The Brunch round-up: The week and how it made us feel

Mindy Kaling’s got a Hollywood star. Simone Ashley is in a romcom. Jeremy Scott is beefing with Dior. And we realised that SpongeBob’s parents aren’t cookies

The Brunch round-up: The week and how it made us feel

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  Loosening the corset

  Our favourite duchess, Kate Bridgerton, is baaaack! Simone Ashley plays Pia in Picture This. Silly plot: A guru predicts that she’ll meet the love of her life in the next five dates. And so, the adventure begins.There’s a Big Fat Indian Wedding. Ashley’s sister actually marries the guy she wants this time.
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  So not surprised

  Beg Borrow Steal, everyone’s favourite thrift store in Mumbai, was robbed this month. Thieves made off with all the good stuff: Designer bags, shoes and accessories. OK, Steal is in the shop name. The joke writes itself. But we know what’s missing. If it turns up on a resale site, we know who did it. Hello, Police Station?
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  Letting Mars spin

  There’s a lot of chatter about how Bruno Mars’s songs aren’t what they used to be. Millennials grew up listening to Just the Way You Are, Marry You, The Lazy Song, and Uptown Funk. Gen Z knows him for Apt, Die With a Smile, and Fat, Juicy and Wet. Give the guy a break. He’ll right himself soon enough.
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  Soaking it all in

  SpongeBob SquarePants looks like the sponge he is. But for decades, fans believed that his parents were cookies. Hello! Harold and Margaret are sea sponges too. They’re just brown and drier because they’re older. Have some compassion. And common sense. How could two cookies birth a sponge?
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  Burning with questions

  “Number one: How dare you?” Mindy Kaling, who’s been in show business since 2005, is only now getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It’s about time. There aren’t many actors of South Asian origin on the Walk. “My resolution was to get more attention,” she said, as Kelly Kapoor on The Office. They noticed.
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  Flying back to reality

  American designer Jeremy Scott called out Dior for copying his design of a white-winged dress first showcased in 1998. Anya Taylor-Joy wore the Dior version at a recent event. It’s true. The dress is very similar. But Scott himself has been accused of plagiarising other designer’s works. Life comes full circle.
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  Older, but not wiser

  It’s been 10 years since Meghan Trainor released Dear Future Husband. And a decade since Rachel Platten’s Fight Song. Ten years on, we’re in situationships, we have no fight left in us, and we still don’t know much about work, love and life. Music was supposed to have the answers. Boo!
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  Kidding ourselves

  A few months ago, AI was helping us hug our younger selves. Now, on TikTok, people are writing heartfelt letters and notes to the old version of themselves. Everyone seems to be coddling their inner child. Boomers hate this. But they’re the ones who didn’t work on themselves, and need all that therapy. It’s not hate, it’s probably envy.