Style Archive: a series in which we celebrate the stars of the past that made menswear what it is today. This week: Brad Pitt's leather fixation. January 4th 1988.
05.06.2022 - 22:25 / ok.co.uk
TOWIE star Pete Wicks has revealed his devastation after his beloved grandmother and "best friend" Doreen has passed away. The 33 year old Essex lad showed off an uncharacteristically soft side as he paid tribute to his nan. He shared a number of photos with her: One of the two of them smiling together in happier times, and another of Pete holding her hand as she was in a hospital bed.The second image showed off heavily-inked Pete’s tattoo of his beloved nan’s name on his hand.
In his heartbreaking caption, he wrote: “Despite knowing this time would always come it doesn’t make it any easier. It’s taken me days not knowing what to say because no words will ever be able to describe what you meant to me." Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter . You can sign up at the top of the page.
"My heart is broken and I have never felt so lost. I have been blessed to have you as my nan but more importantly to have you as my best friend." He continued: “The strength, resilience, love, empathy and compassion you have shown throughout your life is a lesson to us all and without doubt the only good parts of me come from you. I hope you knew how much you were loved.
Pete ended the note declaring his love for his grandmother, writing: “Sleep well and be at peace, no one deserves it more. I love you.” Pete’s celebrity friends flocked to comment on his post and to send him their well wishes. Made in Chelsea’s Ollie Proudlock wrote: “Love to you and fam my bro.” Geordie Shore’s Charlotte Crosby commented: “So sorry Pete I can’t even think about the pain you must be feeling now”.
Style Archive: a series in which we celebrate the stars of the past that made menswear what it is today. This week: Brad Pitt's leather fixation. January 4th 1988.
told GQ magazine that he was told gold worth millions of dollars was known to be buried under Château Miraval, his 1,000-acre estate in Provence.“I got obsessed,” Pitt, 58, told the mag.“Like for a year, this was all I could think about, just the excitement of it all,” said the Missouri-raised actor.“Maybe it has something to do with where I grew up, because in the Ozark Mountains there were always stories of hidden caches of gold.”Pitt said he even brought radar equipment during his year scouring the vast estate, which is now part of a bitter lawsuit with his ex-wife, Angelina Jolie, whom he bought it with in 2008 and married there in 2014.He never found any gold — and later realized that the man who told him the initial tall tale had been seeking investments for a radar company. It was not clear if it was the same equipment that he bought for the dig.It proved to be “pretty foolish in the end,” Pitt admitted.“It was just the hunt that was exciting,” said the star who makes up to $20 million a movie, according to the GQ profile.The Miraval estate is located in the village of Correns in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France.
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Pete Wicks has reportedly pulled out of filming TOWIE in the Dominican Republic special after the death of his nan Doreen, whom the star was really close to.The 33 year old Essex-born reality TV star had been included in the ITVBe show's instalments in the Caribbean country, but according to his ex-girlfriend Ella Wise, opted to take some time off work instead. Pete has reportedly been devastated by the loss of his beloved grandmother.The star shared the news with a black and white snap of him holding her hand in her hospital bed on Instagram, which also showed he had Doreen's name tattooed on his hand. Ella, who is filming with the rest of the cast, revealed she had checked in with Pet to see how he was doing with the heartbreaking news.
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