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Singer Ed Sheeran announces engagement on Instagram
The Grammy-winning singer posted a picture of the two on his Instagram page Saturday morning saying the two got engaged right before the new year.
He said they are “very happy and in love” and that their “cats are chuffed as well.”
Sheeran said last fall how Seaborn inspired his song “Perfect,” which is Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
Sheeran and Seaborn were friends when the two attended school in Suffolk, England. They reconnected years later.
Meteorologist who helped launch Weather Channel dies
LAS VEGAS (AP) — John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel and was the original meteorologist on ABC’s “Good Morning America” during a six-decade broadcasting career, has died, his wife said Sunday. He was 83.
Linda Coleman told The Associated Press her husband died Saturday night at home in Las Vegas. She did not give a cause.
The Texas native got his first TV job while still a student at the University of Illinois. Coleman worked at several local stations in Chicago and the Midwest before joining “GMA” when it launched in 1975, staying with the program for seven years.
He served as CEO of the Weather Channel for about a year after helping launch it in 1981.
Two years later the American Meteorological Society named Coleman their Broadcast Meteorologist of the year.
Coleman went on to join KUSI-TV in San Diego, where he spent 20 years as a weatherman before retiring in 2014. Jason Austell, an anchor for the station’s “Good Morning San Diego,” tweeted that Coleman was “a beloved meteorologist.”
Jim Rodford, ex-bassist of The Kinks and The Zombies, dies
LONDON (AP) — Former Kinks bassist Jim Rodford has died after a fall. He was 76.
The Zombies, the group Rodford had played with since 1999, confirmed the death of the British musician on their Facebook page Saturday.
Zombies co-founder Rod Argent says his cousin and longtime bandmate was a “magnificent bass player.”
Rodford joined The Kinks in 1978, touring with the group and playing on its later albums. Ray Davies, The Kinks’ co-founder, tweeted that Rodford was “an integral part of the Kinks later years.”
Argent also highlighted Rodford’s commitment to music in St Albans, north of London, where he lived his entire life.
Argent says “Jim’s life was dedicated to music. He was unfailingly committed to local music – an ever present member of the local scene in St. Albans.”