Amelia Tait

London

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My big break ... as a photograph: meet the TV and film stars who don’t even have to act

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Amelia Tait

What’s it like for an actor to star in a humongously successful show – as a photograph? How does it feel to be a big part of a huge production, but barely even act – essentially to have your face be cast? It turns out that – whether you’re the employee of the month in the background of a sitcom or a deceased soldier in an Oscar-winning drama – it can have a variety of unforeseen consequences, from upset grandmas to bemused baristas.
‘Oh my God sir, you’re on Love Island!’ What happens to teachers who do reality TV?

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Amelia Tait

When students used to ask English teacher Joe Scott to sign their homework planners, it was usually because they were in trouble. But things changed in January, when the Southampton-based secondary schoolteacher appeared in the latest series of the BBC reality show The Traitors. Pupils started voluntarily pressing their planners into his hands – for autographs. “It felt funny,” says the 38-year-old.
why The Lizzie McGuire Movie is my feelgood movie

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Amelia Tait

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‘Aspirational in the silliest sense’: why The Lizzie McGuire Movie is my feelgood movie

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Amelia Tait

Three years ago, my fiance and I were winding through the narrow streets of Seville when he began a sentence with the words: “Imagine if.” Imagine if, he pondered, you went to a foreign country and it turned out that you looked exactly like one of their local celebs. People would approach you for autographs … they would scream at you on the street … you wouldn’t know what was going on. I stopped still and gawped at him. “That’s the plot of The Lizzie McGuire Movie,” I said.
Carrot-shaped lights, bunny wreaths and beauty boxes – forget Easter, welcome to ‘Eastermas’

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Amelia Tait

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Carrot-shaped lights, bunny wreaths and beauty boxes – forget Easter, welcome to 'Eastermas' | Amelia Tait

3 weeks 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?
From weird elephant videos to revolutionising TV: 20 years of Youtube

3 weeks 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.
‘I just want to hang out with other nerds’: how TV’s water-cooler moments found a new home online

1 month 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.
Corrections and Clarifications to Everything I’ve Ever Said

1 month 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.
The pop culture branding explosion

1 month 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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