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Why is this hot bad boi chef clogging up your feeds?
OPINION: If your social media algorithms identify you as having an interest in any of the restaurants, TV shows of the era, or men ages 25-50, you’ve definitely heard of The Bear.
As the person at the very center of that particular Venn diagram, I’ve heard a lot about him. So I can tell you this.
The Bear is an American drama series that premiered in the United States on June 23 and will arrive on Disney+ here on August 31. It currently has a 100% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has been described as one of the most realistic depictions of what it’s like to work in a restaurant kitchen ever seen on screen.
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But what it is is less important than who stars in it: Jeremy Allen White (that’s Lipp in the US version of Shameless to you), as Carmy, a haute cuisine chef who returns to his hometown to take over the grocery store. sandwiches from his family after his brother dies by suicide, and who embodies for many the kind of person they’ve spent their adult lives trying to avoid: Damaged, uninterested, emotionally unavailable, destined with absolute certainty to break your heart and for all this , What The cut puts it, “indescribably hot.”
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Jeremy Allen White’s main character in the critically acclaimed series The Bear has produced a ton of tweets.
“Carmy’s complete disinterest in sex comes from a place of severe emotional brokenness that, unfortunately, many of us find a bit sexy.” that article goes on to say.
Or, as Bon Appetit puts it in a more vernacular way, he embodies the “sexually competent Dirtbag Line Cook” trope.
“If you’ve ever waited in vain for a text from a man without a bed frame in your apartment, you’re already pretty familiar with this guy,” the article said. “He took a shower today? No. Are you going to be the one to change him and make him want to settle down? Also, no!…he’ll send the exact same text in response to your witty nudity as when you told him your childhood cat died: ‘wow lol’.”
Of course, stories like these come only after reams of tweets, so I’ll let a few of them speak for themselves:
I’m sorry, Timothée Chalamet. The Internet has a new boyfriend.
How to connect an album you haven’t listened to with a movie you haven’t seen
That chill of excitement in the air? As if the universe itself is holding its breath? The feeling that in a few days, reality as we know it will change forever?
It can only mean one thing. A new Beyoncé album is out.
Beyoncé is never one to do things by halves (he even cleverly made twins to his second son), and has long turned the actual release of a new album into a drama worthy of its own Oscar.
In this case, Queen Bey first announced in June that Renaissance would launch this Friday, July 29. Since then, she’s dropped a few hints as to what we can expect from him, including musical styles (’80s and ’90s dance beats with a bit of garage). included), how long it took her to write the album (two years), how many tracks it includes (16) and who worked on them (we’ll come back to this).
If Renaissance is the most anticipated album of the year, and it is, then Wakanda Forever is the most anticipated movie.
Fans have been abuzz with what Marvel would do with their Black Panther franchise ever since Chadwick Boseman, who played T’Challa/Black Panther in the first film, tragically and unexpectedly died of cancer in 2020, aged 43.
This week finally brought a trailer for Wakanda Forever, which opens in New Zealand on November 10. The heartwarming clip features the women of Wakanda, particularly Angela Bassett as T’Challa’s mother Ramonda, Letitia Wright as her sister Shuri, and Lupita Nyong. ‘or as her former lover, Nakia, fighting to protect their isolated nation from invading forces after her death.
It also features a gloomy version of Bob Marley’s No Woman No Cry by Nigerian-British singer Temilade Openiyi, who goes by Tems.
The 27-year-old has appeared on several top singles, including Wizkid’s Essence, the Justin Bieber remix that earned her a Grammy nomination, and Drake’s Fountains.
He’s released two well-received EPs and won two BET Awards this year alone, but it looks like 2022 will launch Tems to a new level of fame. In addition to having a song on the Wakanda Forever soundtrack (the first film debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard chart), she has also been named a collaborator, along with Grace Jones, Pharell Williams and Jay-Z, on a small album called Renaissance.
Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham, center, probably can’t sing, but really, who cares?
Who cares if Posh can’t sing?
In 2016, Victoria Beckham née Adams, aka Posh Spice, confirmed a persistent ’90s rumor: She sang very little with the Spice Girls.
During live shows, she told iconic fringe-haver Claudia Winkleman, producers “used to spin [her mic] go and let the others sing”. She later said in a radio interview that during the Spice Girls’ recording sessions she had Post-Its on the walls with instructions such as “Posh, don’t sing”.
These admissions became relevant again this week when Beckham’s husband, former footballer David, shared a clip with her 74.7 million Instagram followers captioned “Karaoke night with the one and only Posh Spice”.
The 21-second video of Posh, 48, apparently singing along to the Spice Girls’ 1997 hit Stop, has garnered more than 5.3 million views in 24 hours on Becks’ account (I’m personally responsible for 1,800 of them), and others. Cool half a million in Comments By Celebs, where many followers have also noted that she doesn’t seem to be singing at all.
It is true. Whether or not she’s holding the microphone in front of her face doesn’t seem to affect how the song sounds at all; all we can hear is the choruses from the original track, in which Posh’s vocals may or may not be part of the mix.
Still, as one commenter put it in response to the question of whether or not Beckham-nee-Adams-aka-Posh actually sang: “Who cares, Posh is everything.”
Personally, I was particularly pleased to see the 48-year-old: the one who wears heels on the treadmill, on the beach and in the snow – I was jumping barefoot.
Ditching heels and lip-syncing has made Beckham 200% more relatable in a 20-second clip.