French-Algerian model Younes Bendjima slammed during ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ reunion

French-Algerian model and boxer Younes Bendjima is the ex-partner of Kourtney Kardashian. File/AFP
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Updated 23 June 2021
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French-Algerian model Younes Bendjima slammed during ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ reunion

DUBAI: It appears that Scott Disick is not a fan of French-Algerian model and boxer Younes Bendjima, who is the ex-partner of Kourtney Kardashian. 

Part two of the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” reunion aired on television this week, bringing with it revelations about Kylie Jenner’s friendship with her ex-best friend Jordyn Woods, “The Kardashian Curse” as well as Disick’s thoughts on Kourtney’s relationships. 

During the episode, host Andy Cohen asked Disick, who is Kourtney’s former long-term parter, why he seems so bothered by her seeing other men.  “It seems like you get really upset when Kourtney is linked to other guys,” Cohen said, prompting Disick to respond: “Me? No. I just want to kill them. Well, the last guy,” he said, referring to Bendjima who was in a relationship with Kourtney on and off between 2016 and 2018, and briefly reunited in 2019 at the annual Kardashian-Jenner Christmas Eve party before calling it quits for good.




Younes Bendjima was in a relationship with Kourtney Kardashian on and off between 2016 and 2018. File/AFP

“Let’s all be honest here.” Kourtney’s younger sister, Khloé Kardashian added, revealing that none of the Kardashian-Jenners approved of Algeria-born Bendjima either. “Nobody was happy with the last one,” she said.

It’s not the first time that Khloe has slammed Bendjima on national television. During a recent episode of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” Khloe referred to the 27-year-old as “toxic.”

However, while Disick wasn’t a fan of Bendima, he admitted that he still wanted to support Kourtney. “I was still there to help her through it,” said the 38-year-old, who has three children with the Poosh founder.

During the reunion, Scott also gave his opinion on Kourtney’s new relationship with Travis Barker, whom she’s been dating since January.

“I mean, yeah,” he said. “I think if you really love somebody, right, you want them to be happy no matter what. So, I do give her a blessing to be happy.” 

 


UK entrepreneur says people who disagree with his Palestine solidarity should not shop at his stores

Updated 22 December 2025
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UK entrepreneur says people who disagree with his Palestine solidarity should not shop at his stores

  • Mark Constantine shut all British branches of cosmetics retailer Lush earlier this year in solidarity with Gaza
  • ‘I don’t think being compassionate has a political stance,’ he tells the BBC

LONDON: A British cosmetics entrepreneur has told people who disagree with his support for Palestine not to shop at his businesses.

Mark Constantine is the co-founder and CEO of the Lush chain of cosmetic stores, which temporarily closed all of its UK outlets earlier this year in an act of solidarity with the people of Gaza.

He told the BBC that people should be “kind, sympathetic and compassionate,” that those who are “unkind to others” would not “get on very well with me,” and that anyone who disagrees with his views “shouldn’t come into my shop.”

He told the “Big Boss Interview” podcast: “I’m often called left wing because I’m interested in compassion. I don’t think being compassionate has a political stance.

“I think being kind, being sympathetic, being compassionate is something we’re all capable of and all want to do in certain areas.”

In September, every branch of Lush in the UK, as well as the company’s website, were shut down to show solidarity for the people of Gaza.

A statement on the page where the website was hosted read: “Across the Lush business we share the anguish that millions of people feel seeing the images of starving people in Gaza, Palestine.”

Messages were also posted in the windows of all the shuttered stores, stating: “Stop starving Gaza, we are closed in solidarity.”

Constantine was asked if he thought his views on Gaza could harm his business, and whether people might decide not to deal with him as a result.

“You shouldn’t come into my shop (if you don’t agree),” he said. “Because I’m going to take those profits you’re giving me and I’m going to do more of that — so you absolutely shouldn’t support me.

“The only problem is, who are you going to support? And what are you supporting when you do that? What is your position?”