no, come on, sit down and have a chat'. And that was it, really. "So he called me a couple of days later and I thought, 'Ok, you've got a bit of a rep' - so he had to really court me!"-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Beyoncé' s catching some heat for her NFL Christmas Day performance. During the 15-minute performance of her country album "Cowboy Carter," the Texas pop diva ended with a dramatic moment. While singing her hit "Texas Hold 'Em," Beyoncé ascended on a rising platform above the thousands in the crowd, closing the song with a large banner displaying the word "Bang!" accompanied by a finger-gun gesture. However, the gesture has sparked criticism from football fans, who called out hypocrisy in a rule in the NFL that has banned gun gestures. Related Giddyup! Did Beyoncé just hint at a "Cowboy Carter" tour? One person said , "Why was Beyoncé allowed to point finger guns in her halftime show but players are penalized for doing the same? The refs should have thrown a flag on that play and made her replay the down with loss of yards." “Where is the flag on Beyoncé for the finger guns?!?!" another person said online. According to NBC News , the league has prohibited all its players from any "violent gestures" that mimic "the firing of a pistol or a shotgun or a bazooka." Players can be fined for the gestures but it can also create a disadvantage during a game, resulting in a 15-yard penalty. Players are allowed to appeal the fines. Beyoncé has longstanding ties to the NFL because of previous Super Bowl performances. Also, her husband and rapper Jay-Z , born Shawn Corey Carter, started a partnership with the NFL in 2019 with Carter's entertainment business Roc Nation. The team-up has made way for entertainment events and forwarding the league's commitment to social activism and awareness. Read more about this topic Beyoncé will perform songs from "Cowboy Carter" at NFL Christmas halftime live on Netflix Beyoncé and Taylor Swift top the 2025 Grammy nominations Beyoncé’s CMA snub comes as no surprise, but it's still upsetting MORE FROM Nardos Haile Advertisement:
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WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, has died, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Sunday. He was 100. A Democrat, he served as president from January 1977 to January 1981 after defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 U.S. election. Carter was swept from office four years later in an electoral landslide as voters embraced Republican challenger Ronald Reagan, the former actor and California governor. ADVERTISEMENT Carter lived longer after his term in office than any other U.S. president. Along the way, he earned a reputation as a better former president than he was a president -- a status he readily acknowledged. His one-term presidency was marked by the highs of the 1978 Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, bringing some stability to the Middle East. But it was dogged by an economy in recession, persistent unpopularity and the embarrassment of the Iran hostage crisis that consumed his final 444 days in office. In recent years, Carter had experienced several health issues including melanoma that spread to his liver and brain. Carter decided to receive hospice care in February 2023 instead of undergoing additional medical intervention. His wife, Rosalynn Carter, died on Nov. 19, 2023, at age 96. He looked frail when he attended her memorial service and funeral in a wheelchair. Carter left office profoundly unpopular but worked energetically for decades on humanitarian causes. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 in recognition of his "untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." Carter had been a centrist as governor of Georgia with populist tendencies when he moved into the White House as the 39th U.S. president. He was a Washington outsider at a time when America was still reeling from the Watergate scandal that led Republican Richard Nixon to resign as president in 1974 and elevated Ford from vice president. "I'm Jimmy Carter and I'm running for president. I will never lie to you," Carter promised with an ear-to-ear smile. Asked to assess his presidency, Carter said in a 1991 documentary: "The biggest failure we had was a political failure. I never was able to convince the American people that I was a forceful and strong leader." ADVERTISEMENT Despite his difficulties in office, Carter had few rivals for accomplishments as a former president. He gained global acclaim as a tireless human rights advocate, a voice for the disenfranchised and a leader in the fight against hunger and poverty, winning the respect that eluded him in the White House. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts to promote human rights and resolve conflicts around the world, from Ethiopia and Eritrea to Bosnia and Haiti. His Carter Center in Atlanta sent international election-monitoring delegations to polls around the world. A Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher since his teens, Carter brought a strong sense of morality to the presidency, speaking openly about his religious faith. He also sought to take some pomp out of an increasingly imperial presidency - walking, rather than riding in a limousine, in his 1977 inauguration parade. The Middle East was the focus of Carter's foreign policy. The 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, based on the 1978 Camp David Accords, ended a state of war between the two neighbors. Carter brought Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland for talks. Later, as the accords seemed to be unraveling, Carter saved the day by flying to Cairo and Jerusalem for personal shuttle diplomacy. The treaty provided for Israeli withdrawal from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and the establishment of diplomatic relations. Begin and Sadat each won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. By the 1980 election, the overriding issues were double-digit inflation, interest rates that exceeded 20% and soaring gas prices, as well as the Iran hostage crisis that brought humiliation to America. These issues marred Carter's presidency and undermined his chances of winning a second term. ADVERTISEMENT On Nov. 4, 1979, revolutionaries devoted to Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seized the Americans present and demanded the return of the ousted shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was backed by the United States and was being treated in a U.S. hospital. The American public initially rallied behind Carter. But his support faded in April 1980 when a commando raid failed to rescue the hostages, with eight U.S. soldiers killed in an aircraft accident in the Iranian desert. Carter's final ignominy was that Iran held the 52 hostages until minutes after Reagan took his oath of office on Jan. 20, 1981, to replace Carter, then released the planes carrying them to freedom. In another crisis, Carter protested the former Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by boycotting the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. He also asked the U.S. Senate to defer consideration of a major nuclear arms accord with Moscow. Unswayed, the Soviets remained in Afghanistan for a decade. Carter won narrow Senate approval in 1978 of a treaty to transfer the Panama Canal to the control of Panama despite critics who argued the waterway was vital to American security. He also completed negotiations on full U.S. ties with China. Carter created two new U.S. Cabinet departments -- education and energy. Amid high gas prices, he said America's "energy crisis" was "the moral equivalent of war" and urged the country to embrace conservation. "Ours is the most wasteful nation on earth," he told Americans in 1977. ADVERTISEMENT In 1979, Carter delivered what became known as his "malaise" speech to the nation, although he never used that word. "After listening to the American people I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world can't fix what's wrong with America," he said in his televised address. "The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America." As president, the strait-laced Carter was embarrassed by the behavior of his hard-drinking younger brother, Billy Carter, who had boasted: "I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer." Jimmy Carter withstood a challenge from Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination but was politically diminished heading into his general election battle against a vigorous Republican adversary. Reagan, the conservative who projected an image of strength, kept Carter off balance during their debates before the November 1980 election. Reagan dismissively told Carter, "There you go again," when the Republican challenger felt the president had misrepresented Reagan's views during one debate. ADVERTISEMENT Carter lost the 1980 election to Reagan, who won 44 of the 50 states and amassed an Electoral College landslide. James Earl Carter Jr. was born on Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, one of four children of a farmer and shopkeeper. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, served in the nuclear submarine program and left to manage the family peanut farming business. He married his wife, Rosalynn, in 1946, a union he called "the most important thing in my life." They had three sons and a daughter. Carter became a millionaire, a Georgia state legislator and Georgia's governor from 1971 to 1975. He mounted an underdog bid for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, and out-hustled his rivals for the right to face Ford in the general election. With Walter Mondale as his vice presidential running mate, Carter was given a boost by a major Ford gaffe during one of their debates. Ford said that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration," despite decades of just such domination. Carter edged Ford in the election, even though Ford actually won more states -- 27 to Carter's 23. Not all of Carter's post-presidential work was appreciated. Former President George W. Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, both Republicans, were said to have been displeased by Carter's freelance diplomacy in Iraq and elsewhere. ADVERTISEMENT In 2004, Carter called the Iraq war launched in 2003 by the younger Bush one of the most "gross and damaging mistakes our nation ever made." He called George W. Bush's administration "the worst in history" and said Vice President Dick Cheney was "a disaster for our country." In 2019, Carter questioned Republican Donald Trump's legitimacy as president, saying "he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf." Trump responded by calling Carter "a terrible president." Carter also made trips to communist North Korea. A 1994 visit defused a nuclear crisis, as President Kim Il Sung agreed to freeze his nuclear program in exchange for resumed dialog with the United States. That led to a deal in which North Korea, in return for aid, promised not to restart its nuclear reactor or reprocess the plant's spent fuel. But Carter irked Democratic President Bill Clinton's administration by announcing the deal with North Korea's leader without first checking with Washington. In 2010, Carter won the release of an American sentenced to eight years hard labor for illegally entering North Korea. Carter wrote more than two dozen books, ranging from a presidential memoir to a children's book and poetry, as well as works about religious faith and diplomacy. His book "Faith: A Journey for All," was published in 2018. ______________________________________________________ This story was written by one of our partner news agencies. Forum Communications Company uses content from agencies such as Reuters, Kaiser Health News, Tribune News Service and others to provide a wider range of news to our readers. Learn more about the news services FCC uses here .A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says
The NFL has suspended Saints special teams player Roderic Teamer for the next three games. The suspension is a result of his arrest for driving under the influence when he was with the Raiders last season. The Raiders cut him after the arrest and he was out of the league for the rest of that season and most of the offseason, but the Saints signed him this year during training camp, knowing that he was facing a likely suspension once the DUI case concluded. Teamer told Mike Triplett of NewOrleans.Football that his arrest led him to make changes in his life and that today marks one year of sobriety for him. NFL suspensions are without pay. Teamer will be eligible to return to the Saints in Week 17.W ith her budget coming under attack from businesses and protesting farmers alike, Rachel Reeves is also facing questions over her integrity. Five occasions have emerged where the chancellor has embellished her credentials as an economist at key moments in her career. When standing for parliament in 2010, Reeves claimed she worked “as an economist... at Halifax Bank of Scotland”. In fact, she had been running a customer relations department dealing with complaints and mortgage retention at the bank, where one colleague recalled her as “thinking she was above” others. She told Stylist magazine in 2021: “I spent a decade at the Bank of England and loved it”. In fact she had worked there for six years, one of which was spent studying for a master’s degree at the London School of Economics (LSE).
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