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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Anna Richards

I’m an expat living in France – this is everything ‘Emily in Paris’ gets wrong

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Four years ago, Emily Cooper bounded onto our screens, full of faux pas, Americanisms, and an excessive wardrobe poached straight from The Hunger Games’ Capitol. I watched it from Cornwall under lockdown, likely still clad in my sweaty gym kit, with a sense of nostalgia for my own gaffs and holiday romances during my student year abroad in France.

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