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Sunday, May 27, 2012
TEEN HELD OVER FATAL SHOOTING A TEENAGER is being quizzed by cops after two people were killed and seven others were wounded in a horror gun attack.
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Tuominen said two 18-year-olds, a male and a female, were shot dead. A female police officer, 23, was also The suspect, 18, was arrested critically wounded after respondon Saturday following the inciing to the emergency call. dent. Eyewitnesses said they saw a Police said a man, who was woman with her face covered in wearing camouflage-coloured blood and heard her scream leather, fired about 20 times before she dropped to the from a low rooftop at people ground. gathered outside a restaurant. The suspect has no previous The shooting took place in criminal record and did not the early hours of Saturday morning in Hyvinkaa, around Scene . . . cops resist arrest, some five hours after the gun rampage. 50km north of the Finnish capiHe had no gun on him when he was tal of Helsinki. taken into custody. Detective Chief Inspector Markku
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DUBLIN Housewives’ ‘Ms Nasty’ Danielle Meagher has opened up about the bullying she suffered on the show and admitted: I cried myself to sleep constantly.
The outspoken blonde, known as Dr Botox, also revealed her softer side for the first time, which she credits to her nineyear-old son OJ.
Telly viewers will see Danielle, 31, clash with her reality colleagues Virginia Macari, Jo Jordan, Lisa Murphy and Roz Flanagan on the fly-on-thewall show which starts tomorrow. And while she admits the bust-ups will probably make for good TV, she confessed the reality was far from entertaining. In an exclusive interview with the Irish Sun, Danielle said: “I really feel I was badly bullied, it was like being back at school again, I cried myself to sleep, I was so lonely. “I might come across as a real hard-ass but I’m quite sensitive really and some of the things that were said to me were so hurtful. “I was very upset by it all to be honest, I’m only human, it would have been impossible not to be hurt.” Businesswoman Danielle, who runs the popular Dermaface clinic in Dublin, signed up for the reality show in the hope of promoting her business and enjoying a new experience. She knew some of her co-stars to see but not personally. And she didn’t expect to clash so strongly with fiery fashion designer and new mum Virginia Macari. Danielle said: “From the start I became good friends with Jo. “I thought Jo was like me, a grafter and real person, out of everything that happened the most hurtful was realising we weren’t the friends I thought we were.
ON VIRGINIA: All of a sudden she was shouting at me, I was just stunned.
Smutty
“I knew Virginia to see, but not very well. The first bust-up was at the Unicorn restaurant while we were all having a meal. “The girls were talking about breast feeding but in a really smutty, sexualised way. They were saying things like they couldn’t get their baby to latch on but they could get a fella no problem. “I don’t talk about sex toys or anything like that and to talk about breast feeding in the same context as sex, that’s just a bit gross to me. “I probably vocalised my thoughts and all of a sudden Virginia was shouting at me, asking me if I had a problem with breast-feeding, I was just stunned. “I think breast-feeding is wonderful but when it’s referred to in a smutty, sexualised way it makes me feel very uncomfortable. “That same night the other girls went out and went drinking. I was up early the next morning so I wasn’t out but I said to Jo, who I thought was my friend, that she should take care of herself and not be seen falling out of a pub at nine in the evening as she’s a lady. “Next thing I knew it had become me being a bitch to her and the other girls were whispering about me being nasty. “I don’t mince my words, but what I was saying I meant to protect her. I was just honest and it all turned into horrible mess.” The situation went from bad to worse as the group went to Cork to film a short time later. Danielle explained: “I only went to Cork to support Lisa at her charity event, I was busy in work and I would have happily stayed at home. “But I drove down to find that I was staying in a B&B with the crew and the rest of the girls were put up in a hotel. “We did some filming and then we went for a lovely dinner in the Blue Haven, it turned out to be a really upsetting night. “It started off as we were talking about the Miss Ireland contestants and I said while I’m sure they are lovely girls I think they’d be better off getting their heads into the books and getting some education. “Virginia went for me and told me I was so rude to say that. She went
VIRGIN’ ON THE RIDICULOUS . . . Meagher and Macari clashed on numerous occasions during filming of controversial reality TV series
ON JO: She hung me out to dry. I call her Jodas Jordan now off for a cigarette with Roz and some of the crew and then really laid into me when she came back, I actually think they made a plan to jazz things up for the cameras. “She started shouting and calling me nasty, I stood my own but I was really taken back. “The rest of the girls just sat there, I felt Jo hung me out to dry. I call her Jodas Jordan now and I refer to the dinner as the Passover meal. “After a tirade of abuse they left and I just sat there and cried my eyes out. Everyone disappeared and a girl who works in the restaurant came over and asked me was I OK. “I felt so hurt. Since then the rest of the filming was really awkward and stressful, I tried to stay away
ON SHOW: Nobody ever said sorry... It will make great TV I’m sure from trouble, but the whole ordeal was horrific. I really felt I was bullied. The tears were rolling down my face. I walked back to the B&B, I knew the others were in a pub close by having the craic. “That was the night I cried myself to sleep. I was so lonely, I had noone to turn to. I got up early and drove back to Dublin and I just thought I don’t want to do this anymore.
Fiery
“I am fiery and I know I can get myself into trouble, but I am genuine and I’d never do something to someone just for entertainment. “Nobody ever said sorry. It will
make great TV I’m sure and I did speak my mind and perhaps I will come across as if I didn’t care, but of course I did.” Since then Danielle feels she has been totally isolated by the rest of the group. They have just returned from a trip to New York without her. She says they also abandoned her at the show’s official launch in celeb bar Harry’s last week. But the determined young Dubliner, who has a degree in Dentistry from Trinity College, as well as a GDip in Aesthetic Medicine from the University of London, is adamant she’s putting the whole ordeal behind her to focus on what really matters — her little boy OJ. She gushed: “My little boy is my
biggest achievement. I’m very proud of what I’ve done, but he is without doubt the best thing I’ve ever done. His name is OJ and he’s just so cute and funny and ambitious and clever — the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. But the hardest thing about the show was leaving OJ as we are never apart.
Family
“He’s in the show a little but I would not use my child to get column inches. OJ is my world and I adore him. It would have to be a pretty special person for me to introduce a man into our family. “I can’t imagine how I would love somebody else as much as I
love him. We would be rolling around the floor laughing together, he thinks the show looks hilarious. He said to me ‘Mum, even my friends don’t behave like this’. “I couldn’t do a show about my life and not mention him — that just wouldn’t be real.” Dublin Housewives is expected to be the hit of the summer when it arrives on our screens tomorrow. But Danielle, who has also presented on Channel 4, just hopes the nation sees her for what she really is — a straight-talking, hard working mum. She added: “I hope the rest of Ireland will say ‘she’s just saying what I’m thinking’. I’m not interested in a ‘he said, she said’ thing
now, it’s all playground stuff. We’re not friends and strong personalities will always spark off each other and that’s fine. “There’s talk of a second series, but I’d have to have a lobotomy to talk to those girls again to be honest. “There was no talk of world politics that’s for sure — they didn’t know what the FT100 was. “There’s always a villain in these shows and I guess this time it’s me. It’s not the real me though, I’m focused and ambitious and driven and if that’s a crime then so be it.” Q DUBLIN Housewives starts on TV3 tomorrow night at 9.30pm. fiona.wynne@the-sun.ie