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5 days ago | 
msn.com | Amelia Tait
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5 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Amelia Tait
As a child, I was keenly aware of the inequitable practices of the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and the so-called Easter Bunny. How could it be that my teeth were less valuable than Abbie Smith-Arthur’s? Why was my stocking sock-sized, and the Walter boys next door had novelty sacks the size of their sofa? For what reason did I get but one big Easter egg, and Bethany down the road got 11?
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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Amelia Tait
What’s the difference between YouTube and TV? Two decades ago, that would have been a very easy question to answer. TV was the stuff that was on – you guessed it – television, with its budgets, scripts, multiple camera angles and lights. The first video ever uploaded to YouTube, meanwhile, could never have been mistaken for it. “All right, so here we are in front of the, uh, elephants,” a pixelated young man told the camera.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Amelia Tait
They say that ancient civilisations celebrated significant televisual events by gathering around a plastic watering hole in a building known as an “office”. These so-called “water-cooler moments” were characterised by buzzy chatter, as colleagues chewed over what they’d seen on TV the night before. “Who shot JR?” they asked. “You can’t kill everyone at a wedding!” they cried.
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3 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | Amelia Tait
When I was sixteen, my friend Miriam texted me to say that she’d failed our English exam and I replied, “OMG Miriam failed English.” I didn’t have time to explain—before she wrote back, “I know I did?”—that I was actually talking about a different Miriam, one she didn’t know, who went to a different school.
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3 weeks ago | 
newstatesman.com | Amelia Tait
Tonight’s the night. To get ready, you pour yourself a glass of Johnnie Walker Squid Game whisky and comb your hair with your Beetlejuice-branded hairbrush. You spritz yourself liberally with your “Dobby™ Is A Free Elf” body spray and apply some Bridgerton lip gloss. It’s a shame the Batman-themed fine dining restaurant you used to love closed down before earning the Michelin star it was after, but at least you have your packet of Minecraft Doritos in your Disney x Gucci bag.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Amelia Tait
Is Lara Croft hot? It’s a question that’s plagued our greatest minds for almost three decades. Yes, she appeared on the cover of the Face magazine next to the tagline “bigger than Pammy” in 1997, and yes, in 2006 lad mag FHM created a whole TV special designed to find the “real” tomb raider. But what does science say?
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1 month ago | 
es.wired.com | Amelia Tait
En noviembre de 2023, un nuevo producto encendió internet. "No van a creer lo que encontré hoy en la tienda", contaba un australiano en un video de nueve segundos en el que agarraba una botella de la estantería de un supermercado. Tomato Ketchup Clear era exactamente lo que parecía: una botella totalmente transparente de salsa de tomate Heinz. "Británicos horrorizados después de que Heinz bromee con la introducción de una kétchup transparente", rezaba un titular. "¿Cómo? y lo que es más importante...
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2 months ago | 
courrierinternational.com | Amelia Tait
Mercredi 5 février, le film “Paddingon au Pérou” sort en France. Une preuve de plus que l’ourson créé en 1956 par l’auteur Michael Bond, et baptisé d’après une gare de Londres, est bien devenu omniprésent : en librairie, à la télévision, au cinéma et sur une quantité de produits dérivés. Il est même devenu l’une des marques britanniques les plus connues à l’international, explique l’hebdomadaire “The New Statesman”. Cet article est issu de Courrier Week-end.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
newstatesman.com | Amelia Tait
The beauty of beauty influencer Molly-Mae Hague is that she should be boring – but she just isn’t. By her own admission, the 25 year old “doesn’t like having fun”; she is an unabashed homebody who loves nothing more than rewatching the Harry Potter films in her pyjamas before having a bath and an early night. Yet after rising to fame as a contestant on reality dating show Love Island in 2019, Hague has managed to keep millions interested in her every move.
