Spotlight – September 2019

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BRITAIN

Only slim

is sexy

EASY

Making a career in showbiz is tough if

you don’t have the perfect figure. This is

what James Corden, 40, told actor David

Tennant on his podcast David Tennant Does

a Podcast with... Corden said that he had

found it difficult to get lead roles when

he was younger because he was chubby,

so he created his own lead role by writing

and starring in the British TV comedy

Gavin & Stacey. Now the host of The Late

Late Show in the US, he still thinks bigger

actors are discriminated against, because

in film and TV shows, “if you are chubby

or fat or big, you never really fall in love,

you never have sex”.

Age: 28

From: Castlebar in County Mayo,

Ireland

Job: Writer

Background: Rooney studied English at

Trinity College Dublin and did a master’s

degree in American literature. She pub-

lished her first novel, Conversations with

Friends, in 2017 and her second novel,

Normal People, a year later.

Famous because: Normal People, about

the relationship between two college

students, has won awards, including the

Irish Novel of the Year, the British Fiction

Book of the Year and the British Book of

the Year.

AUSTRALIA

All together now

EASY

Empty-nest syndrome is low on the list of

Australian parents’ worries: new statistics

from the Australian Institute of Family

Studies show that young people are in-

creasingly living in their parents’ homes

well into their twenties.

The institute says 36 per cent of peo-

ple aged between 20 and 24 were living at

home in 1981; by 2016, this had risen to 43

per cent. The proportion of 25- to 29-year-

olds living at home has gone up, too: from

10 to 17 per cent in the same time span.

Anne Hollonds, director of the insti-

tute, told The Sydney Morning Herald that

young people now stay in the family

home longer because of high housing

costs; time spent in higher education;

a lack of employment; and the trend to

marry later. Fewer Australians, it seems,

are choosing to marry at all. The popula-

tion “down under” has doubled since the

1970s, and while there were 116,000 mar-

riages in 1970, in 2017, there were 113,000.

If there’s

one thing

I know I

didn’t do

wrong,

it’s the

Louvre.

lack [lÄk]

, Mangel

time span [(taIm spÄn]

, Zeitspanne

chubby [(tSVbi]

, pummelig

host [hEUst]

, Moderator

THE NEWCOMER

Sally Rooney EASY

renowned [ri(naUnd]

, berühmt

— I.M. Pei quoted in

The New York Times. The

renowned Chinese-American

architect died this spring at

the age of 102.

degree [di(gri:]

, Abschluss

novel [(nQv&l]

, Roman