As many of us know, Jordan Belfort, memorably portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, was a real person. He founded brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont and, like in the film, ended up serving 22 months in prison for money laundering and security fraud.

While Belfort’s ex, Dr Nadine Macaluso, played by Margot Robbie in the movie, has pointed out one scene that is definitely more fiction than fact, she did say the NSFW moment she met Belfort actually happened in real life.

A number of other scenes are pretty bang on the money too, such as when Belfort gives a rousing speech on the balcony of his beachfront mansion.

In the film, DiCaprio memorably screams: “We got plans up here which is going to take this company into the f**king stratosphere.”

Well, footage showing the real Jordan Belfort giving a similar speech in 1991 might be a little toned down, but viewers picked up on how well DiCaprio captured the mannerisms of the convicted fraudster.

The clip was shared on the YouTube page Comp Guy, who wrote: “Here’s the REAL Wolf of Wall Street Beach House party, from the summer of 1991.

“It was taken a few months BEFORE the infamous Forbes Magazine article.”

This is in reference to a 1991 Forbes piece which described Belfort as a ‘twisted Robin Hood who takes from the rich and gives to himself and his merry band of brokers’, which cemented his notoriety.

Many people noted how close the real footage was to Scorsese’s film, with one writing: “The accent from Leo DiCaprio is spot on!”

Another said: “It’s insane that the real Jordan Belfort’s personality and everything is just like the movie, it’s so cool.”

A third simply said: “Would of loved to be a fly on the wall all the time around him and his co workers.”

Speaking about how she met Belfort in real-life, Dr Macaluso described a disturbing moment at his mansion.

“So you guys have been asking how did I meet Jordan, the Wolf of Wall Street,” she said.

“Well, it’s actually pretty similar to the movie. I was, I guess, 22 years old and modelling and my boyfriend at the time, said, ‘You want to go to this party in Westhampton in this house on the beach?’, and I was like, ‘Sure’.

“And so we pulled up, and I remember walking into the house, and there were all these people acting really weird. Little did I know that they were all Quaaluded out, I had no idea.”

“I’m 22. And I said to my boyfriend at the time, ‘We have to leave this party,’ and we left right away.”

A couple of years ago, a TikTok user shared a clip of himself next to the Scarlet Witch actor, who turns 36 tomorrow (16 February), at the Superhero Comic Con & Car Show in San Antonio, Texas.

In the viral footage, he appears to take a picture with her during a meet-and-greet that apparently cost him $210 (£167).

The whole thing latest a matter of seconds and people couldn’t believe it.

He wasn’t there long (TikTok/@talesfromthecollection)

On the text overlay of the video, the fan wrote: “POV: You just paid $210 to meet Elizabeth Olsen for 10 seconds.”

And in the clip, fans appeared to even be queuing up for under 10 seconds to get a photo.

“Oh no way, I love hearing that!” she replied, before swiftly moving on to the next person.

Although it was, without a doubt, a very quick interaction, some viewers thought the experience was ‘totally worth it’.

It went by like a flash (TikTok/@talesfromthecollection)

“Awesome! As long as it made you happy it’s all worth it! Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!” one person commented.

“Would pay more tbh,” a second wrote, as a third added: “I mean I’ve spent 200 on worse s**t, at least you paid for a dope moment.”

Others also explained that’s just how ‘professional photo ops are’.

I mean, I’ve been guilty of doing the odd meet-and-greet, and I think they’re spot on with that point.

“It was 100 percent worth it for me,” they said.

However, some were just not having any of it.

As a second complained: “Photo ops get ya every time. You don’t actually meet them. You run in, stand by them, and are quickly shoved out.”

To perhaps settle the debate, some fans shared their photos of the meet-up over in the comments, as one admitted: “She’s so down to earth in person.”

While someone else said: “She’s done Ace Comic Con in Seattle 2018 and she was at another convention recently.

“She’s the only favourite Avenger I met and got autograph from.”

I guess this falls under the ‘each to their own’ category.

The cost of living crisis is not ending any time soon, and with the average rent across the UK increasing to £1,362 per month according to ONS, it might be time to assess other options.

Which options, you may ask? Well, it depends on how outside of the box you’re willing to think.

You could move cities, you could uproot your life and head overseas, or you could do what Ryan Gutridge has done and permanently moved to live on cruise ships.

It’s a lot of travelling, but if you’re a bit of a nomad and like some adventure, then why not?

On top of that, you could easily work on board with the free wifi – all you need to do is land a job that allows you to work remotely, and you’re sorted.

Ryan Gutridge started staying on Royal Caribbean cruise ships back in 2021 when he realised this.

When reflecting on his choice, he sees it as a great, cost-effective way of living if you have the privilege of being able to work no matter where you are.

Speaking to Insider, he said: “I work in IT as a cloud-solution engineer for a cloud-solution provider and started working from home in 2012.

“But because of the pandemic, my team was able to work from home and access the data they needed from anywhere.

“At that time, cruise lines hadn’t announced when or if they were coming back. I thought that if they returned, I’d want to try taking my job with me on a short cruise. I wanted to see how the WiFi would work and if I could access some elements of my job with heavy security.”

In the summer of 2021, Gutridge booked two four-night cruises on Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas – and went on both in September.

It went extremely well, but Gutridge knew he needed to do a bit more research if he was to embark on nomadic life aboard a cruise ship.

While crunching the numbers, Gutridge realised that the cost of living at sea for 300 nights was ‘almost neck-and-neck’ with what he was paying for his apartment back home.

However, living on the cruise ship came with many added perks, including free WiFi and free drinks.

This meant Gutridge was saving money on other bills and expenses he would typically have to pay back at home.

He said: “I have a spreadsheet that automatically records all my expenses, which helps. I also set a budget every year.

“This year, my base fare budget is about $30,000 (£24,000), and last year when I started really looking at the numbers and evaluating how much base fare I paid to be on a ship for 300 nights, I found it was almost neck-and-neck with what I paid for rent and trash service for an apartment in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Time to apply for that remote job you’ve been eyeing up (Royal Caribbean)

“My drinks and internet are free. If people are going to do something like what I do, I recommend trying different brands because they all offer something different. But once you commit to one, you should stick to it so you reach those loyalty levels.

“I found that Royal Caribbean has, by far, the most valuable benefits to me – discounts, free internet, and free drinks.”

Gutridge did not discuss food, but according to the Royal Caribbean website, the price of cruise tickets includes ‘most meals onboard’.

His new way of living is good for social life too, as Gutridge is able to use lunchtimes to socialise or meet people at the gym.

The unidentified serial killer committed his harrowing crimes in London’s Whitechapel district back in 1888.

He is said to have murdered at least five women by the names of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly between August 31 and November 9 of that year.

Who has been identified as Jack the Ripper?

With the help of Jari Louhelainen, a biochemist at Liverpool John Moores University, the pair extracted a DNA sample from a shawl recovered from the scene of one of his victims, Eddowes.

Edwards said the results identified ‘Aaron Kosminski’, a barber from Poland who emigrated to London, as the man behind the murders. He also happened to be a suspect at the time.

The positive match, according to the Ripper expert, has made him believe that he has finally cracked the case.

“We put a huge amount of science that the shawl didn’t belong to the victim, and if it didn’t belong to the victim…because we always thought that the semen on the shawl was just one of her customers,” Edwards previously told LADbible.

“We thought it was her shawl, but through the scientific analysis, we realised that she couldn’t have afforded to own it and realised the only person that could have left the shawl at the murder scene was him.”

What the critics are saying

He says that a shawl found at the scene of one of the murders had DNA evidence which pointed towards the true culprit (Russell Edwards)

Despite the available evidence, critics have argued that there was no way to prove that the shawl was ever at the crime scene.

Also, the fact that the genetic sequences of the living relatives of Eddowes and Kosminski were not published in the paper due to ‘UK law,’ the published findings aren’t showing the whole picture.

Walther Parson, a forensic scientist at the Institute of Legal Medicine at Innsbruck Medical University in Austria, believes that the DNA sequences pose no risk to privacy and should be shared.

“I wonder where science and research are going when we start to avoid showing results but instead present coloured boxes.”

While you’re splashing about in the frosty waters of the British seaside, it’s highly unlikely you’ll fall victim to a deadly shark attack.

And hopefully, experiencing the huge fish having a bite is something we’ll never have to go through. But unfortunately, for those who do, it’s something that’s probably going to stay with them until the day they die.

Like this Brit, who is still haunted by the shark attack he filmed a vicious YouTube video of where you can hear the scream.

He thought it was a ‘cool encounter’ and decided to start filming while it swam its way over to his diving group. The man had come across three sharks very recently ‘with no trouble at all’, hence the confidence in whipping out his camera.

Several German drivers who were swimming in the same area joined with White’s group, with the shark’s behaviour began to change.

He told Tracking Sharks in 2018: “As I was filming, I noticed that one of the outlet diver’s bubbles spooked the shark and it turned to investigate.”

In the video, you can see the shark making its way to the diver’s level and swimming towards them.

The animal then begins to attack a diver, with the clip showing it biting into its victim’s leg.

Dan retold this scary encounter to the BBC’s Why Sharks Attack: “It bit into the diver’s leg, latched on, thrashed around and ended up going over almost like a cartwheel.

“It was crazy, it wouldn’t let go for what felt like forever. It ended up tearing his calf muscle completely off his leg.”

The man’s calf was ripped to shreds and the shark had not only completely destroyed his calf muscle but also bitten down to the bone.

“There was a big plume of blood in the water. Another diver started screaming you could hear her scream – a shriek noise in your ear,” Dan said.

“It’s horrifying to listen to.”

The scary video captured the scream (YouTube/@scubasoul)

Despite the group being 10 metres below the water’s surface, you can hear the scream in the video. After the shark attack, the man was helped up to the surface where he was heaved out from the water.

Before being rushed to shore, first responders administered pain medication and applied a tourniquet to the man’s leg, which miraculously didn’t need to be amputated. He was then taken to hospital.

Unsurprisingly, YouTube users were quick to express their shock beneath the video, with one person writing in the comments: “Very scary footage.”

Another added: “Wow, absolutely terrifying.”

While a third penned: “The most chilling part of this is still being able to hear the screaming under water.”

Originally from Birmingham, Lucy Southerton started out as a massage therapist on cruise ships when she was just 19.

Over the past five years though, she’s provided some real insight into what goes on over international waters on her YouTube channel Cruising As Crew.

“Now a lot of people think that gratuities are additional to a crew member’s wage, as in the crew member gets a nice wage and the gratuities are something extra. But unfortunately, they’re not, the gratuities makeup the crew member’s basic wage,” Lucy said.

“The reason that cruise lines get you to add gratuities on at the end to makeup the crew member’s wage is so that they can advertise cruises for less. You pay less for the cruise, which means you are more likely to come on and cruise.

Lucy Southerton started out as a massage therapist on cruise ships when she was 19 (Instagram/@cruisingascrew)

“So it is really not okay to remove gratuities, like a really s**t move if you do that because this person has worked really hard for you all week, if they’re your housekeeper especially and you’re basically slapping them in the face if you remove gratuities.”

Previously, Lucy also opened up about what it was like to date colleagues on board and how weird it can get.

“So, I think it’s kind of well known that a lot of stuff goes on, on cruise ships,” she said.

“And it’s all kind of ‘incestuous’ in a weird way because when you live in a small town, there’s only a certain amount of people.

“So you know, friends end up hooking up with friends, who then end up going with the other friend, and that’s like cruise ships.

“Ultimately, there is only a certain number of people to choose from, so things are going to cross over at certain points.”

“So my friend was really worried about catching something like an STI or an STF because he was like, ‘are they just rife?'”, she continued.

“Well firstly, when you have your medical done to work on a cruise ship, I would say 80 percent of medicals test you for sexually transmitted infections and diseases.

“So actually, in that sense, it’s quite safe because the majority of people who work on a cruise ship have been tested for something.”

Amazon Prime Video’s Beast Games has finally reached a conclusion with ‘the largest cash prize in TV history’ being up for grabs.

1,000 contestants battled it out, as MrBeast – real name Jimmy Donaldson – promised to give ‘away a private island, Lamborghinis, and millions more in cash throughout the competition’, which had a whopping £79,600,000 budget.

The 26-year-old spent £11,950,000 million to build ‘Beast City’, in Toronto, Canada, and also gave away upwards of £25 million to contestants throughout the show.

However, it was Jeff Allen, known as Player 831, who came out on top and was announced as the winner of the $10,000,000 competition.

That being said, he was ‘only’ awarded $5.03 million after taxes, as MrBeast himself pointed out.

This received a mix of comments over on X, as one person commented: “They won a life changing amount of money.”

“The taxes are INSANE but I would gladly settle for $5 million.”

Although others were a little less forgiving to the US tax system.

“Congrats to the IRS for winning beast games. They spent a lot of time and hard work getting there!” another sarcastically wrote.

“So it’s only relative to the stated amount.

“This is about how bad taxes are, not you.”

“How does it feel to pay $10m knowing $5m will go straight to the tax man… when you know you already just paid tax on it… Seems horrible,” a fourth person complained.

The winner of the Beast Games (YouTube/MrBeast 2)

Someone else also pointed out: “Only is right…MrBeast is basically gifting someone $5M and the government $5M.

“But when you really think about it, MrBeast had to make $13M so he could give the government 30% toward income tax.

“So the government got $8M in this deal.”

“My goal is to make the greatest show possible and prove YouTubers and creators can succeed on other platforms,” MrBeast, the host and executive producer, told Amazon prior to the show.

“Amazon gave me the creative control I need to try and make it happen. I hope to make the YouTube community proud.”

Over on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics have given it an underwhelming 13 per cent, while the audience scored it 89 per cent. Quite the difference.

Oscar Ray Bolin received three death sentences in 1991 for abducting and murdering three women across 1986 in Florida.

He would go on to maintain his innocence all the way up until his death on January 7, 2016, via lethal injection, even giving an interview to the media on the day before his execution took place.

Who were Oscar Ray Bolin’s victims?

On January 25, 1986, Bolin attacked and killed his first victim, a 25-year-old restaurant manager named Natalie Blanche Holley, after she had finished a night shift and stabbed her to death.

Holley’s body was discovered the morning by jogger running through a local woodland.

His second victim was 17-year-old student Stephanie Collins, who vanished in November after finishing a late shift at her job. Collins would remain missing for another month before it was found by authorities.

On the same day that Collins’ body was recovered, police were also alerted to the disappearance of 26-year-old Teri Lynn Matthews, who had vanished from her car outside a post office. Her body was found beaten and stabbed later that day, also wrapped in a white sheet.

Despite obvious connections between the three killings, it would take four years before authorities were able to link Bolin to the deaths of the three woman – thanks to an anonymous tip off from his ex-wife.

Bolin was interviewed the day before his death (Fox)

By the time Bolin’s ex-wife made the call, he was already in police custody, serving a separate sentence for the 1987 kidnap, rape and attempted murder of a woman in Ohio.

The tip would lead Bolin’s younger half-brother Philip to speak out against him, revealing that he’d witnessed his sibling attacking a woman wrapped in a sheet back in 1986. This was later confirmed to be Matthews. Bolin’s cousin would also testify that he’d assisted the killer with abducting a woman in Texas in 1987.

He added that Bolin had ultimately raped and strangled the woman, however, authorities in Texas declined to pursue the case due to his other charges.

Bolin would spend the 28 years between his initial imprisonment and death maintaining that he was innocent and had been framed.

In a final interview with Fox the day before his execution, Bolin stated that he was at ‘peace’ with death as it meant being ‘released’ from prison.

“[I feel] a little numb,” he said with a laugh, when reporters when asked how he was doing.

“We all die, but knowing your exact date and time, that’s hard to deal with.