Nick Yardy was set to have his hands full, as he recently revealed that his girlfriend Jade, 22, and her mother Dani, 44, were both ‘expecting’ his children.

The idea of this strange family dynamic inevitably sparked uproar on social media, as the YouTuber’s 3.42 million subscribers couldn’t believe how close this parent and child were.

Most women couldn’t think of anything worse than sharing their fella with their mum – let alone being excited at the prospect of both being impregnated by him.

So it probably won’t come as much of a surprise that the trio aren’t actually going to welcome two new members into the fold as they previously claimed.

“There are no babies,” Nick told the Daily Mail. “It’s just, like, a skit. It’s not actually real. People that follow me, they’re just looking for entertainment and I don’t think they really [believe it].”

However, the content creator insists that his three-way relationship with adult star Jade and her mother Dani, who has a son the same age as him, is still completely genuine.

Nick claims that he has been romantically involved with them both for nearly two years and that the ladies ‘take it in turns’ to be wined and dined or get intimate with him.

The 29-year-old previously claimed that he hit a ‘rough patch’ while he was dating Jade, prompting them to turn to her mother, who works as a life coach, for advice.

Dani suggested the couple could try bringing ‘another woman’ into the mix, according to a video shared on Nick’s Instagram, and the rest is history.

The trio describe their dynamic as a ‘common law marriage arrangement’, say they share a joint bank account and all sleep in the same bed together – however, they keep their sex lives ‘separate’.

Although some people have doubted whether Jade and Dani are actually related, Nick – real name is Nicholas Hunter – insists that they ‘are actually mother and daughter’.

“And our involvement with each other is real,” he said. “It’s just that they’re not actually pregnant. At least not yet.”

Although he hopes to bring his bizarre dream to life in the future, Nick has come under fire for pedalling the pregnancy hoax online, with some calling it ‘messed up’.

He had pulled out all the stops to fool his large following – going as far to film numerous videos with the women sporting strap-on sponge bellies, producing fake ultrasounds and throwing a pretend joint gender reveal party.

In one clip, Jade stated: “We’re welcoming Nick’s children. [Dani] is going to be having Nick Jr and I’m going to be having Nicole.

“We’re very excited to welcome two new members of the family and having a baby alongside my mum is the most exciting and beautiful thing.”

The OnlyFans creator has since revealed that she actually came up with the weird plot after she spotted two strap-on sponge bellies in their home, which had been used as a prop in a different video.

She thought it would be funny and Nick reckoned they could make some money from it, as he believes ‘animals, food or pregnancy’ related skits always go viral.

“This went so viral that we almost actually want to try for real next time,” Nick added.

As pranks go, most people haven’t found this one very funny.

US-Ukrainian relations have been decisively tense since the now infamous showdown in the White House Oval Office, with President Trump making the controversial decision to pause military aid and intelligence to Ukraine, both of which had proved vital in fending off Russia’s ongoing attacks on the country.

Zelenskyy responded to the decision by sending a letter to the White House thanking the US for its support in helping Ukraine ‘maintain its sovereignty and independence’ and reaffirming his willingness to be involved in negotiating a peace process.

But it would now seem that Trump is looking to capitalise on forcing Ukraine into a corner and issued a fresh set of demands to Zelenskyy; with a US official revealing that a signed minerals deal, which allows the US to benefit from Ukraine’s natural resources, is no longer enough for aid to be resumed.

Speaking to NBC ahead of peace talks between American and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia, the official claimed that Trump wants to see Zelenskyy change his approach to peace talks and potentially even step down as president.

The comments follow Trump’s shocking statement to Fox News that he believes Ukraine ‘may not survive’ the ongoing war even with US backing.

According to the source, Trump wants to see the Ukrainian leader demonstrate a willingness to concede Ukrainian territory to Russia, begin the process of holding elections in Ukraine and possibly stepping down as the country’s leader.

This isn’t the first time that Trump has mentioned the topic of elections in Ukraine, with the 78-year-old previously branding Zelenskyy a ‘dictator without elections’.

Zelenskyy’s presidential term expired in May 2024, however, the Ukrainian constitution prohibits the holding of elections while the country is under martial law, which was declared following Russia’s February 2022 invasion. This would mean that a permanent ceasefire would need to be agreed between the two countries before Ukrainians can head to the polls. This stance has also been backed by senior opposition figures in Ukraine, amid reports of talks between the US and key Zelenskyy opponents.

It’s also unclear how an election would feasibly work while Russian military forces continue to occupy and attack Ukraine’s eastern and southern provinces.

As Trump continues to pile the pressure on Zelenskyy, Russia has used the pause in military aid and intelligence to their advantage and ramped up attacks on Ukraine, with recent airstrikes killing at least 11 people and injuring dozens of others in the eastern oblast of Donetsk.

The son of Prince Robert of Luxembourg and Princess Julie of Nassau died on 1 March after being diagnosed with a rare POLG Mitochondrial disease when he was 14.

His father announced the passing of his son on POLG Foundation’s website last week (7 March).

Robert, who founded the organisation, said: “It is with a very heavy heart that my wife and I would like to inform you of the passing of our son, The POLG Foundation Founder and Creative Director, Frederik.

“Frederik found the strength and the courage to say goodbye to each of us in turn – his brother, Alexander; his sister, Charlotte; me; his three cousins, Charly, Louis, and Donall; his brother-in-law, Mansour; and finally, his Aunt Charlotte and Uncle Mark.”

What is POLG disease?

The genetic disorder ‘robs the body’s cells of energy’, which causes ‘progressive multiple organ dysfunction and failure’, according to the foundation.

“One might compare it to having a faulty battery that never fully recharges and is in a constant state of depletion,” it explained.

“POLG research could affect everything from Parkinson’s to cancer.”

Prince Frederik ‘had barely been able to speak for several days’

“After gifting each of us with our farewells – some kind, some wise, some instructive – in true Frederik fashion, he left us collectively with a final long-standing family joke,” the father added.

“Even in his last moments, his humour, and his boundless compassion, compelled him to leave us with one last laugh….to cheer us all up.

“So the clarity of these words was as surprising as the weight of the moment was profound.

“The answer was very easy, and he had heard it oh so many times…. but at this time, he needed reassurance that he had contributed all that he possibly could in his short and beautiful existence and that he could now finally move on.”

300 million people suffer from POLG

Robert said that ‘300 million people like Frederik worldwide’ suffer from POLG.

“These diseases are usually hard to recognise even by physicians, and patients’ families may never know what they are suffering from as they may only be identified very late in their progression,” he explained.

“Frederik was diagnosed with POLG at the age of 14, when his symptoms were showing more clearly and when the progression of his disease had become more acute.

“Because POLG disease causes such a wide range of symptoms and affects so many different organ systems, it is very difficult to diagnose and has no treatments much less a cure.”

Eyewitnesses have given a chilling account of what happened in the minutes leading up to America’s first execution by firing squad in 15 years.

Brad Sigmon, 67, was executed on 7 March after being convicted of the 2001 murder of his ex-girlfriend’s parents, David and Gladys Larke, in their South Carolina home before abducting his former partner with the intention of killing her as well.

Faced with the death penalty, Sigmon opted to be executed by firing squad, with the sentence being carried out just after 6pm local time.

Sigmon’s mother and brother were not in attendance at the execution, neither was his former partner, however, multiple witnesses were allowed to attend the gruesome event and detailed a minute-by-minute account of how the sentence was carried out.

6:00pm

According to a report from MailOnline, Sigmon was brought into the death chamber at 6pm EST and looked over to the witness gallery before being strapped into the execution chair.

A white target was also placed over his heart.

6:02pm

Once Sigmon was strapped into the chair, which included head restraints and a basin to collect blood, his attorney read out the 67-year-old’s final statement, which saw the newfound Christian speak out against the death penalty.

“I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” the statement read.

“Nowhere does God in the New Testament give man the authority to kill another man.”

6:03pm

According to numerous accounts from reporters in attendance, Sigmon mouthed the words ‘I’m OK,’ to relatives watching in the gallery before a hood was pulled over his head.

6:04pm

A blind was then lifted to reveal three volunteers from the South Carolina Department of Corrections who stood behind a wall which featured an opening at firing height. Each was armed with a rifle.

Recalling the final moments before the shots rang out, South Carolina TV journalist Anna Dobbins said: “We could not see the guns. There was no countdown or anything to tell us when the shots would be fired.”

6:05pm

Each of the executioners fired simultaneously and were direct hits on target. Sigmon flinched and his chest rapidly rose and fell several times. Blood began to pool at his chest.

“It was very fast,” Dobbins said of the killing.

Associated Press reporter Jeffrey Collins also provided an account of the event, detailing how the bullets – which are designed to break apart and cause maximum damage upon impact – meant the target placed over his heart ‘disappeared instantly’.

“A jagged red spot about the size of a small fist appeared where Sigmon was shot. His chest moved two or three times. Outside of the rifle crack, there was no sound,” he said.

6:06pm

A doctor entered the chamber and listened to Sigmon’s heart for two minutes.

6:08pm

Chrysti Shain, of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, said Sigmon was pronounced dead.

Brits who owned certain Apple models could be in line to receive some cash if Justin Gutmann’s class action lawsuit against the tech giant is successful.

The consumer rights campaigner launched the legal challenge on behalf of millions of people who purchased iPhones which allegedly had ‘defective batteries’.

He claims that Apple concealed this from customers ‘with software updates that caused performance problems’, which included a ‘power management tool that impacted performance’.

Gutmann has said that the firm – which was co-founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 – has ‘throttled’ people deliberately.

Apple is accused of hiding issues with the batteries of several iPhone models, including the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.

Instead of recalling the devices, the class action claims that iOS updates which ‘contained a throttling function to manage battery performance’ were rolled out instead.

But rather than fixing the problem, these software updates are alleged to have ‘slowed down the performance’ of older iPhones to stop them shutting down without warning.

Gutmann has alleged that the devices couldn’t cope with the strain being placed on them, which increased the likelihood of sudden shutdowns – all while Apple allegedly kept customers in the dark.

He also claimed that Apple took advantage of its market dominance in the UK, while consumers paid the price.

According to the class action, those with affected phones were effectively forced to pay for either replacement batteries or brand new handsets due to the fault.

Anyone who owned one of the aforementioned models could have a stake in the lawsuit – and estimates suggest there are 23.8 million people in the UK who may be eligible for compensation.

What has Apple said about the lawsuit?

Apple has branded the case ‘baseless’ and tried to get it thrown out in 2023, however, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled that it could proceed.

A spokesperson said at the time: “We have never – and would never – do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product, or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades.

“Our goal has always been to create products that our customers love, and making iPhones last as long as possible is an important part of that.”

The tech firm has vehemently denied any batteries in its iPhones were defective, except from a few 6S models, where customers were offered free battery replacements.

It previously admitted slowing down the performance of some older devices with ailing battery lives, but insisted it was necessary to protect its components.

After the trial was given the go-ahead, Apple was refused permission to appeal the decision – and Gutmann’s day in court is on the horizon.

The Tribunal made a Collective Proceedings Order, granting permission for the class action to be brought, on 23 January this year.

So if you owned one of the models, you might want to keep a close eye on this case, as you could end up with a windfall from the £853million pot of compensation.

And ahead of the big release, expected to be in the autumn of 2025, gaming insiders are explaining what they think the latest instalment from Rockstar will cost us.

Anticipation for the product is growing after Rockstar’s parent company Take-Two Interactive confirmed in February that there is currently no delay for the game, with an autumn release now twice confirmed by Take-Two.

September looks off the cards due to the release of Borderlands 4, another one of Take-Two’s releases scheduled for the autumn. And with the company saying it won’t go head-to-head internally with its products, it makes an October in to November timeframe look a lot more realistic.

With that pre-Christmas release now looking as concrete as it ever has done, industry experts have been looking at how much GTA 6 might cost us.

Bad news. Michael Pachter, the managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities, has said we could be looking at an unprecedented price point of ‘$100 (£80) or more’.

It follows in the footsteps of Matthew Ball, a venture capitalise and analyst, who produced a 220 slide report on the gaming industry in late 2024. In it, he said a $100 price tag for GTA 6 could be on the cards – and that it could be a good thing.

On the $100 or more price tag, Pachter this week said: ‘We think the company has plans to sell the game at a previously unheard of price point, and suspect that management can offer consumers an incentive to pay $100 or more per unit by rewarding them with a large amount of in-game currency to be spent in GTA Online.

“There is precedent for integrating an online game experience with a premium game, as Activision did so with both Call of Duty Warzone and Call of Duty Mobile content prior to the release of its annual Call of Duty premium instalment.”

Pachter continued: “In Activision’s case, the integration led to a 40 percent increase in sales of Call of Duty premium; in Take-Two’s case, we think a successful integration of GTA Online and GTA VI can lead to a $100 price point for the premium game.”

Take-Two has a history of being the first to jump when it comes to raising the general price of games, with 2020’s NBA 2K21 being the first game of the current generation to be priced at $70 (£50 in the UK).

As Matthew Ball said in his analysis, such a move to $100 with GTA 6 could be a way to ‘enable the rest of the market to move up too’ and stop trends in recent years of large layoffs in the gaming industry.

Would you pay $100? We suspect hardcore gamers wouldn’t even think twice about handing over that cash.

Fans aren’t convinced Rockstar would raise the price to such an amount, taking to Reddit to say it risks ‘reducing their potential player base’.

“GTA 6 will cost 70 bucks and Rockstar will spend the next decade making billions off GTA 6 Online,” one fan said.

With rumours of Rockstar turning GTA 6 into a product similar to Fortnite with creators able to add to the product, it would be somewhat of a rogue move to alienate people who might be able to contribute to that and therefore the longer-term playability of the product.

The businessman said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday (9 March) that we shouldn’t be prioritising climate change as ‘the biggest existential threat’.

He told the broadcaster that ‘the level of destruction’ of nuclear weapons ‘is beyond anything you can imagine’.

Trump, 78, who is in charge of America’s 5,044 warheads, which is only second to Russia’s 5,500, said: “We spend a lot of money of nuclear weapons – the level of destruction is beyond anything you can imagine.

“It’s just bad that you have to spend all this money on something that if it’s used, it’s probably the end of the world.”

The Republican insisted that he disagreed with former President Joe Biden on his alleged prioritisation of global warming being a bigger concern.

“The greatest is sitting on shelves in various countries called ‘nuclear weapons’ that are big monsters that can blow your heads off for miles and miles and miles,” he added.

Trump also said that he sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, with the hopes of negotiating a new deal with Tehran to restrain its advancing nuclear programme.

He wants to replace their plan with the one he withdrew America from during his first term in office.

“I’ve written them a letter saying, ‘I hope you’re going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily, it’s going to be a terrible thing,’” Trump said.

“I would rather negotiate a deal. I’m not sure that everybody agrees with me, but we can make a deal that would be just as good as if you won militarily.

“But the time is happening now. The time is coming up. Something’s going to happen one way or the other.

“I hope you’re going to negotiate because it’s going to be a lot better for Iran and I think they want to get that letter.

“The other alternative is we have to do something because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.”

This comes after Trump said last month that he wants to talk to China and Russia about de-escalating their nuclear weapons programme.

“There’s no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons. We already have so many,” he explained.

“You could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over. And here we are building new nuclear weapons, and they’re building nuclear weapons.

“We’re all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things that are actually, hopefully, much more productive.”

Gracie, from the Gold Coast, was Australia’s first full-time female Supercars driver, and decided to launch an OnlyFans six years ago.

Now, Gracie has called the decision the best she’s ever made, and has since earned an eye-watering sum on the platform.

“It was absolutely the best decision I ever made for a multitude of reasons,” she told Daily Mail Australia.

“The monetary value is what everybody sees, but you do have to work really hard to get there.”

Speaking of how much she made, it was reported in 2021 that the star had gone from earning $19K a year as a driver, to around $2 million from OnlyFans.

“I think OnlyFans gave me something that I never knew was possible, and that’s having control, having freedom, being able to pick and choose”, she said.

“Whether it regards picking and choosing how much I want to work that day, or where I want to go, how I want to, you know, be seen when I post a photo of myself, or how I want myself to look.”

Gracie has explained that since moving into the adult industry, she’s made millions of dollars and has been able to afford lavish cars and properties, earning as much as $50k a month.

“When I was racing, I was broke”, she explained previously, as per the Sun. “I gave up racing to become an OnlyFans model and in just over six months, I earned $1,000,000 [AUD – 497,535.00] and bought my multi-million dollar mansion.

“My absolute dream would be when I’m 40 years old to be completely retired and done from working. “

She has plenty of strange – and lucrative – requests on her page, explaining she does a lot of foot content, which she describes as a ‘huge’ part of her work.

“I do a lot of it, and I make a lot of money from my feet,” she added.

“That’s probably the one that makes me giggle the most, because it’s a huge part of my page, and I know that everybody laughs and giggles about it, but there are so many feet guys out there. It’s incredible.”

Gracie has since started training in a new sport and will be entering the boxing ring against podcaster Summer Perry in April at the Gold Coast Convention Centre.

Despite the pressure, Gracie says it’s nothing compared to her time in motor racing.

“I think motor sport as a whole is by far the most intimidating sport as a female to get into,” she added.

“I struggle to see anything else that I do as daunting, as intimidating and as difficult to get into as a female.”

Speaking of the boxing match, she said: “I want to do my best on the night and make sure I put everything on the table and throw everything I have at it.”