CATCHING FIRE: Posh Spice supremacy, Taylor’s texts and the rivals to the Kardashians' crown
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Hello! What a wild few days it’s been for low-stakes drama! My group chats have been popping off so much I fear for the next round of productivity data.
Today we’re taking the temperature of the first eyewitness report of Victoria Beckham’s “very inappropriate” dance at her son’s wedding, the owl trend, Gen Z’s political shift, a fascinating explanation of why women are so obsessed with Heated Rivalry, the possible smearing of the glambot operator, the Hollywood actress who was described as a “fucking terrorist” and so much more. Let’s get into it…
Going viral
Posh Spice… Victoria Beckham has had one hell of a week. It started with a gut punch, when her eldest son, Brooklyn, posted a lengthy statement about how he’d been wronged by his family and did not want to reconcile with them. But she rounds it out with her icon status confirmed, Britain on her side and with her first ever solo number one single after a massive online campaign got Not Such An Innocent Girl to the top of the iTunes chart.
Brooklyn’s bombshells may have thrust the family feud into the public domain on Monday but it also provided a wealth of material for the most unserious people online.
First they honed in on his claim that Victoria “danced very inappropriately on me” on his wedding day, and flooded the internet with memes and AI images of how they imagined her ‘performance’ went. Here’s some of the most unhinged…
Posh Spice supporters then started to post fan edits and resurfaced some of her most memorable moments as they rallied round her. A campaign to get a solo track from 2001 to number one followed, and took hold of Instagram, with hundreds of accounts posting this appeal…
As I type, Not Such An Innocent Girl is at the top the downloads chart.
I’m sure none of this eases Victoria’s pain, but if she ever had any doubt over the British public’s love for her, then she should feel reassured that she most certainly has national treasure status.
Meanwhile, Fat Tony, who DJed at Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz’s wedding, is the first eyewitness to come forward and explain how Victoria ‘hijacked’ their first dance.
