MAURICE TURNS 21 AGAIN!

Maurice Boland Successful radio presenter and proprietor, former drummer, ex-nightclub tycoon, entrepreneur, philanthropist and all round man about town is one year younger and rumour has it that he is turning 60 this week. Michel and Steven Euesden and all of the staff at the Euro Weekly News would like to wish him a happy birthday and raise a glass to his health, hoping that next year may be even more fantastic than last. We Congratulate you, Maurice, not only because of your professionalism and tireless efforts to support charities like Cudeca, but for just bringing a touch of personality to the Costa del Sol. Without you, we very much doubt things would be quite the same! Happy Birthday from us all.

Thursday the 28th May 2009 Marked Wendy and myself 38th wedding anniversary, in fact we have been together 41 years. I have been asked the secret of staying with the same person for so long? I say marry a beautiful woman! That Wendy certainly is both beautiful inside as well as outside. Our years together could never be described at anytime as boring, from opening Irelands first Discothèque too buying over 14 different homes together, having 3 wonderful boys, seeing two of them marrying amazing women (waiting for Nick to pop the question). Leaving Ireland and moving to Marbella and life goes on. I’ll sum it all up by saying ‘I’m a lucky man’.

Had a great night at the Essential Magazine’s 10th Anniversary at Bubbles, a new venue at Puerto Banus Over 500 friends and clients of the Magazine turned up. The Photo shows me with my PA Steph Miller and Mark who was here to set up the forth coming Peers Morgan program on Marbella

Portrait: Oil on canvas. Maurice Boland 100cm x 60cm (40in x 24in) One of Marbella's well-known characters, behind him a sketch from a fashion photo of his wife- an extraordinary classic beauty who Maurice himself can't figure out how he managed to attract! But they are a happy family with three handsome boys who must have grown into adults since the last time I saw them.

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What a week; firstly Wendy, my wife, was rushed to hospital with sever stomach pain alter 5 days and a bank of test thankfully they found the reason, a blockage in the small intestine. She’s out now and fingers crossed she stay in good health. Whilst she was in hospital I crashed my car, skidded in an unexpected downpour!!! On Wednesday evening I hosted a ‘Pub Quiz’ for 'Water Angels' and on Friday I hosted a lunchtime fashion show at the hotel Gauadalpin Hotel Marbella in aid of Cudeca the cancer care hospice ( 5 year old model left) (Right. Pub Quiz, With Johnny Gates, Lynn Quinlen)

I was saddened when I received the news that the April edition of H! Magazine would be the last. H! was the magazine I started up 8 years ago and sold in 2006 to a UK publishing company. I loved my time with H! and even launched a H! in Manchester ( cost me 100,000 !!!!) most people referred to the Magazine as H! as in High but in fact it said H. The story behind that was when I launched the magazine Hello! Magazine threatened to sue me as they felt the similarities between both magazine were to close and that HI! As it was then was an abbreviation of Hello. So, I asked my art department to remove the I and move the explanation mark close to the H so we got H! and that folks is how it came about. Goodbye H!

Boland Hits Back at Leapy Lee in Euro Weekly News

I was angered by Leapy Lee and Sir Michael's description of the late Jade Goody as a ‘foul-mouthed, uneducated and completely untalented product of everything that is wrong with our society today.’ Parkinson also added: ‘Goody came to represent all that's paltry and wretched about Britain today’. These statements can be analyzed in a two parts 1. Everything that is wrong with our society today: She was a product of her environment — criminal, drug addict parents on a rough estate — Jade Goody was uneducated, easy to mock and easier to judge. Sadly, a great many people, people rarely portrayed in the media as anything more than scum, genuinely identified with her and that is more of an indictment of our society than of Jade Goody. But, I believe that Goody stood for everything that’s good in our society. She was a survivor who without education, without any real parenting ( after her dad was thrown in jail) she cared for her drug addicted mother who was unable to contribute to ANY household chores after loosing the use of her arm after a motorbike accident.
Jade at the age of 13 had to become mother to her pathetic mum, the odds against this young girl were stacked against her and yet she made good and built up a fortune of over 8 million pounds. Unlike other ‘celebs’ we rarely saw Jade falling out of late night clubs flashing her fleshy bits for the sake of the shock factor. No, what we saw of Jade was as a loving mother and a caring daughter and granddaughter an astute business women all in all a success!! Does she not stand for what’s GOOD about great Britain’s society today and should be applauded and not frowned upon? But then again hasn’t Britain always been a nation of knockers. .2. Uneducated and completely untalented product: Uneducated yes, here is what John Finagin "Never make the mistake of thinking that Jade was not intelligent. Anyone who can run a media career and a business has to be really, really, smart." She had a great talent, in fact, many talents. She had the talent to grasp opportunity and capitalize on it. What a lot of people didn’t know was that Jade managed herself and didn’t surround herself with a group of highly paid ‘advisers’. One must remember the press where very cruel against Jade when she first alighted onto the scene calling her Miss Piggy, Fat and Ugly and again over the Shilpa Sheppy affair and yet this untalented youngster, who didn’t even win BB, in fact she came fourth!! Went on to amass a fortune. She was also quite a talented little actress , I saw her in pantomime and thoroughly enjoyed her performance, no, not an Oscar winning one but surprisingly good She ran several businesses and a substantial property portfolio and a talented caring single mum . Now, ask yourself Leapy, how many ‘Untalented’ 27 year olds with Jade Goody’s background has made it as good? There are two schools of thought over the way she exploited her death but given the chance anyone reading this would you not do everything possible to leave your children a substantial inheritance to deal with there education especially if you to had the type of upbringing Jade had? We should never lose site of the fact that she had brought great awareness of cervical cancer and in her name a petition has been brought forward to the government to bring down the age of smear testing etc. Stupid? I don’t think so, uneducated yes, but stupid absolutely not. No, she’s not what is wrong with British society she is what’s good about British society. Jade Goody has shown, against all odds, that no matter how bad things are and you believe life has dealt you a terrible blow you can pull yourself up and make something of your life. Lets hope other underprivileged kids born in our inner cities can follow her example.