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Scottish Sun
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Meet the real voice behind Squid Game's famous doll, and where you've seen her on TV before without realising
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) IT'S one of the most famous faces in the South Korean TV show. But as Squid Game returns to Netflix for a third series, people are only just finding out who voices the infamous doll - and they've seen her on the small screen before. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 7 People are only just finding out who voices the infamous doll in the English dub version of Netflix's Squid Game Credit: Getty 7 The doll has been an integral part of the series since day one, with Red light, green light providing the soundtrack for the shocking first game Credit: PETE DADDS/NETFLIX 7 Reagan To, 13, is the voice for the doll Credit: Getty 7 She also starred in the TV show Young Sheldon as Sheldon's tutor Credit: CBS Reagan To is the 13-year-old star whose voice has become synonymous with the English dub of the programme - with her singsong "Red light, green light" providing the backdrop for the shocking first game in series one. She took to Facebook recently to share a Reel which showed her voicing the character in series one in 2021, season two in 2024 and season three this year. "Thank you Squid Game for having me since 2021. Season 1, 2, and 3 - the voice of the Squid Game doll," Reagan wrote alongside the video. This time around, the most famous song from the series is arguably Hide and Seek - where she sings "Hide hide, it's time to play, don't let your hair give you away". In a post on her Instagram page, Reagan revealed it took her a whole two hours to get the song perfect. "Fun fact: recorded for two hours for the hide and seek song," she wrote over the top of the Instagram video. "Another Squid Game haunted song gets stuck in my head, sorry," Reagan added in the caption. She was quickly praised in the comments section, with one writing: "It's too impressive that you've been doing it for 5 years and it's just getting better and better!" "Loved the new season and the songssss," another praised. "So amazing my friend!" a third added. Squid Game viewer spots major filming blunder "This is so cool - I love your voice!" someone else said. Reagan also voiced character Ga-Yeong in the English dub of Squid Game. Others admitted that they'd finally figured out where they'd seen Reagan before. She's also famous for her role in the TV show Young Sheldon, in which she starred as Mei-Tung - Sheldon's class competitor who he enlists to tutor him. "Pain is the best teacher," she's famous for telling Sheldon, while rapping him on the knuckles with a pencil when he gets the answer wrong. "Are you that girl from Young Sheldon?" one person asked in the comments on the Instagram. "Yes!" Reagan replied. The third season of Squid Game has broken records for Netflix, after becoming the biggest-ever TV launch for the streaming service - racking up more than 60.1 million views in its first three days of release. As well as Squid Game and Young Sheldon, Reagan appeared in Jane the Virgin and voiced Big Girl Ember in Disney film Elemental. 7 Reagan has been voicing the doll since the first series back in 2021 Credit: Facebook 7 She's seen here on the red carpet for the second series in 2024 Credit: Facebook
The Irish Sun
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Meet the real voice behind Squid Game's famous doll, and where you've seen her on TV before without realising
IT'S one of the most famous faces in the South Korean TV show. But as Squid Game returns to Netflix for a third series, people are only just finding out who voices the infamous doll - and they've seen her on the small screen before. 7 People are only just finding out who voices the infamous doll in the English dub version of Netflix's Squid Game Credit: Getty 7 The doll has been an integral part of the series since day one, with Red light, green light providing the soundtrack for the shocking first game Credit: PETE DADDS/NETFLIX 7 Reagan To, 13, is the voice for the doll Credit: Getty 7 She also starred in the TV show Young Sheldon as Sheldon's tutor Credit: CBS Reagan To is the 13-year-old star whose voice has become synonymous with the English dub of the programme - with her singsong "Red light, green light" providing the backdrop for the shocking first game in series one. She "Thank you Squid Game for having me since 2021. Season 1, 2, and 3 - the voice of the Squid Game doll," Reagan wrote alongside the video. This time around, the most famous song from the series is arguably Hide and Seek - where she sings "Hide hide, it's time to play, don't let your hair give you away". Read more Squid Game stories In a "Fun fact: recorded for two hours for the hide and seek song," she wrote over the top of the Instagram video. "Another Squid Game haunted song gets stuck in my head, sorry," Reagan added in the caption. She was quickly praised in the comments section, with one writing: "It's too impressive that you've been doing it for 5 years and it's just getting better and better!" Most read in Celebrity "Loved the new season and the songssss," another praised. "So amazing my friend!" a third added. Squid Game viewer spots major filming blunder "This is so cool - I love your voice!" someone else said. Reagan also voiced character Ga-Yeong in the English dub of Squid Game. Others admitted that they'd finally figured out where they'd seen Reagan before. She's also famous for her role in the TV show Young Sheldon, in which she starred as Mei-Tung - Sheldon's class competitor who he enlists to tutor him. "Pain is the best teacher," she's famous for telling Sheldon, while rapping him on the knuckles with a pencil when he gets the answer wrong. "Are you that girl from Young Sheldon?" one person asked in the comments on the Instagram. "Yes!" Reagan replied. The third season of Squid Game has broken records for Netflix, after becoming the biggest-ever TV launch for the streaming service - racking up more than 60.1 million views in its first three days of release. As well as Squid Game and Young Sheldon, Reagan appeared in Jane the Virgin and voiced Big Girl Ember in Disney film Elemental. 7 Reagan has been voicing the doll since the first series back in 2021 Credit: Facebook 7 She's seen here on the red carpet for the second series in 2024 Credit: Facebook 7 And for the third series Credit: Facebook
Yahoo
a day ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
FBI to relocate headquarters in DC, abandoning plan for suburban Maryland campus
The Trump administration will move the FBI headquarters from the storied Brutalist-era J. Edgar Hoover building to the Ronald Reagan Building blocks away, it said Tuesday. The announcement comes the same date that the US Agency for International Development — which had been housed in the Reagan building — was officially absorbed into the State Department and ceased to operate. The Hoover building has long been in need of drastic repairs, and measures, including large nets installed to keep crumbling infrastructure from falling on people, have been installed in recent years. But the question of where to move the FBI has been a long political fight. FBI Director Kash Patel said that 'moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost effective and resource efficient way to carry out our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.' The decision is a change from yearslong discussions to build a new FBI headquarters just outside of Washington, DC, in Greenbelt, Maryland. 'Previous efforts focused on constructing a new suburban campus, which would have cost the taxpayers billions of dollars and would have taken years to construct,' the FBI said in a statement Tuesday announcing the move. Democratic lawmakers immediately said they plan to fight the switch, saying the plan to move to Greenbelt was already final and the money was appropriated. The Reagan building will be shared with other agencies including Customs and Border Protection and others.
Telegraph
a day ago
- Business
- Telegraph
The Republicans' fatal divisions are pushing America into debt disaster
Republicans in Washington are labouring to produce a budget bill for President Trump, but as the Senate vote passing the bill showed, they have narrow margins in Congress and there are no Democrats willing to cross the aisle. And the process is not over yet. Any small group of four or five Republican dissidents still has enormous power to derail the process. That means they have leverage to demand changes. Since politicians on Capitol Hill play that game all the time, this is not a surprise. But the challenge for the Republican leadership is that their party is now profoundly divided, bordering on ideologically incoherent. Some conservative Republicans believe in Reagan-style fiscal restraint, for instance. They want a smaller government and declining deficits. But this puts them at odds with Trump-style Republicans who are explicitly opposed to reforming entitlements and seemingly don't care about ever-increasing levels of red ink. This division has not killed the bill. At least not yet. But there are still potential stumbling blocks ahead. The House and Senate have different versions of the Big Beautiful Bill, so this means a conference committee will be needed to develop a unified version. Yet the compromises required to create that unified version may cause some Republicans to revolt. To make matters more interesting, the division between Reaganites and Trumpies is not the only relevant split. There are other blocs of Republican lawmakers who might throw sand in the gears. The SALT deduction – a few Republicans from high-tax states claim they won't vote for any bill unless there is a big increase in the federal deduction for state and local taxes. Most Republicans dislike that loophole since it subsidises wasteful spending in states like New York and California, so the unanswered question is whether an increase in the deduction gains votes from a small group of Republicans without losing votes from the rest of the party. Green-energy pork – Republicans unanimously voted against Joe Biden's preposterously misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, a law that included all sorts of special subsidies for wind and solar energy. Unfortunately, now that those subsidies exist, the recipients have a big incentive to lobby in favour of keeping them. Many of those handouts go to projects in Republican states and districts, leading some Republicans to assert they will oppose the Big Beautiful Bill if the green-energy gravy train gets derailed. Once again, this creates a challenge for GOP leaders, since retaining too many of the subsidies may cause fiscal conservatives to withdraw support. Medicaid money laundering – America's main government-run health programme for poor people is supposed to be a joint responsibility for the central government and state governments. Over time, however, states have figured out how to shift ever-greater shares of the cost on to the federal taxpayers. One of the dodgiest tricks is for states to levy taxes on health providers, which triggers larger handouts from Washington. The health providers, such as hospitals, do not object to this scam since they get the additional federal money. Most Republicans want to end this farce, but a few GOP lawmakers want to curry favour with hospital lobbyists. The Republicans who want more spending for these three areas are not Reagan conservatives. For the most part, they also are not Trumpian populists. Instead, they are best described as old-fashioned transactional politicians. Their votes go to the highest bidder/biggest campaign contributors. But they also face pressure to conform with other Republicans. And they almost certainly want to extend the 2017 individual tax cuts (which will expire at the end of the year if the Big Beautiful Bill goes down in flames). Last, but not least, they don't want to get on Trump's bad side since it might mean a serious primary challenge during the next election cycle. So the bottom line is that the Republican leadership – and the White House – has the ability to twist arms. As such, the safest prediction is that all these conflicts and divisions somehow will be resolved and Trump will have a victory. But it may be a Pyrrhic Victory in that America is probably stumbling toward some sort of fiscal crisis. Simply stated, it is unsustainable to have the burden of government spending grow faster than the private sector for an extended period of time. Even if a crisis can be avoided, that type of fiscal irresponsibility eventually will mean higher taxes, ruinous debt, or inflation. Perhaps all three. Unless, by some miracle, there's a Javier Milei in America's future.
Gizmodo
a day ago
- Business
- Gizmodo
The U.S. Space Force Wants Industry Ideas for Space-Based Missile Interceptors
In May, President Donald Trump selected a design for the Golden Dome—a space-based defense system designed to protect the U.S. from foreign missiles. Though some experts consider it a pipe dream, Trump claims he can build it in three years. The United States Space Force is already getting the ball rolling. According to a June 27 request for information (RFI), the Space Force is conducting market research on space-based interceptor capabilities for missile defense. The RFI aims to gather information on existing technologies and strategize the construction of a large constellation of satellites armed with interceptors, i.e. Golden Dome. Though it is not a request for proposals, this RFI underscores the Space Force's commitment to Trump's fantastically short timeline for Golden Dome's construction. Equipping satellites with rocket launchers or lasers so they can shoot down enemy ballistic missiles isn't a new concept. Ronald Reagan was the first U.S. president to propose such an idea, presenting it as the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983. At the time, critics likened the system to attempting to shoot a bullet with another bullet. The technology to support it didn't exist, and it required the militarization of space, which national treaties previously prohibited. Fast-forward nearly 50 years: Trump has dusted off Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative and given it a shiny new name. He unveiled the first details of the Golden Dome project alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during an Oval Office briefing on May 20. While it bears similarities to Israel's Iron Dome system, the Golden Dome would be far more expansive—and expensive. This unusually large and complex space shield would consist of a vast network of satellites capable of detecting, tracking, and intercepting incoming missiles, in addition to a smaller fleet of offensive satellites, Reuters reports. Trump claimed that building the selected design would cost $175 billion and take about three years. Both the budget and timeline conflict with a Congressional Budget Office assessment, which estimated the project could take 20 years and cost $524 billion. Even before the May announcement, the Pentagon was mulling over Trump's Golden Dome plans. In April, Reuters reported that the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Space Force were holding a series of meetings with defense contractors to discuss space-based interceptors. In a notice, they asked companies to provide information about actual or conceptual space-based interceptors that would shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles during their 'boost phase'—their gradual ascent through the atmosphere. The Pentagon also expressed interest in concepts that can intercept targets in the early stages of flight, such as just after launch or during midcourse, that could eventually enable boost-phase intercepts. Currently available defense technologies only target enemy missiles while they travel through space. In May, the MDA issued a draft solicitation notice for a 10-year, $151 billion multiple-award contract vehicle to support Golden Dome. The RFI issued Friday appears to mark the next phase of this early development. 'The purpose of this RFI is to identify existing space-based missile defense capabilities and strategize on an architecture of a proliferated [space-based interceptor] constellation capable of boost-phase, mid-course-phase, and glide-phase intercepts,' the notice reads. 'The strategy requires the U.S. industrial base to work together in developing the capability to defend the homeland, utilizing mature technologies, established production lines, and proven capabilities,' it goes on to say. After reviewing responses, the Space Force may meet with select companies to discuss next steps. While the Pentagon is taking steps toward making Trump's Golden Dome dream a reality, it's still mostly theoretical. Detractors have raised concerns about the project's technical feasibility, cost, and other hurdles. Nevertheless, space and defense companies are already jostling to get in on the action, and the project has gained some political and budgetary support. Whether this will be enough to get it off the ground remains to be seen.
