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André the Giant's world-famous wrestling match against Hulk Hogan in 1988 at WrestleMania IV is also must-watch. The match resulted in a double disqualification after each wrestler hit the other with a metal folding chair: more
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"Andre used to ask me to get him six bottles of Mateus wine and ice them down. He would drink those before we went to the ring and no one could tell." [links]
He may be a superstar, but this delightful flute performance proves Andrea Bocelli is just like us. He plays the flute as a hobby to occupy him in his spare time - when he's not touring the world, that is. Picture: Classic FM here
An impressive stash of awards: three World Music Awards and two Classic Brit Awards casually placed on Bocelli's mantelpiece. Picture: Classic FM here
Bocelli enjoys a moment in the sun, sitting by the pool with his Labrador. Picture: Classic FM
Despite his punishing schedule, Bocelli always finds the time for his family. Photos of his wife Veronica Berti, his daughter Virginia and his sons Amos and Matteo can be found all over the walls of his home. Picture: Classic FM more
Mics, monitors and keyboards all positioned under a wall of iconic moments from Bocelli's lengthy career. He's also the proud owner of the world's longest piano, which has a special setting to add an extra octave to the keyboard. Picture: Classic FM more
I was 18 and meant to be going somewhere else that night. Everyone was late because of bad weather, so I sat by the piano in an empty room. Andrea sent a friend to ask me to come to his table. We talked about music and where I was born. I used the formal “you” instead of the friendly “you”, and he kept saying to everyone: “Why is she speaking to me like that? We are almost the same age.” I did it out of respect. I had an exam coming up, so I had to go, but he didn’t want me to. “Stay,” he said. “Don’t lose the energy. Don’t lose the moment. Love is something you don’t think about.” So I stayed. He is an intelligent man and teaches me so much. He likes to challenge himself in everything he does. As soon as you say: “You can’t do that” he does it. here
We have never had a fight, but we have argued. In this life we learn a lot from our mistakes, and I certainly have learned from the mistakes in my first marriage. The second is working very well indeed. here
Andrea is terrible to fight with. He stays calm when I’m angry. He is the kind of person who forgives thousands of mistakes, but when you cross the line, that’s it. He hasn’t changed – the friends he had when he was 18 are the same friends who come over every week.
A successful relationship between two people is an art. There is a natural foundation to it. It is chemistry at play. There has to be a fatal attraction or boredom takes over, but the art lies in preserving this chemical fatal attraction and keeping it alive. I think the 25-year age gap has made it easier, not harder. Big age gaps are a tradition in my family – my own father and mother have one. Plus, I am very religious, and age difference is something you see a lot in biblical marriages. more
Music has always played a very important role in our relationship. Veronica loves the same kind of music I do, so listening and discussing music together is something we do a lot. She’s been like a mother to my two boys, and she has done a wonderful job of establishing a good relationship with my first wife, too. In fact just last night we were all together at a big party for my son’s birthday. more
“Everything moved so quickly,” Helthuis said. “You couldn’t really think. It was hard to know how seriously to take him.”
“I have worked around the world and I personally did not really like how [security] was managed in the airport, but that’s only my opinion and I don’t judge the work of other people,” he said. more
In the clip, filmed by a Dutch passenger, a steward can be heard asking the Briton, Ben Innes, to come up the aisle, adding: “You want to take a photo with him?”
The co-pilot, Ahmed el-Qaddah, said the hijacker told the crew soon after the last of the non-Egyptian hostages walked free: “Five minutes and I will blow up the plane.”
Banchetti said the five of them were looking to each other for reassurance. “We were looking for comfort in each other’s eyes, I was hoping that someone would say: ‘Don’t worry, I am an expert and that is not a bomb.’ I am a gas turbine mechanic. I don’t know about bombs.” here
Footage has emerged of the moment a British passenger casually strolled up the aisle of a hijacked EgyptAir plane and posed for the photograph with the man holding up the flight with what, at the time, was believed to be a suicide belt.