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“Fact Check: 10 Reasons We Believed Queen Elizabeth Was Dead”

“Fact Check: 10 Reasons We Believed Queen Elizabeth Was Dead”

The Friday Post.

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Feb 26, 2022
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This is The Friday Post, Hung Up’s weekly roundup of celebrity mess and miscellanea. If you like this kind of thing, why not subscribe?
No because this is really what this week has felt like. Photo: Screenshot.

Last year I had a subject line that I was particularly proud of: “Girl, Where Am I Even Supposed To Begin This Week.” There were people running through the U.S. Capitol like the Tomb Raider, Kim Kardashian West’s divorce filing was “imminent,” a girl in a “Daddy” hat tried to step to Gayle King, and it was also the birthday of Mrs. Hilaria Baldwin, née Hilary Thomas. “2021 has felt like a Deluxe Edition release of 2020, the kind of deluxe edition musicians release to keep charting, or whatever,” I wrote. “We are a week in, and 2021 is 2020: The Director’s Cut. Everything is the same, but somehow worse. What a week! What a year! What could possibly happen next.”

How young! How naive! How optimistic! Girl. Wait till you hear about what the eighth week of 2022 has brought.

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