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The Irish Sun
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Watch the moment Jess Glynne finally meets Jet2 voiceover star after TikTok trend goes viral
WATCH the moment Jess Glynne finally meets Jet2 voiceover star after TikTok trend goes viral - with fans going wild. Unless you haven't scrolled on social media for about four months, you'll definitely know about the iconic Jet2 trend that has taken the internet by storm. 5 Jess Glynne finally met Jet2 voiceover star after the TikTok trend goes viral Credit: CapitalOfficial/Instagram 5 Zoe Lister is the lady who does the Jet2 voiceover Credit: CapitalOfficial/Instagram 5 The two women united on Capital earlier this week Credit: CapitalOfficial/Instagram Hold My Hand has been the signature theme song for Jet2's television adverts since around 2015, the same year the song was released. A decade on, the advert - complete with its voiceover by Zoe Lister - has gained international popularity on social media. "Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday," is now somewhat of a viral phrase on TikTok and Instagram, with many people using the audio in their own videos. And this, hitmaker Read More about Jess Glynne Jess, 35, and Zoe, 43, had never met despite having their work combined a few years ago. Capital Breakfast, hosted by In a video posted to Instagram, Jordan was so excited that he squealed it was "finally happening" ahead of the two women meeting. "It's happening! It's happening!" he screamed as Zoe entered the studio and gave Jess a hug. Most read in Celebrity Co-host Chris Stark then asked Jess: "You know what's coming, right? We've got to chat about it. "Of course, talking about Hold My Hand… Chart-topping singer drew me a doodle mid-gig and now it's my first ever tattoo "You always hear that song whenever you go on a plane. "Then it's in the advert. "And then, for reasons no one really understands, this summer, it just exploded on TikTok. Has it surprised you how massive this has all gone?" Jess replied: "Yeah, it's a massive surprise 100%. It's the most amazing thing to see though." The hitmaker then hilariously performed her own version of Zoe's famous voiceover. Reading the full script out in the studio, Jess said: "Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday. "And right now, you can save £50 per person. "That's £200 off for a family of four." The entire audience cheered and Zoe was seen laughing as Jess read out the iconic voiceover script. Zoe then gave an impromptu live performance of her famous voiceover while Hold My Hand played in the background. Commenting on the video shared on Instagram, one person penned: "I love how people gets crazy over any kind of trend." Another wrote: "No this is a masterpiece." "The collab the world needed," said a third. While a fourth penned: "British culture at its finest!!" But a fifth person was less than impressed and controversially said: "Am I the only one starting to find this a bit boring now?" 5 Jess' hit Hold My Hand came out in 2015 Credit: Getty 5 Zoe Lister does the voiceover for Jet2 Credit: PA:Press Association
Scottish Sun
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Watch the moment Jess Glynne finally meets Jet2 voiceover star after TikTok trend goes viral
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) WATCH the moment Jess Glynne finally meets Jet2 voiceover star after TikTok trend goes viral - with fans going wild. Unless you haven't scrolled on social media for about four months, you'll definitely know about the iconic Jet2 trend that has taken the internet by storm. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 5 Jess Glynne finally met Jet2 voiceover star after the TikTok trend goes viral Credit: CapitalOfficial/Instagram 5 Zoe Lister is the lady who does the Jet2 voiceover Credit: CapitalOfficial/Instagram 5 The two women united on Capital earlier this week Credit: CapitalOfficial/Instagram Hold My Hand has been the signature theme song for Jet2's television adverts since around 2015, the same year the song was released. A decade on, the advert - complete with its voiceover by Zoe Lister - has gained international popularity on social media. "Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday," is now somewhat of a viral phrase on TikTok and Instagram, with many people using the audio in their own videos. And this, hitmaker Jess Glynne met voiceover star Zoe Lister for the first time. Jess, 35, and Zoe, 43, had never met despite having their work combined a few years ago. Capital Breakfast, hosted by Jordan North, united the women for the very first time on Monday morning - and his excitement was contagious. In a video posted to Instagram, Jordan was so excited that he squealed it was "finally happening" ahead of the two women meeting. "It's happening! It's happening!" he screamed as Zoe entered the studio and gave Jess a hug. Co-host Chris Stark then asked Jess: "You know what's coming, right? We've got to chat about it. "Of course, talking about Hold My Hand… Chart-topping singer drew me a doodle mid-gig and now it's my first ever tattoo "You always hear that song whenever you go on a plane. "Then it's in the advert. "And then, for reasons no one really understands, this summer, it just exploded on TikTok. Has it surprised you how massive this has all gone?" Jess replied: "Yeah, it's a massive surprise 100%. It's the most amazing thing to see though." The hitmaker then hilariously performed her own version of Zoe's famous voiceover. Reading the full script out in the studio, Jess said: "Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday. "And right now, you can save £50 per person. "That's £200 off for a family of four." The entire audience cheered and Zoe was seen laughing as Jess read out the iconic voiceover script. Zoe then gave an impromptu live performance of her famous voiceover while Hold My Hand played in the background. Commenting on the video shared on Instagram, one person penned: "I love how people gets crazy over any kind of trend." Another wrote: "No this is a masterpiece." "The collab the world needed," said a third. While a fourth penned: "British culture at its finest!!" But a fifth person was less than impressed and controversially said: "Am I the only one starting to find this a bit boring now?" 5 Jess' hit Hold My Hand came out in 2015 Credit: Getty
Time of India
19 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
Gita Gopinath education qualifications: When LSR built the base, DSE shaped the vision, and Princeton led her to the IMF
Gita Gopinath to quit IMF and return to Harvard as professor of economics in August. (image source: Gita Gopinath's journey from Indian classrooms to the commanding heights of global economic policy is one of vision, intellect, and relentless pursuit. Now, as she prepares to step down from her role as First Deputy Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and return to Harvard University in August 2025, her story comes full circle—back to academia, the world that first nurtured her passion for economics. Her rise to global prominence was no accident. It was built on the solid foundation of Indian institutions like Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR) and the Delhi School of Economics (DSE), further sharpened by her Ph.D. training at Princeton University. Each chapter of her education carved the path that would eventually lead her to become one of the most respected economists in the world. Now, as she transitions back to Harvard, this time bringing with her the experience of having helped steer global economic policy through historic crises, her academic legacy becomes an even greater source of inspiration for students in India and beyond. A foundation built in India Born on December 8, 1971, in Kolkata to a Malayali family from Kerala, Gita was raised in Mysore, Karnataka. Her early schooling at Nirmala Convent School laid the groundwork for a lifelong love of learning. But it was in Delhi that her academic identity began to take shape. She joined Lady Shri Ram College (LSR), one of India's premier institutions for women, where she pursued a bachelor's degree in economics. It was here that Gopinath's intellectual curiosity was sharpened. Professors at LSR recall her as meticulous, observant, and unusually driven. From LSR, she moved to the Delhi School of Economics (DSE), another revered institution under Delhi University, where she earned her master's degree in 1994. These years were pivotal, not just in terms of academic knowledge, but in the way they exposed her to the complexities of economic theory and real-world application. Her grounding in the Indian education system, with its rigorous focus on theory and fundamentals, would later serve as a valuable lens through which she interpreted global economic trends. The Ivy League chapter Armed with two degrees from India, Gopinath made her way to the United States, where she first earned an M.A. in economics from the University of Washington and then a Ph.D. from Princeton University. At Princeton, she studied under some of the most influential economists of the time, including Ben Bernanke, Kenneth Rogoff, and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas—names that would later become closely linked to global economic policymaking. Her doctoral thesis, 'Three Essays on International Capital Flows: A Search Theoretic Approach' , showcased the clarity and ambition of a young economist eager to decode the mechanisms of international finance. Her research earned her Princeton's prestigious Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Research Award. The academic powerhouse Gopinath's academic career began at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she joined as an assistant professor in 2001. Four years later, she made the leap to Harvard University, eventually becoming the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Economics. At Harvard, she produced influential work on exchange rate dynamics and global trade, including research that questioned long-held beliefs about currency policies and border taxes. Simultaneously, she played leadership roles in economic research circles, as co-director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a co-editor at the American Economic Review, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. But academia wasn't her only sphere. In a brief but notable policy role in India, she served as the honorary economic adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala: a nod to her roots and her growing international stature. Entering the global arena In October 2018, the IMF appointed her as its Chief Economist: the first woman and the second Indian (after Raghuram Rajan) to hold the post. At the time, she was set to return to her academic life, but the world had other plans. The COVID-19 pandemic hit, and Gopinath became a central figure in crafting the IMF's economic response. Her co-authored "Pandemic Paper" laid out a global strategy to tackle vaccine inequality. It didn't stay on paper—it led to the creation of a Multilateral Task Force involving the IMF, World Bank, WHO, and WTO. Her influence extended beyond economics to life-saving logistics, helping low-income nations access vaccines and rebuild from crisis. The IMF's second-in-command In December 2021, she was promoted to the role of First Deputy Managing Director at the IMF. Today, she is responsible for steering the fund's global surveillance work, leading high-level engagements with governments, and overseeing flagship research publications. It's a job that blends diplomacy, economics, and crisis management on a planetary scale. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva called her 'the right person at the right time', a description that now echoes across economic summits and policy forums. Rooted in India, leading the world Gita Gopinath's journey is more than a tale of personal success: it's an inspiring blueprint for Indian students navigating the intersection of local learning and global ambition. From Lady Shri Ram College to Princeton, from Delhi School of Economics to the IMF, her story proves that intellectual discipline, when paired with bold vision, can reshape global institutions. And while her current job demands her presence in Washington D.C. and at international summits, her journey remains deeply rooted in Indian soil. Every student walking through the gates of a Delhi University college today carries the quiet possibility of becoming the next Gita Gopinath. TOI Education is on WhatsApp now. Follow us here . Ready to navigate global policies? Secure your overseas future. Get expert guidance now!
Indian Express
a day ago
- Business
- Indian Express
Delhi govt unveils draft industrial policy to tackle red tape, attract investments
Dealing with regulatory 'inefficiencies' and bringing in a simpler registration and approval process is the way forward for Delhi to become a global business hub. This is at the core of the Delhi government's 'Draft Industrial Policy-2025-35', which aims to promote sectors such as banking, artificial intelligence and robotics. It also aims to promote the Research and Development (R&D) and Hospitality sectors to boost revenue and employment. The draft policy noted that the Capital's business environment suffers from 'significant regulatory inefficiencies' — including lengthy 4-6 month registration and licensing processes, multiple agency approvals, bureaucratic 'delays', 'corruption', and complex tax policies. This hinders businesses, especially SMEs, discourages FDI, and slows infrastructure development. 'To address this, Delhi must leverage AI-driven automation, digital governance, and investor-friendly frameworks to create a seamless and transparent economic ecosystem… so that Delhi can transform into a highly efficient and business-friendly hub, attracting investments, boosting employment, and accelerating economic growth,' reads the policy. The Industries Department has sought comments from the public and stakeholders on the draft. The steps recommended by the draft policy included implementing single-window business registration portals with blockchain verification for automated approvals and real-time tracking, inspired by Singapore's BizFile+ and Estonia's e-Residency. Enhancing regulatory transparency through blockchain-based systems to prevent manipulation and delays, as was in Dubai's Blockchain Strategy, accelerating commercial expansion and infrastructure development with one-stop digital approval systems and intimation-based regimes like Hong Kong's E-Submission Hub, were also suggested in the draft policy. 'The policy aims to harness the city's skilled human capital, create quality employment opportunities, and ensure inclusive, sustainable economic growth, while making optimal use of Delhi's limited land and environmental resources,' said officials. Under this policy, the government also aims to set up a Rs 400-crore venture capital fund. There are also plans to provide reimbursement of 50% fixed capital investment (including land) for five years for businesses in frontier-tech sectors up to a maximum limit of Rs 50 crore per project. In addition, there will be a 6% interest subsidy per annum for the first five years; reimbursement of 100% state GST for five years; 100% reimbursement of patent filing up to Rs 5 lakh per patent; and exemption of 50% on wheeling charges and transmission charges, on interstate purchase of power, reads the draft policy. Industrial areas in Baprola, Rani Khera and Kanjhawala have been earmarked for development of the frontier-tech services sector. Further, to boost the hospitality sector, the policy recommends permitting hotels and serviced apartments as part of commercial centres in industrial zones. The government has proposed a series of targeted interventions, including increasing hotel rooms near locations like ITPO at Pragati Maidan and Yashobhoomi for the hospitality sector under its policy. 'Facilitate the PPP model for developing tourism infrastructure at government facilities… Make Delhi a restaurant and bistro-friendly city with streamlined compliance and regulatory burden, and a reasonable alcohol policy,' reads the draft. An 'inter-departmental committee' will be formed to serve as a recommendatory body to the Cabinet for sanction of incentives across various sectors. A high-level review and monitoring committee will be constituted to monitor the implementation and progress of all the policy provisions regularly, said officials. Officials said the subsidies will be sanctioned by the Commissioner, Industries. Further, the draft policy recommends holding a Global Investor Summit and other events for promotion of the policy and industrial development in Delhi. There are a total of 32 planned and 27 unplanned industrial areas and 4 flatted factories in Delhi.
Spectator
6 days ago
- Business
- Spectator
Why wealth taxes don't work
The nation owes the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock an eternal debt for losing the 1992 general election when he was clear favourite to win it, thereby sparing us whatever socialist folly he might have brought to Downing Street. I salute him again for popping up to propose a 2 per cent wealth tax on fortunes above £10 million that might raise a supposed £11 billion for the hard-pressed Chancellor – thereby bringing into sharp focus the vague threat that several cabinet ministers have studiously refused to rule out. Pressure is building on Rachel Reeves from backbenchers, unions and anti-poverty campaign groups to mount a raid on the rich in her autumn Budget. But Kinnock of all people, a firebrand backbencher at the time, should remember that Labour's 1974 manifesto included the promise of 'an annual Wealth Tax on the Rich [and] a new tax on major transfers of personal wealth' – which was dead within two years. Why? Because of concerns in the Treasury, and among worldly Labour voices such as the (millionaire) cabinet fixer Harold Lever, that at a time of dire UK economic performance, such a confiscatory measure would provoke an exodus of capital and a crisis of business confidence. Sound familiar? Once upon a time, wealth taxes were in fashion in a dozen OECD countries, as bien pensants bought Thomas Piketty's thesis, in his absurdly bestselling tome Capital, that a global levy was the moral solution to the fact that the rich were getting richer even while ordinary folks' real incomes were squeezed. But one by one, most of those taxes were scrapped as being difficult to collect, economically counter-productive and an incentive to entrepreneur flight. In Europe, only Norway, Spain and Switzerland still have them – and further afield, Colombia, presumably in pursuit of cocaine loot. Spain is reckoned to have lost 10,000 of its richest since the higher rate was raised to 3.5 per cent in 2022. In short, the tired old wealth tax concept is a classic red flag of envy politics – and we must thank Lord Kinnock for waving it. Not with a bang Meanwhile, Reeves's 'Leeds reforms' ahead of her Mansion House speech on Tuesday made great play of slashing City red tape. But after a backlash from the sector she has U-turned on her well-advertised plan to cut the £20,000 tax-free cash Isa limit in the hope of pushing savings towards UK equities. Spin ahead of the day's speeches talked of a new 'Big Bang'. But until there's a tidal shift of capital towards high-growth UK companies – and valuations rise accordingly, driven by a revival of international confidence in UK prospects generally – all other City reforms risk being dismissed (to misquote T.S. Eliot) not as bangs but as whimpers. Rose among clowns Congratulations and an overdue apology to Cindy Rose, the senior London-based Microsoft executive who has been headhunted to revive WPP, the advertising and PR conglomerate that has never fully recovered from the acrimonious departure of its creator Sir Martin Sorrell in 2018. One of the few world-scale businesses built in Britain in the past 40 years and a long-time constituent of the FTSE 100 index, WPP stands accused of running adrift in the era of social media marketing. Torn by internal strife, it has lost clients and seen its shares plunge; another sharp fall followed the resignation of the current chief executive Mark Read and a profits warning last week. Some analysts say the best hope is a break-up into its constituent agencies, while Sorrell himself declares unhelpfully that WPP may be 'too far gone' to be turned around, even by Rose. Who is she? A New York-trained lawyer, she has also worked for Vodafone and Virgin and been called 'the most powerful woman in UK tech'. And I'd guess she's well skilled at deflating the overblown male egos that tend to disrupt 'talent-led' firms such as WPP – which takes me neatly to my apology, for an episode long ago when Rose, newly arrived to work for a top London law firm, found herself among Englishmen behaving riotously at a dinner party that might have been a rejected scene from Laura Wade's play Posh. This being the pre-internet age, an exchange of barbed letters followed, mine on crudely faked US Supreme Court letterhead purporting to offer consoling advice from Justice Clarence Thomas. While I guffawed at my own ungallant wit, she evidently concluded that if this drunken 'peanut gallery' (I think that was her phrase) was the best an expensive British education could produce, she'd have no difficulty overtaking us to build a top-level corporate career on this side of the pond. As indeed she has: so not only is moral victory hers but I suspect our buffoonery hardened her ambition. And I'll happily offer her tea at the Ritz to celebrate that positive outcome. Korea from here? How do we achieve a revaluation not just of London-listed stocks but of the UK as a whole in the eyes of the world? The question came to mind twice this week. First, contemplating (but not actually ordering) a 'Korean Crunch Burger' on the room-service menu of a Premier Inn, I wondered how the austere industrial powerhouse of South Korea I knew in the 1980s became so fashionable in fast food, pop music and cinema that the prefix 'K-' will these days sell almost any gimmick. Next, enjoying pierogi and vodka at the Ognisko restaurant in South Kensington's Polish Hearth Club, I recalled the downbeat post-communist Poland of the early 1990s, now a rising star of European diplomacy, tourism and even Wimbledon tennis. In both cases, a generation-long release of creativity and animal spirits has wrought startling transformation. How do we get there from here? Certainly not by following the flickering torch of Reeves and our visionless Prime Minister. But still the question should be writ large on every Westminster whiteboard.
