VICTORIA’S Secret legend Tyra Banks today ditched her designer look for sweatpants, as she enjoyed a makeup-free outing in Sydney.

Since leaving Hollywood the iconic model, 51, has been embracing her natural beauty, and ditching the cosmetics.

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Tyra Banks opted for casual look to go shopping today[/caption]

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The star was spotted out and about in Sydney where she has been living[/caption]

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The TV star opted for a comfy tracksuit and cardigan to run errands in[/caption]

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Tyra shot to fame in the 90s as a Victoria’s Secret model[/caption]

Tyra looked fresh-faced as she was spotted out and about Down Under running errands.

The former America’s Next Top Model host was seen dressed in a vest top, with a cardigan over the top.

She complete the look with comfy tracksuit bottoms as she enjoyed her shopping trip.

Tara ditched the make-up and allowed her bronzed locks to flow free.

The former Dancing With The Stars host has been living out in Sydney with her boyfriend Louis Bélanger-Martin for over a year now.

The star is getting ready to launch her ice cream store chain Smize & Dream out there.

EMBRACING THE NATURAL LOOK

Over the last year, Tyra has been keen to show off her natural beauty.

She has used Instagram to showcase her makeup free look, and it has gone down well with fans.

Tyra recently posted a picture of herself with a fresh face and beachy hair.

In the comment section, fans praised the star for her authentic beauty.

“Supermodel regardless,” one follower wrote.

Another said, “Real queen!”

“That’s why I always admire you, you keep it real in real time,” a third commented

TYRA’S JOURNEY

Tyra began modeling when she was 15 and went on to be the first Black woman on the covers of GQ and Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue.

She then went on to appear in several TV shows and movies including Life Size with Lindsay Lohan, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Coyote Ugly.

But her biggest break was becoming one of the first Victoria’s Secret angels.

In 2003, Tyra created the reality competition series America’s Next Top Model, for which she was named executive producer and host from its inception until 2015.

She later hosted her own chat show, The Tyra Banks Show, during her time on ANTM, and was the Dancing With The Stars presenter.

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Tyra has enjoyed an impressive career which includes being host of Dancing With The Stars[/caption]

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The Star is usally known for her more glam look but is now embracing her natural beauty[/caption]

A BRIT cyclist is facing a decade in jail after fatally hacking a pensioner with an axe after he was allegedly tied down and raped by him.

The 32-year-old man admitted to attacking the 75-year-old inside the OAP’s own home in Finland but claimed it was an act of self defence in court.

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The British cyclist, seen in court, is facing 10 years in jail[/caption]

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The Brit was in Sweden on a cycling tour when he alleges he was tied up and raped by a pensioner[/caption]

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The deadly fight took place in a flat in Seinajoki, western Finland, on July 29, last year, reports Finnish newspaper Iltalehti.

A court heard, the elder victim invited the cyclist back to his home after the pair met at a spa a day earlier.

The Brit was bought a phone by his new friend as they made their way back to the flat, according to local reports.

He later told investigators the pensioner said he “owed him a favour” after opening up the present.

The cyclist refused but claimed he believed the man was referring to sexual acts.

South Ostrobothnia District Court was then told the Brit took a short nap but when he woke up he “was tied up with bandages” and “couldn’t move properly”.

The Brit alleged he was raped on the bed after waking up.

He told the court at his trial: “The ordeal was horrible. When it was over, he rolled over next to me.

“Then he started snoring and I decided to escape.”

His plan saw him go to the kitchen and cut his ties with an unknown utensil to free himself.

The man had an axe in his hand, and I had no choice but to defend myself. It was either him or me

Brit cyclist told a court

The pensioner woke up shortly after and blocked off the exits by standing in the kitchen door with an axe in his hand, the Brit claimed.

He allegedly said he was told by the man police would never believe what had happened if he called them.

At this point the Brit said he turned desperate.

“The man had an axe in his hand, and I had no choice but to defend myself. It was either him or me,” he told the court.

He claimed the two wrestled over the axe before he managed to grab hold of it and hit the pensioner twice.

Speaking to police when he was arrested, he said: “The first blow was when I intended to hit him, but not to kill him.

“I slipped and the axe slipped from my hand.”

Prosecutors claim the man was struck up to six times.

But the Brit said he panicked after only one follow-up hit and quickly fled the scene in the victim’s car. 

Investigators believe the pensioner was killed at sometime between midnight and 2.14am.

The getaway car was found hours later crashed into a ditch outside Kyyjarvi – just a 90-minute drive from the victim’s home.

The Brit blamed the accident on a deer that “appeared out of nowhere”, according to a Whatsapp message sent to his friend in the morning.

He also wrote “if the cops had come, I would have been screwed”, prosecutors found.

The pensioner’s body was only found two weeks after he was believed to have been killed on August 14.

His concerned relatives reportedly called up cops for a welfare check.

An axe was discovered in the victim’s flat, but only the pensioner’s DNA was found on it, local media reports.

Police later identified the Brit as a suspect as he was seen in CCTV footage alongside the OAP when they went to buy the phone.

The first blow was when I intended to hit him, but not to kill him

British cyclist told a court

At first, officers believed he had left Finland but they soon managed to track him down him in a flat in eastern Finland on August 17.

When they questioned him, the Brit admitted to hacking at the man in self defence for the alleged rape.

Police also managed to uncover photos taken by a local on July 27, which appeared to show a second axe attached to the frame of the man’s bike.

The Brit said he never had an axe with him at any point before or after the fatal meeting and only used the victim’s own one to kill him.

The second axe has reportedly still not been found.

The court also heard that in the weeks after the man’s death, the cyclist searched online for information about the crime.

This took place before police had even found a body, prosecutors said.

The trial has now been paused after the court ordered a mental health examination for the Brit.

Prosecutors have demanded a ten-year prison sentence for the man if he is found guilty.  

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The pair were seen on CCTV walking to buy a phone together[/caption]

BEFORE starring as TV’s most reluctant Romeo in the shape of hen-pecked husband George Roper, Brian Murphy almost gave up acting to become an insurance salesman.

But fans loved his portrayal of the sex-shy, downtrodden landlord with the dodgy comb-over in Seventies comedy Man About The House.

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Announcing his death yesterday, his wife of 30 years, the former Hi-de-Hi! actress Linda Regan, 75, said: ‘He left a massive legacy of laughter’[/caption]

Women would even proposition Brian, while men with sex problems would ask his advice on how to avoid their bedroom duties.

But thanks to hapless Mr Roper, Brian, who died on Sunday aged 92, spent the next 50 years playing old men — in some of TV’s best-loved sitcoms, from Last Of The Summer Wine to Benidorm. Remarkably, he worked almost until his last day.

Announcing his death yesterday, his wife of 30 years, the former Hi-de-Hi! actress Linda Regan, 75, said: “He left a massive legacy of laughter.

He made the whole world laugh. He made me laugh all the time. We had great, great days.”

She added: “My love for you will never die. RIP sweetheart.”

Before his death, Brian said: “I can’t grumble about my lot, I’m very happy. I’ve brought up a family and been working relatively solidly for 60 years. It’s been a lot of fun.”

Brian Trevor John Murphy was born on September 25, 1932, in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, the third son of grocer’s assistant Gerald Murphy and wife Mabel who later ran a restaurant on the island.

Brian’s brothers, Ken and Eric, died on active service in World War Two. His mother suffered a breakdown after Eric’s death.

As a child, Brian loved variety shows and would watch stars of the day performing for holidaymakers at the Town Hall Theatre in Ventnor.

Called up for national service at RAF Northolt in West London, he met budding actor Richard Briers, who went on to star in another hit Seventies sitcom, The Good Life.

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After quitting the Air Force, Brian studied at London drama school RADA but quit after a year because his student grant was withdrawn.

He then worked as a radio repair man and a printer before landing an audition with Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop at East London’s Theatre Royal in Stratford East, which launched stars such as East-Enders great Barbara Windsor.

 Brian said: “I got an audition with Joan Littlewood and, after one and a half hours, she said, ‘Do you do anything else?’ When I told her I liked drawing, she said, ‘Perhaps you should take greater interest in that’, which was a kick in the teeth.

“The following day she sent a telegram to say I could join the company immediately.”

It was there that he met Yootha Joyce, who would go on to play his domineering wife Mildred in Man About The House.

Another fellow student was stage manager Carol Gibson. He would later marry her, in 1957, although they divorced in the Eighties and Brian went on to wed Linda in 1995.

Brian and Carol had sons Kevin and Trevor and also looked after a dozen foster children at their home in Highgate, North London.

Fearing a big break would never come, he contemplated quitting acting to sell insurance

In 1963, Brian and Yootha appeared in Littlewood’s Sparrows Can’t Sing, on film and stage.

He then spent 20 years as a supporting actor in TV shows including The Avengers, Z Cars and Dixon Of Dock Green.

Fearing a big break would never come, he contemplated quitting acting to sell insurance.

He said: “I was out of work for four months. There were bills to pay, a wife and two children to support and I didn’t seem to be getting anywhere.”

But then his luck changed. He said: “I’d been in the business for 20 years and suddenly it all happened.”

Life really did begin at 40 as he became George Roper in Man About the House.

George and his bossy wife were only meant to be in three episodes of the show, also starring Richard O’Sullivan, Paula Willcox and Sally Thomsett as the young flatmates who lived upstairs. But they were such a hit, many of the show’s 18million fans were sure lazy George’s marriage to social-climber wife Mildred was real.

Wherever Brian and his co-star Yootha went they were mobbed, including if they went to a pub.

Brian said: “Women often have a gag with me about you-know-what and ask if they could help me out. But I’m sure if ever I said yes, they’d have run for their lives.

“Men would come to me with their sexual problems. I’d say, ‘Mate, have another pint and go home later than planned. You’ll be OK’.”

Sadly, Brian’s fame meant he and real-life wife Carol had to stop fostering. He said: “They’d be living not with Brian Murphy but George Roper off the telly. It could be tricky for a child that already had problems.”

The sixth and final series was never made because Yootha died in 1980, age 53, from her secret alcohol addiction — drinking half a bottle of brandy a day for her last ten years

But Man About The House’s George and Mildred then got their own spin-off sitcom, George And Mildred. The show, which ran for five series from 1976 until 1979, did even better than Man About The House, drawing 22million viewers a week.

But the sixth and final series was never made because Yootha died in 1980, age 53, from her secret alcohol addiction — drinking half a bottle of brandy a day for her last ten years.

Brian later lamented: “If only I’d realised she had a problem I could have done something. I was one of her closest friends but didn’t do enough. Although we were close, Yootha didn’t really confide. I should have realised there was a problem.”

George And Mildred’s writers later created two new TV shows starring Brian. In The Incredible Mr Tanner he played a hapless escape artist, while L For Lester was a sitcom about a driving instructor.

But they could not recreate Brian and Yootha’s chemistry and neither of his new shows were hits.

 Brian and first wife Carol split up amicably and in 1991 he found love again, while starring in a play called Wife Begins At Forty. He fell for his stage wife, Linda, who played Yellowcoat April Wingate in the hit holiday camp sitcom.

Despite a 17-year age gap, Brian was smitten with Hi-De-Hi!’s Linda, who was Yellowcoat April Wingate in the hit holiday camp sitcom.

They set up home in Bromley, Kent, and he said: “We used to go out for dinner and people would say we were like an old married couple in the way we argued.”

 After spells in The Bill and Holby City in 1999, Brian then returned to sitcoms as eccentric nextdoor neighbour Arthur Capstick in Caroline Ahearne’s BBC show Mrs Merton & Malcolm.

In 2003, he then joined Last Of The Summer Wine, and for seven years played Nora Batty’s neighbour, practical joker Alvin Smedley. He also appeared as Clive in Benidorm.

And two years ago, he and Linda joined award-nominated podcast sitcom Barmy Dale.

Following his death, Linda posted on social media: “I was lucky to have in my life.”

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Much-loved star Brian died on Sunday, aged 92[/caption]

EX-Ireland hockey star ­Catriona Carey has been accused of breaking ­company law by allegedly providing false information and financial returns.

The financial and business advisor appeared before Judge Treasa Kelly at Dublin District Court today.

It came following a Garda ­Corporate Enforcement Authority investigation.

She faces 46 fresh charges under the Companies Act for offences allegedly occurring from 2019 to 2022.

Carey is accused of failing to provide information to the Companies Registration Office, to keep records or notify of a change of address, or to file financial returns to the CRO.

The accused, from Kilkenny but with an address at Rochford Manor, Graigecullen, Co Carlow, was charged in Dublin today.

Detective Garda Robert Collins, seconded to the CEA, told Judge Kelly the accused “made no reply” when charged.

The judge noted that the Director of Public Prosecutions has decided Carey, 46, is to face trial on indictment.

There was no objection to Carey getting bail, which was set at €500, and the case was adjourned until February 14.

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