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SURVIVOR OF SOCCER PLANE CRASH WALKS AWAY AGAIN AS COACH DISASTER KILLS 21
Gertrude (MetroTalk, Tue) thinks Metro should stop printing lockdown letters that promote ‘paranoid hysteria, fascism and the destruction of human rights’. It’s called free speech, one of the most basic human rights. If you disagree with a letter, then write a reply. Mick, London
Mark from Ilford (MetroTalk, Wed) claims there’s a correlation between being poor and poor decision-making – you are an absolute embarrassment, pal. Joey C, Chingford
Regarding your story about the angry cat in the passenger jet cockpit (Metro, Tue). I think he wanted to force the pilot to take him to the Canaries… John Hinchliffe, London
With all the understandable outrage over former newspaper editor Roy Greenslade revealing his support for the IRA (Metro, Tue), the life peerage given to Claire Fox last year should not be forgotten. That an unapologetic supporter of the IRA’s atrocities should have been ennobled was the moment when I lost all faith in the decency of this government…
John Ford, Amersham
For all those complaining about the restraints of lockdown, welcome to the world of the homeless. Social isolation and restrictions on your free movement are the norm but at least you have a roof over your heads, a safe place to sleep at night, a toilet and running water. Perhaps we need to consider what it’s like to truly go without. Francoise White, London
A SURVIVOR of the plane crash that killed most of Brazilian football team Chapecoense has walked away from a coach smash that claimed 21 lives.
Erwin Tumiri was one of just six people to survive the air disaster in 2016 near Medellin, Colombia, which killed 71 of the 77 people on board including 19 players.
Now the 30-year-old has cheated death for a second time after a packed coach careered down a hillside near the Bolivian city of Cochabamba on Tuesday.
Lucia Tumiri, confirming her brother was in hospital but had only suffered minor injuries, said: ‘I was very worried but he’s stable and thank God he’s survived once again.
‘He has knee injuries and scratches. I’ve spoken to him and he says he’s OK.’
Yesterday the death toll stood at 21, with more than 30 injured, after the coach plunged 500ft down an embankment.
Speaking to local media of his incredible new escape, Mr Tumiri said: ‘I was listening to music on my mobile phone when I heard people screaming.
‘I felt the coach was going to overturn and it did. The only thing I could do was
hold on to the seat in front of me.’ Smiling in his hospital bed despite his fresh ordeal, and wearing a bandage over his right knee, he added: ‘I remained conscious and managed to crawl out when the vehicle came to a halt.
‘I can’t believe what’s happened. I’ve got injuries to my arm and a gash on my knee, but that’s all.’ Cristian Rivera Rojas, a traumatologist at Arebalo Hospital in Cochabamba, said: ‘He’s conscious and calm and will be able to go home soon.’
Mr Tumiri was one of the crew on the LaMia Flight 2933 nearly five years ago. Only three Chapecoense players survived.
A CATHOLIC school is facing criticism for teaching pupils that gay sex is wrong and that men were ‘created to initiate sexual relationships’.
St Mary’s high school introduced a programme into its syllabus called A Fertile Heart, which also says women are ‘receiver-responders’ of sex.
Dad Graeme Walker, 45, said: ‘ Not only are pupils taught an outdated and frankly homophobic view, it’s also unashamedly misogynistic.’
Head Stuart Wetson said the school encouraged a ‘broad and balanced debate’ on sex while ‘teaching distinctive faith perspectives’. And a mum said: ‘Parents know it’s a Catholic school, teaching Catholic beliefs.’ A
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Fertile Heart was approved by the Archdiocese of Cardiff and rolled out to its 56 schools, including ‘outstanding’ St Mary’s, in Lugwardine, Herefordshire.
The archdiocese said: ‘Our vision for relationships and sex education is based on the Catholic understanding of human relationships.’
The heroes of your new highschool comedy, Moxie, are all feminists and you’re the single male ‘asshole’…
No one likes me in this film! I am the asshole, the issue, the problem, the villain no one is rooting for – nor should they! I represent the old norm of this broken culture. But at the same time I am the reason this whole [anti-sexist] ‘Moxie’ movement comes about. It was challenging but at the end of the day I got to work with [director/writer] Amy Poehler and that was amazing.
As a boy, what did your dad teach you about how to be a man?
I think the idea of what a man is has totally shifted in the past few years but also in the last ten, 50, 100 years. The way my dad grew up in the environment of Austria and Germany right after World War II, there were a lot of broken men. So as to the ideal of what a man was, there wasn’t really much there. I think that kind of threw him, coming to America.
And then marrying my mum and having our family, he’s continuing to find what it really means to be a man. That could be how you are treating your significant other or how you are describing your feelings. It could be how much you are working out in the gym – that is probably what it used to be, this ideal of an alpha male. But it continues to change and to grow.
You play the captain of the football team in Moxie. Given your dad was Mr Universe, were you the ultimate school jock?
I grew up playing basketball, tennis, swimming, football – not baseball because I sucked at baseball, sucked at soccer. But then I pretty much stopped everything in sophomore year. I started taking classes at Santa Monica City College in their business department when I was in tenth grade and I had my own business that was up and running when I was 15.
What was the business?
A clothing line called Project 360. We started with bracelets and I put a bunch of empowering words onto them like ‘Love’, ‘Peace’ and ‘Empower’. I raised $20 to $30,000 dollars and donated it to a battered women’s shelter in Long Beach.
How’s it been living back with your mum, journalist Maria Shriver, under lockdown?
I moved back during the beginning of quarantine because we didn’t know how long it was going to last. One of the things we recognised was how many people were at home and struggling in
I raised $20 to $30,000 dollars and donated it to a battered women’s shelter in Long Beach
terms of not being social or having certain anxieties. So me and my mum started these ‘home together’ online videos where we talk to individuals who specialise in mindset or routines or anything from cooking and home loans to small business mentoring.
According to Instagram, you’re obsessed by ice cream. Fave flavour?
Banana Cream Pie. I love anything with banana or peanut butter. I love weird flavours too. I just tried Jeni’s Everything Bagel and it was surprisingly delicious.
You don’t look like a man who eats a lot of ice cream…
I do. I eat a lot! But I work out a lot too. I had shoulder surgery two or three weeks before the lockdown. I tore a ligament in my right shoulder really badly so I couldn’t move and I had to sit and do absolutely nothing for a while. It was terrible. It really messed with me mentally and physically because I am a really big routine person. I start my day with a workout and am always outdoors. But I am almost back to normal now so I work out pretty much every day. I find that it teaches you a lot about yourself and it helps with a lot of determination and goal setting. It really allows you to see the work that you put in and you reap the rewards, whether that is actually in the gym or what it teaches you outside the gym.
When you pump iron, does your dad get competitive?
He’s not competitive. He doesn’t have to be. He is 73 and can still lift more than I can. But he doesn’t mess around when we’re in the gym. He’s all go. There are no phones, nothing. The gym, for him, is like therapy. It is like his holy place.
Do you still host a book club?
I need to start that back up. I am reading a great book called Atomic Habits. It says people try to focus on large, unattainable goals but should focus on habitbuilding. So rather than saying you want to read 50 books this year, create a habit of placing a book on your pillow so when you go to bed you read it.
Is acting a sideline?
People always ask me that. To them it doesn’t really make sense that I am doing business and film and have my investment company and the fund and all these things. I love film as a way to put myself in other people’s shoes and grow my platform to gain recognition. I’ve clearly had a lot of help along the journey of my life from my parents and others around me and I hope to find ways to give back to others as well.