Spice Girl, designer and soon-to-be beauty mogul Victoria Beckham announced she would be starting her own YouTube channel back in November, and she has now finally given her fans a taste of what's to come.
In a 90-second teaser posted on her channel, Beckham tells fans she plans to do her own annual version of the Queen’s speech.
With her hair wrapped in a towel and her tongue firmly in her cheek, VB says she came up with the idea as the Queen’s speech is “very popular”.
“I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to figure out and conjure up what the public really want from me,” says Beckham, after taking a sip of water fed to her by an assistant, concluding: “The Queen’s speech, only much, much, much longer and with me, instead of you know the ‘actual Queen’.”
The video shows Beckham’s playful side, with many fans already dubbing her the queen of YouTube.
“Well done Victoria and they said you don't have a sense of humour, well they had better brace themselves for when you unleash it,” wrote one commenter.
Of course, Beckham’s YouTube channel won’t actually be full of hour-long monologues, but it will feature more of the same humour, alongside beauty dos and don'ts, and general life updates.
And it seems VB’s teaser – and playful call to subscribe – has worked, with 70,000 people already signed up to the channel. It’s expected the designer will start releasing regular videos in the coming weeks.
Sinopharm vaccine explained
The Sinopharm vaccine was created using techniques that have been around for decades.
“This is an inactivated vaccine. Simply what it means is that the virus is taken, cultured and inactivated," said Dr Nawal Al Kaabi, chair of the UAE's National Covid-19 Clinical Management Committee.
"What is left is a skeleton of the virus so it looks like a virus, but it is not live."
This is then injected into the body.
"The body will recognise it and form antibodies but because it is inactive, we will need more than one dose. The body will not develop immunity with one dose," she said.
"You have to be exposed more than one time to what we call the antigen."
The vaccine should offer protection for at least months, but no one knows how long beyond that.
Dr Al Kaabi said early vaccine volunteers in China were given shots last spring and still have antibodies today.
“Since it is inactivated, it will not last forever," she said.
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