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In this episode we discuss:

• The Pussy Cat Dolls are back and will be performing on X Factor UK for the first time in 10 years.
• K-Pop's Queen CL is also back this Wednesday with new music and we just CAN'T DEAL!
• RuPaul has opened up with Vanity Fair that he and his husband is in an open relationship.
• We tragically lost Goo Hara and Godfrey Gao this week, which continues the conversation around mental health and cyber bullying
• The Simpsons is reportedly coming to an end next year after 32 seasons :(

Today's deep dive:

• An article published on Next Shark has the internet in tears after Kathy Pao wrote about the heart breaking reason why her family has kept her brother's death a secret from their grandparents.
• READ: http://bit.ly/2PazIuK
• Why on Earth is the Prime Minister of Australia tweeting about cricket instead of coming up with a solution about the horrific bush fires in the country?

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We give you the latest juice of celebrity & pop culture news and discuss issues faced by women, LGBTQI+ and the Asian community. Hosted by journalist Phillip Kuoch and singer/songwriter Thomas Tan.
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HELLO and welcome to this week’s chat with LEMON.
This week we are joined by a really good friend of the show, Jenny Zhou
She was our first guest on the show and we got so much great feedback on Jenny’s energy
We interviewed Jenny a while back, right after she had just come back home to Melbourne after a stint in LA auditioning for TV pilots and movies
When it comes to breaking the Asian mould, Jenny’s the girl.
Right after graduating high school, Jenny did one semester of law school before deciding that she wanted to go to a Shanghai acting school.
She made the most of her time there and broke into China’s entertainment industry.
She was a host of a popular kids music show, had her own daily morning radio breakfast show AND even had roles in several Netflix series.
In this chat, we discuss about her reason behind moving to China to pursue a career and how much the entertainment industry in Australia has changed for aspiring Asian performers.
We hope you enjoy this chat with Jenny, here’s Jenny.
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Welcome to another week of LEMON. This week we discuss:

• Rebel Wilson has announced she's making a movie about K-pop and Asian Twitter is NOT HAPPY.
• The synopsis: “Seoul Girls,”follows a Korean American high school girl and her friends who enter a worldwide talent competition, which seeks the opening act for the world’s biggest K-pop boy band.The girls will get help from “an ex-member of a British girl group and a former K-pop trainee” to “find their voices on the world’s biggest stage.”
• With only one Asian screenwriter attached to the movie so far - could this further stereotype Asian people in mainstream media?

AND

• Is being Asian holding you back from work promotions by default? We discuss the recent article by the ABC about how Asian-Australians and Asian-Americans are struggling to break through the 'bamboo ceiling'
• Bamboo ceiling is similar to ‘glass ceiling’ for women, which refers to the idea about the invisible barriers through which Asian people can see managerial positions but cannot reach them.

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HELLO and welcome to this week’s chat with LEMON.
On today’s episode we are joined by singer song writer AJ Mitchell, who is signed to Epic Records
AJ started learning how to play the piano at just 4 years old and composed his own songs when he was 6.
He would play the piano at home for HOURS even though it was missing a few keys.
At the age of 13, AJ then started to post his singing covers on YouTube and Instagram and then things started to take off.
His first independent single ‘Used To Be’ amassed 60m streams and to date, he has more than 200m streams and he’s only 18!.
AJ Mitchell is releasing his debut album Skyview in 2020 and in this chat we talk about his musical influence, how he launched his music career AND his favourite things about visiting Australia.

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On this week's episode, we discuss:

• Simu Liu calls out CNET for mistaking Asian Australian actor Chris Pang for him. Pang has told Huffington Post Australia that it 'trivialises hard-won progress 'for Asian actors.
• Taylor Swift has released another statement last week calling out Scooter Brauner and her former label Big Machine for prohibiting her from performing her old songs at the American Music Awards. Should Taylor just honour the business agreement? Is she just riding on the #MeToo wave?
• And finally, WHAT THE HECK 'OK, BOOMER'?It's the viral TikTok meme that has divided two generations. Millennials are using the phrase to shut down baby boomers who are resistant to change - but is it ageist? Is it dismissive? Commentators are calling it the new 'N word'.
• RECOMMENDATIONS: Phil recommends you check out 'This Is Us' if you haven't seen it yet. Available on Amazon Prime. Tom recommends you check out Buzzfeed Unsolved on YouTube.

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HELLO and welcome to this week’s chat with LEMON.
Joining us on the show today are Alyssa and Angelique from the sibling band JAGMAC.
There’s 6 of them: Jared, Angelique, Gabriel, Manjo, Alyssa and CJ.
The group first came together to hold a special birthday performance for their dad and that’s when the idea struck for them to perform together.
From there, they went on to perform at their church before landing themselves on a national tour in the UK with mega pop group Little Mix.
They’re now been named as Radio Disney’s NEXT BIG THING, a title that Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello has held.
In this chat, we cover a lot of things from being an Asian person in the entertainment industry to how the group was tricked in their early days.
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On today's episode, we discuss:

• Meal delivery service YouFoodz is in hot waters after its CEO Lance Giles and Jordana Stott can be heard in an Instagram video making racist slurs towards Asian people.
• The company has apologised for the comments but one of its major stockists, Woolworths has launched an internal investigation into the incident. The Asian community is currently getting together to boycott the company.
• Taiwanese singer Jam Hsiao and his celebrity friends have swiftly deleted photos of the singer blackfacing Will Smith for Halloween but what does this tell us about China's relationship with racist remarks?
• Actress Emma Watson has told British Vogue that she's not single, but 'self-partnered' and it has the internet talking about the pressure of having it all by 30.
• RECOMMENDATIONS: Our guest this week, Melissa Hua recommends you check out the new Netflix documentary about plant-based diets, Game Changer.
• Phil recommends checking out the new season of Queer Eye in Japan because it's just so wholesome and heart-warming.
• If you're feeling a bit crafty, Tom recommends trying some DIY miniature sets. Phil says it's advanced origami and to avoid if you suck at hands-on stuff.

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Sarah Rav was in her final years of high school when she started posting daily motivational fitness quotes on Instagram.
What started as a hobby quickly turned into a community of hundreds of thousands of people and before people even learnt what the term ‘influencer’ meant and what they did, Sarah Rav quickly sky rocketed to online stardom.
Sarah regularly posted fitness tips and her progress to her 1.5 million followers but they were noticing something different about Sarah over the years and they were concerned.
She brushed off the comments about her weight and thinner look but it wasn’t until when the Dean of her med school pulled her aside and demanded she saw a GP that she decided to take time off for herself.
Sarah’s story is incredible and she’s been really open about her journey with overcoming anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder causing someone to obsess about weight and what they eat. We encourage you to open your hearts and mind to see the hardship when it comes to mental health as her recovery story is incredible.
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Sarah Rav was in her final years of high school when she started posting daily motivational fitness quotes on Instagram.
What started as a hobby quickly turned into a community of hundreds of thousands of people and before people even learnt what the the term ‘influencer’ meant and what they did, Sarah Rav quickly sky rocketed to online stardom.
Sarah regularly posted fitness tips and her progress to her 1.5 million followers but they were noticing something different about Sarah over the years and they were concerned.
She brushed off the comments about her weight and thinner look but it wasn’t until when the Dean of her med school pulled her aside and demanded she saw a GP that she decided to take time off for herself.
Sarah’s story is incredible and she’s been really open about her journey with overcoming anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder causing someone to obsess about weight and what they eat. We encourage you to open your hearts and mind to see the hardship when it comes to mental health as her recovery story is incredible.
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