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GLAMOUR model Danielle Mason has swapped sexy shoots for TV presenting as she rebrands herself as a cleaning expert. The lads' mag favourite and sister of EastEnders' Jessie Wallace , has moved into the same lane as Mrs Hinch and Stacey Solomon and is sharing her top home hacks. Mum-of-two Danielle is now a presenter for Ideal World and spoke on the Spring Clean Stage at this year's Ideal Home Show at Olympia London. She previously spoke of her career switch in an interview with the Mirror , saying: "My kids don’t like it as they’re older now and don’t really want to see their mum in her bra and knickers for all their mates to look at. "I think, as I’m 40 this year, it’s time to reign it in and take my career seriously." Danielle has plenty of housekeeping experience under her belt, dating back to her teens when she worked for Travel Lodge. READ MORE ON DANIELLE MASON well dan son! Craig David secretly dated Jessie Wallace’s … [Read more...] about Jessie Wallace’s sister has major career change as she ditches glamour modelling and starts shock new job

MEXICO CITY — Art fairs are full of galleries with dreams of launching the art world’s next big thing. Exhibitors pack their booths with work by promising newcomers and talk them up relentlessly, hoping they will break through with the collectors and critics who wander the aisles. Proyectos Monclova of Mexico City takes a different approach. Instead of banking on the future, it invests in the past, bringing to fairs artists who made their reputations decades ago in Mexico and whose careers it says it believes are ready for a turn in the international spotlight. Alongside all those potential stars of tomorrow on display at this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong are Proyectos Monclova’s lineup of colorful, geometric weavings by 87-year-old Eduardo Terrazas — famous for being a co-designer of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics poster , with its psychedelic black-and-white lettering and rainbow-inspired rings — and stone carvings by Ángela Gurría , a central figure of Mexican Modernism who … [Read more...] about A Century of Mexican Creativity at Art Basel Hong Kong

The urgency of returning to normal after three years of the coronavirus pandemic is felt especially keenly in Hong Kong, given the strict quarantine and other restrictions for travelers that made it difficult for visitors — and locals — to come and go. Now, even the mask mandate has been lifted . Art Basel Hong Kong , taking place Thursday to Saturday at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, will have its fullest presentation since 2019, with 177 dealers in total, which is 47 more than last year. “My goal is to bring Hong Kong back and to reinforce its role as a cultural capital,” said Angelle Siyang-Le, the director of the fair. Ms. Siyang-Le, who is based in Hong Kong, is new to her position, having previously worked for Art Basel as head of gallery relations for Asia. “People can now travel easily, as opposed to what we call the ‘closet years,’” she said. In 2020, the fair went entirely digital, and then in the next two years it was staged in … [Read more...] about Art Basel Hong Kong Has Its Grand Reopening

Putting a heady twist on the age-old wisdom that you should always “eat your greens,” Bay Area chef Solomon Johnson is bringing marijuana to high-end cuisine. All of the courses at his new Cannescape event series are infused with cannabis. The Bay Area's first winner of "Chopped 420," a "Chopped" spinoff from Discovery+, Johnson cooks up food that is both delicious and pleasantly stoning — I attended the first Cannescape event at the Phoenix Hotel in San Francisco last month. The multiday events include a five-course dinner infused with cannabis, as well as an overnight stay at a premier Northern California hotel. Dr. Wilkinson’s Backyard Resort & Mineral Springs in Napa Valley is scheduled to host the next event April 20 , otherwise known as 4/20 — fitting for the "Chopped 420" champion. However, these blissed-out banquets may have already landed Johnson in some hot water. The San Francisco Department of Public Health has warned the Phoenix that the pot-infused dinner I … [Read more...] about Meet the ‘Chopped’ champion chef trying to throw a weed event in Napa Valley