After Work Drinks

James Hottie Middleton has made his secret Instagram account private - but we're mainly interested in who he's following (and potentially thirsting over). We've heard rumours about R. Kelly for decades, so why has it taken us so long to take them seriously? Plus, Botox and Filler Nation - Australia is now the country with the most cosmetic surgery operations per capita IN THE WORLD. When did we all decide that plastic surgery was the norm, and why are there so few meaningful conversations about it? Reading material: The Guardian: 'Why Has Holiday Reading Become a Competitive Sport'? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/12/why-has-holiday-reading-become-a-competitive-sport Film: Cold War (2018) by Paweł Pawlikowski Vanity Fair's 'In The Limelight' podcast 'A Royal Holiday' https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-limelight/id1177555203?mt=2 Buzzfeed: 'Inside the Pied Piper of R&B's Cult' https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult Lifetime's 'Surviving R. Kelly' (2019) The New Yorker: 'R. Kelly and The Complexities of Race in the Me Too Era' https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/r-kelly-and-the-complexities-of-race-in-the-metoo-era The Guardian: ‘Is America developing a ‘crack-like’ addiction to Botox beauty? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jan/08/botox-nation-america-addiction-crack-like-cosmetic-procedures The Atlantic: ‘No More Stigma Against Plastic Surgery, Please’ https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/07/no-more-stigma-against-plastic-surgery-please/277427/ The Cut: ‘Plastic Surgery: What Happens Before And After’ https://www.thecut.com/2017/05/plastic-cosmetic-surgery-lauren-greenfield-before-and-after.html Man Repeller: ‘I’m 28 Years Old And I Think I Want Botox’ https://www.manrepeller.com/2017/05/botox-in-your-twenties.html Refinery 29: ‘Is Botox Anti-Feminist?’ https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/01/187527/botox-feminism-guilt