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'Do better, Megyn': Naomi Osaka hits back at Megyn Kelly after the former Fox News anchor criticized the tennis superstar's decision to shoot a Sports Illustrated cover while complaining about media pressure

Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka has hit back at Megyn Kelly for criticizing her - angrily responding to the journalist's comments on Twitter, and then blocking her. The row - which saw all-time great Martina Navratilova weigh in - began when Osaka, 23, unveiled her Sports Illustrated cover. The Japanese-Haitian four-time Grand Slam winner is the first female black athlete to star on the cover of the swimsuit edition.  She is one of three women featured - the others being Megan Thee Stallion, the first rapper to feature, and Leyna Bloom, the first transgender cover model. Yet Osaka's cover came after she pulled out of both the French Open and Wimbledon, citing efforts to protect her mental health. Osaka previously revealed that she has suffered from depression since 2018.  Naomi Osaka, 23, has become the first female black athlete to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition MJ Day, the magazine's swimsuit edition editor-in-chief, said: 'There’s no qu

Get vaxxed if you want to have fun: Self-isolating Boris says vaccine passports WILL be needed for nightclubs and mass gatherings by end of summer and refuses to scrap test and trace 

Boris Johnson tonight urged the public to keep isolating when 'pinged' and warned young people they face a party ban unless they get jabbed - as he took a coronavirus press briefing from his own house arrest at Chequers. The Prime Minister insisted it was still necessary for people to make the 'sacrifice' of quarantine when they have come into contact with a positive Covid case, but a few small groups of key workers will be allowed to rely on tests instead. And he laid down a warning to younger generations who have been more resistant to getting jabs, making clear that from the end of September they will need to prove they have been vaccinated to enter nightclubs and other venues.  Chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance underlined the threat, saying clubs could be 'potential super spreading events'. Some 35 per cent of 18 to 30-year-olds – three million people – are unvaccinated compared to far higher coverage in older age groups.  The defiant stance came