The Late Late Show is now the late Late Late Show. James Corden has officially ended his late-night reign, signing off for the last time with Thursday's episode. Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and David Letterman all popped up to see Corden off with a goodbye sketch, urging him to keep the secrets of late night — like how they all have a go-to "fake laugh." Corden's final guests were Harry Styles and Will Ferrell, the latter of whom dramatically entered with a sledgehammer that he used to destroy the host's desk, or at least a flimsy prop desk that was easier to smash up. "It's my last show, but it's not the end of the show," Corden jokingly exclaimed, as he still had over half an episode to do. Later, Corden delivered a closing monologue lamenting growing divisions in the United States, a powerful message coming from the man who briefly united us all in our hatred of Cats.
Manchester Unitedwill make a move forParis-St Germainand Brazil forward Neymar, 31, if the Qatari bid, led by Sheikh Jassim, for the club is successful.(Sun)
Borussia Dortmundand England midfielder Jude Bellingham, 19, has opted to joinReal Madridbut the deal is not done with the Spaniards only willing to pay 120m euros.(AS - in Spanish)
Tottenhamare expecting to receive a bid fromChelseafor England striker Harry Kane, 29, with their interest heightened by the expected appointment of Mauricio Pochettino as manager.(Talksport)
Spurs chairman Daniel Levy is adamant that he won't sell Kane toManchester UnitedorChelsea, with the Red Devils havingNapoliand Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen, 24, andJuventusand Serbia striker Dusan Vlahovic, 23, on a list of alternatives.(Daily Mail)
Former Tottenham, Real Madrid and Wales forward Gareth Bale, 33, has turned down a plea fromWrexham'sHollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney to join the newly-promoted club in their return to the Football League.(Sky Sports)
Brightonare preparing to make a move forLiverpool'sJames Milner, 37, with the former England midfielder out of contract in the summer.(The Athletic - subscription required)
Chelseaare looking into a part-exchange deal forInter Milanand Cameroon goalkeeper Andre Onana, 27, but the Italians have no interest in Spain keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga, 28. They do admire England defender Trevoh Chalobah, 23, and midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek, 27, though.(Gazzetta - in Italian)
Chelseawould prefer to sell Croatia midfielder Mateo Kovacic, 28, to a club outside the Premier League with former Blues boss Thomas Tuchel interested in a reunion atBayern Munich.(Evening Standard)
Arsenalare considering making a move forChelseaand France midfielder N'Golo Kante, 32, with the Gunners knowing their London rivals need to reduce their squad size.(Mirror)
Paris St-Germainforward Kylian Mbappe is trying to encourageEintracht Frankfurtforward and France team-mate Randal Kolo Muani, 24, to join the club this summer.(Christian Falk)
Canada striker Jonathan David, 23, is expected to leave French clubLillethis summer, which has alerted a number of clubs led byTottenham, ChelseaandParis St-Germain.(L'Equipe)
Arsenalcould make a move to sign Belgium striker Lois Openda, 23, from French side Lens this summer, althoughAston Villaare also keen.(Daily Mail)
Evertonare planning a move forStoke Citystriker Tyrese Campbell, 23, this summer regardless of whether they secure Premier League survival.(Football Insider)
Arsenal,NewcastleandAston Villaall scouted Real Valladolid right-back Ivan Fresneda, 18, in Thursday's 2-1 defeat by Valencia.(90min.com)
NewcastleandCrystal Palaceare set to miss out on the singing ofRangersand Scotland midfielder Calum Adamson with the 15-year-old set to sign his first professional contract at the Glasgow club.(Daily Record via Mirror)
Welcome to The Tab’s Love Island 2023 gossip round-up, bringing you the pettiest drama, most scandalous rumours and the least believable tabloid exclusives from around the web.
Ron’s said producers kept him and Lana apart in the villa, which pissed him off
Ron has said the producers kept him and Lana apart on the show, which at the time really pissed him off. Ron and Lana had a bit of an on and off journey in the villa, and weren’t coupled up for a while, which he’s said is down to producers and when they chose to let recouplings happen.
Speaking on the Not My Bagg podcast, he said: “[For the] first four weeks I was like, ‘this is actually pissing me off. Can I just get in the couple that I want to be in?'”
He added: “We are very separated from the girls for the majority of the day; lunchtime, two hours, dinner, two hours, getting ready, probably three hours, mornings, an hour. There actually aren’t that many hours that you spend with the girls, so you actually have to get on with the boys.”
Jessie’s met up with NOBODY since the show, and there’s only ONE girl she’d bother to meet with
Jessie had a few arguments towards the end of her time in the villa, and since the show has really only been posting with Will. She’s now made it clear she’s not in touch with anyone else since the show.
Speaking to The Sun, she said she’s not met up with anyone, and would only meet up with Ellie Spence if she had the chance. “I’ve messaged people on social media but I haven’t seen many of the other Islanders since leaving the villa,” she said. “The main one I would’ve seen is Ellie – I think Ellie’s a gem and I was really sad when she left the villa.”
The ‘real reason’ Tom and Samie split up has been reported
via ITV
The Sun has revealed the “real reason” Tom and Samie split up, blaming the breakup on the relationship being “one-sided”. The publication has claimed Samie was worried Tom “wouldn’t have time for her” so she ended things.
A source told The Sun: “She was tired of making all the effort in the relationship – she’d visit him a lot but he wasn’t coming down to see her as much. If it was this hard early on – what would it be like in a year?”
However, Samie has posted a screenshot of the article on her Instagram story and clarified it wasn’t actually herself who spoke to The Sun, so maybe take this one with a pinch of salt.
Hayley Hughes is pregnant!
Hayley Hughes, who famously thought Brexit meant we wouldn’t have any trees, has announced she’s pregnant! The 2018 Islander has shared some cute pics of her growing baby bump on Instagram, and said: “A dream come true. My little baby bear you are all we have ever wanted.”
Hayley has been with her current boyfriend for a year, but has never posted who he is on Instagram and has instead decided to often hide his face from her photos.
The Olivia and Zara drama is BACK!
via ITV
Here we go again, Zara and Olivia are going at it again. I’m not going to recap their drama so far, because we’d be here forever, but by now we all know they knew each other before the show, had beef, and don’t get on.
Zara’s now said she has “nothing left to say” to Olivia and added Olivia has been a “recurring issue” since the show. “I have nothing to say to Olivia anymore to be honest, we saw her at the last event and it’s very much cold,” she told The Sun. “Everyone else I love, I’ve got good vibes with everyone else but I feel like she’s been the recurring issue personally.”
Cue more bitter TikToks shading each other!
Samie’s said she had a row with Martin which wasn’t aired
Samie has made a YouTube video talking about her time on the show, and in it she’s revealed she had a row with Martin, which didn’t make it into an episode. She said she called him out in a “petty” fight which took place whilst the Islanders ate, and weren’t being filmed.
“We had an off screen argument and it couldn’t air because it was at dinner time,” she said. “Me and Martin had an argument off camera and it was quite petty. But everything in there was very intense and heightened and he was complaining about the food. The food was amazing.”
She added she felt Martin was being ungrateful towards the people who cooked for them on the show. She said: “I’m very much someone who is like ‘be grateful, you’ve got this amazing experience, you’re here, we’re getting fed for free, we’re getting looked after by these people who don’t even know us, taking care of us like we were their children’.
“I was very frustrated at that point. I was like, ‘just be grateful, why are you moaning? Why are you talking to the villa producer like that?’.” She said the row was never resolved, and that she and Martin are “very different people”.
She said herself and Martin are “cut from different cloth” and will “never see eye to eye”. She added:”‘In my opinion, he was being quite rude to our villa producer who I absolutely loved and who was looking after us in Casa Amor. So we had a bit of a bicker and it went on for a couple of days.
“But obviously in the end you all make up and we just agree to disagree. But me and Martin are never going to see eye to eye. We’re very different people, we’re cut from different cloth. That’s it, that’s what didn’t get aired.”
Chloe Burrows has revealed her dad has cut her off since she went on the show
via ITV
Chloe Burrows has said her dad hasn’t spoken to her since she went on the show back in 2021. During an interview on The Fellas Podcast, she was asked if she would ever join OnlyFans, and she said she wouldn’t because her dad has already cut her off because she went on Love Island.
“Yeah, my dad didn’t speak to me for months,” she said. “In fact, we’ve still not spoken. I had sex on TV!” Um, yikes?
Love Island is officially one of the most complained about shows of 2023 so far
In figures obtained by the Daily Mail, it’s been revealed Love Island is one of the most complained about shows to Ofcom in 2023. The winter series brought in over 1,000 complaints, making it the fourth most complained about show of the year so far.
It had 1,312 complaints, which is still considerably less than last year’s show, which had over 5,000.
The Late Late Show is now the late Late Late Show. James Corden has officially ended his late-night reign, signing off for the last time with Thursday's episode. Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and David Letterman all popped up to see Corden off with a goodbye sketch, urging him to keep the secrets of late night — like how they all have a go-to "fake laugh." Corden's final guests were Harry Styles and Will Ferrell, the latter of whom dramatically entered with a sledgehammer that he used to destroy the host's desk, or at least a flimsy prop desk that was easier to smash up. "It's my last show, but it's not the end of the show," Corden jokingly exclaimed, as he still had over half an episode to do. Later, Corden delivered a closing monologue lamenting growing divisions in the United States, a powerful message coming from the man who briefly united us all in our hatred of Cats.
The internet is ablaze with rumors of romance between Sydney Sweeney and newly single Glen Powell, stars of the upcoming rom-com Anyone But You, fueled by their evident offscreen chemistry, Powell’s breakup and dramatic developments discovered by obsessed fans: like Powell’s now-ex-girlfriend unfollowing Sweeney’s Instagram.
Key Facts
Sweeney and Powell co-star in Anyone But You, the forthcoming romantic comedy directed by Will Gluck, who also helmed rom-coms Easy A and Friends with Benefits.
Weeks of swirling romance rumors between the co-stars came to a head on Wednesday, when several outlets reported Powell and ex-girlfriend Gigi Paris had “amicably” broken up in early April, and Paris posted a video of herself walking on Instagram, captioned: “know your worth & onto the next.”
Celebrity gossip Instagram account DeuxMoi previously reported Paris and Powell’s relationship was on the rocks before filming began.
Pictures of the Sweeney and Powell laughing and cozying up together while filming, and a video of Sweeney sitting in Powell’s lap, have gone viral on social media.
Much of the online interest in Sweeney and Powell’s chemistry is because of their separate relationships: Powell had dated model Gigi Paris since 2020 before their breakup, and Sweeney became engaged to restauranteur Jonathan Davino in 2022.
The two actors have repeatedly posted pictures of them together on their Instagram accounts over the past few weeks, including one where they visited Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, with Powell’s family.
Fans have analyzed the actors’ social media accounts for clues: Some noticed Paris reportedly deleted a supportive comment she left on an Instagram post Sweeney shared in January, and on Monday, Page Six reported Paris unfollowed Sweeney’s Instagram account.
Sweeney’s Instagram comment sections have been flooded with fan speculation and theories, with some comparing the romance rumors to her Euphoriacharacter Cassie, who became notorious in the show’s second season for romancing her best friend’s boyfriend.
Sweeney and Powell displayed their chemistry while doing press for the film at Las Vegas’ CinemaCon on April 24: The two reportedly held hands while walking offstage, and in an interview, Sweeney called Powell “Top Gun,” a reference to his role in Top Gun: Maverick, to which he responded, “I love it when she calls me that.”
Key Background
Sweeney, 25, is best known for her roles in HBO shows The White Lotus and Euphoria, for which she scored two Emmy nominations in 2022. Powell, 34, has starred in such films as Set It Up, Top Gun: Maverick and Hidden Figures. The pair’s starring roles in Anyone But You were announced in January, and filming began just weeks later before wrapping in April.
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Sweeney and Powell are the latest pair of film stars to spark romance rumors because of palpable offscreen chemistry. Film critic ZoĂ« Rose Bryant joked on Twitter the pair went to the “Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain school of promotion” because their chemistry is reminiscent of Isaac and Chastain, who went viral for their affection while promoting HBO’s “Scenes From a Marriage.” In one moment at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival, Isaac appeared to kiss and sniff Chastain’s inner arm on the red carpet. The two, who have been friends since they attended The Juilliard School together, previously starred together in A Most Violent Year (2014). Other famous examples of co-star romance rumors include Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, who starred in the 2018 remake of A Star is Born. Many critics praised the film for their onscreen chemistry—but their offscreen chemistry generated much media interest, particularly their intimate performance of “Shallow” at the 2019 Academy Awards. In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel after the Oscars, Gaga said the pair wanted the audience to feel real romance because the film is a love story. One of Hollywood’s most famous former couples, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, also sparked relationship rumors on set—which turned out to be true and resulted in Pitt’s divorce from Jennifer Aniston. Pitt and Jolie met while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2004, where they later admitted they “fell in love” despite Pitt’s marriage, and the couple had their first child together by 2006. Some social media users joked romance rumors are indicative the movie will be good: “If a romcom has cheating allegations ahead of it, it’s gonna be a hit,” one user tweeted, garnering more than 132,000 likes.
What We Don’t Know
When Anyone But You will be released. Powell confirmed at CinemaCon the film will be released exclusively in theaters. A teaser of the film was shown at Sony Pictures’ CinemaCon presentation: The film reportedly stars the pair as former college frenemies who pretend to be a couple at a destination wedding before realizing their feelings for each other.
The two comically attractive actors got close while making the R-rated romantic comedy Anyone But You, maybe a little too close for some people’s comfort. Powell’s girlfriend, Gigi Paris, initially “commented a string of celebratory emojis on Sweeney’s post announcing the casting news for the rom-com in January,” but “now [her] comment appears to have been deleted.”
On Wednesday, Paris shared a cryptic post on Instagram. “know your worth & onto the next,” she wrote, along with a video where she’s walking on a sidewalk and flashes a knowing smile. Page Six reports that she also no longer follows Sweeney or her Top Gun: Maverick star (ex?) boyfriend.
Sweeney, 25, revealed her cheeky nickname for Powell during an appearance at CinemaCon 2023 in Las Vegas. She said on Monday that she affectionately calls him “Top Gun” because of his role in Top Gun: Maverick.
“We love seeing ourselves on the big screen,” Powell then quipped, according to People, before the first trailer for their upcoming film played. “Oh, please, Top Gun,” the White Lotus star said in response, prompting Powell to tell the convention attendees, “I love when she calls me that.”
It must be serious: Sweeney and Powell are at the cute nicknames (that everyone else finds extremely obnoxious) phase.
One of the best, and worst, parts of the internet is how easily it lets us spread gossip. From celebrity feuds to Twitter main characters, any juicy story can go viral in an instant — and any poster can become a top-notch storyteller. But how do we stay a little more on the Gwynaissance side of dirt-mongering (a good-natured meme-ification of a megacelebrity) and a little less on the Caleb from West Elm side (the doxxing of a run-of-the-mill serial dater)? Alex Sujong Laughlin and Kelsey McKinney, the duo behind the hilarious podcastNormal Gossip (Season Four is streaming now and they will be on tour this summer) — which devotes each episode to an anonymized story of a real-world drama — break down what constitutes good gossip, how to dish responsibly, and which subjects are untouchable.
Choose Your Gossip Wisely
Sharing stories about people isn’t just shooting the shit — it has a purpose. “Gossip as a way to reinforce social standards and create rules for the community has always existed,” explains McKinney. “It is funny to read gossip columns from the Thirties and Forties, where it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, her dress was so short,’ and that’s scandalous.” But if you’re going to use this tool, it’s important to carefully consider the target. “Gossip about the White House has a different weight than gossip about [a] co-worker,” says Laughlin. “It has everything to do with the amount of power that the people have and the power that the narrative about them has. So if that narrative is refuted or undercut in some way, that’s going to have an equally powerful effect, either for good or evil.”
Leave Normies Out of It
It’s bad enough to try to get into the head of your favorite pop star, but still worse to go after an unknown, unfamous individual. “There’s this idea of unintentional virality that everybody now in the world is vulnerable to,” says Laughlin. “You can accidentally go viral through seemingly no fault of your own.” She cites Couch Guy — a college student whose girlfriend surprised him with a visit to campus, sparking a ruthless curiosity about the nature of his relationship with a girl sitting next to him at a group hang, followed by intense harassment of all three people — as an example of cyber sleuths going too far.
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“Say you are sitting on a couch, sitting next to this guy, and then his long-distance girlfriend comes, and it’s all filmed, and suddenly there are a million TikToks deconstructing your body language toward this guy, and you did not ask for any of that,” she says. “Couch Guy would’ve been very different if the story had stopped with ‘She opens the door, and he doesn’t look the most thrilled to see her.’ That’s funny on its own. Where it became destructive was the hordes of people who decided that it was their right to know everything there is to know about these people and their relationship.”
Pick the Right Frame
If you want your gossip to catch on like wildfire — for the right reasons — be strategic about your tone. “It’s a genuine, warm congeniality, with a sense of humor to it — there’s a lightness,” says Laughlin. Or, as McKinney puts it, it’s “sweet conspiratorial. You’re just like, ‘Let’s create a team. Let’s be on a team. I’ll tell you everything I know, and you can tell me everything you know, and then together we can thwart our enemies.’”
Welcome to the age of shows based on books that were already successfully turned into movies. A television series based on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books, which were adapted into a series of hit films from 2008 through 2012, is in early development, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Meyer is expected to be involved, and Sinead Daly, who has worked on shows like The Walking Dead: World Beyond, is reportedly writing the script. But the project is so early in its development that the Reporter says it isn't yet clear if it will be a remake of the books or some kind of "different offshoot." Either way, it comes just a week after Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed it's making a Harry Potter show, which will simply re-adapt the original seven books. The Twilight series is reportedly set up at Lionsgate, where executives are likely thanking their lucky stars that, unlike a certain other author, Stephenie Meyer is not active on Twitter.
Everybody loves who? On the WTF podcast, Ray Romano revealed Martin Scorsese had no idea who he was before casting him in HBO's Vinyl, even though this was years after he starred in a wildly successful sitcom. "I went on tape and the response we got back was, 'Yeah, Marty likes it. He's in the running, and Marty wants to know who he is,'" Romano recalled. "He's never seen him. And my agent was like, 'So he's never seen the show?' And he goes, 'No, no, no, he doesn't know who the guy is." Romano wasn't offended, though, saying this was a "blessing because he didn't have to erase the sitcom character from his mind." Vinyl premiered in 2016, more than ten years after Everybody Loves Raymond went off the air. But the anecdote also tragically suggests Scorsese may be unfamiliar with Romano's iconic performance as Manny in the Ice Age franchise. We thought he was supposed to be an expert on real cinema.
Livingston captain Nicky Devlin has numerous teams chasing his signature as his contract in West Lothian runs out - with Hearts leading the chase. (Daily Record)
My friend and I were ready to dig into plates of spicy rigatoni at Carbone, New York City’s storied celebrity-spotting hangout. We had just finished our first round of drinks when a table full of A-listers sat down next to us. I froze.
I’d traded secrets via DM with one of these stars just the other week, and I noted that a very famous person at their table was visibly pregnant but clearly didn’t want the public to know. And now here we all were, inches away from each other. I bent my head low, praying they wouldn’t look over. Did they know that I am DeuxMoi, one of the biggest celebrity gossip sources on the internet? Because if so, things were about to get really uncomfortable.
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I could quite literally feel my adrenaline pumping through every vein as I thought about my worst-case scenario: I’d get doxxed right here in the middle of the trendiest restaurant in Manhattan, and word would spread everywhere online within seconds. My friend, one of the very few who knows my real identity, rolled her eyes.
When DeuxMoi first gained Instagram traction in March 2020, right at the start of the pandemic, I knew I wanted to stay anonymous (anon, pls) because I still had a day job. I was already fucking off a bunch at work, taking bathroom breaks every 20 minutes to post the most recent juicy tip. Colleagues would walk by and I’d block my phone with the nearest inanimate object at my desk. (Thank you, Post-it Notes, for taking me from 35,000 followers to nearly 2 million.) At the time, my biggest fear was getting fired.
But *movie trailer voice* in a world where powerful Hollywood elites and obsessed Law & Order: SVU fans want my head on a spike, there’s no way I can ever reveal my name. On one level, I get that that’s rich coming from someone who exposes details of people’s private lives, even if those people are public figures. But personal safety is my primary concern—the internet, and especially Instagram, can be a really scary place.
Just this morning when I checked my DMs, two messages were waiting for me from disgruntled fans (not fans of mine, if you can’t tell): “Fuckin liar cunt” and “Hi, I hope you die.” Those were followed by a nastygram from someone who was pissed that I mentioned Christian Bale’s recent jury duty appearance. Apparently, civic duty is “political” and triggering around these parts.
I constantly wonder if the people I do trust with my truth will betray me.
Slogging through nine hours straight—I looked up my daily screen time for this story and...yikes—of constant DMs, the occasional death threats, delusional fan theories, and actually credible tips for three years takes a serious toll. My nights can be sleepless, loaded with anxiety over becoming financially ruined by a scorned superstar or being caught between warring factions of the same fan base (Swifties, I’m sorry, but again, I don’t know when our girl is dropping new re-records). It’s emotionally and physically draining work, and I have the cystic stress acne to prove it.
During the peak of my paranoia, I would rush from my Uber with my head down, not stopping until the elevator doors in my building closed and I knew I was alone. Because, yes, the goal is to remain alive, but I’m also constantly waiting for the inevitable “you’ve been served” line. One star’s team tried to blame me when his scandal made front-page news. Situations like this are the reason for the disclaimer in my bio: Every blind item I post is hearsay.
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But my bleakest moments running this account are not actually the horrifying personal messages, the legal risks, or the wild-goose chase that is discerning whether a tip is true or false. It’s the strain on my social life. Being anon is crucial, but I constantly wonder if the people I do trust with my truth will betray me. I got into a screaming match with my dad because he decided to tell a casual acquaintance about my “fun side project.” (He gets it now, but damn.) And I had to cut off a lifelong bestie because she kept letting important identifying info slip in random conversations. Our group has tried to amend the fallout, but I’m still reeling from how careless she was. Oh, and you won’t see me at Carbone again—or any other restaurant either, probably. I rarely go out to my favorite spots anymore, preferring to stay home instead.
In the end, is being a modern-day Gossip Girl worth it? Sometimes I wish I could go back to having a lower-key celebrity obsession, like everyone else for whom the lives of stars don’t impact their own. But I still get high highs from feeding my hungry DeuxMoi community, and I do revel in the fact that everyone knows me...even though they don’t. The thrill of my double life and once-in-a-blue-moon high-stakes scandal is addictive, and my loyal followers keep me coming back. Also, the business opportunities. Is this the place I should plug my new book? You know you love me. XOXO.
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The family of Michael Schumacher is reported to be planning legal action against a German magazine that presented an artificial intelligence-generated article as “the first” interview with the seven-time Formula 1 world champion since his 2013 skiing accident.
The news agency Reuters said it asked for comment on Wednesday and was pointed by a spokesperson for the Schumacher family to published reports of legal action.
Die Aktuelle led its most recent edition with a photo of Schumacher on the front cover with the headline “the first interview” and the accompanying strapline “it sounds deceptively real”.
The ‘interview’ was dominated over a double-page spread by the pull quote “my life has completely changed” and though it featured hints about its authenticity, it was still billed as an interview with Schumacher – until the revelation that it was generated by an AI chatbot.
Die Aktuelle does not specify which exact software was used, but the screenshots in the article feature an interface strongly reminiscent of character.ai, a programme based on “neural language models”, currently in beta. Its own description of its functionality is as follows: “A supercomputer reads huge amounts of text and learns to hallucinate what words might come next in any given situation. Models like these have many uses including auto-complete and machine translation. […] Needless to say, a hallucinating supercomputer is not a source of reliable information.”
Schumacher suffered a severe brain injury during a skiing accident in 2013 that left him in a medically-induced coma for six months.
He has not been seen in public since and his family has been strict about his privacy and offered only scarce updates, including in the 2021 Netflix documentary Schumacher.
Die Aktuelle has run other covers with Schumacher on that have caused outrage, including one in 2014 with him and wife Corinna pictured and the strapline ‘awoken’ that was instead about others who had awoken from comas in the past.