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Lee, who in August 2015 won the sixth season of WWE's reality show competition Tough Enough, posted a photo of herself in gym clothes the day before her death.   'Celebrating finally being healthy enough to go to the gym 2 days in a row - first ever sinus infection kicked my butt,' she wrote.   Lee's mother Terri announced the news on Facebook but did not say how she died.   'It is with heavy hearts we wanted to share that our Sara Weston has gone to be with Jesus,' she wrote.   'We are all in shock and arrangements are not complete. We ask that you respectfully let our family mourn. We all need prayers, especially Cory and her children.'     Lee is survived by her husband Cory Weston, who went by the wrestling name Wesley Blake, and three children.    Born in Hope Township, Michigan, Lee was a competitive powerlifter in high school and went on to study medical sonography at Delta College in Bay City, Michigan. ...

Kanye West has defended his "White Lives Matter" t-shirt after receiving backlash for it.   The rapper sat down for an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Thursday, October 6.   During the interview, he said he wore the "White Lives Matter" t-shirt at a Paris fashion show because "they do."   The 45-year-old rapper also appeared shocked by the backlash the stunt caused.     Ye said: "I do certain things from a feeling. I just channel the energy, it just feels right. It’s using a gut instinct, a connection with God and just brilliance."   Kanye said his father had reached out to him about the shirt, and told him he thought it was funny.   Kanye said: "I thought the shirt was a funny shirt. I thought the idea of wearing it was funny. And I said 'Dad why do you think it’s funny?' And he said 'just a black man stating the obvious.'"   Kanye went on to speak to Calson about the public outrage in reacti...

An American tourist has been arrested for smashing up two ancient Roman sculptures after being told he couldn’t see Pope Francis at the Vatican.   The man in his 50s went on a rampage when he was visiting the Vatican Museums on Wednesday afternoon, October 5.   After being told he couldn’t meet the pope, the man allegedly hurled himself into one of the ancient sculptures in the museums’ Chiaramonti hall — knocking the sculpture off its pedestal, local newspaper Il Messaggero reported.   Museum security tried to grab him but as he made efforts to flee, he knocked down another sculpture.     Staff managed to restrain the man until Vatican police arrived minutes later to arrest him.   "The busts were affixed to shelves with a nail but if you pull them down with force, they will come off," Matteo Alessandrini, a spokesman for the Vatican Museums, told CNN.   "One lost part of a nose and an ear, the head of the other came off the ...

Nigeria will face the 2022 World Cup-bound Costa Rica in an international friendly billed for November 9 in San Jose. Costa Rica is participating in the 2022 Fifa World Cup billed for Qatar and will take on the three-time African champions as part of plan to prepare for the tournament.  The match will help strengthen Jose Peseiro’s men ahead of next year’s 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers since the Super eagles are not playing in this world cup.   In a statement on Thursday, October 6, the NFF wrote: “The Super Eagles will confront the senior national team of Costa Rica in a prestigious international friendly in the country’s capital, San Jose on 9th November. The three-time African champions have been invited to the Central American nation as part of major activities to send forth the Los Ticos to the Fifa World Cup finals in Qatar.”   Making their sixth appearance at the finals, Luis Fernando Suarez’s men have been zoned in Group E alongside Spain, Jap...

Anthony Joshua lost £3m (N1.4bn) worth of sponsorship money after getting outpointed by Oleksandr Usyk the first time they faced off  last year   The 32-year-old British boxer lost his heavyweight title to Usyk when the pair fought in London last September.   Joshua also suffered his second defeat in a row and third in the last four in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in August   New financial records for Joshua’s company 258 Management have shown a 35 percent reduction in turnover from February last year through to February 2022. In the financial year leading up to February 2021, Joshua made almost £8.5m through endorsement deals with the likes of Under Armour, Hugo Boss, and Beats.   Joshua’s stock hasn’t depreciated as much in the UK, as his marketing and sponsorship revenues went down from £3.5m to £2.9m in the region. 258 Management recognised the damage Usyk’s first win over Joshua did for the British-Nigerian’s image, as they said the ...

Veteran rapper, Fat Joe has said that he won't be changing his stage name even after losing over 100lbs in the last decade.   The 52-year-old, who used to weigh over 400lbs and suffered from diabetes, embarked on a bid to get fit after his overweight friends began dying young.      Fat Joe told Page Six;     'As a business I spent so many millions and millions of dollars marketing Fat Joe that it wouldn’t be smart to change my name now.'    'I grew up in the projects where there was no filter,' said the hitmaker, whose original stage name was Fat Joe Da Gangsta.   He added;    'When the teacher would, say, write something on the chalkboard I was always big so the crack of [my butt] would show. So the girls would be like yeah Joey Crack and that’s how I kept my name.'      After his dramatic weight loss journey, Joe told CNN in 2011: 'I think I weighed about 450/460 at my...

Not less than 28 people have been killed after a former police officer opened fire at a pre-school child daycare centre in Thailand. According to Reuters, the gunman is still at large after the attack in Nong Bua Lamphu, the north-eastern part of the country.   Police say the attacker shot and stabbed children and adults and is now on the run.    The gunman Panya Kamrab was sacked from the force last year, Thai PBS reported. He had stormed the centre armed with a gun and a knife.   A local police colonel, Jakkapat Vijitraithaya was quoted as saying Kamrab had been dismissed for drug use.   A motive for the attack is unclear as of the time of filing this report.