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Time of India
an hour ago
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- Time of India
Priyanka Chopra shares a 'perfect' pool date with Malti Marie; the girls dazzled in pink
Priyanka Chopra , the 'IT Girl,' has been winning the hearts of the internet with her dazzling promotional tour for 'Heads of State,' starring alongside Idris Elba and John Cena . However, a single 'perfect' picture with her adorable daughter, Malti Marie, was enough to melt those hearts. Priyanka's 'Perfect' Pool Date The 'Desi Girl' shared a captivating snapshot of her and the 3-year-old in a swimming pool, enjoying family time. During the play date, Priyanka was sharing kisses with her daughter and encouraging her to float. On the other hand, Malti, with her little sweet curls, was facing the actress and holding her hands. Priyanka, sparkling with a family-time glow on her face, donned a strapless swimsuit, minimal jewellery including a chain, a pair of small hoop earrings, and a hair bun. Malti Marie wore a white swimsuit with baby pink and rose pink strawberry prints, and a Barbie pink floatie. The 42-year-old actress shared the sweet moment on her Instagram story, and captioned it with 'Perfect' and an emoji with two heart eyes. Malti Marie had the time of her life on set... Previously, in an interview with E! News, Priyanka shared that Malti Marie was with her while she was filming the upcoming film 'Heads of State.' The duo got to witness amazing locations and have a fun time. 'We were filming in Provence, and while I was on set, Malti and her grandma would go out to a bakery to get croissants and bring them back. She had the most amazing time while we were filming this movie,' the 'Citadel' actress said. Malti even picked up the industry lingo and called the craft services 'crafty' just like the actors, adding that she got used to being on the set. Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas shared the vows in 2018 and welcomed their daughter, Malti Marie Chopra Jonas, in 2022 via surrogacy. Meanwhile, on the work front, Priyanka's upcoming film will be released on July 2, 2025, on Amazon Prime Video.
Yahoo
13 hours ago
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- Yahoo
America Ferrera Marks Her 20-Year Love Story with Husband Ryan Piers Williams: 'Let's Party On!'
America Ferrera and Ryan Piers Williams celebrated 20 years together on Friday, June 27, with respective tributes on Instagram "Still no one else I'd rather dance with in the club till 5am," the actress wrote in her post Williams and Ferrera tied the knot in 2011, and later welcomed two children togetherAmerica Ferrera and Ryan Piers Williams are celebrating two decades of love! In honor of their 20th anniversary, the Barbie actress shared two photos to her Instagram grid on Friday, June 27: a throwback selfie from their early days as a couple, and then a similarly casual shot of herself and her husband on a more recent outing. "20 years together today for these babies. Still no one else I'd rather dance with in the club till 5am 🪩🍾 let's party on @ryanpierswilliams," Ferrera, 41, wrote in the caption. Ryan, 44, shared his wife's post to his Instagram Stories, tagging her between two heart-face emojis and writing, "20 years of love, laughter & dancing until sunrise!" Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories. Comments of support from fellow celebrities poured in on Ferrera's post, including one from Brie Larson, who wrote, "Love you both!!!" "Happy Anniversary you two ❤️❤️," Vanessa Williams chimed in. After dating for five years, Ferrera and actor-director Ryan got engaged in June 2010. A year later, the pair married in Chappaqua, New York, at the home of her Ugly Betty costar Vanessa, 62. The couple went on to welcome two children together: son Sebastian in May 2018 and daughter Lucia in May 2020. Ryan previously posted a tribute to his wife in May to celebrate her 41st birthday, writing, "Such a beautiful weekend celebrating and dancing with my Queen! Happy Birthday @americaferrera." Ferrera was joined by her husband in her 2023 blockbuster Barbie, in which she played Gloria, a Mattel employee who meets Margot Robbie's Barbie with her daughter Sasha (Ariana Greenblatt) and is brought to Barbie Land. is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! Ryan had a few hilarious appearances as Gloria's husband, too busy practicing Spanish with the Duolingo app to notice his family's disappearance to the fictional Barbie neighborhood. "We didn't tell anybody, any of our friends or family," Ferrera told PEOPLE in January 2024 of her husband's cheeky cameo. And it all started with an early Zoom call she had with Barbie director and co-writer Greta Gerwig. "I was telling her all my favorite parts of the script and all the parts that made me laugh out loud," the Emmy winner recalled. "And I said, 'Oh my God, I laughed so hard when you cut to the dad doing his Spanish lessons,' because my husband was literally in the other room doing his Spanish lessons." "Right away she was like, 'Oh my God, does he want to play your husband?' And I was like, 'I don't know, you'll have to ask him,' " Ferrera continued — and when Ryan said yes, "It was really fun and it a family affair, and it was great." Read the original article on People
India Today
a day ago
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- India Today
Channapatna, barbies and now labubu: What our dolls say about us
When I was seven, my best friend wasn't human. She had no eyebrows, a bobbled head, and wore a hand-stitched lehenga made from an old dupatta. Every Sunday, I'd gather all my dolls-Channapatna wooden ones with clacking limbs, a bald plastic baby from Chandni Chowk, and that one prized Barbie knockoff-and host elaborate tea parties. My mother's steel katoris doubled as cups, Parle-Gs became biscuits, and the dolls sat in perfect formation, waiting for gossip and imaginary chai. We didn't have Pinterest-perfect dollhouses or curated Instagram shelves. Our dolls lived in shoeboxes. They travelled in schoolbags. They wore mismatched earrings made from fevicol and sequins. Most importantly, they were ours-silent witnesses to our dreams, dramas, and the days we wished we were to 2025-and things have gotten... kids and increasingly, young adults-aren't playing with dolls. They're collecting them. Enter Labubu: a bug-eyed, snaggle-toothed, slightly creepy creature with the cult appeal of a K-pop idol and the resale value of a Supreme hoodie. Born in the art labs of Hong Kong and sold through limited-edition "blind boxes," Labubu isn't made for tea parties. He's made for shelfies, unboxings, and envy-soaked Instagram Reels. Forget pink ball gowns and tiaras-Labubu wears skull-hoodies, devil horns, and an expression that says "I bite." And yet, Gen Z has embraced him like a totem. He's strange, edgy, and oddly adorable in a voodoo-doll-meets-mushroom-spirit sort of way. The shift is stark: from dolls that mimicked real life to dolls that reflect a surreal inner world. If our dolls were stand-ins for the people we aspired to become, Labubu is more like a plushy moodboard-part monster, part meme, part misunderstood alter happened to innocence? To hand-lathe toys and monsoon tea parties? Maybe nothing. Maybe, just like us, our dolls grew up-and got CLICK-CLACK OF WOODEN ANKLETS CHILDHOOD IN CHANNAPATNA Long before plastic turned playrooms neon-pink, Indian childhoods rang with the woody clatter of Channapatna dolls. In Karnataka's 'Gombegala Ooru' (Toy Town), artisans still spin hale-wood on hand-lathes, rubbing sticks of vegetable lac until the grain gleams like honey. The craft—patronised by Tipu Sultan in the late-18th century and protected today by a Geographical Indication tag—has survived wars, cheap imports and, lately, algorithmic 1980s and early-'90s kids, a Channapatna doll was more than a souvenir; it was the guest of honour at every bed-sheet tea-party. Fabric scraps became sarees, bindis were punched from notebook labels, and the doll sat primly while we poured imaginary chai from a plastic Milton flask. Play was slow, tactile and, in hindsight, wonderfully analog."When you dress a wooden doll, you're putting a story on a blank slate," recalls 52-year-old Bengaluru homemaker Meera K., who still keeps her lacquered couple in a glass case. Yet even in Toy Town, change was brewing. A 2024 field survey found only 1,500 full-time artisans left-and most of their children dream of coding bootcamps, not chisels. ENTER BARBIE: PINK PLASTIC & ASPIRATIONAL PLAY In March 1986, Barbie sashayed into Indian toy stores-initially an import for NRIs returning from the Gulf, soon a must-have at every kiddie birthday. Mattel localised fast: by 1992 we had "Navratri Barbie" in ghagra-choli, and later Katrina-Kaif-endorsed Bollywood 2023 Barbie film super-charged that nostalgia. The movie grossed ?1.44 lakh crore globally, spawned 100+ brand tie-ups, and spiked U.S. Barbie toy sales by 25 per cent within two months of release. Indian metros turned pink: cafs threw "Barbie-core" nights; college fests hosted best-dressed Kens and Barbies. Even Mattel's CEO admitted India is "one big collaboration we're courting next".But something subtle shifted. Our childhood dolls were props in stories we wrote; Barbie came with a biography, a Malibu Dreamhouse and a social-media afterlife. "Play began to look outward," says Delhi psychologist Dr Vandana Rao. "Children stopped serving the doll tea and started serving her content."advertisementTHE GEN Z PIVOT: LABUBU & THE RISE OF "VOODOO-CUTE" Fast-forward to 2025. The hottest doll on Instagram is Labubu-a gremlin-like, nine-toothed sprite born in Hong Kong artist Kasing Lung's sketchbook and mass-marketed by China's Pop Mart. With blind-box drops, 1-in-720 chase figures, and celebrity boosts from Rihanna to Dua Lipa, Labubu turned Pop Mart's revenue into a HK$310 billion juggernaut and pushed plush sales up 1,200 per cent last year. Walk through any Gen Z hang-out in Mumbai or Seoul and you'll spot a Labubu key-chain dangling off a Balenciaga tote. The aesthetic is a deliberate "ugly-cute": stitched scars, jagged grin, gothic colourways. It is as far from Barbie's symmetry as Channapatna is from molded plastic, yet the core impulse-projecting identity onto a tiny companion-persists."Labubu feels like a pocket mascot for grown-up anxieties," says 23-year-old Pune collector Ananya Patil, who unboxes her blind-bags live on Twitch. "He's creepy-cute, just like adulthood."advertisementWHY DOLLS KEEP EVOLVING (AND WHY WE KEEP BUYING) Economists call it the "Play-Value Arc": as disposable incomes rise, toys evolve from utility (rattles) to identity tokens (collectibles). Social media accelerates the cycle-every new doll comes with a built-in fandom and a secondary market. A 2025 StockX report ranks Pop Mart above Nike in daily trades. THE COUNTER-CURRENT: WOODEN TOYS 2.0Ironically, Barbie's sustainability pledges (100 per cent recycled plastics by 2030) echo the very virtues Channapatna never lost. A rising eco-parent cohort is now buying back into wooden toys-sometimes commissioning artisans to carve custom figures that nod to contemporary pop culture (think Spider-Man in lac-red and indigo).Start-ups like Bengaluru's "Toylogue" blend Channapatna techniques with Montessori principles and ship worldwide. In 2024, their turnover doubled, helped by EU regulations on micro-plastics in kids' products. FULL-CIRCLE CUPS OF TEASo, where does that leave the next generation? Perhaps at a crossroads where the sound of a spinning lathe meets the ping of an app notification announcing the next blind-box drop. Yet when eight-year-old Ira Sharma throws a tea-party for her Barbie in Gurgaon, she still invites a hand-painted Channapatna elephant as "chief guest." And on her backpack swings a miniature Labubu in bubble-wrap armour, waiting for its Instagram after all, has always been a mirror. From lacquered wood to plastic glamour to voodoo-cute vinyl, dolls simply reflect the eras we grow up in-our hopes, our fears, our aesthetic rebellions. The tea set may be silicone now, the guest list more eclectic, but the ritual remains: we gather our little effigies, pour an imaginary brew, and practice being credit: Generative AI by Vani Gupta - Ends
Leader Live
a day ago
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- Leader Live
Pub Quiz June 27: How smart are you? Take our pub quiz
Perfect if you're taking a trip to the pub this weekend, this quiz will let you brush up on some of that unusual but essential knowledge for the occasion. With 10 fun questions, the pub quiz will get your brain cogs working and put your general knowledge skills to the test. From when Wimbledon starts to the capital city of Australia, see how many questions you can guess correctly. Take last week's quiz now: Can you get a score higher than 6? Take this tough pub quiz to see your score So, if you think you have what it takes to be the pub quiz master, find out now and take our quiz. If you liked that quiz, you can see how British you are with the UK's citizenship test. You can even test your Barbie knowledge with our Barbie quiz and find out if you're a Barbie or just Ken. Now that you've put your brain to the test, you'll want to start revising hard in preparation for the next pub quiz. Did you get 10/10, or was it a tough round for you? Keep an eye on the news and get ready for next week's pub quiz. How well did you do? Let us know in the comments below. The pub quiz is believed to have originated from a company called Burns and Porter which would share its quizzes in the 1970s in order to encourage more regular visitors. The regular pub quizzes saw pub numbers rise from 30 teams a week to a peak of 10,000 teams. Burns and Porter went on to publish its own line of pub quiz books and would continue to host weekly quizzes.
GMA Network
a day ago
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- GMA Network
Barbie Forteza on running, cutting her hair short, and being in her self-care era
Barbie Forteza and Boy Abunda talked about various many things on Friday's "Fast Talk with Boy Abunda" — from professional matters like her new television project "Beauty Empire" and the upcoming film "P77" to the personal and even trivial concerns like cutting her hair short, throwing herself fully into running, and even being her self-care era. "I feel like I'm having the time of my life," Barbie tells Tito Boy. On Running: According to Barbie, running is "something I have full control of." "Sa trabaho natin, nakalatag na lahat. Pero something very personal that you have control of, that's what I get out of running. it's an escape from reality. Ang focus ko lang ay yung pace, distance, time. Limot ang trabaho, limot ang showbiz," she continued. Barbie got into running this year, and completely threw herself into the activity. She has been joining fun runs that not only help her achieve personal records but in cases of charity fun runs, also allow Barbie to help others. "Nakakatawa kasi lately active din ako sa charity fun runs. So yung new found hobby na mahal na mahal ko, nagagamit ko pa for a better cause," Barbie tells Tito Boy. On Cutting Her Hair: While Barbie cut her hair for professional reasons — she wanted to make sure her character Noreen on "Beauty Empire" won't carry a shadow of herself — the Kapuso celebrity reaped personal benefits from the move. "I stepped out of my comfort zone. This is me discovering myself, starting a new era and that starts with my hair," Barbie said. "I noticed Even the way I carried myself changed, when I started wearing short hair. Mas may confidence, mas may sophistication. I've always been conformable wearing long hair, having long hair. Ngayon, parang meron lang certain consciousness na I have to stand tall, I have to dress better, kasi I stepped out of my comfort zone," she adds. On Self-Love: Barbiep proudly shared that has finished paying off her new house. "Fully paid na siya," she smiles at Tito Boy. "Kaya when I'm saying I'm enjoying my time, it's more like, meron akong malaking responsibilidad na nagampanan ko na para sa 'kin at sa pamilya ko so ngayon, ako naman." "When I say I'm in my self-love era, it's more of really enjoying my time and prioritizing myself at kung ano talaga ang gusto ko gain na nagagawa ko na ngayon." What can we say? We're happy for you, Barbie! — LA, GMA Integrated News
