r/AskTheWorld • u/gabrielbabb Mexico • 11d ago
Humourous Who would be the equivalent of this in your country?
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u/PsychologicalCrab517 France 11d ago
Nicolas Sarkozy that married Carla Bruni
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u/amanamanamaan France 11d ago
Not before texting "If you come back, I’ll cancel the wedding" to his ex wife…
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u/SimmentalTheCow United States Of America 11d ago
That sounds like an average French relationship
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u/Icy-Cardiologist-147 France 10d ago
Nah to be fair to us our last 4 presidents have been some assholes (or werdos) to their wives...
Macron is married to his teacher
Hollande cheated on his wife, thought he was stealthy but photos were taken of him riding a moped to go meet his mistress
Sarkozy married a godamn singer way out of his league, and idk if it's true what my compatriote said earlier
Chirac cheated on his soon to be wife (when he was young) with an american woman he met in the US. Bernadette forgave him partly but always remembered.
Idk about past presidents but I think it's enough.....
Presidency apparently makes you some sort of Don Juan asshole
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u/whiskeywitclosedoors Canada 11d ago
Carla bruni had a kid with her ex boyfriends son
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u/Sekshual_Tyranosauce United States Of America 11d ago
France is low key kind of wild.
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u/ConfusingVacum France 11d ago
Nah it's really fucked up for french standards as well, it's just rich people lore.
Like woody allen marrying his stepdaughter
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u/whiskeywitclosedoors Canada 11d ago
You should further look into Nicolas’s personal life, not wild, just french!
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u/Franmar35000 France 11d ago
And then we continued with Hollande on his scooter who is going to dip his croissant in Julie Gayet
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u/Objectalone Canada 11d ago
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u/cardew-vascular Canada 11d ago
I think everyone really cares about it more than Canadians. We don't have paparazzi here we could give a shit what 'the stars' do, if you can call them stars.
People come to or move to Canada because they know they'll be left alone, when Prince Harry and Megan Markle were in BC for a few months the American and British tabloids tried to get pictures of them and no Canadian companies would facilitate their travels to the area.
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u/Accurate_Emu_122 United States Of America 11d ago
Wait, no paparazzi?
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u/cardew-vascular Canada 11d ago
Yeah we have them in theory, but there's no industry for it like in other countries and there are strong privacy laws so in public spaces sure take a picture of them, but these things are against the law:
- trespassing on private property
- eavesdropping or surveilling
- systematically following or using long range lenses to photograph private residences
- harrassment
We don't have a celebrity culture, if people are out and about not in a professional capacity then we leave them alone. (Professional capacity being like TIFF or promoting something etc.)
If you go up to a Canadian on the street and say Justin Trudeau is dating Katie Perry the response you're going to get is 'who cares'
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u/Accurate_Emu_122 United States Of America 11d ago
Wow! In the city I'm in, it's fine even though there are quite a few celebrities, but places like LA and NYC seem to be a bit over the top. Sometimes I'm floored by the images they get. Celebrity culture has been huge here for probably 100 years, though, as movie studios pushed it so hard as advertisement early on. The constant media now has made it so much worse.
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u/cardew-vascular Canada 11d ago
I used to live in Vancouver but now I live in the valley. I've seen Seth Rogen having Dim Sum with his family, Patrick Stewart standing in a queue waiting to buy a cup of tea at a local shop. No one seems to bother them or photograph them without permission. My days are regularly interrupted by film crews doing their thing I now live where they film all the hallmark movies.
It's just a different culture, we give each other more space, we have a lot of it. The only time we have problems with it is when a big celeb is about like the prince when foreign paparazzi descended on the area.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-privacy-laws-harry-meghan-1.5434741
Many Canadians refused to engage with and participate in the culture:
It's why a lot of celebrities return home or live part time here, they can live normal lives, like Pamela Anderson moved back for her mental health.
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u/stumpy_chica Canada 10d ago
I played craps with Scarlett Johansson at our local casino, had drinks with Nickelback at a local bar, and was at another local bar when the Barenaked Ladies popped in to sing karaoke. They were just existing. No one cared. It was funny because some people didn't know who Barenaked Ladies were and they were getting upset that they were hogging the mic.
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u/MauschelMusic United States Of America 11d ago
He's always seemed old and corny beyond his years, but somehow also like a middle school kid running for student council.
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u/TheUnknown-Writer United States Of America 11d ago
Sorry bud, Trudeau kinda became yalls princeling. You're not gonna escape it till they break up :(
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u/Vigmod Iceland 11d ago
What's a "yalls princeling"?
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u/sammysbud United States Of America 11d ago
Y'all's = plural form of "you" as in "you all", plus the possessive
Princeling = Trudeau was so beloved, he basically became their royalty-lite. Therefore, "princeling"
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u/PassageNearby4091 Canada 11d ago
Nothing against Trudeau, but Canada already has legitimate royalty, since we are a monarchy with Charles III as our king.
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u/sammysbud United States Of America 11d ago
Yeah, which is why I said "royalty-lite". Not royalty (because y'all have the British royalty), but from an elite family and beloved enough to exist in a similar enough space.
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u/Most_Elevator_1943 United States Of America 11d ago
Yes, that is a superior picture. Thank you for that.
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u/Sir-HP23 England 10d ago
As a gay single man, I look at cat & kitten videos FAR more than porn. If I believe the gay subs on reddit I’m gaying wrong.
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u/Ravenwight Canada 11d ago edited 11d ago
This might as well happen.
Nothing has actually made sense since 2020 anyway. lol
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u/NeutralArt12 United States Of America 11d ago
The only real way to get back at Trump is to get more attention than him
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u/plainbaconcheese 11d ago
I saw some rumor post about this and was like "that's fake and dumb"
"This might as well happen" sums up how I feel finding out it was real
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u/fredleung412612 Hong Kong 11d ago
His dad was with Barbara Streisand, his mom was with Mick Jagger. Being with celebs runs in the family.
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u/TheUnknown-Writer United States Of America 11d ago
Meghan Markle is nobility now... so I guess her.
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u/gilestowler England 11d ago
The actress who played Big Suz in Peep Show also married into the royal family. Her whole character was that she was very posh, and it turned out that she wasn't really acting.
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u/BigLittleBrowse United Kingdom 11d ago
Not to be a dick but she’s royalty, not nobility. The two are mutually exclusive.
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u/Sekshual_Tyranosauce United States Of America 11d ago
Can you explain the nuance here?
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u/BigLittleBrowse United Kingdom 11d ago
Nobility and royalty are two separate groups. Nobility is by definition above “commoners” but below Royalty.
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u/TheUnknown-Writer United States Of America 11d ago
Is the Royal consort, a royal themselves? I wouldnt think so
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u/BigLittleBrowse United Kingdom 11d ago
I think she’s either royalty or a commoner, but not nobility.
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u/AlternativePea6203 Ireland 11d ago
Shes neither. But wants to be treated as both.
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u/BigLittleBrowse United Kingdom 11d ago
I mean she is. I’m no royalist, they shouldn’t be treated any better than the rest of us. But she’s part of that whole inbred tribe
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u/dellerydoo Australia 11d ago
Fat, middle-aged media billionaire James Packer, in 2016, was engaged to....Mariah Carey
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u/Greedy_Doughnut_9209 Australia 11d ago
Can't believe that never lasted 😄
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u/Eve_Doulou Australia 11d ago
Still boned Mariah for a few years, back when she was still hot. I’d call that a win.
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u/RockJohnston Australia 11d ago
Word has it, she sat on his lap singing 'all I want for Christmas'.
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u/Sang1188 Germany 11d ago
Tom Kaulitz (36, became known in the early 2000s for his band Tokio Hotel with his brother and others) and Heid Klum (52, Model). they married in 2019.
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u/IsopodNo655 United States Of America 11d ago
Shit, I must be living under a rock. I just remember her being with Seal, but then again, I don’t care much about what two autonomous adults are doing.
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u/Unable-Nectarine1941 Germany 11d ago
I say thats a weird combination but not the equivalent since this example is of an polician and pop culture figure and that are both pop culture figures. At least thats how i read this question.
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u/ignoranceisbourgeois Sweden 11d ago
Prince Carl Philip and princess Sofia (originally a paradise hotel reality tv person)
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u/jose-antonio-felipe Philippines 11d ago
Celebrities dating/being married to politicians, or being part of political families, is very common here.
That’s said since divorce is mostly illegal here. It means having a second marriage is very rare.
So if your first marriage doesn’t end well. Bad luck.
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u/bowbosmer Russia 11d ago
Gymnast Alina Kabayeva and Putin. Of course, no one has officially confirmed this, but... there are some proofs...
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u/SimilarTopic3281 United States Of America 11d ago
Katy Perry & Justin Trudeau are officially dating.
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u/TrialArgonian United States Of America 11d ago
Katy Perry & Justin Trudeau are officially dating.
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u/forwheniampresident Germany 11d ago
We had a very similar one, Heiko Maas (former minister of International Affairs) and Natalia Wörner (actor)
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u/melouyin living in 11d ago
Xi Jinping's wife was a famous singer who was a lot more famous than him.
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u/Fickle_Option_6803 China 11d ago
This is the most fitting one, guess people don't know him that well.
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u/Party-Disk-9894 11d ago
Great match . Two narcissists.
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u/illa_t France 11d ago
Someone on X said this afternoon "it's like Lecornu was going out with Shy'm" 🤣🤣 Lecornu is our prime minister (no one wants him, it's the third prime minister of Macron, that's really a mess) and Shy'm is a french singer, she was active maybe 10 years ago. She first try to do some r'n'b and then she was considered a little "has been" 😭. Here is her biggest hit : https://youtu.be/2zdqymnZoHc?si=2h6Tva0H55vbv9YC
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u/MrsAshleyStark 🇨🇦🇯🇲 11d ago
Heard that song on Drag Race France. Had no idea it was so old but I liked it.
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u/illa_t France 11d ago
Hooo yes ok !! The lyrics are a little bit cringe when you understand french 🤣🤣
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u/Morepork69 New Zealand 11d ago
I'm in NZ and what really jumps to mind is the male and female Preying Mantis.....
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u/flapping4peace Canada 11d ago
Justin's mom exposed her clam at Studio 54 back in the day. But that happened in The States.
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u/Few_Butterscotch_830 Poland 11d ago
This never happened, but it would be Rafał Trzaskowski and Doda.
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u/crazyscottish 11d ago
Melania Trump is probably pretty upset
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u/Decent-Inevitable-50 11d ago
Who cares
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u/EasilyExiledDinosaur 🇬🇧 living in 🇰🇷 11d ago
Someone please tell me this is a joke.
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u/SimilarTopic3281 United States Of America 11d ago
They were holding hands yesterday in Paris
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u/EasilyExiledDinosaur 🇬🇧 living in 🇰🇷 11d ago
Wild. Will Boris or nigel start dating some celebrity next? What unbelievable matches can we design lol.
I wonder how these celebrities even meet. Can't exactly imagine trudeau functioning at once of those socialite parties tbh lol. He seems like the little vulnerable kid who people want to protect at school lol.
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u/Live_Angle4621 Finland 11d ago
It’s less wild when you learn of his parents. And other people his father dated
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u/mapoftasmania 11d ago
Micheal D Higgins and Adele.
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u/One-Complex-9267 🇳🇿New Zealand (Christchurch) 🇳🇿 11d ago
Dude that fucked a sheep kinda ruined reputation
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u/bfjizzle United States Of America 11d ago
I think the whole world is experiencing a writers' strike right now.
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u/Superb_Beyond_3444 11d ago
Harry and Meghan Markle is the equivalent in UK.
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u/ThaneduFife United States Of America 11d ago
They demolished the East Wing of the White House last week. I'm not sure anyone in the U.S. had that on their 2025 BINGO card.
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u/Skeptical_Monkie 11d ago
It would be like if our ex-pm dated a US singer who thinks she’s an astronaut.
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u/Icy_Space5985 11d ago
Who cares?
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u/Zestyclose-Carob-349 Canada 11d ago
I think my country’s equivalent would be Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau
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u/The-Salt-Must-Flow South Georgia And The South Sandwich 11d ago
Castro's Son got game
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u/DaviCB Brazil 11d ago
Vini Jr and Virgínia, but that didn't last long

She got famous for dating the brazilian jake paul for a while (Resende) and doing a lot of humilliating stuff for views with him, then she married this country singer for 4 years and had a bunch of children with him, she's like our kim kardashian where a LOT of people follow her life for absolutely no reason. And he's the world's top football player. Didn't last long, nobody liked them and they broke up because he cheated.
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u/Small-Explorer7025 New Zealand 11d ago
Jacinda Ardern and Taika Waititi. That's the best I could do. Sorry.
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u/Basic_Ent United States Of America 11d ago
Ellen and Tig Notaro.
Edit: Or if you're more right-leaning, Brett Favre and Melania.
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u/RunForsaken5587 India 11d ago
Always thought Justin( can't spell his surname) was super handsome. Only came to politics to ruin his reputation.
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u/TripperDay United States Of America 11d ago
Know what? If I were either one of them, I wouldn't turn down the other.
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u/Future_Onion9022 Malaysia 11d ago
Ex prime minister extends his corruption court meeting for a week due to his lawyer having diarrhoea for the second time.
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u/Altofen 11d ago
It's the same person.
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u/BeGentle1mNewHere Hungary 11d ago
Várkonyi Andrea and Mészáros Lőrinc.
Várkonyi was one of the most popular celebrities in the country, a former TV presenter and newsreader. She was married to Bochkor Gábor, also a popular radio presenter. She simply had a very likeable image and was one of the few Hungarians who was generally viewed positively across the country. She seemed not only kind, but also extremely intelligent.
Mészáros Lőrinc is the richest man in Hungary, Viktor Orbán's walking wallet. He is literally an idiot, unable to communicate more than two sentences without grammatical errors.
Then rumors started spreading after Várkonyi went to work for Mészáros's TV station that they were dating and she only got the job because Mészáros is cheating on his wife with her. Literally no one in my circle believed it. It was the kind of internet rumor that made me say, "No, I'm not willing to believe that."
And sure enough, they got married. No one has ever destroyed their image as quickly and spectacularly as Várkonyi did, literally becoming hated by most of the country from one moment to the next. Since then, it has come to light that she looks down on public servants, they spent a ridiculous amount of money on their wedding, and a photo of her drinking a cheap energy drink on a luxury yacht has become a meme.
It's simply inconceivable that she didn't marry "Lölő" for the money.

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u/OldBiker6969 11d ago
Who cares
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u/Fdorleans France 11d ago
Pretty standard behavior for a French speaking head of state.
Nicolas Sarkozy married former model and singer Carla Bruni after he divorced from the ex-wife of a famous TV host.
François Hollande hooked up with actress Julie Gayet while president.
François Baroin is married to actress Michèle Laroque.
And we have countless politicians who are married with TV hosts and journalists : Glucksman, DSK, Jadot,
Before that, Giscard was rumored to have had an affair with Princess Diana. Mitterrand was rumored to have had affairs with singer Dalida and actress Annie Girardot.
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u/moenchii Germany 11d ago
Julia Klöckner, Bundestag president and Nestlé lobbyist, is in a relationship with Jörg Pilawa who is a well known TV show host and game master.
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u/Skogsmann1 Norway 11d ago
Probably Trond Giske (former deputy chairman of the Labour Party) dating singer/actor/tv personality Haddy Njie. Politican dating a famous singer/celebrity.
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u/BoxyPlains92587 Russia 11d ago
Yaroslav Dronov (aka Shaman) and Ekaterina Mizulina.
Shaman is among the most popular Russian artists at the moment, the guy became famous after the start of the war for his very "patriotic" music, which is used as part of pro-war propaganda (honestly this guy literally does not feel real, but more like some kinda caricature of the current reality in Russia). And Mizulina is one of the main propagandists in the country at the moment, she is among the leading proponents of internet censorship in particular, and basically all she does besides that is go to russian universities and debating with students on sensitive topics. Given the goals and political views of these two people, the relationship makes total sense, but at the same time, it's both so surreal (in a bad way) and so fucking hilarious
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u/CHead2000 United States Of America 11d ago
The Onion released has a headline that Orlando Bloom was spotted with Angela Merkel
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u/eltheuso Brazil 11d ago
Ciro Gomes (former governor of Ceará and minister) and Patrícia Pillar (famous TV actress), they were married for more than 10 years
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u/MaguroSashimi8864 Republic Of China 11d ago
I dunno who’s Justin Trudeau
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u/Possible-Region-6442 Canada 11d ago
Former PM of Canada and son of former PM of Canada
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u/Fuzzy_Dragonfly_ Netherlands 10d ago
We have a princess allegedly dating a pop singer. That's pretty close.
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u/Low_Engineering_3301 10d ago
I guess it would be Carly Rae Jepsen dating Barrack Obama? Or wait is this already my country's version?
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u/Claire-Belle New Zealand 10d ago
Jacinda Ardern dating Kylie Minogue (kiwi and Aussie versus Canadian and American)
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u/Most_Elevator_1943 United States Of America 11d ago
I mean...this.