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What would Victoria Beckham do? We ask her advice on fashion, dating and more
As the founder of her eponymous label, style icon in her own right and this month’s Vogue cover star, Victoria Beckham is certainly someone we turn to for style advice. But what if we could ask Victoria Beckham anything we wished?
On the set of Vogue Australia’s 2018 November cover shoot, we quizzed Beckham on the big existential questions. Like, for example, how to look chic on a budget? Her answer? “You can mix vintage with high street. Just feel confident in whatever you’re wearing.” Beckham also weighed in on dating, advising who should pay for a date, as well as dressing for a wedding. Beckham shared with us her tips for practicing mindfulness too – her mantra? “Be mindful, be calm.”
As Beckham celebrates the 10th anniversary of her eponymous label, she’s proven she can do anything. You can too – if you only concentrate on staying grounded.
Watch the entire video below—directed by Sophia Li, filmed by Image Partnership—and ask yourself: What Would Victoria Beckham Do? #WWVBD.
House cleaner tries her hand at being an interior designer
Dear Abby:
I am wondering if anyone else has ever asked about this. I have had the same cleaning woman for three years. She does an excellent job and works hard. I got her the last six or seven of her clients. However, she has made little changes in the past when I’m not home.
For example, she reorganized a kitchen drawer and laundry room cabinet without first clearing it with me. Yesterday, when I walked into my laundry room, I noticed two pictures had been removed from the wall and rehung in my living room. Furthermore, she used three nails to hang them and left the first nail in the wall because she had made a mistake. I removed the pictures and returned them to their original spots. The three holes in the living room wall remain.
I live in an expensive penthouse. The holes are like bullet holes to me. This is not my apartment. I am a renter. In addition, I do not have the paint that matches, and I am not handy with spackle and painting.
My cleaning lady is very sensitive. When I asked her to let me know the night before if she needs to cancel, I almost lost her for good. I had to call repeatedly, and I’m walking on eggshells now.
— Renter in Nevada
Dear Renter: For your cleaning woman to have done what she did was wrong, and you need to explain it to her so nothing similar will happen again. Sometimes it isn’t what you say but how you say it. Hang onto your temper while telling her she has created a problem for you. It’s the truth, and she needs to hear it. If her response is to punish you by not showing up, you are well rid of the woman.
P.S. Visit a paint store or home improvement store and you may be pleasantly surprised to know that paint can be closely matched these days if you bring a small sample with you. They may also be able to recommend someone who can fix the wall for a reasonable price, or offer guidance on how you can fix it yourself.
Dear Abby: I’m a 58-year-old woman, divorced for three years. I was in a loveless marriage for almost 20 years. Over the last three years I have lost 45 pounds and have started going to online dating sites. I’m attractive, so I get lots of attention.
I post nice pictures of myself, nothing sexy. But the kind of attention I’m getting is not what I want. I’d like to meet a man and try to have a long-term relationship. Most of the men “say” that’s what they want, too. But to be honest about it, it’s not.
How can I come across as a woman who wants an LTR and not a “friends with benefits” or a hook-up? I don’t sleep around, so those things just are not my cup of tea. What do I do?
— Lost In The Online Dating World
Dear Lost: If someone wants to move your “relationship” to the next level before you are ready, you need to say you are not comfortable in moving so quickly. It’s straightforward and honest.
It occurs to me that there are many kinds of dating sites, and you may be on the wrong ones. If you have friends who are also in the dating world, ask them which they use. But if you have no luck there, consider meeting suitable men the old-fashioned way — by being introduced by people you know and who know you well.
If You Are the One's Meng Fei helps people find love on Chinese Dating with the Parents
Following the success of its first season, Chinese Dating with the Parents is back on Australian shores to provide entertaining, hilarious and sometimes “too close to home” scenarios of what it’s like when your parents show an unnecessarily high level of interest in your love life.
This season, the show has a new host, the ubiquitous Meng Fei, host of another hit Chinese dating show If You Are the One. His funny quips and sound advice have the bizarre ability to resound with both older and younger generations alike. And in each episode, hopefuls looking for love will enlist his help in order to be matched with a possible suitor.
However, there is a twist…
Instead of meeting their potential suitors face to face à la If You Are The One, the potential matches are locked away in another room. Here, they watch the events unfold from a television screen while their parents take center stage, posing questions to the candidates of the week and deciding whether they are worthy of proceeding through the rounds to eventually meet their children.
This show is insanely popular in mainland China and is sure to be a hit in Australia as well. Viewers will be able to take solace in the fact that no matter what the culture or language, you can always count on your parents to embarrass you in front of your crush.
Chinese Dating with the Parents makes for compelling viewing because the hidden-from-sight matches feel helpless in controlling how their parents view the potential suitors. Though they can communicate with their parents and Meng Fei by telephone, miscommunication still happens and the matches often watch wistfully as their parents let yet another viable candidate slip away.
Of course, the opposite scenario happens just as often, where the parents get along a little too well with the contestants. Nothing turns you off a potential suitor faster than learning that your slightly out-of-touch dad thinks “he’s a really cool guy”.
The show also highlights what modern day life in China is like – and dispels some long-held stereotypes. For example, it’s often thought that Asian parents are cold and distant, only wanting their children to study hard and become doctors, engineers, lawyers or a prized combination of all three. Happily, Chinese Dating with the Parents shows a more affectionate and playful side of Chinese parents not often captured for cultural outsiders to appreciate.
It also uplifting to see that all around the world, (China included), expectations for women are changing for the better: women are encouraged to have their own careers and successes with many of the suitors listing “independent women” as a favoured type.
We even see that the men on the show are recognising the need to be domesticated. In the first episode, a suitor who knows his way around the kitchen is deemed a keeper, which is a valuable lesson for everyone:
Find a partner who can cook. Looks fade, hunger doesn’t.
Chinese Dating with the Parents season two airs on Saturdays at 6:30pm, followed by If You Are the One, on SBS Viceland. Missed the first episode? Catch up at SBS On Demand:
The 'Sabrina The Teenage Witch' Cast Sent The New Actors “Best Witches” In This Epic Video
For the majority of those impatiently waiting for the weekend so they can start binging Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix, the show is a spinoff of the already-established Riverdale series on The CW. But there is a second group of fans who are also eager to see Sabrina, ones who know this spinoff is actually the second iteration of the Spellman clan, having grown up watching Melissa Joan Hart in Sabrina: The Teenage Witch on ABC. Fans aren’t the only ones. It turns out the original Sabrina: The Teenage Witch cast members are also looking forward to the new series, and have recorded a video wishing those carrying the legacy forward good luck.
The original Sabrina was Melissa Joan Hart, fresh off of her Nickelodeon show Clarissa Explains It All. Her family was comprised of two aunts played by Beth Broderick and Caroline Rhea. Broderick, who later became known for her role as Diane Janssen on Lost, played Zelda. Rhea, who went on to host The Caroline Rhea Show, played Hilda. Sabrina’s boyfriend, Harvey, was portrayed by Nate Richert.
The four of them got together and recorded a video to their 21st Century counterparts: Kiernan Shipka (Sabrina), Miranda Otto (Zelda), Lucy Davis (Hilda) and Ross Lynch (Harvey). The cast also had a bit of advice.
From our coven to yours, best witches!
Melissa Joan Hart’s advice was about witch decisions she may have to make:
So tomorrow, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina drops on Netflix, and I just wanted to send my best witches to Kiernan Shipka, aka the new Sabrina Spellman. By the way, from one Sabrina to the other… if you’re ever given a choice between a broom and a vacuum, choose the vacuum.
Nate Richert gave the new Harvey a little bit of dating advice:
I just wanted to say hello to the new Harvey, Ross Lynch. I hear the new Sabrina is scarier and pretty damn twisted. I’m rooting for you buddy. Stay alive!
Beth Broderick wished Otto “all the best.” Caroline Rhea turned out to be excited her counterpart starred in Wonder Woman, and said Davis taking over the role of Hilda meant she got to take over Davis’ part in Wonder Woman 1984.
I get to be Etta Candy. I’m so excited! Can’t wait to see The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Netflix
The only two characters of the Spellman household who didn’t get a greeting were Ambrose (Chance Perdomo) and Salem the cat. This is partly due to how the series has evolved since the 1990s. Ambrose wasn’t a character. Instead, his part of a warlock under house arrest was given to Salem who was an animatronic puppet that talked, giving Sabrina advice on life.
In the new series, Salem does not talk, though he does meow quite a bit when he has kitty opinions about the current situation. Instead, Ambrose is the one dispensing the life advice to Sabrina.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 1 arrives on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018 on Netflix with 10 episodes. Season 2 is already filming and will follow in 2019.
