GAIL Porter has slammed Katie Price online for all to see, claiming she cruelly mocked her hair loss.
The 90s pin-up, 55, lost her hair as a result of alopecia, which she developed in 2005.
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Gail Porter has slammed Katie Price over on InstagramCredit: GettyShe claimed that Katie made a remark about her being prettier when she had hair before alopeciaCredit: Rex
Now Gail has claimed that Katie made a horrible remark about her in the past when introducing her to one of her boyfriends.
Taking to the comments section of an Instagram post by Sky TV showing the trailer for Katie’s upcoming tell-all documentary, Katie: Nothing to Hide, Gail made a direct comment about the star.
Referring to Katie, Gail claimed: “The person who introduced me to one of her boyfriends and said ‘this is Gail. She used to be pretty when she had hair… Google her. Thanks.’”
The comment has amassed nearly 100 likes to date as well as a flood of replies from other Instagram users.
Gail made the comment on the trailer of Katie’s upcoming documentary, posted by Sky on InstagramCredit: AlamyIt’s set to come out as a four-part series during the summerCredit: Instagram/@skytv
One response said: “Whhhhhat?!,” in clear shock.
A second reads: “That must have been awful for you. I hope you’re okay x.”
A third person added: “So sorry she said that! You are beautiful.”
Gail was a model in the late 90s, most known for her pin-up content in “lad-mags” such as FHM.
This was the same decade when Katie launched her glamour modelling career under the pseudonym of Jordan.
She regularly starred in the pages of magazines and newspapers including The Sun, The Daily Star, FHM, Loaded, and Playboy.
The four-part docu-series promises it will have “intimate access” to the model and theminiseries will go “beyond the headlines”, with Sky already promising that it will be absolutely “jaw-dropping”.
Speaking about the production Arron Fellows, co-founder and creative director at Mindhouse, said: “Katie’s 30 years in the spotlight have been truly extraordinary.
“This series doesn’t shy away from – in Katie’s own words – ’the good, the bad and the ugly’; and this is an unexpected re-appraisal of a woman many people feel they have already figured out.
“The team have spoken to a range of contributors who have crossed paths with Katie at different junctures of her life – through the ups, the downs and everything in between.
“In doing so have crafted a series that is as jaw-dropping and unpredictable as it is tender and surprising. I can’t wait for people to see it.”
The series is set to air on Sky and streaming service NOW sometime this summer.
CHLOE Ferry has been criticised by fans and animal charity Peta after her boyfriend surprised her with a new French bulldog puppy.
The Geordie Shore star’s dog Ivy died in October leaving her devastated. In a bid to cheerChloe up, her boyfriend Alex Swinney bought her a pup she’s named Olive.
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Chloe Ferry has come under fire for getting a French BulldogCredit: Instagram/@chloegshore1Her boyfriend Alex gifted her the pup to help her move on from the death of late dog, IvyCredit: Instagram/@chloegshore1
Seeing her other dog Narla playing with the new addition immediately brightened Chloe’s mood and she told fans: “After losing my baby Ivy I wasn’t sure I was ready but my boyfriend SURPRISED me with this little one.
“I can’t tell you how happy I am to finally see Narla with her spark back again, just seeing her play has fulfilled my heart so much.
“From grieving to growing she accepted her new sister right away meet baby OLIVE.”
While many fans heaped praise on her property developer partner for the gift and complimented the cute pup, others, including charityPeta, made their reservations known.
The animal charity commented: “Your boyfriend needs to rethink this. French bulldogs struggle to just breathe, let alone live a happy and healthy life.
“Buying one neglects the tens of thousands of homeless dogs in shelters just waiting to be adopted [broken heart emoji] Tell him to adopt next time.”
Others echoed the sentiment, with one writing: “Puppies are cute, but so, so sad to see people buying breeds with breathing impairments who will never be able to fully enjoy what it means to be a dog. Please stop buying and promoting breathing impaired breeds
“Blue is one of the worst choices when it comes to health issues…”
Another said: “Frenchies can barely breathe, and buying one keeps it going. Shelters are full [broken heart emoji] Adopt next time.”
A third wrote: “If you buy a Frenchie you are asking for heartache. The breeds are not meant to mix and that causes defects. It’s sad but true. Its unfortunate they have become the ultimate chav accessory. Poor babies.”
Olive with Chloe’s other dog NarlaCredit: Instagram/@chloegshore1
French Bulldogs are renowned for having breathing difficulties due to the way they’re bred to have flat faces.
They have greater chance of contracting a variety of health conditions and, according to Peta, brachycephalic dogs (flattened faces) have, on average, 40 per cent shorter lifespans than other dogs.
They also struggle to give birth due to the large shape of their heads and narrow hips.
Meanwhile, when Ivy died, Chloe told her followers that the pooch “couldn’t stop being sick” prior to its passing.
She wrote: “Pftt, losing a pet is so hard, it’s just like a human and it [the emotion] comes in waves when you least expect it.
“One day you’re alright the next you’re not.
“Today I’ve just tried to get on with jobs, my house has been a mess, so I’ve tried to clean it.
“It has actually made us feel a little bit better but then you sit and overthink everything, and think could I have done more.
“What makes it worse for me, my other dog Narla, she doesn’t understand.
“I had Ivy first so Ivy was always independent, she didn’t need Narla, but Narla came second and needs Ivy.”
SHAKIRA has been slammed by fans for her ice cold reaction after one of her cameramen fell over in front of her during a live performance.
A video of the awkward moment is currently circulating on X, with the Colombian pop star, 49, seen stepping around the fallen production member on the ground.
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Shakira has been slammed by some fans for her ‘cold’ reaction to a cameraman falling over in front of her midway through a concertCredit: GettyThe pop star was walking through the crowd during a gig when one of the cameramen filming her toppled over some equipmentCredit: XShakira continued making her way to the stage and side-stepped around himCredit: X
In the clip, the cameraman is filming Shakira as she makes her way through a walkway between the crowd, but trips over equipment during the moment.
Shakira side steps around the cameraman, who is on the floor, to continue her journey to the stage and move on with her performance.
Sharing the clip to X, one user wrote: “The camera operator filming Shakira falls, and she doesn’t make the slightest attempt to help him.”
Another said: “Lack of empathy, period. Bet if it were her who trips, they’d pause the show for a few minutes, right? …
During a performance in San Salvador in February, Shakira was singing her hit song Si Te Vas when her right ankle suddenly twisted.
She then completely toppled to her side, falling onto her elbow as she brought her microphone stand down with her.
During the moment, Shakira stopped singing as gasps could be heard amongst the audience.
But ever the professional, she quickly got herself back up and managed to continue the song – with the star’s band continuing as her guitarist cheered her on.
Her next performance will take place on May 2, when Shakira will perform in Rio De Janeiro, before she heads to the USA.
Some fans declared that the singer should have paused her performance to help the injured production workerCredit: XBut others noted how Shakira needed to be on stage at a certain moment due to the strict show timingsCredit: X
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – After a long day of ferrying passengers to and fro recently, e-hailing driver Nguyen was dejected to find he had spent half of his earnings on fuel.
“I drove for around seven or eight hours, making around 240,000 Vietnamese dong [$9.11] and then I paid 120,000 Vietnamese dong [$4.56] on petrol,” Nguyen, a motorcyclist who connects with passengers via the locally developed super-app Be, told Al Jazeera, asking not to be identified by his real name.
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“I can’t survive with this amount of money in the city.”
In Vietnam, the ripples of the US-Israel war on Iran are hitting many gig workers hard.
The Southeast Asian country normally sources about 80 percent of its crude oil from Kuwait, but shipments have dried up amid Iran’s effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, driving up fuel prices.
Diesel prices have more than doubled, while petrol prices have risen almost 30 percent, making getting from point A to point B an increasingly expensive proposition in cities such as Ho Chi Minh City, home to more than 7 million motorcycles.
“Because the petrol price is so high, so many drivers are turning off the app, going home and just not working,” Nguyen said.
“After today, I will turn off the app and stop working for a few days to see if the price goes down or if the government is helping in any way.”
A Be driver picks up a passenger at Thu Duc Metro Station in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on March 30, 2026 [Govi Snell/Al Jazeera]
Vietnam’s government has rolled out a series of emergency measures to cushion the blow for citizens.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh last month announced that an environmental tax on diesel, petrol, and aviation fuel would be suspended until April 15 to help stabilise prices.
Nguyen Khac Giang, a Vietnamese-born visiting fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, said authorities had been forced to act to stave off rising disgruntlement among citizens.
“There are a lot of complaints and frustrations about rising living costs, because gas prices are everything in Vietnam,” Giang told Al Jazeera.
“It’s not only necessary in terms of making the population feel relief about the rise of gas prices, but at the same time, it will keep the macroeconomic stability intact, given the turbulence outside Vietnam.”
Despite the government sacrificing an estimated $273m in revenue via the tax cut, signs of strain are mounting across the economy.
Public transportation is stretched to capacity in major cities, while domestic carriers such as Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air have slashed flights.
“As a very, very open economy, Vietnam is super vulnerable to international shocks,” Giang said.
Gig workers have been particularly exposed due to the double whammy of heavy fuel consumption and minimal labour protections.
“Their income is changeable due to factors beyond their control,” Do Hai Ha, a research fellow at the University of Melbourne who has studied Vietnam’s gig platforms, told Al Jazeera.
“They have no chance to negotiate with the platforms.”
Many drivers have had no choice but to work longer hours as they are “excluded from labour protection, so there’s no guarantee in terms of minimum wages or overtime pay”, Do said.
A commuter refuels at a petrol station in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on March 27 [Govi Snell/Al Jazeera]
Companies, too, are feeling the crunch.
Anh Dao, who collects fares on Ho Chi Minh City’s bus route 13, said the bus operator has been losing money due to the surge in diesel prices, despite raising ticket prices by 3,000 Vietnamese dong ($0.11).
“As we already signed the contract, we cannot just stop running the buses,” Ahn told Al Jazeera.
For one fisherman in the coastal region of Binh Thuan, about 200km (124 miles) from Ho Chi Minh City, rising fuel costs have prompted a frantic search for cheaper options to power his basket boat.
“Now that fuel prices are rising, it’s having a big impact,” the fisherman told Al Jazeera, asking not to be identified by name. The middlemen he does business with have been citing weak demand to justify offering lower prices for his catch, he said.
“What I was usually able to sell for 800,000 Vietnamese dong [$30] is now only selling for 650,000 Vietnamese dong [$24],” he said.
Families kept apart
For some low-income families, the rising costs are reshaping daily life in other ways.
After a weeklong trip to the Mekong Delta region, Uyen Pham, a communications manager for the Saigon Children’s Charity, said she has seen the strain firsthand.
“Several parents noted that the cost of bottled cooking gas has nearly doubled,” Pham told Al Jazeera.
“Most of our beneficiary families have always relied on wood-fired stoves or a hybrid of wood and gas to save money. With the recent price hike, they are now strictly limiting their gas usage even further, relying almost entirely on wood to cut every possible expense.”
For many parents, the rising fuel costs have also meant less time with family.
“Many parents in remote areas must leave their children with grandparents to work in cities,” Pham said.
“Rising fuel prices directly increase their commuting costs, while manual labour wages remain stagnant. This pinches their take-home pay and, in some cases, reduces how often they can afford to travel home to see their children.”
For the government in Hanoi, the price volatility has intensified the focus on greater energy independence, Giang, the visiting fellow, said.
“The longer-term question this crisis has enacted is a very important question about the strategic autonomy of Vietnam in terms of energy dependencies, especially when we are a net importer of oil,” he said.
Policymakers will need to “more aggressively accelerate Vietnam’s energy independence by building more refineries,” Giang said, “because now we only have two refineries, which is not enough for the Vietnamese market.”
With long-term solutions likely to take years to come to fruition, authorities are scrambling for short-term fixes.
Commuters wait for the train at Thu Duc Metro Station, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on March 30, 2026 [Govi Snell/Al Jazeera]
Late last month, Vietnam’s prime minister and a delegation from the Ministry of Industry and Trade visited on the Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Complex, the country’s largest refinery, in Thanh Hoa, a coastal city about 1,500km (932 miles) north of Ho Chi Minh City.
During their visit, officials said the refinery, which supplies about 40 percent of Vietnam’s petrol needs, would urgently need to find alternative sources of crude, as current supplies were expected to run out by the end of May.
The war on Iran also appears to be reshaping at least some domestic investment.
Vingroup, Vietnam’s largest conglomerate, last month informed authorities that it wanted to halt plans to build the country’s largest liquefied gas-fired power plant and put the funds towards a renewable energy project instead, according to a letter reported by the Bloomberg and Reuters news agencies.
In the letter, the company cited “the significant risk of high fuel prices for LNG power projects” due to the war.
In the meantime, Duy, who works at a cafe tucked behind a Ho Chi Minh City petrol station, is feeling some relief after the government’s fuel tax cut, which authorities projected would reduce petrol prices by about one-quarter and diesel prices by about 5 percent.
“I usually pay 100,000 Vietnamese dong [$3.80] a week on gas, but at the peak of the high prices a few days ago, it was almost double that,” she told Al Jazeera.
