Towering gum trees creak softly overhead, and from a hundred metres away, the shushing of the ocean can be heard.

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Humphries seemed to enjoy shushing the Knicks fans who tried to remind him of his fastbreak marriage to Kim Kardashian.

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He was in his home in New Orleans and beside him he could hear his wife Kathy breathing, her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat.

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