Sofia Jirau, 25, Puerto Rican model, has had a dream come true. Jirau is the first Vicoria’s Secret model with Down Syndrome. For a long time, the models from the US underwear brand, also known as “angels” because of their slung wings, had to conform to an ideal of beauty with little room for diversity. With the new advertising campaign, in which 17 other women are involved in addition to Jirau, the brand wants to appear more inclusive. “Once I dreamed about it, I worked for it, and today the dream comes true”, wrote Jirau on Instagramwhere she announced her commitment a few days ago.
Tom Holland, 25, British actor, worked incognito in a London bar. Holland wanted to prepare for his role in the film “Uncharted”. “I went there and put on the bartender clothes and went undercover there. It was fun,” he told US radio station Sirius XM. Before taking on shifts, he took a bartender course. “When word got out around town and people started realizing that apparently Tom Holland was making the drinks at this bar, so did the manager,” he said. “And then I ended up getting more or less fired.” In the cinema adaptation of the Playstation game “Uncharted” he plays the main role of Nathan Drake, who earns his living as a bartender.
Adam McKay, 53, American film director and screenwriter, has a handy dog. The “perfect” animal likes to eat waste, said the Oscar winner in his acceptance speech for a star on Hollywood’s “Walk of Fame”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/.”It’s completely crazy, his own name read on a sidewalk,” the director quipped to onlookers and photographers at the unveiling.
Alexander Herrman, 50, star chef, does not want to be a role model. “If the pedestrian traffic light turns red and there’s no car coming, I’ll go over anyway,” said Herrmann Nuremberg newspaper. He doesn’t see himself as a person in principle responsible for everything, but when it comes to top gastronomy, “I’m totally there”. If you want to do something good for yourself, he advises you to cook for yourself and buy at the market, from the gardener, from the farmer or – organically – in the supermarket. “Of course there can be a sprayed pepper, nobody dies from it.”