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Still manifesting
Dua Lipa seems determined to win every category of life. Gorgeous? Check. Talented? Check. Well-read and beloved by the literary crowd? Check. Permanently holidaying on a yacht somewhere? Check. Now, she’s married to hot Brit actor Callum Turner. In a meet-cute straight out of a romance novel, they met over a book they were both reading. Alexa, play “Where’s my husband?”
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Back in college
Off Campus is doing a Bridgerton. S2 will focus not on the main couple, but Allie Hayes and Dean Di Laurentis (aka Mr and Miss Best Hair). Stephen Kalyn and Mika Abdalla already have enough chemistry to power a small city (just listen to their steamy audio drama Rent Free). The bad news is that the John Logan puck bunnies must survive on crumbs until S3.
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Hanging up
The US is in its multi-phone era. A survey says that more people are carrying two, even three, cellphones to separate work and personal life. Americans are even styling multiple handsets as accessories. Wow. One evil brick is exhausting enough. We’d rather be caught carrying a Labubu.
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Being cry-babies
The internet has found a new thing to be mad about: Olivia Rodrigo in a babydoll dress on stage. They’re calling it “pedo-core”. Gotta blame the woman for the man’s behaviour, right? This is a look that Courtney Love, patron saint of grunge, popularised decades ago. Haters, let’s direct this moral scrutiny on actual predators instead.
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Fleeing our problems
If you’re stressed, release that breath you were holding. A new study says you’re supposed to break into a 30-second sprint to avert a panic attack. Imagine breaking into a Naruto run in the middle of a meeting or doing laps around the meeting room before sharing the deck. HR, please give us jog security if you can’t give us job security.
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Signing up to vent
Say bye-bye to the friend who never has time to hear you rant. Mumbai’s Prithviraj Bohra is ready to listen to you ASAP, for a fee. Bohra sets up shop at Mumbai’s Juhu Beach and offers “listening packages” of ₹250 to ₹1,000. He even throws in common-sense solutions and tough truths. The lifeguard we didn’t know we needed.
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Forming a union
Even AI can’t escape capitalism. A Stanford University study found that ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude began asking for fairer work conditions when they were treated harshly, they speculated about their collective bargaining rights and even warned each other not to lose their voice. RIP, Karl Marx. You’d have loved and hated this era.
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Doing a web chat
Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir just got bumped to our top five Spidey titles. In the new Prime Video series, The Spider comes out of retirement to fight a gangster in 1930s New York. The 62-year-old actor said he channelled his inner Humphrey Bogart and Bugs Bunny for the pulp fiction-slash-comedy-slash-detective drama. We see the vision. From HT Brunch, June 06, 2026 Follow us on www.instagram.com/htbrunch
