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People on Twitter Are Sharing the Awkward Things They've Told Celebrities, and It's a Gold Mine


If you’ve ever daydreamed about meeting a celebrity—say, Taylor Swift or Lady Gaga—you’ve likely imagined the best-case scenario. You and the superstar instantly hit it off; you take a cute picture; and maybe they even remember you the next time you bump into each other in the meet-and-greet line or at Whole Foods. But as one Twitter account pointed out this week, that’s truly the best-case situation—and sometimes, the interactions go awry thanks to a little case of being starstruck.

On November 6, Twitter user @rachymarshall asked her followers to straight-up share the not-so-smooth things they’ve ever said to a celebrity. Hundreds of people have responded since then—and their self-submitted stories of awkward comments and personal questions are hilarious.

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“When I met Taylor Swift she complimented me on my necklace and I bragged to her about how I got it on sale for 2 for 20 the day before and she told me she would check that out while she was wearing a $2k jacket,” wrote one fan.

(She also posted a pic of aforementioned necklace—complete with Swift.)

One Twitter user wrote that during her run-in, she told the pop icon, “‘I will shoot myself if I don’t tell you this’ to Taylor Swift which is a little more aggressive than what I meant, which was ‘I’ll never forgive myself if I don’t tell you this’ and then continued to blubber and cry.”

Another fan shared some casual growth-spurt chat with Swift.

Lady Gaga

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“I once told gaga she looked like MARY antoinette (i meant marie),” wrote @rachymarshall, the originator of this delightful thread.

Harry Styles

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“I told @Harry_Styles he should start a winery called Sign of the Vines,” confessed one fan.

“I love you so much harry i’m so sorry i’m such a loser i’m so sorry,” another Twitter user admitted they told the singer.

This fan got super-honest with him: “Harry Styles: Hi, how are you?,” they wrote. “Me: I have to pee.”

The Riverdale Crew

“When i met camila and lili from riverdale instead of asking for s group hug i said “Could you sandwich me” and everyday i regret that ajdbsks but they laughed and were nice about it so i guess it was okay,” one fan wrote.

Adam Driver

“I met adam driver when i was 16 and i showed him my driver’s license and said ‘i, too, am a driver’ and he fake laughed,” wrote another Twitter user.

Jude Law

As one fan recounted, “I met Jude Law, and the only thing I had on me for him to sign was a pad of penguin paper (I was 21 at the time ?). So, in that anxious rushed moment I said ‘WILL YOU SIGN MY PENGUIN PAPER!’ – he looked at me, laughed, and happily obliged. ?”

Halsey

This one is, well, sweet: “I told halsey i worry about her,” one user wrote.

Hozier

One fan dropped a casual line:

Rita Ora—or Not

“At the VMAs red carpet, security was blocking our view so I thought I saw Rita Ora so I started screaming ‘RITA RITA.’ Turns out it was Bebe Rehxa,” a fan admitted.

Miranda Kerr

“Met Miranda Kerr in Central Park and after taking a photo she told me I smelled really good…to which I replied: thanks it’s my sweat ???,” one Twitterer said.

Seth Meyers

“Once I met @sethmeyers with my dad. My Dad: Seth, can I get a picture? Seth: Sure! my dad whips out camera Seth: You don’t want to be in it? My Dad: No.”

Happy Saturday, one and all.

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Prince Harry Reportedly Had an Awkward Encounter With an Ex—and Meghan Markle Was There


Before he met Meghan Markle and became a one-woman man, Prince Harry was something of a prolific dater. So it only makes sense that he would eventually run into one of his exes with Markle in tow. In fact, one such encounter occurred over the weekend, during Prince Harry and Markle’s whirlwind trip to Amsterdam. Luckily for us, Vanity Fair’s royal correspondent, Katie Nicholl, has a report that details the awkwardness that unfolded.

According to the report, Markle and Prince Harry were attending the opening of the new Amsterdam Soho House, where Harry’s ex, actress Jenna Coleman, also happened to be. One eyewitness said that “Harry had to walk straight past Jenna to get to his and Meghan’s table,” and added that other guests were commenting on the “pretty awkward” situation.

“Jenna looked down while Harry looked straight ahead, while Meghan didn’t seem to notice,” the guest added. “She sat through breakfast with a smile on her face, but Harry looked a bit uncomfortable. He’d been super friendly, saying hi to everyone, but he didn’t even acknowledge Jenna.”

Considering the nature of his rumored relationship with Coleman, we’re not exactly sure why Prince Harry seemed so flustered. According to Us Weekly, they only ever dated casually in 2015 because of their busy schedules. At the time Coleman was also reportedly being wooed by her Victoria costar actor Tom Hughes, whom she is currently dating. In fact, Coleman attended the Soho House event with Hughes, which is perhaps what got Harry all flustered in the first place. Of course, Markle handled the situation with the same dignity that has come to define her first year as one of the most popular members of the royal family.

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'Eighth Grade' Is Awkward, Heartbreaking, and Beautiful—Just Like Your Middle School Experience


Watching Bo Burnham’s debut feature, Eighth Grade, evokes the same feeling of hearing your voice on a recording—it exposes you and cuts to your core. The film follows 13-year-old Kayla, played by a pitch-perfect Elsie Fisher, throughout her last week of middle school. Kayla’s a pimple-prone girl so shy she wins the “most quiet” superlative at her school’s assembly. (Has any award ever been so cruel?)

But she finds her community on YouTube, where she makes little-seen videos. In them, she muses about typical adolescent concerns—”putting yourself out there” and “how to be your true self”—and becomes the fullest version of herself. She has a false bravado, the kind I remember employing as a tween hiding behind my parent’s desktop screen on Myspace. Kayla ends each video with the catchphrase, “Gucci!” in the same way I made my AOL greeting “hey sexxi biatch!” because, at the time, it felt like a “cool” thing to do.

With the threat of high school looming, Kayla decides to take some of that online confidence IRL. She approaches her crush during a fire drill and tells him she sends nudes. She forces herself to attend a popular girl’s pool party, despite knowing she’ll be miserable there. While home alone she practices giving a blow job on a banana.

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I had to cover my eyes during some these scenes because they were so relatable. When I was Kayla’s age, I told boys lies to impress them, there were so many parties I had to psych myself up to go to—parties I still have to psych myself up to go to—and I’ll admit it, I tried out the banana trick.

But there was no scene more real or painful for me in the film than when a high school boy, Riley, offers Kayla a ride home. (Warning: Spoilers ahead.) Riley’s a floppy-haired bro who’s all rib cage and skinny limbs; he wears a flat-topped hat and you just know he has weed in his glove box. After Riley drops off the other passengers in the car, he tells Kayla that it’s pretty weird he’s all the way up in the front and she’s in the backseat. How can they get a chance to talk? So he pulls the car over, joins her in the back, and asks Kayla to play truth or dare.

Shocked, Kayla lets out a meek “OK” that sounds like it was caught in her throat. She picks truth to start, and when Riley asks her how far she’s gone, she can’t even look up from her lap. Things escalate when Riley dares Kayla to take her shirt off, and she compulsively shouts out, “No!” She’s clearly been holding it in for the duration of the game.

Riley immediately stops, gets back in the front seat, and drives her home. He doesn’t push Kayla to keep playing the game, or try any other tactics to hook up. He gets that nothing’s going to happen, but that doesn’t mean he stops manipulating her. As they drive off he chastises her, saying, “Now you’re going to have your first hook up at a party with some asshole, and you’re not going to be good at it. He’s going to tell all of his friends about it, and you’re going to get made fun of and feel like shit. Do you want that? This was about you, I was trying to help you, OK?” Throughout the game, and the subsequent ride home, Kayla tells Riley she’s sorry eight times. How many times does he apologize? Zero.

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That subtle manipulation—boys trying to get me to do something I wasn’t ready to do—was something I encountered many times in my adolescence. There’s the time two boys offered me a shot of vodka and then started simultaneously feeling me up. When I looked uncomfortable they told me to relax because they were clearly just playing around. Or the time I stuck my hand down an older guy’s pants during a group game of Truth or Dare and blurted out that it was “hairy.” The whole group laughed; when I turned red, they all told me to chill. It’s just a game. In those moments I always thought I was the uncool one. I was just so desperate for a boy to pay attention to me that I was willing to fight through my apprehensions and do what they wanted. It wasn’t until much later that I realized they could tell how much I wanted their approval and were taking advantage of that.

Kayla and I aren’t alone in this. When I started speaking with friends about their murky first encounters with the opposite sex, they all had stories to tell. Morgan, a grad student from Washington, told me, “The boy I had a crush on convinced me to send him naked pictures of myself throughout the year. If he hadn’t received one recently, he blatantly ignored me at school and would walk past me as if I didn’t exist. If I had sent one, he made a huge deal of telling his friends how ‘cute’ I was.”

Or Shira, a teacher in California, who said, “A guy really pressured me to let him finger me. I’d never done it before and was so nervous, but I decided I trusted him. Once he started he laughed at me, telling me I should, ‘At least trim down there every once in a while.'” And Blake, a New York–based editor, who shared that, “Boys would always ask, ‘How far have you gone?’ Not wanting to sound uncool I felt pressured to lie and exaggerate my experience so I wouldn’t be overlooked.”

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Although Kayla had the courage to stop Riley when she no longer felt comfortable, that doesn’t mean she wasn’t taken advantage of. She was alone in the car, Riley is many years older than her, and her body language was very clear. Kayla was desperate for his approval—and his attention—and Riley traded on that currency to try to “get some.” It’s not an assault, but it is a boy directly wielding his power over a vulnerable girl, something we’ve discussed time and time again in the #metoo movement. And unfortunately, it’s a common experience in girlhood. It’s time we start having these conversations even earlier, with both boys and girls, about power and consent—before it’s too late.

Eighth Grade is in theaters everywhere on Friday, July 13

Samantha Leach is an assistant editor at Glamour.

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Revisiting the 'Friends' Episode Where Everyone's Awkward About Money


The most painfully awkward episode of Friends isn’t the one where Ross gets that God-awful spray tan or Chandler and Rachel eat cheesecake off the floor. Nope, that honor goes to the fifth episode of Season 2, “The One With Five Steaks and an Eggplant,” when the six friends get uncomfortably real about a topic all twenty-somethings think about: money.

If you blocked this cringe-worthy episode from your memory, here’s a quick synopsis: Rachel, Phoebe, and Joey start feeling like Chandler, Monica, and Ross aren’t aware that they make less money than them. What seems like pennies to some—$33 dinners, $50 Hootie and the Blowfish tickets—is actually difficult for the others to swing. They have a terse conversation about this at a restaurant that goes nowhere. Chandler makes awkward jokes.

The Rich Friends’ solution to this drama is to comp the Poor Friends’ Hootie and the Blowfish tickets, which comes off more condescending than sincere. The Poor Friends reject the tickets, so the Rich Friends go without them and have a blast. The next day, the Rich Friends say they “missed” the Poor Friends at the show but won’t feel bad for making more money than them. Everyone starts arguing and then, as if on cue, Monica gets fired, instantly turning her into a Poor Friend.

Why these 27-year-olds morphed into screaming toddlers when they talked about money is still a mystery. They are six highly-functioning, intelligent people, for crying out loud. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to the Rich Friends that Rachel (a waitress who turned down her inheritance), Phoebe (a massage therapist), and Joey (a struggling actor) aren’t exactly rolling in the dough. But, for some reason, it was. There’s a lot to break down about this episode—and not much of it is good. There are some important lessons in here, though, so let’s just get down to it:

How it went—

Joey: “We three feel that sometimes you guys don’t get that we don’t have as much money as you.”

Monica: (Seemingly self-implodes)

Chandler: (Head practically falls off)

Ross: (Winces like he’s getting a root canal)

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How it should’ve gone—

Monica, Chandler, and Ross (in unison, like a choir of angels): Wow, thanks for bringing up that topic, fellow friends and human beings. Let’s have an honest conversation about our financial situations so we can better set our social expectations going forward!

At the end of the episode, Joey says their money fight is “stupid,” and Phoebe notes they shouldn’t let “this kind of stuff” get in the way of the group dynamic. Both of these sentiments are incorrect, though. On the contrary, money isn’t stupid; it’s an important component to how we live our lives and interact with others.

And the only way to make sure it’s not a “thing” is to talk about it. Having an open, nonjudgmental rapport with your friends about money allows you to just straight-up say, “I can’t really afford [XYZ] right now” and have the world not end. In Friends’ instance, though, their awkward, chilly approach to money practically ensures it will always be a problem for them. This doesn’t mean that Chandler, Monica, and Ross have to forego pricey activities, either. It just means they shouldn’t assume that everyone’s on the same playing field as them. Talk first, then ask for cash.

How it went—

Chandler: [Here are] six tickets to Hootie and the Blowfish!

Joey: (Kicks and screams)

Phoebe: (Breathes fire)

Rachel: (Frowns)

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How it should’ve gone—

Phoebe, Rachel, and Joey (in unison, like cheerleaders): Wow, thanks for the gesture, friends and fellow human beings! In the future, could you run something like this past us first? We don’t want you guys to start feeling like you have to pay for everything now.

The Rich Friends weren’t intentionally trying to belittle the Poor Friends here, so Phoebe, Joey, and Rachel didn’t have to respond as aversely as they did. However, the emotions they feel here are certainly valid. If you just told your friends you were struggling with money, and then they turned around and bought you something expensive, that might feel like “charity,” as Joey put it. Again, this all comes back to communication. I’ve had friends spot me for things when I can’t afford them, but we always discuss it prior so it doesn’t feel like a hand-out—and, more often than not, I return the favor down the line. They should’ve just talked about this first—as normal adults do.

How it went—

Chandler: I’m sorry we make more money than you, but we’re not ‘gonna feel guilty about it. We work really hard for it.

Joey: And we don’t work hard?

Chandler: Sometimes we like to do stuff that costs a little more.

Joey: Oh, and you feel like we’re holding you back?

Chandler: Yes.

All the friends except for Monica, who’s about to get fired: (Launch World War III inside Central Perk)

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How it should’ve gone—

Chandler: I’m sorry that our financial situations are different, friends and fellow human beings! Instead of bragging about it, we’ll be sure to talk the logistics of an outing before all agreeing to go.

Joey, Rachel and Phoebe (in unison): That would be amazing. Thank you!

(Everyone hugs, and Monica doesn’t get fired—because that was some bullshit.)

The most frustrating part about this episode is that the friends’ money awkwardness never gets resolved. Instead, it’s put on the back-burner once Monica tells them she lost her job, and it’s never mentioned again. This episode is 22 minutes long but no one ever faces “the money thing” head on—and that’s the problem.Would that have been as funny? No, which is perhaps why the episode wasn’t arced that way. Friends is a sitcom, after all.

But it would’ve been more realistic. After seeing this episode, I was afraid to talk to my friends about money. I was worried they’d react the same way as Chandler, Ross, and Monica here, but they didn’t. The dialogue I have with my social circle about money is honest and kind, which makes planning things easy, and judgment-free. Had the six friends just done that they probably could’ve gone to that silly concert together. And Phoebe could’ve had her eggplant.



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Watch Donald Trump Try to Hold Melania's Hand Yet Again (Yep, It's Awkward)


“Donald and Melania Trump Awkwardly Holding Hands” is officially back on the air after a brief hiatus. And it’s no less cringe-inducing than the last time you saw it.

You may remember the first installment, back in January 2017, on the eve of his inauguration. The President-Elect attempted to grab his wife’s hand as they descended the stairs of Air Force One only to have her gently dismiss the gesture. Then there was the time last, in May, when she fully swatted his hand away while on a tarmac in Israel—and the world (and social media) went nuts. In February, FLOTUS eluded his grasp yet again with an impressive swerve, causing him to cover up the snub with a behind-the-back grab maneuver.

And here we are again today, on the South Lawn of the White House. The President and the First Lady were welcoming French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, for the administration’s first state visit when cameras captured footage of Trump making a move. It…didn’t go well, though she did eventually lightly grab his hand. Frankly, these are getting tough for any of us to watch.

See for yourselves below. It’s incredibly awkward.

The Internet is having a field day, as one would expect with one user writing, “Poor Melania, she looked like she was holding back tears under her hat as she held Trump’s hand.” Another said, “It’s almost like he thanks her at the end when she caves to letting him hold her hand. But I know he’d never do something like that.”

Of course, we have no idea what really goes on in the personal relationship between President Trump and the First Lady, but each incident of awkward hand-holding stands in stark contrast to their predecessors, the Obamas, who were often quite affectionate with each other in public.





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Michelle Obama Breaks Down That Awkward Gift Moment With Melania Trump at the Inauguration


Consider this a lovely thought that was, unfortunately, upstaged by a huh? heard round the world: At last year’s presidential inauguration, outgoing First Lady Michelle Obama was on the receiving end of an unexpected gift—which came in the form of a large Tiffany & Co. box—from incoming First Lady Melania Trump. Any other day of the week, this robin’s-egg-blue surprise would’ve likely made Obama happy—but this was the presidential inauguration, where strict protocols are in place. Protocols that don’t account for the unexplained presence of gifts.

Still, Obama was as gracious as she could’ve been in the situation, appreciatively receiving the gift while looking around for someone to take it. Still, the moment quickly went viral thanks to her flummoxed facial expression. Now, appearing on Ellen in her first television interview since leaving the White House, Obama admitted she was indeed caught off-guard by the inauguration day present. (Oh, and the gift ended up being a “lovely” picture frame, if you’re curious.)

“Well, there’s all this protocol. I mean, this is like a state visit, so they tell you that you’re going to do this, they’re going to stand here,” she explained to Ellen DeGeneres. “Never before do you get this gift, so I’m sort of like, okay.” Her thought in the moment was, frankly, to just get the box to a neutral location.

“What am I supposed to do with this gift? And everyone cleared out and no one would come and take the box. And I’m thinking, Do we take the picture with?” she continued. “And then my husband saved the day—see, he grabbed the box and took it back inside. But everybody cleared out. No staff, no one. I was like, What do you do with the box?”

The only remaining question: What did this former FLOTUS opt to put in the frame? Maybe a handsome photo of Bo? Or one of Malia at Harvard? It’s anyone’s guess.



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