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The Brunch round-up: The week and how it made us feel
This week, we want to join the Adarsh Gourav chorus, peek into Kate Winslet’s bathroom, double check our DMs and look at Jeremy Allen White a little longer
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Fanning ourselves
Jeremy Allen White not only has a shiny Golden Globe for his work on The Bear, he has the most talked about Calvin Klein campaign in years. The ad, which shows White strip down to his tighty-whities, is steamy AF. You’ll watch it at least twice.
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Joining Adarsh Gourav’s chorus
The actor, who’s drowning in praise for Kho Gaye Hum Kahaan (2023), has launched a YouTube channel for his own music. On Insta, Gourav shines on covers of Nightcall by London Grammar, and Mehdi Hassan’s Mujhe Tum Nazar Se. The channel has four videos, including a rendition of Teri Baatein and Pehli Baar (Dil Dhadakne Do). Sign us up!
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Checking out Kate’s WC
The Golden Globes are over but the Oscars are coming. Now’s a good time to remind everybody that in 2015, Kate Winslet told the world that she keeps her Oscar in the bathroom, so her guests can pick it up and make fake acceptance speeches. What a queen.
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Scared of our DMs, again
News is that Gen Z uses LinkedIn to find financially compatible partners. What a hack, right? It may seem safer than signing up on a matrimonial site or swiping in vain through dating apps. But why mix the personal and professional? Imagine heading to a job interview, only to realise it’s a date! Respect the hustle, people. And crawl back into the creepy apps.
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Making dad jokes
Because Robert Kiyosaki, whose 1997 book Rich Dad Poor Dad got millennials to think rich, invest better and get money to make money, may not have actually taken his own financial advice. He’s $1.2 billion in debt and can’t pay it off because his assets are in silver and gold. “If I go bust, the bank goes bust. Not my problem,” he said. He also said he doesn’t “trust the frickin’ dollar.” Sounds totally sane.
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Feeling flush
Scientists in England have developed jet fuel made from human sewage. It looks like kerosene and initial tests show that its chemical composition is similar to top quality jet fuel. Hope this idea really takes off; maybe then we can all finally, actually, truly make a difference. Together.
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Breathing fire
George RR Martin, who is yet to finish the Game of Thrones series, has announced three anime projects instead. Nine Voyages is a prequel to House of the Dragon, which is already a prequel to GoT. Anime is a great genre. But who asked for this? We’d swap this for the last two books in the series, please.
