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2 weeks agoBlogsComments Off on Inside Peter Wright’s love story with wife Jo with pair rekindling after 13 years when daughter searched for him
PETER WRIGHT and his wife Jo have revealed the remarkable love story behind them becoming darts’ biggest power couple.
The duo split for 13 years after the birth of their first daughter Naomi in 1993.
Peter Wright is married to hairdresser JoannegettyThe couple have had quite the journeyXThey split in 1993 after the birth of their daughter Naomi[/caption]
PDCBut they reconciled after a 13-year separation[/caption]
Just under a decade later, the youngster wanted to get in touch with her darting dad and it prompted Jo to search for him on the Professional Darts Corporation website – and then knock on his door out of the blue.
Once reunited, Wright’s career boomed. Their daughter Naomi came up with his multi-coloured mohican hair idea before he played in his first UK Open in 2005.
Hairdresser Jo then continued his wacky designs and has been by his side as a manager throughout his rise to the top of the sport, as one of the most recognisable players of all-time.
Jo revealed on the ‘Tops and Tales’ podcast: “So when I was 18 and Peter was 22, we worked in a holiday camp in Lowestoft called Gunton Hall.
“That’s part of Warners. I was a waitress and Peter worked in the kitchen.
“I found him sitting under a tree when I came out from work one day, kind of waiting for me.
“We had our first daughter in 1993 and then we split up for 13 years. Well, we kind of had like three on-and-off relationships back then.
“We had no contact, nothing. I found him when the daughter was nine on her laptop, she’d been looking for him and searching for him.
Peter Wright’s daughter found him online during his separation from JoanneNaomi is proud as punch of her dad
“So obviously you keep an eye on your kids, especially at nine-years-old, what they’re doing on social media and stuff like that.
“It’s nothing like it is nowadays. It was just, you just Google it online.
“I thought, well, I better go and find him before she did, just in case he doesn’t want to see her and stuff.
“But it took me four years to find him. When I did find him, I had my own salon by then.
“So I was sitting in the salon and I found profiles from the PDC, a picture of him on there and then there was like some details on, a couple of telephone numbers.
“I found the first one, no luck, found the second one, which was actually someone in the PDC office at the time, deleting all the old profiles, which was, he was one of them.
“So if I hadn’t have found him on there that night, I wouldn’t have found him.
“So from there, the lady from the PDC, don’t even know what her name is or who she was, gave me his last known address.
“I went and knocked on the door. And I’m guessing, if you don’t mind me saying, Peter, that was probably the last thing you were expecting.”
Peter replied: “Yes. Just a bit.”
Jo even watched Peter play on TV in the 1995 Lakeside Championship.
He then sported his natural brown hairstyle and even as an Englishman, not a Scot which he later chose as his nation in the PDC due to his mum being from Scotland.
Jo continued: “Well, there was big confusion to go with it all because I was married and Peter had a girlfriend.
EPAPeter and Joanne Wright had to ditch their respective partners to reunite[/caption]
Joanne and daughter Naomi regularly cheer on Peter at tournaments
“And a month later, I had no husband and Peter had a new girlfriend – me.
“We knew how good Peter was at darts as well.
“So like getting back together again, and like you think, over all these years.
“Because I actually did watch him at home with my family when he was in the Lakeside, 1995.
“So we were watching him. Even his daughter was like crawling in front of the TV watching him, and we were all talking about him. So that’s as close as we actually saw to him.
“And then when we got together and stuff, it’s like you could have been so much more if we’d have stayed together. You know, he had all the support then as well.
“But he was kind of a bit defiant back in the day. So it was his way or no way.”
Peter added: “Yeah, I think I’m, well, I suppose I think I know everything, but I don’t.
“So we kind of think that although what we’ve done now and what we’ve got, but we missed all them years where we could have had more.
“I could have been challenging Phil Taylor at that time or something like that. I could have been there with Dennis Priestley, Phil Taylor.”
After Wright’s second World Championship win in 2022, just a few days later he walked daughter Naomi down the aisle with the Sid Waddell Trophy proudly placed on the head table.
2 weeks agoBlogsComments Off on France’s ‘worst paedophile ever’ goes on trial as doctor accused of abusing 299 victims & bragging ‘I’m a paedo & proud’
A SICK surgeon accused of sexually abusing 299 patients has gone on trial in what is being dubbed France’s biggest-ever child abuse case.
DepravedJoel Le Scouarnec, alleged to be France’s worst paedophile, took the stands today at the Morbihan Criminal Court in Vannes.
France 3 BretagneFormer surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec has been accused of sexually abusing 299 people[/caption]
Most of his victims were minorsAFPHis trial is set to start on 24 February[/caption]
The disgraced doctor has been accused of abusing 299 victims between 1989 and 2004, mostly in hospitals around Brittany, France.
Out of those, 256 were under the age of 15, with the youngest aged one and the oldest aged 70.
His youngest alleged victim is said to be just one year old.
The vile man even kept a sickening diary of his alleged crimes writing that he was a paedophile and “proud of it”.
Le Scouarnec is facing more than 100 rape charges and over 150 sexual assault charges at trial, with the average age of his alleged victims being just 11 years old.
Officials claimed he would carry out some of the attacks when his patients were under anaesthetic and being operated on.
The former surgeon is already serving 15 years behind bars after he was found guilty in 2020 of raping and sexually assaulting four young girls.
Two of these victims were his nieces, one was his neighbour, and the fourth was a former patient of his.
Horrifying evidence discovered in the previous investigation into the paedophile helped lead to his new bombshell four-month trial which began today.
He stopped working at the hospital and was arrested in 2017 when his six-year-old neighbour reported being raped.
She lived next door to Le Scouarnec, and told her parents that ‘the man with a crown of white hair’ had exposed himself and sexually touched her through a broken garden fence.
They went to the cops who then made shocking discoveries at his home, including the repulsive diary where he detailed sexual acts with children.
The monster doctor described himself as an “exhibitionist, voyeur, sadist, masochist, scatologist, fetishist, paedophile”.
Every year on his birthday Le Scouarnec would record his age and write a vile message to himself.
He wrote: “I am a paedophile and I am proud of it.”
His diaries reportedly described the apparent crimes in great detail and without an ounce of regret or empathy.
He also included the children’s names, the date he allegedly abused them, and where it happened.
Le Scouarnec denied these words were a reality and claimed they were just his sick “fantasies”.
MISSED CHANCE
Cops also discovered horrifying child-sized sex dolls, some of them chained up, and over 300,000 child abuse images were discovered.
Worrying questions have been raised after it was revealed a litany of chances to stop the monster were missed.
An FBI warning had alerted the French authorities that the former surgeon had been visiting child abuse websites.
The disgraced surgeon had been convicted of downloading pornographic images of children in 2005.
charentelibre.frHe is already serving a 15-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting four children[/caption]
He allegedly carried out some attacks when his patients were under anaesthetic and being operated onReutersJoel Le Scouarnec during his trial at the courthouse in Saintes, France, on 3 March 2020[/caption]
A psychiatrist at the hospital Le Scouarnec was also working raised the alarm and said this conviction should lead to him being kicked out of his job.
It was revealed the French health ministry was made aware of this conviction in 2006 but decided to take no further action.
In June 2008, Le Scouarnec moved to a new hospital in Jonzac, in south-west France, and told the director he was being investigated.
This was disregarded and the monster worked there until he retired in 2017.
His alleged sexual abuse is said to have driven some patients to take their own lives, sparked drug and alcohol dependency in others and destroyed relationships.
‘Beast of Avignon’ - France's worst mass rape case
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Gisèle Pélicot, 72, was repeatedly drugged over a decade by her pensioner husband Dominique Pélicot so dozens of men could rape her.
Mr Pélicot said of the comments: “I am accused of many things. We are not born perverts, we become them.
“Even if it is paradoxical, I have never considered my wife as an object.”
A report submitted to the court suggested Mr Pélicot displayed a tendency towards “paraphilia” – sexual arousal in atypical situations – and also “somnophilia”– an attraction to unconscious partners.
This made him a “very caring and much-loved husband by day” but “a rapist at night”, psychologist Bruno Daunizeau explained in the report.
He said he was “respectful of his wife’s desires and refusals to sex”, but “also had fantasies about swinging” and “got pleasure” in seeing his wife “undergo sexual acts that she normally refused”.
Heroic Gisèle Pelicot told the press that she wanted to be open about the hellish struggle of the years-long abuse by her ex-husband for her children’s sake.
The victims and their families want the authorities, who they say should have stopped him earlier, to answer for the scandal.
Shortly after Le Scouarnec appeared in the dock, a spokesman for the departmental council of the Morbihan Medical Association told the court: “Joël Le Scouarnec has seriously brought the profession into disrepute.”
Thibaut Kurzawa, Le Scouarnec’s defence lawyer, said outside court: “He is waiting to be judged, to express himself, to say what he has to say to each of his victims.
“From the beginning he’s been ready to confront reality, to accept his responsibility.”
The Le Scouarnec trial continues and is expected to conclude in June.
ReutersHis trial will take place at a courthouse in Vannes, France[/caption]
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GettyAlan Pardew won two manager of the year gongs whilst at Newcastle United[/caption]
His three most recent jobs have been overseas in the Netherlands, Bulgaria and GreeceGetty
Pardew’s most recent role was with Aris Thessaloniki in the Greek Super League, for whom he was in charge of for five months, winning nine of his 22 games in charge with three draws and ten defeats.
The former midfielder has a win percentage of 40.9 per cent over the course of his managerial career.
He won promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs with West Ham in 2005 and led them to the FA Cup final a year later.
With Southampton he won the Football League Trophy in 2010 and was a losing finalist in cup competitions with Palace and CSKA Sofia.
During his time at Newcastle he won the Premier League’s Manager of the Season award and the LMA Manager of the Year award after a stellar 2011-2012 campaign.
Pardew was one of the first people Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers worked with in coaching.
Way back when Pardew was manager at Reading, Rodgers was recruited as a youth coach and worked his way up to becoming the director of the club’s academy under Pardew before he was poached by Jose Mourinho at Chelsea.
Pardew has been doing punditry since leaving Aris in 2023 but admitted he would love to return to management with the Glasgow giants (indeed, he was briefly linked with the job before).
When directly asked if he would be interested in the role should it be offered to him, Pardew told talkSPORT: “Rangers? Yeah, of course I would!
“With Brendan Rodgers across the way at Celtic, my old youth team coach.
“When I was at Newcastle, both clubs had Mike Ashley running things and I was hearing about how it was a mess with the financial situation, so I know a bit about Rangers.
“In terms of the results this year, I’ve just been staggered.
“It’s a big job and you’d like to think it’s a job where you’ve got a good chance of winning trophies and you’ve got that fan base that demands success.”
Pardew spoke further on the gap between Rangers and rivals Celtic, and insisted that hearing they were beaten by St Mirren at the weekend at home that it just didn’t sound right.
He said: “Let’s see how that all falls out up there, Rangers aren’t having a great season and they are miles behind Celtic at the moment.
“I watched Celtic’s performance during the week and I thought they were absolutely brilliant. That’s the best Celtic performance [in Europe] I’ve seen for a long time, maybe since they played Barcelona under Neil Lennon.
“But for Rangers, a home defeat by St Mirren doesn’t even sound right.”