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Ryan Giggs Involved in Controversy Affair with Imogen Thomas

Sunday, June 5th, 2011


Manchester United superstar Ryan Giggs became involved in a controversy concerning a supposed affair with a reality television star, reports said.

Giggs, who is married and has a son and daughter, was named in Parliament on Monday as the footballer who gets a High Court injunction to avoid details of an affair with earlier Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas being made public.

Speaker John Bercow instantly bound out of his seat and reproved Mr Hemmings in an effort to try to defend the Manchester United player’s identity.

The player’s face was published by the Glasgow-based Sunday Herald and India’s leading newspaper the Times Of India printed a picture of the footballer and used his name 3 times in a report concerning the injunction.

Ferguson, who won the Manager of the Year award and 2 others at Monday night’s League Managers’ Association dinner, said that “The media is a difficult beast to handle these days with the profile of the players.”

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Punta del Este’s Celebrity Artists

Friday, May 27th, 2011


Uruguay’s two most famous artists work in Punta del Este studios that do triple duty as museums and gathering places.

Carlos Páez Vilaró’s Casapueblo is a a stunning design achievement. This enormous snow-white structure seems part Aegean villa and part space colony.

It is also an inspired locale for Punta visitors to bask in “magic hour,” witnessing dazzling Punta sunsets for a modest fee (the sparkling toast is complimentary). In season, the surrounding seas churn with the frolics of summering whales. Casapueblo is built on Punta Ballenas, or Whale Point.

Casapueblo is also a museum that celebrates the career and iconic sun drawings of illustrator and painter Carlos Páez Vilaró, a dashing octogenarian often on the premises.

What else can Casapueblo be? Indeed, it is a hotel with dozens of fanciful, ocean-perched rooms.

Lovers of sculpture and modern art staying in Punta must include a trip to the lair of Pablo Atchugarry.

Atchugarry-the name is Basque, like many Uruguayans’-creates massive yet delicate abstract works in sensuous, silken, cloud-white Carrara marble. Weighing a half-ton but appearing feather-light, Atchugarry’s works remind some connoisseurs of angel wings, others of curvy torsos.

A few visitors to Atchugarry’s museum wander into his studio beside the parking area. Here, in a glass-walled white space filled with powder-fine marble dust, they are apt to catch the master hewing rock. Señor Atchugarry is a giant of a man, and equal to the stone behemoths he turns into poetry.

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