/ 14 June 2022

Teen accepted into every Ivy League college, Jennifer Hudson joins the EGOT club, and the Queen hits another milestone…

Image source: Getty
Image source: Getty

Ashley Adirika – a 17yo Floridian – has been accepted into every Ivy League university in America. Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale have invited the first-generation Nigerian-American to join them. “I just decided to shoot my shot at all of them and see if it would land,” she said. It sure landed…

Singer/producer Jennifer Hudson has become the 17th EGOT winner. E-what? It’s someone who has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony throughout their careers. On Sunday, she picked up the T – a Tony award for producing Broadway hit A Strange Loop.

And Queen Elizabeth yesterday became the 2nd-longest-serving sovereign monarch in history after 70 years and 127 days on the throne. Overtaking Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej (who died in 2016), she has 16th-century King Louis XIV of France ahead of her with 72 years and 110 days. Go you good thing…

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