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I’m A Celebrity fans slam Boy George for throwing his drink up when Jill Scott was crowned Queen
I’m A Celebrity fans have slammed Boy George for trying to bring attention towards himself when Jill Scott was crowned Queen of the Jungle.
The singer, 61, was sitting with his fellow former campmates in the studio as they watched hosts Ant and Dec reveal the winner of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! 2022.
But viewers noticed that the special moment for the Lioness was a moment he took ‘the spotlight’ to himself, they said by throwing his drink up in the air as Jill was given her title as Queen.
‘Attention seeking’: I’m A Celebrity fans have slammed Boy George for trying to bring attention towards himself when Jill Scott was crowned Queen of the Jungle
George, sat in the center of the top row of celebs, donned a bold red hat and he raised his glass as the good news was revealed.
He then appeared to throw the drink up in the air in jubilation for Jill.
Some fans did not take well to the celebratory move from the Karma Chameleon singer.
One wrote on Twitter: ‘Boy George throwing his drink over himself cuz the attention is on somebody else.’
Celebration: The singer, 61, was sat with his fellow former campmates in the studio as they watched hosts Ant and Dec reveal the winner of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! 2022
Another said: ‘Boy George wanted the spotlight by chucking his drink.’
Similarly, someone else wrote: ‘All the celebs were looking at Jill… apart from Boy George, he was looking for the camera pointing at him. Urgh. Well done Jill.’
One other quipped: ‘Boy George trying to make it about him by chucking his drink?’
Earlier in the week, George became the first I’m A Celebrity campmate to snub the show’s post-exit interviews.
The singer, real name George O’Dowd, did talk to Ant McPartlin, 47, and Declan Donnelly, 46, after he was the fourth celebrity to be axed from the show on Tuesday evening but did not do the usual daytime TV slots the morning after.
Not happy: But viewers noticed that the special moment for the Lioness was a moment he took ‘the spotlight’ to himself, they say by throwing his drink up in the air as Jill was given her crown
Scarlette Douglas, 35, and Sue Cleaver, 59, both appeared on Good Morning Britain from Australia and Charlene White, 42, spoke to her co-hosts in the Loose Women studio.
Not long after, George was refused permission to fly back to the UK from Australia after the homesick star demanded a waiver from the I’m A Celeb final.
The diva-like singer was ‘desperate’ to go home but is contractually obliged to stay in Australia until the ITV series has ended.
Sources close to the Karma Chameleon star told MailOnline: ‘He wanted to go home immediately, he didn’t want to hang around.’
Fourth out: Boy George was refused permission to fly back to the UK from Australia after the homesick star demanded a waiver from the I’m A Celeb final
They continued: ‘If he had his way he would be on a plane already but he wasn’t allowed to do that.
‘His aim of going into the jungle was for the world to see the stripped back version of him, no hair, makeup, costumes, or hats – he didn’t actually care how far he went in the competition.
‘The fact he has to stay in Australia for days now is an annoyance to him, he isn’t fussed about sticking around for the final but that’s what he has to do.
‘He’s traveled across the world his entire career and has seen Australia before so there’s really no reason for him to be here, especially as he isn’t concerned with catching up with his co-stars on the other side.’
In the Sunday night finale, Jill Scott roared to victory as former Lioness was crowned Queen of the Jungle after winning I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
The sports star, 35, beat politician Matt Hancock, 44, and Hollyoaks actor Owen Warner, 23, in the grand final on Sunday evening after surviving 23 days in the Australian camp.
After congratulating the former midfielder on her win, Mike Tindall did the honors in placing the floral crown on Jill’s head as she sat triumphantly on the wooden throne before she embraced her fiancée Shelly Unitt on the bridge.
Stuck in Oz: The singer, 61, was voted off the show on Tuesday night, and is ‘desperate’ to go home but is contractually obligated to stay in Australia until the ITV series has ended
The Bay Area’s Night Market features Hong Kong-style street food
Hong Kong’s famous night markets come to life in an unlikely place nearly 7,000 miles away: South San Francisco, “the industrial city.”
At the Night Market, a large, open space has a Hong Kong bus stop painted inside the entrance. At night, neon signs light up, replicating Hong Kong’s famous cityscape. Patrons sit at little blue, red and green plastic stools around round folding tables, just as they would in Hong Kong.
The exterior of the Night Market in South San Francisco, Calif., on Nov. 10, 2022.
Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATECustomers choose from a variety of street snacks, skewers, dim sum, desserts, boba drinks, wok-tossed rice plates, congee and cart noodles.
“I am really in love with Chinese street food,” owner Kevin Lee said. “It’s a sensory overload every second from the moment one sets foot on a sidewalk full of open kitchen stalls.”
My bowl of comfort
(Left to right) Chef Yang and Chef Fung make a noodle wonton soup at the Night Market in South San Francisco, Calif., on Nov. 10, 2022.
Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATELee was born and raised in San Francisco, and his parents are originally from Hong Kong. They ran a hobby shop on the South City property when he was young. When Lee took over the reins in 2016, he opened Spruce Cafe & Patisserie, one of the first third-wave coffee shops in South San Francisco. He then opened the Night Market next door in 2017, closed it in 2018 for a remodel and then reopened it in 2020.
Called dai pai dong (“big license stall”) in Cantonese, the food stalls date back to Hong Kong’s post-World War II era. They were a reliable stop for cheap eats among hungry patrons, students and night owls on a budget.
Still, the dai pai dong have been in decline in Hong Kong since the 1970s, as its government modernized. Places like the Night Market have become increasingly important in preserving a distinct part of Hong Kong’s culture.
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Steamed dumplings at the Night Market. (Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE)
Although I’m tempted by everything I find at the Night Market on a recent Thursday afternoon, especially as I spent many a drunken night myself at such stalls in Hong Kong, I’m here on a mission: to eat dumplings.
All of the dumplings at the Night Market were once made in-house. Today, with the kitchen short-staffed, a well-known restaurant in Millbrae (which Lee is mum about) makes most of the market’s dumplings and delivers them fresh, to be cooked on-premises. The wontons and a sweet dumpling called tang yuan, however, are still made here.
Wontons have their own identity, separate from Northern China’s jiaozi dumplings. The Cantonese version is smaller, in a thinner square wrapper, and made with a base of ground pork with one-third to one-half of a shrimp.
At the Night Market, Lee’s head chef, who prefers to go by Chef Fung, has more than 40 years of restaurant experience. He can deftly make hundreds of wontons by hand in one session, and he does just that, folding ground pork and shrimp into a square wonton skin effortlessly.
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Chef Fung makes fresh wontons. (Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE)
His secret ingredient is a canister of brown powder. It’s ground flounder, made from dried fish bought whole in Chinatown and then ground in the kitchen. Another canister was full of white sesame seeds, also ground in-house. These are key to giving the wontons their distinct flavour.
Wonton noodles are an iconic street food in Hong Kong, simple and straightforward. Chef Fung, however, treated the creation of each bowl as if it were meant for royalty, tenderly turning thin, fresh egg noodles boiling in chicken and beef bone broth with a pair of tongs every so often to get an even cook. He boiled the wontons simultaneously.
When they were finished, he handed me a bowl topped with Chinese yellow chives. While the wontons were the size of a small jawbreaker candy when raw, they nearly doubled in size after being boiled,
Bradenton area restaurants that aced health inspections
BurgerFi, a craft burger chain, opened a location in Lakewood Ranch earlier this year.
The Bradenton Herald regularly reports on local restaurants that don’t pass inspection by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation or otherwise raise concern due to food safety and cleanliness issues.
But over the past several years, readers have frequently asked which restaurants have done well during inspectors’ visits, too.
Passing inspection without flaw is no easy feat. Florida bases its inspection standards on the US Food and Drug Administration’s Food Code, which contains many, many possible violations. These Bradenton-area restaurants did more than pass their regular state inspection — they aced it.
Here are the restaurants and other food businesses that recently got perfect marks (no violations) or near-perfect marks (only a few minor violations) in Manatee County. These inspections were conducted between November 7-22, 2022.
AMC Bradenton 20, 2507 53rd Ave. E., Bradenton
Bigg Dogg BBQ LLC, 2910 63rd Ave. E., Bradenton
Buffalo Wild Wings, 4120 14th St. W., Bradenton
BurgerFi11563 SR 70 E., Bradenton (No violations)
Chipotle Mexican Grill11715 SR 70 E., Lakewood Ranch (No violations)
Culver’s4714 SR 64 E., Bradenton
Froggy’s Caribbean BBQ, 2525 27th St. E., Bradenton (Mobile food business) (No violations)
J&J Barbecue, 2505 Manatee Ave. E., Bradenton (Catering services)
Main Street Trattoria8131 Lakewood Main St., Lakewood Ranch
Super 8, 5218 17th St. E., Ellenton (No violations)
El Taco Loco, 6103 28th St. E., Bradenton (Mobile food business) (No violations)
Tacos Bertha, 2608 Ninth St. W., Bradenton (Food truck) (No violations)
Tandoor Fine Indian Cuisine8453 Cooper Creek Blvd., Bradenton
La Tentacion del Sabor, 639 10th St. E., Palmetto (Mobile food business) (No violations)
Wendy’s11727 Sr. 70 E., Bradenton
Restaurants in Florida are licensed and routinely inspected by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Diners can report health and cleanliness issues at a restaurant anywhere in the state by filing a complaint with the agency.