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On the last episode of The Only Way Is Essex, viewers saw Gemma Collins admit to James 'Arg' Argent just how much she likes him, but last night she wasn't so kind.
The blonde reality TV star decided to confront him during a special episode set in Marbella, Spain, after discovering what he's really been saying about her.
Gemma was quick to tell Arg that she was too good for him and didn't hold back when it came to flaunting her body either.
Look at what you're missing! Gemma Collins confronts James 'Arg' Argent on The Only Way Is Marbs
Feeling like a fool: Arg looked embarrassed by what Gemma was saying in front of everyone
As Arg fooled around in the pool with Joey Essex and a few of the other guys following the champagne party, Gemma approached him wearing a black swimming costume and a bright pink sarong.
'Hi Arg, I just wanna say something to you,' she started with. 'You've been going around discussing what happened between us, well let me tell you something now, you don't ever disrespect a girl like that again.'
As she began to untie her sarong, Arg looked on confused as the other partygoers sat around the pool and listened carefully.
Revealing all: The blonde mocked Arg and made it clear that she was too good for him
'Take a good look at this, you ain't ever gonna get this candy,' she said as her sarong fell to the floor.
'I don't get it Gemma,' was all that Arg could say. 'I don't understand.'
'I don't like the way your turned around and say "Oh she's got a pretty face but she's got no metabolism." I'm f***ing sexy James and I know it,' she added.
Look of confusion: Arg looked baffled by what Gemma was saying and doing in front of the crowd
'Take a look at this candy': The blonde reality TV star removed her sarong as she continued her speech
'I know, you're lovely,' he replied. 'So why do you feel the need to make a scene?'
'I don't even want to go out with you Arg,' Gemma continued. 'You disrespect girls. You cheated on Lydia how many times?'
'Well you cheated on Charlie and Rami with me' Arg retaliated with, before Gemma dismissed kissing as cheating.
Not holding back: Gemma told him that he shouldn't 'disrespect girls'
Feeling embarrassed: The dark-haired TV star made out like he didn't know what Gemma was talking about
'You think I'm pretty but I'm too fat to go out with you James. I might not be a size ten but I've got a good heart, so take that and kiss that,' she said as she slapped her bottom and strutted off past her co-stars.
'Kiss my a**e!' she added, as the crowd cheered and Arg sank into the water with his champagne flute.
Gemma arrived late in Marbella, but she didn't waste any time in talking about her situation with Arg.
'Kiss this': Gemma strutted away from the pool to loud cheers from the crowd
She told Billie and Sam Faiers and Jessica Wright that was annoyed with him after hearing what he'd been saying about her, but added: 'When I see James, I'm like butter and melt. When you're like that, you can't resist spreading the butter on the bread.'
But Arg didn't have such complimentary things to say in return, as earlier on in the day when he was asked about his situation with Gemma, he couldn't help but mention her size.
'She's got a pretty face, and I think if she was as skinny as Lydia then she's definitely be prettier than her,' he said, before Joey Essex replied: 'But she's not.'
That's Entertainment: Ricky Rayment and Jessica Wright whisper and giggle as they watch the scene unfold
Arg was quick to insist that he and Gemma were 'just friends' but after revealing the intimate details of what they recently got up to together, the guys told him in no uncertain terms that friends 'don't do that.'
It is unknown where the pair's relationship will go from here, as Arg's ex-girlfriend Lydia is currently loved-up with Tom Kileby, so no doubt he'll feel that he needs to get his own back once again.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
Divorce parties - a celebration of life or just bad taste? - The Age
Is divorce really reason to celebrate?
Are divorce parties in bad taste?
We love rituals. We do. They make us feel connected and purposeful. Rituals may be religious, or not. They may be shared with hundreds or few. But we love them because they are transformative. Weddings transform single people into a married couple, funerals transform dead bodies into living souls. Dinner dates make Friday night sexy. Grand finals make families from strangers, and enemies of others.
Of course, while passion for ritual process is common, commonly loved rituals are rare; one person’s sacred practice is another’s silly superstition – a waste of time, a hassle, even an inexcusable horror.
But what makes some rituals more supported than others? What makes one ritual right and another wrong in the eyes of society?l
I’d like to talk here about a relatively new ritual phenomenon. The divorce party – a modern, Western ritual spawned in America sometime in 2007 that has grown in popularity since.
Though Jack White and Karen Elson’s divorce party was a shared affair, in the main divorce parties are organised independently, a la Heather Mills who famously forked out $500,000 for one of her own.
And while women may be seen as the hostesses with the mostest divorce party inclination, they aren’t the only ones doing it; many men’s events organisers cater to divorce parties for boys. In fact, the divorce party has been described as the “final frontier of the wedding industry complex”.
But are divorce parties rituals that are good or bad for society? Are they generally appropriate or in very bad taste?
The Guardian this week had an article written from a pro-perspective. In this context, divorce parties were not about celebrating the end of a marriage, but the start of a new life. Following von Gennep’s famous ‘three phases’ ritual model, the divorce party prompts healing by first separating the protagonist from their married identity, then passing them through the awkward post-separation threshold before finally rejoining them with the fresh life and love potential beyond.
Looked at this way, divorce parties can be seen as a ritual with myriad positive consequences. As a sacrament devoted to a person’s newfound singledom, the divorce party might be a ritual with power to transform woebegone broken-hearts into optimistic hoping-hearts. Surely this is a good thing in a world where divorce happens, and happens often.
Yet when viewed from the other side of the fence, divorce parties can look like very negative exercises in regret - visions of vitriol spewed into tacky, stabby invitations, cocktails of misery and bitterness served up with slices of dead-spouse blood-velvet cake.
Instead of a positive trajectory of healing, divorce parties can see the central character stuck in a regressive loop of loathing. Beginning with hate for the old relationship, middling with stewing over the old relationship and ending with refreshed hate for the old relationship, a divorce party can read like a downward spiral of doom.
How, you might ask, could anything good come from something so vindictive?
Indeed, in this age of social oversharing, it’s likely the shenanigans of a divorce party will be captured and disseminated, possibly intentionally so (especially to the wrong people, ie The Ex). Such grave-dancing is reprehensible, and gains little. Actually, it could lose the jigger quite a lot if the settlement is not quite finalised, and the ‘celebration’ is used to sucker-punch funds.
So perhaps they key factor here is time. Divorce parties might be a healthy, socially desirable ritual practice if held at the right time. That is to say after the bruising and swelling has gone down. Then perhaps the focus will be of new life, rather than ruined life. Then, maybe, likely guests would be contributing to a new future rather than being caught up in a messy war. Then the party is more ‘new-you debut’, less ‘divorce party’ – something we surely should support.
But what do you think?
Have you ever been involved with a divorce party? What do you think about them? Are they a healthy ritual practice, or should we stamp them out on the grounds they’re a socially destructive force?
kfeeney@fairfaxmedia.com.au (I promise I do read mail, even if I don't respond right away...)
Source: www.theage.com.au
Essex batsmen strangled by Surrey spin - Romford Recorder 24
Surrey's Gareth Batty celebrates the dismissal of Warwickshire's Ian Westwood
Tom Moore, at the Kia Oval
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
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FriendsLife Twenty20: Surrey (128-8) beat Essex (111-9) by 17 runs
Surrey came from staring defeat in the face to picking up a comfortable victory Essex lost eight wickets for 44 runs as they collapsed from 44 without loss to 88-8 chasing Surrey’s originally modest 128 off their 20 overs.
The Eagles recovered slightly but finished 17 runs short of their target.
Despite their powerful batting line-up Surrey only hit 15 fours in their innings and Essex only managed eight fours with Tim Phillips hitting the first and only six of the match.
Rory Hamilton-Brown won the toss and elected to bat and the skipper opened up with Steven Davies.
The wicketkeeper moved off the dreaded duck with his third ball and Hamilton-Brown thumped a four from Phillips’ last delivery of the opening over.
David Masters was the other opening bowler and Davies hit him for three fours in the over.
But the stumper was out, stumped by former England keeper James Foster, off the bowling of Phillips.
Graham Napier came into the bowling attack in the fourth over, replacing Masters and the all-rounder removed the captain, caught and bowled, for nine.
Zander de Bruyn came and was walking back the very next ball with his middle stump knocked out of the ground to leave Napier on a hat-trick.
Ryan ten Doeschate struck next, taking the wicket of Spriegel, clean bowled for 13.
Jason Roy was the next man to depart, skying James Franklin to long on where Masters claimed the catch.
Zafir Ansari and Gary Wilson looked to steady the ship, passing the 100 mark but the former edged Phillips behind to leave Surrey 108-6.
Gareth Batty tried to increase the rate but he was clean bowled by Napier to leave the hosts struggling on 115-7 going into the end of the innings.
Murali Karthik and Wilson added 12 but with two balls remaining Bopara clean bowled the latter.
Jade Dernbach came out for the last ball and picked up a single meaning Essex need 129 to win at just under six and a half an over.
Out came Bopara and Mark Pettini to open the innings and the England international hit Dirk Nannes for two fours in his first over, the second of the innings.
The pair put on 44 before Dernbach forced Pettini to edge behind to Davies for 20.
Greg Smith was the new man but he was run out for nine bringing Owais Shah to the crease.
But with the former England man was out for the same score, LBW to Batty.
Ryan ten Doeschate entered the action but he lost Bopara soon after as he was caught by Spriegel off the bowling of Batty.
And the Dutchman departed off the bowling of Spriegel, skying the ball to Roy.
Essex keeper James Foster came and went without scoring, LBW to Ansari, as the collapse continued.
Graham Napier could not stop the slide as he was run out by Jason Roy and Essex had lost seven wickets for 42 runs when they were cruising.
Franklin was the next man to depart two runs later with a leading edge to Hamilton-Brown off the bowling of Gareth Batty.
Phillips finally gave the crowd some entertainment as he launched Spriegel into the crowd to inject life into the Essex innings again that had looked rudderless since Bopara was dismissed.
Dernbach came back on and Masters could not score with the paceman bowling him for three leaving Essex needing 24 off nine balls.
The Eagles needed 22 off the final over to win and 21 to tie with Nannes to bowl the last over.
Phillips hit a single off the first ball leaving Tymal Mills on strike, who edged the second ball doen to third man for a single.
With three balls to go Essex needed three sixes to tie the match and send it into a Super Over.
But the next ball was a dot ball removing any chance of a win as Surrey claimed the spoils.
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- Lola, New Zealand, 14/6/2012 09:18
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