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Jake Paul leaks ‘s***-talking’ private messages with Anthony Joshua goading him about being KO’d as trash talk ramps up
JAKE PAUL revealed he is goading Anthony Joshua about being knocked out – as their “s*** talking” ramps up behind the scenes.
Paul audaciously called out the two-time heavyweight champion on his podcast earlier this year – vowing to knock Joshua out.
It did not take long for AJ to quite literally call the prankster-turned-prizefighter’s bluff by phoning him up – but Paul countered by suggesting a 2026 fight date.
And Paul has now revealed the two are already goading each other privately over social media – as all’s fair in love and war.
He said: “It was all nice, we’ve been cordial. He DMd me today like saying “LOL” to one of my training clips and then I sent him a “LOL” of of him getting knocked out.
“And so I guess like we’re kind of s*** talking, behind the scenes a bit. But I have a lot of love for Anthony Joshua.
“I think this type of stuff is funny and he’s a great guy and I think just a fight between us would be awesome and I do believe I can win.”
Joshua, 35, is yet to fight since being KO’d by Daniel Dubois, 27, at Wembley in September having undergone elbow surgery in May.
Promoter Eddie Hearn revealed AJ hopes to return before the year is over – meanwhile Paul faces ex-middleweight world champ Julio Cesar Chavez Jr on June 28.
It comes after he stepped up to heavyweight in November to face Mike Tyson – who controversially made a comeback aged 58.
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Still over 100 MILLION tuned in to watch Paul’s eight-round points win on Netflix – but it came at the cost of piling on TWO STONE.
And Paul – who gorged on pasta, steaks and potatoes to bulk up – admitted the heavyweight jump was “brutal”.
The 28-year-old added: “It was just too much and my body wasn’t made for it and even when I got into the ring I just felt too fat.
“So cruiserweight is definitely the perfect weight for me.”
Paul will come down from 16st 2lb to the 200lb cruiserweight limit of 14st 4lb to face Chavez in California.
It followed after Canelo Alvarez, 34, pulled out of a shock deal to fight Paul in Las Vegas on May 3 – instead signing with Saudi Arabia’s Turki Alalshikh.
Canelo – who beat Chavez on points in 2017 – regained his undisputed super-middleweight titles with victory over William Scull in May.
And now he defends the 168lb thrown in a September 13 super-fight against unbeaten American Terence Crawford, 37, as Paul was forced to look elsewhere.
But he said: “Chavez and I have been going back and forth for a long time and he’s always been a great opponent on the list of someone that I wanted to fight.
“And now it made perfect sense to go up against him as a former world champion and just continuing to further my resume and get more time under the lights.”
Paul also revealed he is in talks to fight current cruiserweight champions Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez, 33, and Badou Jack, 41.
And with Gervonta Davis, 30, also lined up for an exhibition bout – Paul says he is boxing’s most desired man.
He joked: I’m like like Megan Fox from Transformers movie like everyone wants me! So there’s not enough time to do it all and it could make sense. Look, it might.
“It might line up but at the end of the day, there’s 100 people that want to fight me. I got Canelo, Gervonta, Anthony Joshua, Badou, Zurdo, Tommy Fury, KSI, the list keeps on going.
“It’s just about what makes sense and we’ll see when the negotiations come but I would for sure entertain a fight with him.”
Chancellor Rachel Reeves unleashes eye-watering borrowing spree in do-or-die bid to drive growth
RACHEL Reeves was yesterday branded a “spend now, tax later” Chancellor after unleashing an eye-watering borrowing spree in a do-or-die bid to drive growth.
Ms Reeves put £113billion on the country’s credit card to fund “national renewal” projects — with defence and the NHS taking the lion’s share of the budget uplifts.
She was accused of digging the “black hole” in public finances Labour claimed to have inherited into a “crater into which public confidence is plunging”.
Experts said her next Budget may have to raise up to £23billion to keep to her fiscal rules amid economic slowdown and uncertainty over US tariffs.
It sparked fears of tax rises in autumn to stop UK debt worsening and spooking money markets.
Ms Reeves came out fighting after a humiliating 48 hours in which she U-turned on winter fuel cash for millions of OAPs.
She unveiled spending plans for the next three years, calling them “Labour choices” in the hope of shoring up support in the party’s heartlands amid the threat of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride said she had a “Corbynist catalogue” of tax rises to flick through to fund her pledges — a reference to a secret memo Deputy PM Angela Rayner sent her suggesting ways to raise cash.
He called her a “tinfoil Chancellor, flimsy and ready to fold in the face of the slightest pressure” as she set out her plans.
He said: “This is the spend now, tax later review, because the Chancellor knows she will need to come back here in the autumn with yet more taxes and a cruel summer of speculation awaits.
“How can we possibly take this Chancellor seriously after the chaos of the last 12 months?”
Mr Reeves insisted later that no tax rises would be needed to pay for her commitments.
She said: “Every penny is funded through the tax increases and changes to the fiscal rules that we set out last autumn.”
The review was the first since 2007 to go through spending “line by line”, it was claimed.
The health department is expected to make £9billion in efficiency savings by 2028-29, and the defence budget £905million.
The Chancellor told MPs: “I’ve made my choices. In place of chaos, I choose stability.
“In place of decline, I choose investment. In place of pessimism, division and defeatism, I choose national renewal.
“Reforms that will make public services more efficient, more productive and more focused on the user. I have been relentless in driving out inefficiencies.
“I will be ruthless in calling out waste with every penny being reinvested into public services.”
She will hope the cash injections will ease relationships with Labour backbenchers concerned at welfare cuts. A vote on measures is planned for next month.
The biggest winner in the review was the NHS, which gets a three per cent budget rise in England over the next three years, taking its funding to £226billion.
Financial cushion
The defence budget will go up by 2.6 per cent but pressure is mounting on ministers to raise it again to 3.5 per cent by 2035.
The vow to build 1.5 million homes in the next five years was boosted with confirmation an average of £3.9billion will be go on social and affordable housing in the next decade.
Ed Miliband’s energy department gets a 16 per cent real-terms rise with £14.2billion extra going on the Sizewell C nuclear plant.
Families and OAPs could save £600 a year on bills in more energy-efficient homes, she said.
A pledge to end the use of asylum hotels by 2029 will save £1billion a year, she insisted.
The police will get an above-inflation increase but top cops have warned of “incredibly challenging” budgets following tense talks between the Chancellor and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.
Surrey Chief Constable Gavin Stephens said the money will “fall far short” of that needed to fund Government ambitions and maintain the existing workforce.
He said the increase “will cover little more than annual inflationary pay increases”.
The Chancellor inherited, supposedly, a black hole and she has dug a crater into which public confidence is plunging.
Richard Tice
Ms Reeves aims to meet her fiscal rule of balancing day-to-day spending with revenues by 2029-30 and plans to reduce the UK’s debt. Her financial cushion is just less than £10billion.
Reform deputy leader Richard Tice said public spending was “completely out of control”.
He said: “The Chancellor inherited, supposedly, a black hole and she has dug a crater into which public confidence is plunging.”
Economist Ruth Gregory, of Capital Economics, said Ms Reeves may need to find an extra £13billion to £23billion in autumn’s Budget “simply to maintain her current buffer against the fiscal rules”.
Stephen Millard, interim director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said it is now “almost inevitable” that if she sticks to her rules, she will have to raise taxes this year.
Rain Newton-Smith, director general of the Confederation of British Industry, warned that the Government cannot target business again following its £25billion raid at the last Budget.
She said: “We will hold the Chancellor to account that she won’t come back for tax rises on business . . . because I don’t think business can shoulder any more.
“The Prime Minister himself has said you cannot tax your way to growth.
“So I think it’s critical that we don’t see rises like that on business because they are the ones that need to invest to deliver the growth mission.”
BIG VICTORY FOR FORCES
By John Healey, Defence Secretary
THE spending review was a big win for our Armed Forces, our national security and for working people across Britain.
In a fast-changing world, we’re serious about backing the outstanding men and women who serve our country and the engines of industry standing behind them.
That’s why the Chancellor confirmed an extra £11billion for defence, paid for by shifting spend from overseas development.
We’ll invest more than £6billion to boost nuclear submarine production in Barrow and Derby. And we’ll invest more across the UK — from Sheffield to the Clyde — to meet our pledge to build up to 12 new attack submarines.
By boosting our nuclear defences, we will support 30,000 British jobs and create tens of thousands of apprenticeships over the next decade.
For the first time in a generation, we are building out — not hollowing out — our Armed Forces.
This is investment in Britain’s renewal. This is a government that is making Britain safer and backing British jobs as the foundation of our Plan for Change.
Rachel Reeves’ massive spending review only points to more tax rises and pain for voters in the future
Pay later…
WHAT a difference a year makes.
Last July, Rachel Reeves was busy talking down the economy and slashing winter fuel payments for pensioners to fill a budget “black hole”.
Yesterday, she insisted the country’s foundations had now been miraculously fixed by Labour.
So much so that she could go on a massive spending splurge, including £113BILLION on capital projects and more money for an unreformed NHS.
Defence gets a long overdue uplift — albeit to less than the level demanded by Nato.
Creaking local transport networks will be improved (no doubt to counter the threat of Reform in the Red Wall). Some £39billion will go on more affordable homes.
But there was also plenty of political smoke and mirrors. The Home Office — while getting a wedge of cash to shore up our porous borders — was starved of sufficient funds for policing. Council tax rises beckon.
Most worryingly it’s far from clear how the Chancellor is planning to pay the massive overall bill.
Not least because the economy is — in reality — in a far worse condition than last year.
All of which points to more tax rises in the Budget this autumn . . . and more pain for voters.
Le copout
THE Government says it will end free hotels for illegal migrants by 2029.
Even in the unlikely event that target is met, it means taxpayers forking out billions on hotel freebies for another FOUR years.
After that, many young, male illegal immigrants will probably be moved to unsuitable rented accommodation with families living next door.
We don’t doubt Home Secretary Yvette Cooper wants to stop the boats.
But with friends like the French police — who needs enemies?
Just yesterday they were shrugging on the beach as boatloads of migrants set sail for Dover.
Soft Rock
AFTER the grubby deal to give away the Chagos Islands, Labour has now begun the sellout of Gibraltar.
In one more stunning failure of negotiation, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has limply agreed to effectively hand over control of its borders.
Yet another unnecessary concession to Europe which allows Spanish workers free movement to Gibraltar. Spain has long coveted the outcrop and will be cock-a-hoop at this self-inflicted weakening of British sovereignty.
Our Government has led Madrid to believe it is one step closer to its dream of re-taking the Rock.
Make your dad feel extra special this Father’s Day by sending him a message in The Sun on Sunday
THIS Sunday is Father’s Day and we want to know why YOUR dad is the greatest.
So if you want to send your dad – or the father figure in your life – an extra special message this Father’s Day, now you can with the help of The Sun on Sunday.
Email us in your messages of love and appreciation – and we’ll print a selection of them in this Sunday’s paper.
You can tell him why he is the greatest, send him a poem or simply say how much you love him.
Send your Fathers Day message, with the heading DAD to: sundayfeatures@the-sun.co.uk
Liverpool target PSG star Barcola after Wirtz with transfer spending to top £300MILLION – and haven’t ruled out Isak
LIVERPOOL are set to swoop for Paris Saint-Germain star Bradley Barcola — pushing their summer spending over £300MILLION.
The Premier League champs intend to spend big on another attacker even after they complete a British-transfer record £127million deal for Bayer Leverkusen’s Florian Wirtz.
And they are prepared to battle Bayern Munich for £100m-rated winger Barcola, 22.
Liverpool have also not given up all hope of prising Alexander Isak away from Newcastle.
Kop chiefs would still love 23-goal Isak to lead their new-look frontline.
But if the Toon insist on a fee of around £150m for the 25-year-old Sweden international, Liverpool will bow out and look for an alternative.
And Barcola has emerged as a spectacular Plan B after doubts emerged over his future with Champions League winners PSG.
The Anfield giants have already spent £29.5m on Wirtz’s Leverkusen team-mate, defender Jeremie Frimpong, 24, with another £40m-plus earmarked for Bournemouth’s 21-year-old left-back Milos Kerkez.
But it is the prospect of Barcola teaming up with Wirtz, 22, and Anfield icon Mo Salah, 32, which will have fans pinching themselves.
Barcola, who is Bayern’s No 1 target, is no longer part of PSG’s first-choice front three.
He found himself on the bench again for last month’s Champions League final against Inter Milan, coming on in the 67th minute and teeing up Senny Mayulu for the last goal in the 5-0 thrashing.
Bayern have made no secret of their intention to test PSG’s resolve to keep Barcola, who they signed from Lyon for £38m in 2023.
Liverpool will look to raise funds by offloading erratic forward Darwin Nunez, 25, and will also consider offers for 28-year-old pair Luis Diaz and Diogo Jota.
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Love Island fans can’t believe the age gap between Shakira and Harry as they can’t keep their hands off each other
LOVE Island fans are stunned after realising the age gap between Shakira Khan and Harry Cooksley.
In tonight’s episode of Love Island, things continued to heat up between model Shakira and semi-professional footballer Harry.
But as they explored their potential romance, viewers took to social media to share their thoughts on the fact Shakira is 22 while Harry is 30.
One wrote: “Shakira is 22??? Get her away from Harry and his 30 year old ass immediately!!”
Someone else said: “I just deeped the age gap with Shakira and Harry…”
And another commented: “Harry and Shakira look good together but he is 30.”
But the age gap doesn’t seem to be an issue for Harry and Shakira, who made their attraction to each other very clear.
Last night Harry found himself caught up in the brutal first dumping of the series.
During the first recoupling, Shakira picked Harry – meaning Sophie Lee was left single and immediately sent packing.
But fans are convinced that Shakira isn’t into Harry and actually has her eye on Blu Chegini.
Many insisted that she only picked Harry so her pal Helena Ford wouldn’t be sent home.
One fan wrote: “Shakira well wanted to pick Conor but didn’t wanna send Helena home and for that I kinda respect it.
“But also she’d suit Conor well better.”
Another viewer added: “No way she picked Harry for any reason other than she wanted the other women to stay… I simply don’t believe it.”
Love Island 2025 full lineup
- Harry Cooksley: A 29-year-old footballer with charm to spare.
- Sophie Lee: A model and motivational speaker who has overcome adversity after suffering life-changing burns in an accident.
- Shakira Khan: A 22-year-old Manchester-based model, ready to turn heads.
- Blu Chegini: A boxer with striking model looks, seeking love in the villa.
- Megan Moore: A payroll specialist from Southampton, looking for someone tall and stylish.
- Alima Gagigo: International business graduate with brains and ambition.
- Tommy Bradley: A gym enthusiast with a big heart.
- Helena Ford: A Londoner with celebrity connections, aiming to find someone funny or Northern.
- Ben Hullbra: A model ready to make waves.
- Megan Clarke: An Irish actress already drawing comparisons to Maura Higgins.
- Dejon Noel-Williams: A personal trainer and semi-pro footballer, following in his footballer father’s footsteps.
- Aaron Buckett: A towering 6’5” personal trainer.
- Conor Phillips: A 25-year-old Irish rugby pro
- Antonia Laites: Love Island’s first bombshell revealed as sexy Las Vegas pool party waitress.
- Rose Selway: Beauty salon owner from Devon who runs 12 aesthetics clinics, boasting a famous clientele including former Love Islanders
Departures:
- Kyle Ashman: Axed after an arrest over a machete attack emerged. He was released with no further action taken and denies any wrongdoing.
Race Across The World winners revealed as pair admit they failed to keep BBC show victory secret
IT was a tense sprint to the finish line in tonight’s finale of Race Across The World.
The final episode followed the pairs travelling from Goa, India, to the southernmost tip of India, Kanniyakumari, 1000km away.
But after a 51-day cross-continent race, it was mother and son duo Caroline and Tom who took home the £20,000 prize.
The pair, who were leading the race from its fifth episode earlier this month, beat brothers Melvyn and Brian, sisters Elizabeth and Letitia and young couple Fin and Sioned to the finish point.
And it was an emotional moment for the duo, as mum Caroline broke down in tears on the big reveal that the all-important guest book was empty on their arrival.
Celebrating their win, Caroline broke down in tears in emotional scenes, telling her son: “We must never doubt ourselves, ever, ever, ever again.”
Tom added: “I’m lost for words, I can’t believe it.
“Fifty one days racing through countries I never thought I’d go to.
“I never thought we’d come this far, I never thought we’d achieve so much, and I’ve never been prouder of my mum – she got me through it.”
Caroline and Tom were closely followed by sisters Elizabeth and Letitia, who arrived at the finish line just shy of 20 minutes later.
Forty five minutes behind the winners, Fin and Sioned arrived in third place, while brothers Brian and Melvyn took a further three hours to reach the end.
On their way home from the series, the duo revealed that while they had sworn themselves to secrecy about winning the cash, it didn’t take long to spill the beans.
Caroline revealed: “[We told] my husband, in the car on the way home – we couldn’t hide it!”
Tom added: “We had made a pact on the plane not to tell anybody, but within minutes of seeing him we let that one go, it was so hard to keep it in.”
However, the mother and son duo still haven’t decided what they’re going to do with the cash.
Tom concluded: “I haven’t really thought about what I’m doing with the money yet.
“I don’t want to be stupid and waste it. Mum and I want to go backpacking again, so some of it will be used for that.”
The reunion episode of Race Across The World airs June 18 at 9pm on BBC One and you can catch up on all episodes on BBC iPlayer.
