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MARRIED At First Sight fans were left baffled as intruder groom Reiss revealed his very strange requirement for his wife.

The painter and decorator revealed to the experts tonight what’s on his checklist when it comes to his future bride.

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But viewers were left confused when Reiss admitted he’s looking for a woman with a specific walk.

In his VT, Reiss said: “When people first meet me, they think I’m flash because of the looks. I consider myself to be a pretty boy.”

He continued: “If I was to go for a certain woman, I initially look at her teeth, her smile.

“I get a bit silly and I start looking into their walk, making sure they have a nice walk as well.

“A good walk for a woman is when they go one by one and not side by side.”

He then demonstrated using his fingers the type of walk he wants his wife to have.

But E4 viewers were left bemused by the requirement.

One wrote: “What did Reiss mean about a woman’s walk? The only way to do it is one foot in front of the other. It’s just a shuffle otherwise.”

A second posted: “WTF does Reiss mean about ‘I don’t like side by side walk’. He seems like a weirdo but was hoping he would be ‘nicer Steven’.”

A third said: “Hope Reiss demonstrates the crab walk he despises. I want to make sure I walk correctly.”

This person commented: “What the f*** is Reiss on about? How many women walk like crabs!?”

Someone else said: “Where the f*** did they get him from? At least I now know how to walk,” while this viewer posted: “Leisha better crab walk down that isle.”

“A good walk for a woman is legs going straight of each other one at the time and not side to side. Either the women where he comes from are constantly p***** or have s**t themselves,” another shared.

This person said: “She best walk down the aisle in an assertive…one foot in front of the other yet straight manner.”

While this viewer wrote: “Reiss seems to think he’s gods gift to women as long as they don’t walk like a crab…ok then.”

Another added: “How does he think women walk?”

Reiss, who owns his own painting and decorating company, said he loves to get his hands dirty and isn’t shy when it comes to grafting.

Reiss said: “I’m very close to my family, my nanny Linda is like an angel, she’s my rock. I love playing chess with her.

“My nan and granddad have had a romantic relationship for years, I’m hoping that’s what mine will be like.”

The Essex lad said he’s a romantic at heart and has learnt from the best – so is now ready to settle down.

Reiss, who previously dated Towie star Dani Imbert, also spoke about his most recent split.

He said: “I miss being in a relationship. You can’t really beat it.

“I don’t know if I’ve found the full package.

“I do choose the wrong girls. My last relationship unfortunately came to an end because the bickering became too much.

“I’ve been heartbroken in past relationships. When a girl leaves you, I feel abandoned and I just feel lost.

“Marrying a strange will work because I’ll do anything to find the perfect one.”

Yesterday, E4 viewers saw the pair meet for the first time at the altar.

Reiss could be seen turning around to greet Leisha, who was already laughing away.

The overexcited bride appeared to be too much for Reiss within the first few seconds.

In one scene, she can be seen bending her knees before screaming at the ground in excitment.

Reiss was seen looking on uncomfortably.

Speaking to the camera, Reiss voiced his concern as he said: “She’s 100 miles an hour.

“Let’s hope it doesn’t turn to 1000 miles an hour.”

Still clearly overexcited for her wedding day, Leisha said to the camera: “Buckle up because he’s in for a good ride.”

Ahead of the experiment, Reiss spoke out about his hopes for the show and the kind of bride he was hoping to marry.

His ideal bride is “someone blonde, petite with an element of glamour”

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Dedicated fans of McDonald’s have been racing to Italy where the fast food chain has begun a new promotion. Many are heading overseas to be a part of it and posting the results online

Whilst many fans of McDonald’s collect the fast food chain’s merchandise – most commonly Happy Meal toys – occasionally the company embarks on other promotions to attract customers. For some, that’s meant travelling to Italy just to get their hands on some new ‘Maccies’ goods.

Just as it did last year, McDonald’s in Italy has launched a new adult meal campaign where the toy has been replaced by something much different – a beach towel. One person who travelled across Europe especially took to TikTok to document her adventure. “POV [point of view] You go to Italy to get the McDonald’s towel,” Leonie penned in a caption alongside her video.

After entering the restaurant, Leonie could be seen heading straight to the touchscreen ordering system, where she picked out the “nuovi teli mare” [new beach towels] option.

“Hoping for the ice cream or the burger,” she continued. Indeed the McDonald’s Italy website reveals there are four towels in the range, featuring a Big Mac, a drink, fries and a McFlurry ice cream.

However, after opening her paper bag, she was disappointed to realise she’d been given the drink version. “Not the freaking soda,” she exclaimed. Despite her modest following of just 228 on the social media platform, 1.4 million TikTok users tuned in.

Elsewhere, a second McDonald’s fan from Australia made the mammoth trip to Europe to get her hands on the coveted merch. “I travelled all the way to Italy to secure a McDonald’s beach towel,” confirmed Ana in a clip, which has also been viewed 1.4 million times.

Her grand reveal saw her become the proud owner of the fries design, meanwhile, as she Ana pointed out she was actually in Sardinia rather than the Italian mainland.

Writing in response, one TikTok user quipped: “This is actually really dangerous because now we’ve all had to book flights to Italy to get a McDonald’s beach towel.”

A second replied: “What! I’m going to Italy on Monday. I’m gonna go to McDonald’s.”

A third person praised: “I literally told my parents all about it and we are in Italy right now and we drove to McDonald’s and my parents are getting me one.”

Whilst a fourth joked: “The only thing my six-year old enjoyed in Italy.”

And in response to questions from other intrigued McDonald’s lovers, Ana explained: “You have to order specific meals! There is an option at those kiosks that tell you which ones you need to order to get the towel.”

If you’re tempted to travel to Italy to snap one up for yourself, be wary that McDonald’s Italia says of the promotion: “Offer valid at participating McDonald’s locations. While supplies last. Purchase of a Large McMenu or Happy Meal includes a Beach Towel.

“Check prices at participating McDonald’s locations. Beach towels cannot be sold separately. You cannot choose the design of your beach towel.”

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) are like two feuding dance partners: They are doing their best to step on each other’s toes but not have anyone notice.

They flew separately halfway across the country on Wednesday, their destination an ethanol plant where together they could promote the corn-based gasoline additive as a means to reduce the nation’s reliance on imported petroleum.

Daschle then left the state. Bush stayed, speaking to political audiences and giving South Dakotans every reason he could muster to vote against Daschle’s Democratic Senate colleague, Tim Johnson.

Bush was campaigning for Rep. John R. Thune, the Republican whom the president, during a private dinner last year, helped persuade to launch a Senate run.

The Johnson-Thune race is likely to be one of the closest, most hard-fought in a year when Senate control could hinge on a single seat.

That’s the margin of the current Democratic majority in the Senate, which means that sometimes Bush and Daschle must work together, as on the ethanol issue.

As Bush noted during their joint appearance Wednesday: “Tom and I have spent some quality time together. I invite him to the Oval Office for breakfast.”

But at other times, they want nothing more than to undermine each other.

At a Thune rally Wednesday night, Bush was blunt about his preferences. “John Thune should be the next U.S. senator from South Dakota,” he told more than 5,000 people at the Sioux Falls Convention Center. “I like his values. I respect his intellect. . . . He’s not afraid to stand up for what he believes and it’s refreshing to hear his voice among the shrill partisans in Washington, D.C.”

The Bush-Daschle relationship has been in the spotlight ever since the South Dakotan was elevated to Senate majority leader last spring when Sen. James M. Jeffords of Vermont bolted the GOP.

After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Bush made a point of cultivating Daschle as an ally. Daschle’s support was key to the president’s ability to respond to the attacks with united congressional support.

Bush now holds nearly weekly breakfast meetings with Daschle and other congressional leaders, as he mentioned Wednesday. And following his speech to Congress shortly after the attacks, Bush greeted Daschle with a bear hug–an embrace that became an emblem of the post-Sept. 11 moratorium on partisanship.

But by the end of the year, Daschle had evolved from First Pal into First Adversary, battling the administration on many issues.

Republicans responded with a concerted effort to depict Daschle as the personification of Democratic obstructionism, charging he used his power to block Bush’s proposed economic stimulus package, the president’s nominees for judicial appointments and other White House initiatives.

GOP-allied advocacy groups also have aired a steady stream of television ads in South Dakota criticizing Daschle–even though he is not up for reelection until 2004.

Daschle’s supporters produced a television ad of their own in South Dakota this week, welcoming Bush to the state but calling on him to tell “out-of-state special interests” to stop the attacks.

Despite the dueling ads, Daschle was in the front row as Bush spoke at the Dakota Ethanol plant in Wentworth, S.D. Johnson, Thune and South Dakota’s Republican governor, William Janklow, also were in the front row.

“Tom, I’m honored you’d come,” Bush said.

Not mentioned was that Daschle’s presence had been the subject of awkward back-and-forth conversations between his office and the White House. At one point Tuesday, Daschle said he would not make the trip because he had been excluded from another event at which Bush and Thune were to meet with farmers for a “round-table discussion.”

He eventually agreed to go to the speech after the White House excluded Thune from the round-table.

Bush and Daschle have joined forces in backing a provision in the energy bill now that would significantly increase the amount of ethanol added to gasoline to help reduce pollution. On Tuesday, Daschle helped defeat a bid to delete the provision–an effort led by Democratic senators from California and New York who fear the ethanol requirement would dramatically hike the price of auto fuel in their states.

“I said when I was running for president I supported ethanol, and I meant it,” Bush said Wednesday. “I support it now, because not only do I know it’s important for the [agricultural] sector of our economy, it’s an important part of making sure we become less reliant on foreign sources of energy.”

After the speech, Bush stepped down from his stage, sought out Daschle and gave him a handshake and pat on the back.

“He said he’d kiss me, but people would talk,” Daschle said moments later.

The Senate majority leader added: “It’s always great to have the president of the United States talk about agriculture, talk about ethanol.”

That’s policy.

Then there’s the politics.

As Daschle returned to Washington to push the Democratic agenda, Bush focused his attention on trying to put him back in the Senate minority. He was the main attraction at a Thune fund-raiser–which White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said would garner $350,000, the most collected at a single event in South Dakota history–and then the Thune rally.

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Gerstenzang reported from South Dakota, Hook from Washington.

A Ryanair passenger recently found themselves gazing at a safety card, wondering what two curious-looking symbols in particular could mean. Happily, someone was on hand to explain

An eagle-eyed airline passenger spotted a curious-looking symbol on a safety card.

When wedged into a slim Ryanair seat waiting for takeoff, letting your eyes wander around the cabin is natural. After a quick skim-read of the potential snacks on offer from the in-flight menu, they may end up resting on a small triangle position above windows— a curious symbol that we’ve previously written about.

They then might find themselves looking at the passenger safety card, which, it turns out, is a little confusing on Ryanair planes.

A Reddit user recently snapped one of them and posted it alongside this comment: “I spent a two-hour flight staring at this, and I cannot work out what they mean!?! What is next to the glasses? And is that an ear? If so, what is coming out of it?”

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They circled two parts of the card in particular. To give full respect to their comprehension skills, it is not at all obvious what they’re supposed to show. Happily, someone with knowledge of such things was on hand to decode the curious pictures.

“Top right is supposed to be an ear with an earring and a woman wearing a necklace, bottom right is false teeth – things you should remove before using the emergency escape slide, if you needed to use it,” they wrote.

The explanation surprised some in the comments, who had seen completely different objects after staring at the pictures for long enough. “Oh, it is false teeth! I thought it was a stack of steaks,” one person admitted.

Another added: “An earring? I thought it was someone holding up a severed head!”

A third joked: “There is a legal requirement for passenger safety cards to be issued / available. There is no legal requirement for these cards to make any kind of sense.” And a fourth chimed in: “I’m pretty sure the bottom one means ‘don’t pick up your glasses, you need a spare hand for a slice of black forest gateau’.”

When it comes to the little black triangles, the reasons they’re there is as follows.

These markers, which can be either red or black, are strategically placed within the cabin. If you observe closely, you’ll see they align with the wings outside the aircraft. These triangles serve as indicators for the flight crew when they need to inspect the wings, providing them with the optimal viewing points for the external slats and flaps.

This feature proves particularly beneficial during winter months when ensuring the wings are adequately de-iced is crucial. A cabin crew member, known as @_hennylim_ on TikTok, took to the social media platform to elucidate this system.

“1. Passengers sitting next to the triangles get the best view of the wings. 2. If flight crew need to check the wings, these triangles let them know the best vantage points for the slats and flaps outside,” she explained.

Batu Caves, located just outside of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, are sacred for Hindus across the world, but also have issues with cheeky monkeys and piles of rubbish

A sacred tourist spot has become overrun by monkeys and plagued by litter.

Batu Caves, located just outside of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, took first place in a recent study of the world’s most littered tourist attraction, with 1.67% of reviews mentioning rubbish out of a total 13,950 reviews.

The huge cave complex is one of Malaysia’s most iconic tourist destinations and has particular religious significance due to its Hindu temple complex dedicated to Lord Murugan, the Hindu God of war. The limestone caves themselves are more than 400 million years old, while the temple at their heart was built in 1920.

Hindus from all over have come together during festivals to celebrate and pray as a community in the Batu Caves, where magnificently built shrines and statues are strikingly set against a captivating background of limestone hills.

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Unfortunately, several factors have chipped away at the beauty of the unique attraction.

The site’s litter issue has often been attributed to its popularity with milions of annual visitors, many of whom discard rubbish and often feed the resident monkeys. The large size and complex nature of the site also make it difficult to maintain.

Following a recent visit to the Caves, a man from Burnley wrote: “The whole area surrounding the shrine was filthy and covered with litter, discarded food, refuse bins overflowing with plastics etc, used face masks and litter in general.

“If this is a sacred shrine, I find it difficult to understand why those responsible for its upkeep allow it to be abused in this way. Entry to the sacred shrines requires visitors to remove shoes, but having seen the filthy state the floors were surrounding these areas, there was no way my wife nor I would risk doing so.

“I appreciate that the matter was exacerbated by the presence of monkeys at the caves that scavenge for food, but surely those responsible for health and safety should introduce a programme of cleaning throughout the day to ensure all litter etc is removed.”

A holidaymaker from Essex added: “The area is strewn with rubbish and very stinky. It needs a good clean-up.”

Mark Hall, general waste expert at BusinessWaste.co.uk which conducted the study, said: “It is concerning to see so many reviews mentioning litter at iconic tourist attractions around the world. Many of these sites have religious, spiritual, or historic importance, so it’s vital that travellers treat them with respect. Sadly, overtourism is now a huge issue in many countries and this often brings the issue of litter.

“When tourists visit in such vast numbers, it can be difficult for the operators of tourist attractions to manage waste. Therefore, it’s vital that travellers are mindful of the impact of their own waste. You should never litter, and if a bin isn’t available or is full, always take litter home with you to dispose of properly. That way, we can ensure that these sites remain preserved and enjoyable for years to come.”

FORMER League Two club Aldershot Town have released a statement amid concerns over the filing of their accounts to Companies House.

Aldershot, who finished 16th in the National League this season, are overdue for the publication of their accounts for the last financial year.

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The late publication of their accounts has led to the company being issued a notice for compulsory strike-off.

A strike-off notice, which removes a company from the official register, effectively means a company ceases to exist as a legal entity if followed through.

Aldershot are able to object to the strike-off and try and explain their situation to Companies House before the action is carried out against the business.

Aldershot fans have voiced their concern online around the emergence of a compulsory strike-off notice appearing on the club’s Companies House page, prompting a response from the club itself.

A statement issued on X by the club’s official account read: “The Club is aware of recent comments on social media regarding the delay in filing our annual accounts with Companies House.

“The Club want to reassure our supporters and stakeholders that there is no cause for concern.

“The delay, whilst regrettable, is administrative and the result of a migration to a new accounting system.

“The transition has taken longer and proved more challenging than anticipated, but our finance team is working closely with our auditors/accountants to finalise the accounts, which we expect to file within the next seven days.”

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Fans are still concerned by the situation with one supporter labelling it as “very strange”.

While a second wrote: “For full transparency, I think all of us fans would like to see how the accounts are doing”.

And a third added: “Well that eases no one’s mind…”

Aldershot won their first piece of silverware in nearly 20 years this season as they lifted the FA Trophy thanks to a 3-0 victory over Spennymoor Town at Wembley.

The Shots have been trying to make a return to the EFL since their relegation from League Two in 2013, but are resigned to a 13th consecutive National League season following their 16th placed finish this term.

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