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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Beddington

Why do US celebrities love the UK? Because they don’t live here

Sarah Jessica Parker
‘Why do they see that we don’t in this island where ecologically dead rivers run with sewage, children live in poverty and 1 million experience destitution?’ Photograph: © 2023 WarnerMedia Direct, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

‘I want to know Jubilee, Piccadilly, Northern, I want to know Edgware … Your system here is exquisite.” That is Sarah Jessica Parker raving about the tube. “Goodge” she added, in wonderment, rolling the word around in her mouth like a mint humbug. She is in London, appearing in Plaza Suite at the Savoy theatre, having the time of her life and appreciating breakfast foods. “There’s these eggs here … that I go mad for, they’re called Burford, they have those orange yolks … oh my God … I love your rashers here,” she told the chef Ruth Rogers on Rogers’ podcast. Her Instagram features black cabs, graffiti and her learning which bus “gets me where I need to go. On time.”

Meanwhile, Zendaya has been “spotted patiently queueing for a Gail’s coffee and pastry” and doing a big shop in New Malden Waitrose; Vogue has declared her “one sausage roll away” from honorary Briton status.

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