Who was the real Emily from “The Devil Wears Prada”?

Dear reader, in the modern world it is rare for anyone to find themselves mistaken for an Oscar Wilde farce, but I certainly found myself misidentified. I’m stuck: Millions of TikTok fans have put two and two together — and I’m talking a viral TikTok video, a novel, and a movie — and concluded that you are indeed the true inspiration for one of the most brash fashion girls of all time: Emily, Miranda Priestly’s saucy English-speaking assistant. The Queen Wears Prada.

As a silent victim, I suffered this slander in silence. I’m afraid to speak out – even though there are so many brave women in the world Fashion Sisterhood urging me to do this will only invite further cruel scrutiny from TikTok bullies. But a moment happened in a London cinema a few weeks ago that made me realize I had to step up.

Picture the scene. I just sat on a red velvet sofa in a generic cinema in Bayswater and watched Wuthering Heights With my 15-year-old daughter Tess and her classmate Ernie. They insisted on going to the theater early to watch all the trailers, so I dozed off as the trailers burst onto the screen. I was startled. Tess suddenly stood up from her seat and shouted: “Mom! It’s you!”

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I looked up and found myself seeing Emily Blunt, who plays Emily Blunt in the trailer, dressed head to toe in Dior. DWP2. “Do my eyes deceive me?” she says tartly, squinting at Anne Hathaway’s Andy. The two will meet again in the highly anticipated second installment of the film series.

“Don’t be silly, that’s not me, honey,” I scolded Tess.

“No, no, that’s so,” continued Tess. “Everyone in school knows it’s you.”

“What? But Emily is being mean. I’m not being mean.”

Tess ignored this and continued: “Mother, this yes you. I checked it out. “

“Have it, Plum,” Ernie interjected. “Being Emily is a very flexible thing.”