Paris Hilton said striking is hot, Gwyneth Paltrow's rectal ozone therapy & Cringe's Oscar special
What we're asking this week and the best cringe news of the past week according to yours truly.
Hello friend,
The days are getting longer, the wind slightly warmer and our hopes for better days ahead slightly higher. However, as awards season is coming to an end with the Oscar’s, this week’s Cringe news is a great reminder that the Internet is always at the ready to serve us the most ridiculous side of humanity 7 days a week, no matter the season.
After Hugh Grant’s awkward interview with Ashley Graham at the Oscar’s this week, and its hint of quintessentially British cynicism, this week we’re asking ourselves:
WYR be called out for being a bad interviewer at the Oscar’s or be the bad interviewee?
Georjia: I like to think that I could be a good interviewer but then even if you’re being good and the interviewee is bad, it’s more their fault as I’m just doing my job. If I’m a bad interviewee that’s my fault and my boss’s fault for giving me the job. But maybe being a bad interviewee just means the vibes aren’t right. I’ll be the bad interviewee and blame them.
Klaidas: Call me full of myself but the only times that I would really be a bad interviewer is if I didn't know who the person was that I was interviewing, didn't know my subject or I was super hungover (as that’s when my brain generally stops functioning). Let’s face it - it would be so embarrassing and my friends would never let me live it down. On the other hand, being interviewed by a bad interviewer, though it may be awkward, really provides a great opportunity for memes to be made! I'm very expressive through my face which is why I would prefer to be the interviewee.
Annika: What would embarrass me more? Being unlikable and difficult in an interview or being bad at my job? The responsibility over the cringe factor in an interview lies mainly with the interviewer in my opinion - their performance has to be spotless to definitively say that it was the interviewee who brought all the awkwardness. Even though I hate making someone’s life difficult, I think I’d be more ashamed of doing a bad job at interviewing someone whose time I’m literally robbing!! I’d rather be a bad interviewee.
WATERCOOLER CHATS
Have your eyes also been glued to Oscar’s content on Twitter and TikTok? In the theme of Everything Everywhere All at Once, have you been ignoring other universes, like those in which Kim Kardashian is the talk of the (virtual) town for drinking Logan Paul and KSI’s PRIME while supporting Arsenal? Need a quick recap of all this week’s nonsense? No worries friend, we got you.
Here are our favourite headlines you can bring up during conversations you’d rather not have:
Forget ChatGPT, education is in a crisis: You can now study Taylor Swift’s ‘All Too Well’ at Stanford for 10 weeks.
Paris Hilton said striking is hot: She was recently spotted at a BBC picket line ahead of her appearance on Radio 4 Woman’s Hour to promote her new book Paris: The Memoir.
Trust Gwyneth Paltrow to deliver a new wellness method you didn’t think would ever make it to the market. Her recent hot trend is rectal ozone therapy (it’s exactly what it says on the tin: blowing ozone up your butt). Before you marry rich or win the lottery and decide to get it yourself, here’s what the FDA had to say about it:
“Ozone is a toxic gas with no known useful medical application in specific, adjunctive, or preventive therapy.”
“In order for ozone to be effective as a germicide, it must be present in a concentration far greater than that which can be safely tolerated by man and animals.”
Gwyneth’s IV drip must be powerful as hell.
In rather unexpected news: Here’s a TikTok of Snoop Dogg crip walking to the bag pipes.
We couldn’t close awards season without our own round-up of news from this year’s moments at the Oscar’s:
HUGE congratulations to the film that said “everything has been done before so let’s do it all in one film” and main star Michelle Yeoh, who became the first ever Asian woman to win best actress, in addition to her and co-star Ke Huy Quan becoming the first ever 2 Asian actors to win in the same year.
Speaking of Ke Huy Quan, here’s this week’s palate cleanser.
Another win for outsiders and lovers of a redemption/comeback arc.
Hugh Grant showed us what happens when American enthusiasm meets British cynicism:
American audiences just don’t get that he’s just a little joker.
Fans of The Banshees of Inisherin were disappointed to learn that we had a dupe of Jenny the Donkey on stage at the Oscar’s.
Big fans of Lady Gaga coming to the rescue of a photographer who fell over at the Oscar’s.
Second palate cleanser, because we couldn’t resist adding this in.
CRINGE MEME
This week’s meme goes out to one of our favourite quote tweets to the recent BBC article about the “minimal” impact lockdown had on our mental health:
That’s it for this week! Feel free to let us know what cringe content, memes, and headlines you’ve been enjoying lately. Until then, we’ll see you in your inbox next Sunday!
Your Cringe Team x