Thousands of supporters filled President Donald Trump’s rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, on Monday, while even larger crowds gathered outside and lined the route of his motorcade.

“The crowd in Nebraska for President Trump is outrageous,” Daniel Baldwin, One America News Network’s chief White House correspondent, posted on X. “The expo center is mobbed. Thousands of people outside. Americans were lining the streets during the motorcade.”

“Massive support for President Trump here,” Baldwin added.

Trump’s event took place at the Pinnacle Bank Expo Center on the Nebraska State Fairgrounds, where he urged Republicans to vote in the November 3 midterm elections. Reuters reported that the venue was full, prompting organizers to add hundreds of chairs at the rear after all available seating was taken before the president began speaking.

The Nebraska appearance was part of Trump’s final campaign swing before the midterms, an election that will determine control of Congress. Although Trump will not be on the ballot, he has encouraged Republicans to view the contest as a referendum on his administration.

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The president also announced assistance for farmers, truck drivers, and others affected by rising diesel prices. From the stage, he signed an executive order loosening restrictions on red-dyed diesel, a fuel typically designated for farm machinery and other off-road equipment.

Trump used his speech to caution voters about the consequences of a Democratic victory and called on Nebraskans to back Republican candidates in November.

“With your support, just 29 days from now, Nebraska is going to defeat the radical-left Dumb-o-crats once again,” he said.

After roughly 80 minutes onstage, Trump ended the rally with his familiar dance to “YMCA.” Young supporters positioned behind him applauded and cheered as he moved to the song.

The last photographs of Jeffrey Archer show the author looking energetic and optimistic as he smiled beside his friend Gyles Brandreth less than 24 hours before his sudden death at home on Monday.

The former Conservative MP and bestselling writer had been entertaining an audience on stage while promoting Adam and Eve, a novel he described as his final book and literary epitaph.

Archer and Brandreth posed for photographs at London’s Leicester Square Theatre on Sunday, where they discussed the new novel as well as the triumphs and setbacks of Archer’s remarkable life.

Mr Archer died suddenly but peacefully at home on Monday, aged 86.

Sharing photographs of the pair, Gyles Brandreth wrote last night: ‘I can’t believe that Jeffrey Archer, who was always so alive, is suddenly dead. We had a wonderful day together yesterday. As anyone who was there will tell you, he was in brilliant form on stage celebrating the publication of his 50th and final bestselling novel.’

He continued: ‘He was in the most wonderful, ebullient form and received a tremendous reception from a packed house. He was funny, engaging and self-deprecating – a great storyteller to the last.’

The bestselling novelist died ‘between writing sessions’, his publisher said, just one day before Adam and Eve was due to be released.

Archer had insisted that the book was the best he had ever written.

Kemi Badenoch has revealed that Jeffrey Archer praised her speech opening the Conservative Party conference during their final text exchange, less than a day before his death.

The Conservative leader told BBC Breakfast: ‘At 8am yesterday, he sent me a message saying “a great outfit, great speech, no need to reply”, and I read it and I smiled. I was absolutely shocked in the evening when I heard that he’d passed away.

‘It is devastating news. He was 86. He lived a very colourful life but he was someone who was very much loved by the Conservative family. I’m glad that I saw him recently.’

‘I had a copy of the book he has just written, so I will make sure that I read it. But I’m really sad that he’s gone. We will miss him very much.’

Asked about Archer’s historic perjury conviction, Mrs Badenoch said she hoped the Tory grandee would be remembered for his charity work and as a ‘great storyteller’.

She added: ‘Obviously, he did have those other parts of his life, which many people do recall. But, you know, he did serve his time. He made amends and he wanted to do a lot of good in the world.’

Archer’s novels sold more than 300 million copies across 115 countries. He leaves behind his wife, Dame Mary, 81, an eminent scientist; sons William, 54, and James, 52; and five young grandchildren.

Lord Archer represented Louth as an MP from 1969 to 1974 before entering the House of Lords in 1992, when Sir John Major made him a life peer.

After losing his seat in the Seventies he turned to writing with his 1979 novel Kane And Abel, which is still one of the best-selling books in the world having sold more than 33 million copies.

Reviving his political career the following decade, Lord Archer became the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in 1985 while Margaret Thatcher was prime minister.

He and Dame Mary remained close friends with Baroness Thatcher, who was a regular attendee at their legendary Krug and shepherd’s pie Christmas parties in their Thames penthouse until her health deteriorated in 2010.

Lord Archer announced in 1999 he was running for the Mayor of London for the Tories, receiving the backing of Baroness Thatcher, Sir John and then leader William Hague, but was forced to back out after accusations he had lied in a previous libel case.

The novelist and his wife celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in July with a garden party for 321 friends at their second home, the Old Vicarage in Grantchester, Cambridge.

Leader of the Conservative Party Kemi Badenoch led the tributes for Lord Archer, describing him as a ‘dear friend’. 

Alongside their Thames penthouse and Grantchester vicarage, the couple also owned a place in Majorca, where Jeffrey wrote many of his novels.

Estimates this year placed the novelist’s fortune at around £200million but he declined to comment on this when speaking to the Daily Mail in September. 

One of Lord Archer’s last interviews was with the Daily Mail last month where he discussed his career and health issues, as well as his upcoming book.

Following a cancer diagnosis in 2013, Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare had surgery to remove his prostate which, he revealed, rendered him permanently impotent. 

‘I’d rather have a life. ‘Fertile and dead’. It’s not much of a choice, is it?’ he previously said.

Lord Archer was taken as he left BBC headquarters on Sunday, having promoted the publication of Adam and Eve. 

The book, which Lord Archer was said to be ‘very excited’ about, explores Adolf Hitler’s reluctance to invade Britain, with the idea first birthed six years ago.

Adam and Eve was always to be his final novel, with Lord Archer telling this paper: ‘I’m 86. I don’t think I could do it again. So why not go now?

‘It’s hard work. I write every word in longhand with felt tip pen on a 32-line pad. I hand-wrote 18 drafts over two years. I don’t know how to turn on a computer.’

He added in September: ‘I find old age tiresome. I don’t think I’d like to live to 100. I have a hip problem. 

‘I can’t move as fast as I’d like to but thankfully Mary and I both seem to be firing on all cylinders mentally.

‘Alzheimer’s is my biggest dread, so I test my memory all the time; for names, places, events.’

‘I’m conscious that time is precious now’, Mary – who previously overcame bladder cancer – told the Daily Mail in September. 

‘We must use it well and I’d rather spend our old age together than apart. We’ve both been through cancer.’ 

Paying tribute on Monday evening, Mrs Badenoch wrote: ‘This is a huge shock. I am incredibly saddened to hear this news. He had sent me a lovely message just this morning and was always a great source of encouragement to me personally. I can’t believe he’s gone.

‘He was a dear friend to so many of us and the Conservative Family will be reeling at this news.

‘Our thoughts are with Dame Mary and all their family at this time.’

Born in north London in 1940, Jeffrey Archer was soon on the move to Weston-super-Mare in Somerset after his parents bought a house there just two weeks on from his birth.

He attended Wellington School on the edge of Exmoor, leaving school with three O-levels before spending time in the army.

Having returned from a physical education course in the US, Lord Archer joined the Met Police as a probationary constable and later became a physical training instructor at a Hampshire prep school.

Dover College backed his attempt to enter Oxford as a mature student and he joined a one-year Diploma of Education course, excelling in athletics during his time at the university.

He married Mary Weeden in 1966 after the pair met at Oxford. Around this time, he convinced The Beatles to support a £500,000 fundraising effort for Oxfam.

Lord Archer arrived in the political world becoming a Conservative councillor in London before winning his Lincolnshire seat.

He built up his reputation inside and outside politics, gaining a reputation as a liberal figure within the Tory party while also buying an expensive place in Kensington. 

After suffering financial difficulties following the end of his first stint in politics in 1974, Jeffrey and Mary were saved first by her offer of a teaching job at Cambridge University, and later by his £2million advance for Kane And Abel.

Lord Archer had written his first novel Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less in 1976, which was inspired in part by his own money woes, and sufficiently popular to fix them somewhat.

Lord Archer was forced to resign as deputy chairman of the Conservatives after he was accused of paying money to a sex worker. 

He won a libel case in 1987 over the claims and was awarded large damages.

Lord Archer’s infidelities were publicly documented during and after his subsequent trial for perjury and perverting the course of justice in 2001, for which he was found guilty and served two years in prison. 

When he was locked up in Belmarsh high security prison in London, then Wayland in Norfolk and finally North Sea Camp in Lincolnshire, he used his time judiciously, to write diaries which later became bestsellers. 

‘I was protected by a murderer called Big Al,’ he told the Daily Mail. ‘He’s no longer with us but I visited him for five years in prison. I visited three inmates in fact: two of them murderers.’

He famously had a three-year affair with the late actress Sally Farmiloe, and another with his then secretary Andrina Colquhoun.

Dame Mary once said she’d never considered divorcing her husband but had come close to murdering him. 

In his interview with the Daily Mail, he reflected on ambitions he never realised, saying: ‘I wish I’d won an Olympic gold and become Mayor of London.’

Lord Archer’s dream of running the capital was ended when it emerged he had lied in the libel case. 

‘There are worse things in life than infidelity’: Jeffrey Archer’s wife Mary on the secret to their long-lasting marriage – as the couple give a fizzingly honest interview to mark the release of his final ever novel  

Speaking to the Daily Mail on September 26 ahead of the publication of his final novel, Jeffrey Archer gave what turned out to be his last newspaper interview. Read it in full here. 

By Frances Hardy

Jeffrey Archer, one of the world’s best-selling novelists, is still an incorrigible flirt. Enter our photographer with his pretty young assistant and Jeffrey is entranced.

Before I know it, we’re all in his penthouse bedroom, admiring both the spectacular London skyscape through vast floor-to-ceiling windows – and Jeffrey’s magnificent, intricately carved 17th-century four-poster bed.

Above the bed, a huge Lichtenstein speech balloon Pop Art cartoon proclaims: ‘Oh Jeff… I love you too. But…’

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Lord Archer’s long-serving PR is mildly incredulous. ‘I’ve only been in this room a couple of times and I’ve known Jeffrey for decades,’ she says.

Ah, the power of youth and beauty. Jeffrey, 86, chats animatedly to the 20-something photographic assistant who, it emerges, also works as a stunt double. ‘You’re such a flirt,’ I tell him. ‘Oh yes! What man isn’t?’ he replies.

‘But you can’t act on it these days,’ I remind him.

Following a cancer diagnosis in 2013, Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare had surgery to remove his prostate which, he revealed, rendered him permanently impotent. ‘I’d rather have a life. ‘Fertile and dead’. It’s not much of a choice, is it?’ he told me last time we met.

‘Was this loss of libido like being unshackled from a madman?’ I ask now. ‘Don’t get cheeky,’ he scolds and goes on to explain why the combination of brains and beauty is so intoxicating.

Jeffrey reveres strong, attractive, intelligent women. He surrounds himself with them. His wife of 60 years, Dame Mary, 81, an eminent scientist, is among them.

His novels, which have sold more than 300 million copies in 115 countries – and funded three glorious homes and a collection of priceless art works – are also brimful of beautiful, independent, feisty females.

And now his legions of fans worldwide have a final blockbuster to savour, with a spirited and stunning heroine at its heart.

You read that correctly: Jeffrey Archer, master of the page turner, consummate storyteller, has written his last novel, exactly 50 years since his first (Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less) – and chosen to give his farewell interview exclusively to the Daily Mail.

Adam And Eve, set amid the tumult of the Second World War, is published next month. It is, in many ways, a bookend to his first international best-seller Kane And Abel – which sold a million copies in its first week alone – sharing the premise of two children, both born on the same day (Armistice Day 1918) but to families at either end of the social spectrum.

Adam is a shepherd’s son; Eve the daughter of an Earl. Racing along at a cracking pace, with all the trademark Archer plot twists and cliff-hangers, it examines a popular theme in his fiction: the gap between where people’s lives start and where they end.

Why has he chosen to make this novel his last?

‘It’s my most ambitious yet and I genuinely think the best I’ve ever written,’ he says.

‘I’m 86. I don’t think I could do it again. So why not go now?

‘It’s hard work. I write every word in longhand with felt tip pen on a 32-line pad. I hand-wrote 18 drafts over two years. I don’t know how to turn on a computer.

‘Besides, some authors’ last books are embarrassing. They go on too long. Some even go on writing after their death ‘with help from’ co-authors. I’ve put in my will that that can’t happen. It’s swindling the public – but the public aren’t stupid.

‘I find old age tiresome,’ he adds. ‘I don’t think I’d like to live to 100. I have a hip problem. I can’t move as fast as I’d like to but thankfully Mary and I both seem to be firing on all cylinders mentally.

‘Alzheimer’s is my biggest dread, so I test my memory all the time; for names, places, events.’

Jeffrey loves a drama. He does not merely speak but harrumphs, squawks and guffaws; his voice ranging through the octaves from grumbling baritone to indignant falsetto. He is great company.

He parries probing questions with mock outrage. ‘How rich are you?’ I ask. 

Estimates put his fortune at around £200million but today he declares: ‘You are a rude human being to ask! Genuinely I don’t know what I’m worth.

‘Some people care passionately about money. I don’t. As long as I can watch cricket, go to the theatre, do my charity auctions (he has raised a reputed £54million through these sales) and indulge my real passion, which is art.’

So no private jet or yacht? ‘No. I have an electric Mini. Perfect for getting round London. Mary has one, too.’

He tells a story about Mary’s frugality: ‘She had an Audi for 22 years. I got fed up with telling her to get a new car, so I drove it into town and left the keys in it. But no one stole it! So we sold it for £100.’

Clearly he enjoys her disregard for material possessions. I later discover her oldest shoes are a 61-year-old pair of Hush Puppies.

‘I’ll tell her to get a new suit or some jewellery and she won’t. I’ve had friends whose wives weren’t like that,’ he says pointedly. ‘Mary’s parsimonious. She has such integrity and an amazing work ethic.’ His admiration for her is genuine and heartfelt.

It emerges that Jeffrey is selling off his vast and diverse art collection. Or at least Mary is.

‘The proceeds are all going to her charities. She’s building a children’s hospital in Cambridge. Before I die she’ll have fleeced me. She’s a common thief!’

Despite Mary’s gradual decimation of his art collection, their vast, L-shaped sitting room, with its mesmerising vista of the Thames from Battersea Power Station to The Shard, unfurling through those giant windows, is still stuffed with treasures.

On one wall alone are two Picassos. I spot a Pissarro and a prized townscape by Impressionist Claude Monet of the Houses of Parliament hangs in the hall.

Suddenly Jeffrey breaks off from our chat to cry: ‘Enter the Dame!’

‘The most long-suffering wife in Britain!’ I add. ‘That’s very naughty of you,’ he tuts.

Mary, awarded a DBE in 2012 for services to the NHS, click-clacks across the vast acreage of marbled floor in block heels – that she’s had for decades – looking dazzling in a bronze coat dress, decorated with black swirls.

Discreet gold jewellery glints at her throat and wrists. Her hair is black as a raven’s wing and her smile is warm, which surprises me as I had expected glacial aloofness. She carries a mug, bearing the periodic table, full of milky tea. ‘I can sing it! I did at our 60th wedding anniversary party,’ she beams.

The Archers, who have two handsome, accomplished sons – William, 54, and James, 52 – and five young grandchildren, celebrated this marital milestone in July with a garden party for 321 friends at their second home, the Old Vicarage in Grantchester, Cambridge. They have a third, a villa in Majorca, where Jeffrey writes his novels.

The enduring conundrum persists: why is the beautiful, academic Mary – famously lauded as ‘fragrant’ by the judge at her husband’s 1987 libel action over claims he had slept with a prostitute – still married to him?

Jeffrey’s infidelities were publicly documented during and after his subsequent trial for perjury and perverting the course of justice in 2001, for which he was found guilty and served two years in prison.

‘My dear late friend Barry Humphries said, ‘I have a word that encapsulates Mary… tolerant’, hams Jeffrey. ‘I adore the woman. I’d be lost without her. I just hope I die first. I’d last a week without her and it would be a bad one, at that.’

Mary once said she’d never considered divorcing Jeffrey – she confirms this today – but had come close to murdering him.

But how did she get over his infidelities? Jeffrey had a three-year affair with the late actress Sally Farmiloe, another with his then secretary Andrina Colquhoun.

‘People think it’s strange when I say this but there are worse things in a marriage than infidelity. Illness for a start. Debt.’

The Archers faced near bankruptcy in 1974 when Jeffrey, then Tory MP for Louth, Lincolnshire, lost his life savings of nearly £500,000 in a bad investment.

‘It was the making of me – although I didn’t think so at the time,’ he says now.

He stepped down as an MP and the Archers, then parents of a baby and toddler, lost their family home. Mary saved them, securing a teaching job at Cambridge University which came with accommodation and they lived on her modest don’s salary – until in 1979 Kane And Abel earned him a £2million advance.

‘After that,’ he says with a touch of bombast, ‘Mary’s achievements were not harmed by the fact that she didn’t have to worry that her work didn’t pay. She became chair of trustees of the Science Museum. They doubled her salary from nought to nought.’

I ask her why – even during the darkest times – she never thought about quitting the marriage. She answers with studied restraint.

‘Much of your life runs along on railway tracks. Then you come to a junction where you can choose the ‘I can cope’ route or the ‘I can’t cope’. 

‘When you get into the habit of coping you learn resilience. It’s harder if you say, ‘I crumbled last time but I’ll cope now’. I’ve never suffered from depression, for which I’m very grateful. I’ve always taken the view that if today wasn’t great, tomorrow’s another day.’

They have, it seems, reached a period of comfortable equanimity. ‘I’m conscious that time is precious now,’ says Mary. ‘We must use it well and I’d rather spend our old age together than apart. We’ve both been through cancer.’ Mary overcame bladder cancer in 2011.

‘But I think we’re both fit for our age. I practise getting up from the floor without using my hands. It’s a brute but I can do it. We go swimming, jogging; to the gym.’

She continues: ‘I rather like having Jeffrey around, cluttering up the place.

‘We’ve certainly had a very eventful life, although I can’t say I’ve enjoyed every minute.

‘There have been moments of irritation and anger but I don’t do tempests. I very, very seldom lose my temper.

‘Jeffrey’s fun. Very different from me. He has a wide circle of friends, energy and drive. Yes, I feel I’ve enjoyed rather than endured him.’

I ask if he has any regrets and he says: ‘Anyone who pretends they don’t is living in a dream world. You cannot expect to sail through life with everything going your way. If I had, I might have ended up as Secretary of State for Transport and never written a word.’

He reflects on ambitions he never realised: ‘I wish I’d won an Olympic gold and become Mayor of London.’ He became a life peer in 1992 and was poised to be elected the capital’s mayor when he had to resign his candidacy after it emerged he had lied in the libel case.

Did he ever covet a literary prize? Highbrow critics have derided him but his legions of fans applaud the genius of his deft plotting. ‘You’ll never win prizes for being a storyteller but once you sell you clearly don’t need them,’ he says.

Around him the sheer imperial opulence of the room testifies to this: clusters of cream sofas sit on densely woven carpets; glossy art books are stacked neatly on glass-topped coffee tables. A vast dining table is overhung by a giant chandelier.

A curved staircase leads to a mezzanine floor where Jeffrey’s PA works unseen – and the view wraps round it all, a peerless panorama of London unfolding on both sides of the great river.

It is hard to imagine him confined to a prison cell but he does not dwell on the contrast when I ask about his two years of incarceration.

Even when he was locked up in Belmarsh high security prison in London, then Wayland in Norfolk and finally North Sea Camp in Lincolnshire, he used his time judiciously, to write diaries which later became bestsellers.

I wonder if he was ever frightened. ‘I was protected by a murderer called Big Al.

‘He’s no longer with us but I visited him for five years in prison. I visited three inmates in fact: two of them murderers.’

It is a measure of his character that he is a constant friend and also inspires loyalty in others. 

He and Mary remained close friends with the late Margaret Thatcher, who appointed Jeffrey deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in 1985. 

Baroness Thatcher was a regular attendee at their Krug and shepherd’s pie Christmas parties in the penthouse until her health failed in 2010.

The Archers held the last of these parties last year. Friends had died; others, aged, found it hard to stand for three hours. 

There has been a final valediction for their garden parties this year, too. Now no more novels either.

Jeffrey Archer’s world is constricting as he ages but something tells me there will always be a glint in his eye when there’s a strong, capable – and attractive – woman in his orbit.

Adam and Eve by Jeffrey Archer is published by HarperCollins on October 6, priced £22 hardback. 

Bryan Seaver, Dolly Parton’s nephew, is seeking additional time in the legal case involving a temporary restraining order obtained against him by the late singer’s estate.

According to the AP, Seaver filed a motion Friday asking for a 10-day postponement of the hearing currently scheduled for October 9.

Sources told TMZ on Tuesday that Seaver has struggled to find a lawyer in Tennessee. The attorneys he has consulted reportedly have existing connections to Pinnacle Bank, a financial institution named in the dispute.

Those ties have created a potential conflict of interest, leaving Seaver unable to secure legal counsel for the proceedings, insiders told the outlet.

Representatives of She’s Alive, the company overseeing Parton’s estate under the direction of her longtime manager Danny Nozell, have accused Seaver of making threats involving violence and attempts to damage the business.

The Daily Mail has contacted Bryan Seaver, Danny Nozell and Pinnacle Bank representatives for comment.

Seaver’s company, Squadron Augmented Protection Services, is also listed as a defendant in the lawsuit.

In a motion obtained by the AP, Seaver argued that the defendants do not have the legal training needed to handle the case without attorneys or determine which legal challenges should be pursued.

The filing follows an earlier response from Seaver amid his increasingly contentious legal dispute with Nozell over matters connected to Parton’s estate.

Nozell, who managed Parton for more than two decades, secured the temporary restraining order against Seaver last month. Seaver had worked as the singer’s head of security and was trusted to announce her death in August.

In documents reviewed by TMZ, Nozell alleged that Seaver sought money from him while referencing his claimed background as a military contractor, his access to weapons and his alleged ability to use violence.

The filing further claimed that Seaver referred to himself as a “killer” and warned Nozell: “All I do is warfare…everyone needs to be worried about what I might do.”

Seaver denied the accusations, describing the restraining order as “spurious” and “simply a publicity stunt” in a statement to People last month.

“Dolly called me her killer,” Seaver said, explaining that the phrase was an inside joke among Parton’s team. He said he was known as her “baby boy ninja” and claimed Nozell had taken a message out of context to make it appear threatening. Seaver added that Nozell had always called him “The Killer.”

Nozell sought the order through Parton’s company, She’s Alive, LLC, and said in court documents that Seaver had been dismissed from his security position.

Documents reviewed by TMZ quote Seaver as telling Nozell: “Her money better be bigger than I can make elsewhere or I’m going to f*** everyone. I am about to become the hand of retribution for my entire family.”

The filing also cited another alleged message from Seaver that read: “All I do is warfare … everyone needs to be worried about what I might do.”

According to the court documents, Seaver allegedly said he intended to launch a podcast aimed at damaging Dolly Parton’s brand partnerships and exposing what he described as violations against his family, TMZ reported.

Nozell requested that the court order Seaver to remain a minimum of 1,000 feet from Parton’s office and to refrain from contacting Parton’s businesses or affiliates, according to the report.

In response to the restraining order request, Seaver told TMZ on Tuesday: ‘I am a career soldier and military contractor and do conduct arms deals for foreign governments. I am a security professional and I am a killer.

‘However, nothing in this lawsuit were threats and most of the comments I stand by.’

Bryan said that the texts included in the filing had been published out of context to make it look like he was trying to be intimidating, which wasn’t the case.

‘I was talking frankly in a private way with Danny who I thought was my friend and he fancies himself a gangster,’ Bryan told the outlet. ‘A lot of these messages are two guys having rage talk and crying on the phone together while we were grieving.’ 

Seaver said that one remark – in which he said he was going to ‘rat f***’ an organization whose name was redacted from the report – was ‘about people that have done bad to Dolly in business.’ 

He added: ‘Those comments were about specific, horrible business partners that have done wrong to her and I stand by that.’

Seaver last week received a notice reviewed by TMZ that he and his security organizations, which provided protection for Parton’s Nashville home, museum and a warehouse, were being replaced by another company.

Insiders told the outlet that they believed Parton’s manager Nozell and Pinnacle Bank were responsible for the decision to terminate him and his employees.

A new security team was deployed to the locations previously overseen by Seaver’s companies on Wednesday after the termination notice was issued, according to the report.

Sources close to Seaver said that he and his associates had been ‘dismayed by the unexpected and, so far, unexplained actions’ carried out in the wake of Parton’s passing.

‘We remain unshakably resolved to fulfill her final directive to protect her family, and we refuse to be intimidated by those whose actions we believe are being taken in bad faith,’ Seaver’s camp told TMZ.

They told the outlet that they believed the actions had been taken ‘with the intent to profit from the life of someone who willingly gave so much.’ 

According to TMZ, the notice issued to Seaver indicated that the DP Dean Trust had been overseeing Parton’s business and properties in the wake of her passing.

Seaver retains a personal interest in her trust moving forward, according to the report.

Seaver, whose mother Cassie is Parton’s sister, had been appointed by the late Jolene singer to reveal her death in a public statement.

Following Parton’s August 25 passing following a battle with cancer, Seaver had been seen in a clip in which he revealed the sad news.

‘Dolly has lived in the light, and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by [late husband] Carl, her parents, and countless others who have watched her and longed for her to meet them in the heavens,’ Seaver said in the emotional clip.

In the clip, Seaver noted that his father Larry had held the security position before him.

He said that he had been her security head for the past ‘two decades,’ and had been working for her over the past four decades. 

‘I first went on the road with Dolly as a kid, getting a taste of the road life in the early 1980s,’ Seaver said. ‘Dolly opened doors not just for me, but for her entire family to reach the potential we didn’t even know was possible. 

‘Dolly also opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians and dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent. By her example, we believed that anything was possible.’

He added: ‘She never saw a door she couldn’t open, and the doors she opened made and changed history. My family and I have shared a lifetime of beautiful memories with Dolly, but so have you.’

Parton has been well-remembered in the weeks since her passing, during which she received an expansive tribute at the Primetime Emmy Awards last month, which featured Reba McEntire and Sally Field.

Nashville International Airport is set to be renamed in Parton’s memory following a vote from the Metro Nashville Airport Authority Board of Commissioners weeks back.

Kevin Adams, the Fame Academy star convicted of sexually assaulting Andy Carroll, once urged the public to show kindness and take responsibility for harming another person’s mental health.

Adams, now 59, was jailed for 20 months in 2023 after sexually abusing the former Premier League striker while Carroll was asleep and naked.

Carroll, 37, disclosed over the weekend that Adams, who worked as a dance coach on the BBC programme Fame Academy, had assaulted him. The former footballer said the incident had a “devastating impact” on his life and his loved ones.

In his book, Carroll said he had been drinking “a few drinks” before waking to find Adams attempting to perform oral sex on him. Carroll then forced him out of the house and knocked him unconscious when he tried to come back.

Adams, who also appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, called for people to treat one another with kindness after the death of his friend Caroline Flack in 2020. He also told people to “shut your mouth if you’ve got nothing good to say”.

The convicted sex offender further argued that people should “take ownership” if their actions had contributed to worsening someone else’s situation.

However, Adams appears to have acted in the opposite way, lying to police and the court by claiming Carroll had attacked him without provocation and falsely alleging that he had consensual sex with the footballer.

During his 2023 trial, Judge Mary Loram told Adams: “You spun a literally incredible tale in which you painted yourself as the victim. You’ve actually started to believe your own lies.”

She continued: “In your narrative, you were the put-upon reluctant friend doing no more than helping out.

“The end of your unbelievable tale was that you were the victim of the most serious sexual assaults yourself.”

Despite his public calls for people to accept responsibility for wrongdoing, Adams also appears to have tried to conceal his crime from relatives and friends.

His mother told the Daily Mail that she remained in regular contact with her son but had no knowledge of the assault or his imprisonment.

Adams has also had no contact with his two daughters for several years.

In a Sky News television interview six years ago, Adams said: “People say you should be kind to people. And sometimes people react badly to that. They ask, ‘Why should I be kind to this person?’ You see them living this perfect life. You see perfect makeup, clothes, and you see them smiling for photographers.

“But you don’t see the other side, and that is the side we need to think about. If you’ve got nothing good to say, say nothing.

“You don’t need to be kind to these people; you just need to know when to leave them alone. Just leave them alone.

“You don’t need to bring negativity. People don’t need it. They just don’t need it.”

He added: “It’s so easy to pick up a phone, go on social media and say something detrimental to someone. If you’ve got nothing good to say, shut your mouth.”

‘As individuals, we have to take ownership. If we helped to make someone’s situation worse or if we’ve done that in the past, we need to think about that.

‘This is the thing within our life. I’ve never met a perfect human being, and I think that’s the one thing the public should take away.

‘Remember, no one is perfect. If you’ve got nothing to say, say nothing.’

He delivered the sermon a year after he assaulted Carroll. Court documents reportedly say the assault took place in 2019 although the ex-England striker said in his book it happened in 2021.

Before he was sentenced, Adams had run a children’s dance school, the Kevin Adams Academy, in Harlow, Essex. Records show that the company ceased operations in 2022.

The sex offender was best known for his role on the BBC talent show Fame Academy, which ran between 2002 and 2003 and was hosted by Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty. He also appeared as a TV presenter for GMTV and Sky.

He was married to a woman in 2005 in a ceremony attended by famous faces including Jade Goody and Alesha Dixon.

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They had two daughters and Adams was pictured with them at various film premieres in their youth.

But his marriage and relationship with his children broke down and he hasn’t seen them in a decade.

In a 2018 speech at a charity fundraiser he admitted he was reported to family court in 2011 because his children were allegedly scared of him. He said he was told they didn’t want to see him.

Adams was friends with Carroll’s former partner Billi Mucklow and was filmed running a fitness class attended by the footballer in 2014.

He was at Carroll’s house to watch a boxing match before he assaulted him.

Carroll – who now plays for National League South club Dagenham & Redbridge and serves as assistant manager – shared in his new book, Owning It, that he experienced the ‘traumatic’ assault.

He said after the attack he called the police and was ‘sobbing’ in the arms of his children’s nanny.

Adams was later found guilty of sexual offences and placed on the sex offender register. He was also banned from entering the village where Carroll lived.

Carroll testified in court, a process he says was ‘humiliating and embarrassing and absolutely horrendous’.

He said it has affected ‘every facet of my life’, writing: ‘I’d think about it every day, making it difficult to focus on anything else, including football… The trauma of what happened to me hasn’t gone away.’

He wrote in his new book, which was released last month: ‘Other things I’d quite like to forget but can’t, something happened to me a few years ago that was so traumatic I only decided to include it in this book at the very last minute.’

‘I was sexually assaulted, there I said it. Scary to even think about and only a few people knew about it before now.’

Carroll explained he was assaulted the evening after a Newcastle United game when Adams invited himself round to watch a boxing match.

Describing their relationship, he wrote: ‘He was always asking me and my ex to go out with him and even buys me clothes. He is divorced with kids but I can’t shift the feeling he likes me more than a platonic way.

He continued: ‘I was playing down south somewhere and on my way home this guy texts to ask what I am up to.

‘When he texts again to ask if he can come round to watch the boxing with me, my partner tells me to stop pieing him off [putting him off].

‘He takes over the kitchen, mixing drinks. I start to feel lightheaded and think has he slipped me something. ‘Right, time for bed,’ I say to him, ‘I’ll order you a taxi.’

‘Oh no,’ he says, ‘I’ll stay in the spare room.”

He then claims he woke up to find Adams sexually assaulting him.

‘I sleep naked and when I wake up this guy is under the duvet trying to give me a blowjob.’

Carroll went on to ‘smack’ him as he ordered him out the house. ‘I smack him as hard as I can and he hits the deck,’ he writes.

‘I grab hold of his feet and drag him out on the driveway. I go back inside, lock the door and call the police and the nanny. And then it suddenly occurs to me, what if I killed him?

‘He regains consciousness just as the police turn up and immediately starts telling the police I hit him for no reason. As it is the police arrest him and I have to go to the station as well.’

The footballer initially kept the identity of his attacker secret although he revealed it was Adams after learning he had been named in court documents.

‘Hopefully now I can finally start to put this chapter behind me,’ said Carroll.

Former The Bachelor star Sam Wood has been removed from the wellness company that carries his name after he was accused of serious domestic violence offences.

Wood, 46, was placed on leave by 28 by Sam Wood on Monday before the company’s owner, DBG Health, formally ended its association with him on Tuesday.

In a statement released on Tuesday afternoon, DBG Health confirmed it had “ended its commercial arrangements with Sam Wood, effective immediately”.

“Yesterday DBG Health announced Mr Wood had been placed on indefinite leave,” the company said.

“As a result of further considerations, DBG Health has now terminated all arrangements.”

DBG Health also indicated that the fitness and wellness business would be renamed 28.

“28 will continue its great work under the leadership of Mark Watkin, supported by a broader group of experienced and respected health and wellness experts including trainers and employees,” the statement said.

“DBG Health does not tolerate domestic violence in any form, and our thoughts are with people impacted by it.”

“As the matter is before the court, DBG Health will make no further comment.”

Wood, 46, is expected to remain behind bars until a bail application is heard on Thursday, following his arrest on the Sunshine Coast during a holiday.

The Melbourne-based fitness influencer was arrested after police received reports of alleged domestic violence at a property in Noosa on Saturday night.

He was charged on Sunday with assault occasioning bodily harm and strangulation in a domestic setting.

Wood’s lawyer, Matthew Cuskelly, confirmed that his client would apply for bail after the case came before Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Monday.

“He’s simply worried about his family. A bail application will be heard on Thursday,” Cuskelly said.

“The charges will be defended.”

Wood rose to national prominence on the third season of The Bachelor in 2015, where he met his wife, Snezana.

He later launched the successful home fitness business, ’28 By Sam Wood’.

He sold it in 2022 but remained the face of the online platform.

Mark Watkins, 28 Group’s Chief Operating Officer, will now takeover the business.

‘We have all been shocked and saddened by the matters involving Sam Wood,’ Mr Watkins said in a separate statement posted across the fitness and nutrition business’s social media platforms on Monday.

In addition to the fitness empire parting ways with Wood, other companies and celebrities are also following suit.

Pre-packaged meal company Foxes Den cut ties with Wood on Monday after having worked with him for the last six years. 

Trainer and Gladiator Tiffiny Hall, who had strong links to the fitness and nutrition empire, has confirmed that she is no longer affiliated with the brand.

Similarly, MAFS veteran Jules Robinson also announced she had ended her partnership with Wood.

Former Home and Away star Tammin Sursok has meanwhile said in a statement that her business relationship was on ‘pause’ after having previously appeared alongside Wood in promotional videos for 28.

The charges are allegations which are yet to be tested in court.

Queensland Police on Monday confirmed Wood was charged after officers received reports of alleged domestic violence and attended a Hastings Street address about 9pm on Saturday.

Wood did not appear in court when his matter was heard on Monday.

It was adjourned until Thursday for the bail application.

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