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A row has erupted over the winner of this year’s Miss France contest having short hair.

Eve Gilles, who has a pixie cut and was crowned the winner at a ceremony in Dijon on Saturday, is receiving support online from politicians in France after messages criticising her hair were posted on social media.

The 20-year-old is reportedly the first contestant with short hair ever to win the competition, which has been running for more than 100 years.

After her victory, she hailed a win for “diversity”, according to French media reports.

“No one should dictate who you are,” Le Monde quoted her as saying. “We’re used to seeing beautiful Misses with long hair, but I chose an androgynous look with short hair.”

She added that every “woman is different, we’re all unique”.

However, her win was criticised by some online, with one X user saying Miss France “is no longer a beauty contest but a woke contest based on inclusiveness”. Another wrote: “It is no longer beauty that we judge but rather the Woke ideology of this ultra-feminist woman.”

Supporting Gilles, Green MP Sandrine Rousseau wrote: “I’m shocked by the comments on #MissFrance2024 I didn’t imagine we were there. Our hair, and what we do with it, how we style it, is none of men’s business.”

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Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the French Communist Party, also commented, writing: “Support for Eve Gilles, elected Miss France, who is already suffering the violence of a society which does not accept that women define themselves in all their diversity.”

Gilles was representing Nord-Pas de Calais, a region in northern France.

She was crowned the winner in front of 5,000 pageant fans, with half the score determined by viewers and the other half by a jury of seven women, according to Le Monde.

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‘Ketamine Queen’ to plead guilty to supplying dose of drug that killed Matthew Perry

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A woman who was charged with selling Friends star Matthew Parry the dose of the drug that killed him has agreed to plead guilty.

Jasveen Sangha, known as the “Ketamine Queen”, is the fifth and final defendant to strike a plea deal with prosecutors, avoiding a trial that was set to take place in September.

The 42-year-old agreed to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges, including providing the Ketamine that led to Perry’s death, federal prosecutors said in a statement.

She agreed to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges, including providing the Ketamine that led to Perry’s death, federal prosecutors said in a statement.

Prosecutors had cast Sangha, a dual US and UK national, as a prolific drug dealer known to her customers as the “Ketamine Queen”, often using the term in court documents and even including it in the official name of the case.

Actor Matthew Perry in 2015. File pic: Reuters
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She agreed to plead guilty to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury.

Sangha will officially change her plea to guilty at an upcoming hearing, where sentencing will be scheduled, prosecutors said.

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Dr. Mark Chavez, a physician from San Diego, who is charged in connection with Matthew Perry's fatal overdose. Pic: AP
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She is facing up to 45 years in prison.

Sangha and a doctor named Salvador Plasencia, who signed his own plea deal in June, had been the primary targets of the investigation.

Three other defendants – Mark Chavez, who it was claimed bought the drug from Sangha, Kenneth Iwamasa, and Erik Flemin – agreed to plead guilty last year in exchange for their cooperation, which included statements implicating Sangha and Plasencia.

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Prosecutors allege Chavez funnelled ketamine to Plasencia, securing some of the drug from a wholesale distributor through a fraudulent prescription.

In one instance, prosecutors allege that Plasencia “charged Perry $2,000 (£1,500) a vial that cost Dr Chavez approximately $12 (£9)”.

Perry died in his home in October 2023, aged 54, after getting ketamine from his regular doctor for treatment of depression, which is an increasingly common use for the surgical anaesthetic.

The actor was taking ketamine six to eight times a day before he died, according to court documents.

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Ozzy Osbourne documentary pulled from BBC’s schedule – without explanation

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An Ozzy Osbourne documentary has disappeared from the BBC’s schedule without explanation.

The film was billed by producers as “a moving and inspirational account” of the last chapter of the metal legend’s life.

It was meant to air at 9pm on Monday on BBC One – as well as be available on iPlayer – but an episode of Fake Or Fortune? has replaced it.

Sky News has contacted the BBC for comment on why the programme, called Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, has been pulled.

The project was filmed over three years as Ozzy and his family returned to the UK, and was initially conceived as a series entitled Home to Roost.

However, as the singer’s health got worse it morphed into a one-off.

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The BBC reported the show would reveal the “extraordinary rollercoaster” of the Osbournes’ lives as Ozzy tries “heroically” to get fit enough to perform again.

It’s said to feature “unique and intimate access” to the family, including Ozzy’s children, Jack and Kelly, who appeared in the reality series that made them household names in the early 2000s.

The Black Sabbath frontman, who had Parkinson’s disease, died last month – just a few weeks after his final all-star gig at Birmingham’s Villa Park.

Fans packed the city centre and chanted his name when his hearse passed through on 30 July.

His wife, Sharon, was in tears as she got out to see the mass of flowers left for him at “Sabbath Bridge”.

The New York Times said his death certificate gave the cause as cardiac arrest, but the family hasn’t commented.

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Terence Stamp, Superman villain and star of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, has died

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Terence Stamp, Superman villain and star of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, has died

British actor Terence Stamp – who famously played General Zod in Superman and Superman II – has died at the age of 87.

The Oscar-nominated actor, who was born in London’s East End, also starred in hits such as Theorem, A Season in Hell, and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

He formed one of Britain’s most glamorous couples with Julie Christie, with whom he starred in “Far From the Madding Crowd” in 1967.

In a statement, his family said: “He leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an actor and as a writer that will continue to touch and inspire people for years to come.”

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