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"Hitched": Naomi Watts' surprise wedding bliss

<p dir="ltr">Naomi Watts tied the knot with US actor Billy Crudup, both 54, in a low-key ceremony at a New York courthouse over the weekend.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Hitched! 🕊️🪢♥️!” Naomi announced on Instagram with a photo of the beaming newlyweds standing outside the courthouse.</p> <p dir="ltr">The beautiful bride donned an exquisite white floral lace gown which she complemented with a pair of strappy gold heels and a small bouquet of seasonal white flowers, while the groom looked dashing in a navy blue suit.</p> <p dir="ltr">Several stars and close friends also took to Instagram to congratulate the couple.</p> <p dir="ltr">Naomi’s stylist shared a series of photos of the bride with the caption: “Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning - Paulo Coelho.”</p> <p dir="ltr">“I’m so happy you found your person Nai. Love Conquers All. Congratulations,” she added, tagging the pair.</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>13 going on 30</em> actor Mark Ruffalo also shared a photo of the newlyweds sharing a kiss at a post-wedding celebration.</p> <p dir="ltr">Naomi shared a group snap with Ruffalo and his wife, Sunrise Coigney, and Josh Hamilton - who was coincidentally celebrating his birthday - and his wife Lily Thorne.</p> <p dir="ltr">Other stars took to the comments to share their joy.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Oh wow!!! Congratulations!!! So happy for you both ❤️❤️❤️” wrote Michelle Pfeiffer.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Yipeeeeeee!!!! Sending so much love!!” commented Gwyneth Paltrow.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Hooray!!! Just woke up to this ! Congrats!!! You two couldn't look happier !! XO,” commented Jennifer Coolidge.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Congratulations!!!!!!!!!” commented Katie Holmes.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Woohoo!!! So happy for y'all!! 💕💕💕” wrote Reese Witherspoon.</p> <p><em>Images: Instagram</em></p>

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Huge snake hitches a ride on moving car

<p>A driver has gotten the fright of his life when a large snake made a surprise appearance on his car window as he and his partner were driving along a road in regional NSW.</p> <p>Couple Rachael Pace and boyfriend Kyle Vella were driving in Stroud, on the NSW mid north coast, when the snake hitched a ride with their car.</p> <p>Ms Pace filmed the terrifying incident, showing the reptile pop up next to her boyfriend's window as he was driving.</p> <p>Mr Vella yelled out "holy s**t" as the snake slithers along his closed window.</p> <p>“Oh my god, what the f*** do we do,” he asked his girlfriend in the video.</p> <p>But the snake seemed to be enjoying the ride as it laid along the base of the window.</p> <p>“What are we going to do?” Ms Pace said.</p> <p>“Look how big it is, it goes back there,” she said as she pointed the camera to the rear of their ute.</p> <p>“It’s going to fall off,” Mr Vella said.</p> <p>He eventually managed to pull over, but as he shook his door to move the snake, it didn't seem to budge.</p> <p>The encounter has since gone viral on social media, garnering over 100 comments and 400 shares on Facebook.</p> <p>“It’s not every day that you’re driving and a snake casually pops up,” she said in the post on New Year’s Eve.</p> <p>Eventually, a kind neighbour who lived across the road from where they parked their car, came out and helped them get the snake off their car.</p> <p>Ms Pace said the snake was released into a nearby creek.</p> <p>NSW Poisons Information Centre Senior Specialist, Genevieve Adamo, said the state’s snake season peaked in late December and January.</p> <p>She urged people to watch out for snakes and spiders outdoors as the weather heated up during the summer holidays.</p> <p>“Australia has some of the most venomous snakes in the world, so it’s important people seek immediate medical assistance for all suspected bites,” she said.</p> <p>“If someone is bitten by a snake you should keep them still, call an ambulance and apply a pressure immobilisation bandage.</p> <p>“Tight tourniquets should not be applied and the bite site should not be washed, cut or sucked.”</p>

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Princess Beatrice to receive new title after getting hitched – but it won’t be coming from the Queen

<p>In a little over two months, Princess Beatrice will walk down the aisle to marry Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.</p> <p>However, it turns out the gift of marriage will not be the only thing she receives on her wedding day, but a new fancy title as well.</p> <p>Edoardo is the son of Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Nikki Shale from the Italian royal House of Savoy.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B24FHMPHpcQ/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B24FHMPHpcQ/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by R O Y A L L Y . Y O U R S (@royally.yours)</a> on Sep 26, 2019 at 6:33am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>With his ex-wife, Chines-American architect Dara Huang, they have a two-year-old son Christopher “Woolfie” Woolf.</p> <p>According to the Princess Beatrice’s future father-in-law, the royal will receive a countess title when she marries, and their children will also be entitled to noble titles.</p> <p>“Edoardo is the only male descendent taking the family into the next generation,” Alessandro told<span> </span>The Daily Mail. </p> <p>“He is a count — his wife will be a countess automatically and any of their children will be counts or nobile donna.”</p> <p>Alessandro also went on to say the couple are “very suited to each other”, just a few weeks after Princess Beatrice and Edoardo revealed last month that they would wed at the Chapel Royal on May 29th – a venue that only sets 150 guests.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B9KC0oQneDM/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B9KC0oQneDM/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by The Royal Stepsister (@theroyalstepsister)</a> on Feb 29, 2020 at 8:08am PST</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>The royal and her fiancé had been friends for many years before they begun dating. The 36-year-old and his soon-to-be bride made their first public appearance at a National Portrait Gallery gala in March 2019.</p>

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Red-bellied black snake surprises driver as it hitches a ride on ute

<p>A NSW South Coast driver has received an unpleasant surprise, after spotting a red-bellied black snake on his car window while driving.</p> <p>Ted Ogier was in the middle of completing a delivery for his employer when the snake slithered out from the bonnet.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img width="500" height="334" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7266742/1_500x334.jpg" alt="1 (73)"/></p> <p>As Ted continued driving, the snake then wrapped itself around the driver’s side mirror.</p> <p>"It'd come out from under the engine bay under the bonnet, it was probably a bit warm there," Ted told the ABC.</p> <p>Ted then called his co-worker Kai Pearse, who got a broom to remove the snake.</p> <p>"I just had a broom in the back of the ute and … basically just got him off the car nice and safely, and just ushered him into the bushland off on the side of the road," Kai said.</p> <p>The pair believe the snake was around 2.5 metres long and Kai thought it entered the engine bay to keep warm.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img width="500" height="500" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7266744/2_500x500.jpg" alt="2 (48)"/></p> <p>"Last night it got a bit cold down here on the South Coast, so I think he's got up into the engine bay of the vehicle, and he sat up on the engine to keep himself warm," he said.</p> <p>"Then this morning Ted's taken that vehicle down to Eden and it might've got a bit too hot in there, so he wanted out."</p> <p>Despite the scare, Ted said there were worse things that could show up in his car on the road.</p> <p>"Not as frightening as getting a spider on the inside — spiders are one thing I don't like, but I don't like snakes either," he said.</p> <p>What is the worst critter you have encountered while driving? Let us know in the comments below. </p> <p><em>Image credit: Nolans Auto Parts via Facebook </em></p>

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Snake hitches ride to airport on private jet

<p>Biosecurity staff at Auckland Airport were greeted by an <a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/2017/01/sa-driver-gets-nasty-surprise/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>unexpected passenger hitching a ride</strong></span></a> on a private jet on the weekend.</p> <p>A <a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/2017/03/snake-regurgitates-antelope/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>snake was spotted</strong></span></a> on the tarmac after the aircraft landed on Sunday and was initially contained with a bucket by airport staff.</p> <p>The snake has yet to be identified, although it is likely to be a <a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/2017/03/this-hatching-baby-brown-snake-is-cute-as-a-button/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>brown tree snake</strong></span></a>.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">Snake on a plane! 🐍✈️😱<br />We've snared a live snake that hitchhiked to NZ on a private jet!<a href="https://t.co/dVoZf9WYiq">https://t.co/dVoZf9WYiq</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/biosecurity?src=hash">#biosecurity</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AKL_Airport">@AKL_Airport</a> <a href="https://t.co/3EvTp4DDhT">pic.twitter.com/3EvTp4DDhT</a></p> — Primary Industries (@MPI_NZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/MPI_NZ/status/846174457303449601">March 27, 2017</a></blockquote> <p>Craig Hughes, from the Ministry for Primary Industries, said a snake handler was quickly on the scene.</p> <p>"It appears the snake had crawled into the wheel housing of a private jet that arrived from Brisbane," Hughes said.</p> <p>The snake is in a poor condition <a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/2017/03/handler-pulls-red-bellied-black-snake-from-10-metre-pit/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>when it was captured</strong></span></a> and is likely to be euthanised after consultation with the Department of Conservation.</p> <p>"We don't have a snake population in New Zealand. Biosecurity officials are doing their best to make sure it stays that way," Hughes said.</p> <p>Have you ever had a close encounter with a snake?</p> <p><em>First appeared on <a href="http://www.Stuff.co.nz" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Stuff.co.nz</strong></span></a>. Image credit: Twitter / Primary Industries </em></p>

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