Instigate Debate interviews Alexa Chung 1

[katiewood107]

Alexa talks about sweatshops, dodgy tax use and the legalisation of cannabis and what most of you comment on is her accent and face? I despair, I really do.

[matrags]

@katiewood107 Chung is a Model an TV presenter. If I wanna have an in depth discussion about the moral implications of high-street fashion vendors or "dodgy tax" as you call it I'm hardly likely to find here am I. Of course people are talking about her face...that's what she is and why she is famous.

[kfki]

this reminds me of a seinfeld episode, the chinese woman. chang woman!

[MumblingSolipsist]

lol she's not half chinese, she is a 1/4th.

The only person to be chinese in her familly is one of her paternal grandparents.

[beshnola]

@MumblingSolipsist Alicia Keys is only 1/4th black and has more white in her but ppl call her black.Jennifer Beal nowadays claims to be a "black woman" but if she is black then Kate Beckinsale is Asian because Jennifer Beal has as much black as Kate Beckinsale has as much Asian.My point was the rules are different when it comes to mixed blacks and mixed Asian.

[beshnola]

I don't know why ppl keep breaking down her facial features, she looks like an exotic beauty to me.But that British accent annoys the shit out of me.Most Americans think it's sexy but I don't.

[zomgseriosuly]

I...LOVE her voice

[MyOwnStick]

she looks a little chinese...this eyes...

[M4rple]

@MyOwnStick It's her make up.

[TurkeyJones91]

@MyOwnStick she is a little.

[asianblueberry]

she doesn't look chinese at all!

[beshnola]

@asianblueberry well apparently she took on the white genes.how is it Asians are half white and they come out looking more white white ppl will claim them as white but you have half white black ppl like Halle Berry and they call her "black".

[VenisBlue]

@beshnola VERY interesting question. I don't anyone knows their true racial background these days. We're all a mixed breed. I think there should be an identifiable color palatte used for driver's license, etc. Example. Skin Color: Ivory, Beige, Creamy Olive, etc..... But then what if a person gets a tan? Then what? If people have Indian in them, even if they don't look Indian at all, they're Indian.

[JKIDA23]

Sorry that i'm not an English as mother languge , can anybody post what they are saying?

[aliceeelettuce]

did no one notice alexia chung...

[zeelidium]

LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!!!! -----> /watch?v=TlKyuMYoMNA

[onthe1drop]

Admits to hypocrisy with no shame. Sad. Calls Top Shop on unethical business practices, but still shops there and promotes it here.

[dorotttta]

She very reminds me Ania Dabrowska , polish singer:]

[dorotttta]

she remind me very Ania Dabrowska, polish singers:]

[Nathancide]

I'd jack her off

[starsthatfly]

alexia?

[nge1301]

her voice is strange. like a man's...

[nge1301]

I only like her cause she's with alex turner.

[jackharrisuk]

@nge1301 Thats the Dumbest thing ive ever heard..

[nge1301]

@jackharrisuk thats an opinion

[2fakee]

I love her expression at the beginning - like OH, shit this is actually a real interview...

...but she handled herself well :)

[mariananocturneop9n2]

Damn I hate Alexa Chung for being with Alex Turner but she's beautiful

[MePhotoYouPhoto]

she's the cutest thing EVER!

[mdtt1983]

Pretty face but I'd end up punching her by the end of the night with that voice.

[ipraythatsth]

CHAV.

[ipraythatsth]

CHAV.

[MegaStlouis]

she is beautiful but with shit accent i hate brittish accent shit brittish pronunciation ble ble ble.

[aDustBowlDance]

@MegaStlouis There is no such thing as a 'british accent'. Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English accents are all completly different nethermind the different regions of each country. Alexa is from Hampshire so her accent is completly different to say her boyfriend Alex Turner who is from Sheffield (both cities in England).

[TheFplm]

Alex Turner is onanist!

Alexa Chung is bitch!

[randomstick43]

she sounds like a chain smoker

[RevSpud72]

@randomstick43 She does have a husky type voice. But it's not that bad.

[so53190]

I love Alexa Chung. She is just too cool. At 0:47 I bet she was worried he was going to ask about Alex Turner, you can see it in her face. I bet she was relieved when he asked about Prince William instead.

[BeesXButterflies]

i would go lesbo for her. no joke. haha

[indieaner52]

i think i love her!

[DancingShoes96]

i love the way she talks , she's just perfect (:

[balllliiiiinnnn]

Her voice does it for me

[beniciosgirl]

incredibly charming

[905Justin]

she has such an ugly voice

[Tasukete123]

She is HOT infinity times over...

[RWJisBEAST]

"thats jacking me off anyway." What?

[aannique]

@RWJisBEAST its slang for when a guy masturbates.. :P

[MKolsenblackroots]

"Yeah, why not?" HAHA!

How could you hate this girl?

She's such a cool TV presenter - she's not just a boring pretty face like Myleene Klass or Christine Bleakley!

[303username]

she's so cool i love her style

[g9nnar]

she got a cool voice and vocab!

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Yeah i think she sounds sexy, which is weird cause her accent is really similar to mine. People usually like different accents, e.g. English people like Italian accents or whatever.

Then again, this is Alexa Chung we're talking about, she's sexy as hell anyway :) And smart and funny. Damn.

[jordyjen]

'topshop princess.....'

[bugatti9000]

elex turner is a fukin lucky twat !!!

[SimmerStudiosGei]

Am I the only one who can see the Asian features in her? (I'm Asian myself) Sometimes Asian people hardly even look like the stereotype. The way her face is kind of flat, and her eyes are rounded with a slight slant, plus the shape of her eye brows are some Chinese-like features. They're blended very slightly but after a while you can see them. Her features are a tiny bit similar to Faye Wong, imo. I feel weird talking about her face like some wannabe scientist... but yeah, she is pretty. :p

[RevSpud72]

I agree with you. Sometimes Asian people do look different than the stereotype. Having said that,  (I think) she is 1/4 Chinese and half English. So she gets those features from her fathers side.

[Racocamoca]

no way, she doesn't look anything like faye wong lmao...but i can see what ur saying, she does look asianish, her skin also is kind of more olivey than a 100% whitegirl, and her eyes are big but have an asian shape. She def. doesnt look caucasian

[SimmerStudiosGei]

Haha, no, I don't think she "looks" like Faye, but I think Alexa and Faye have somewhat similar features in a way, and if Alexa was 100% chinese they might look a little similar. :p But yes, I agree. Her genes give her a very distinct look in general, which is definitely not a bad thing at all.

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I think her dad's part American, part Chinese. But don't quote me on that.

[sthprkbutterslovers]

@Sesquipedaliantique yea shes 1/4 but she doesnt look any asian its weird ahah

[beshnola]

@sthprkbutterslovers it depends on the genes they take.If the white gene is dominant then they will come out looking more white, if it's the Asian dominant gene then Asian, if it's just a mixture then a mixture.There's no set rule how an Asian mixed with white will come out looking like.And she's not oly 1/4 Asian, she's more than that.

[RevSpud72]

@Sesquipedaliantique 3/4 Chinese and 1/4 English her dad that is. Her mother is full English.

[cannoir]

@SimmerStudiosGei most eurasian look very asian.most are also very short. I know a few myself. my best friend cedric is half Hmong , his dad is French he looks 100% asian in the face but he is 6ft 2 .

but her asian acnestry is distant just like keanu reeves. she is just 25% asian so hardly eurasian. just like mariah carey is 1/4 black but doesn't look remotely like a black person.

[Rab1975bit]

@cannoir

Not all East Asians r short. East Asians from the North r pretty tall. Asia is a vast place people from different parts of Asia look very different.

Alexa's a bit more than 25%. I wouldn't tell straight away she's part Chinese but she doesn't look completely Caucasian either, her cheek bones don't look English & if u look closely she has a slight Asian fold on the front corners of her eyes.

Like Jeniffer Tilly, she didn't look half Chinese when she was young. Genetics are unpredictable.

[cannoir]

alexa's own father is half english.there are ppl who grow up looking like another race, deborah kara unger is another good example, she is half white but looks almost completely scandinavian.have you seen kate gosselin's children ?.they all look very korean to me.and they are just 25% asian.I thought the father had every strong genes but at least one of the child with look completely anglo.

[Rab1975bit]

@cannoir

Her father is 3/4 Chinese, 1/4English. She mentioned that in a few interviews. & her dad looks very Chinese, I've seen pics of him.

She also mentioned that her brother looked more Chinese than English.

I wouldn't say Alexa looks English English anyway, U couldn't necessarily tell her Chinese background straight away but she looks quite "exotic" compares to an average ethnically English person.

I have a half Chinese/Scottish friend that looks almost full Chinese & his sister looks white.

[Barcelonkaa]

She's so lovely! Love her style, hair, accent, the way she says 'top shop'...so cute....love her!!!!! :-)

[zackyko]

i totally agree with you ...irena2009...some people who make ugly comments or tasteless words are proven to insecured..loveless and pitied!!!

[mavericksf16]

She must be on crack.

[ifoundapenny104]

LOL, christ shes funny

[Astrodan2600]

She looks like she wants to be spanked. Not in a mean way, she just seems she would be into it.

I would spank her - with her permission, of course.

[irena2009]

she is beautiful, smart and witty, i e PERFECT

[JonasLikesDonuts]

@irena2009 'Smart' doesn't quite belong there.

[yankyLOVE22]

i love her hair

[thejokermakeup]

Bet sweet lover Alex is pro legalization.

[markvanslam]

Did she just do a line or what? shes messin with her nose the whole time

[sacriel42]

"shes a lovely lady yeah" couple with significant deception leakage body language, clearly hates sady frost, after sweeping her hair there is a clear micro-expression of digust (watch it over and over, eyebrows together and lowered, lips/chin lifted)

ouch

[irena2009]

oh god find a hobby

[sacriel42]

that is my hobby.

[irena2009]

well it's useless and you're bad at it. sorry :(

[sacriel42]

Usless eh? knowing if someone is lying, angry, deceptive, receptive, listening, ashamed and so on - just by glancing at them is useless? youre correct, it has no use for managers, police, interrogators, lawyers, negotiators and so on.

Care to elaborate on why im 'no good at it' ? Even with zero deception training its blatently clear she is lying when shes talking about Sadie Frost.

[sacriel42]

watch 1:37 over and over, look at that expression, pause it between 1:37 and 1:38 and ignore the fact shes saying 'shes a lovely lady' - that expression cannot be hidden.

[RevSpud72]

You seem to have raised an interesting point.. Paused it on 1:39, when she speaks about Sadie Frost, she has that look of disgust.

[rollingrock11]

I know a girl named Heidi Tran, blonde hair blue eyes, totally gorgeous. She's half vietnamese but doesn't look like she have a drop of Asian in her!

[irena2009]

mixed races always turn out to be the most beatiful ones...

[insomniajo]

@irena2009 That's absolute crap!

[shaddowed25]

@irena2009 what's her race?

[RevSpud72]

@shaddowed25 She is mixed. Her dad is three-quarter Chinese and one-quarter English and her mother is full English.

[luxjetaime]

why do you claim she didn't look chinese at all? she does have asian features! just look at some photos of her (which are not overexposed), the shape of her eyes/nose/lips are asian, whereas the color of her eyes/hair is caucasian.

[ClaireGarcia2003]

Justin bieber thinks she's a hottie with an accent. lmao i read his tweets.

[brandenbilkosisafag]

1:18

[coydietress]

let's be best friends.

[alldaysmurkman]

lol epic comment

[89cheapmonday]

she's fucking amazing

[wildchildsx]

she doesnt look asian at all :S aahah

[dantheman108]

why does race even matter i just love alexa chung shes so cute

[IglooDweller]

She's 3/8ths Chinese, not half. She's the same mix as Bruce Lee's son, Brandon. They look kind of similar aka not that Asian. (yes, Bruce Lee was 3/4 Chinese, 1/4 German)

[dancingshoesx505]

that's a helluvalotta information to soak in.

but thanks for sharing. haah

[mayinhah]

Im half latin half chinese, and I look like both, and I like it because that makes me different from most of people :)

[luvadamusic]

theres so much "is she asian/ is she not asian/ how much asian is she" talk. Who cares her names Chung, its not like she choose it herself and she didnt choose to not look Chinese she looks the way she does and carries the name she was given. The point is shes highly entertaining, at least i think so, if you dont aggree then why put her name into the search engine?

[soleilisthesun]

My best friend is half German and half Filipino and she doesn't look at all Asian, so...

I guess it makes sense that Alexa doesn't look Asian at all.

[Desarollo]

same here my girl is half filipino half white (don't know what type of white, her family on that side is from Texas)

she doesn't look asian at all. actually if anything people think she is hispanic sometimes when she gets done up a certain way.

[smexiichica95]

I Luvd Alexa Chung Evn B4 Her Show On MTV [!] I Nvr MIssd One Episode Of Freshly Squeezd [!]

[Ulmeyda08]

You have some serious mental problems.

[texas10RAW]

she hot id give her my chung

[akuonye]

i'm glad sleepynu83 agrees, that asians have a ton of self-hatred. asians wanna say blacks have self-hatred. the difference is white girls come to us, we don't come to them. asian guys and girls go looking for white men and white women. sucks for asian guys though, white women don't want them, unless they have money

[pauliepauln]

you're profile says you aren't racist - so what's with the rcaist bullshit? moron.

[hipnhappenin]

Haha! You're fun!

[x5killerx5]

alexa's a sexy bitch!

[giggles731995]

i hate bitch

[cardboardboxesftw]

Most people can't tell if your chinese if your mixed with english or something like that xD My best friend is chinese and american and she looks 100% american.

[smartart]

You're exactly right. I'm half Asian and English-born just like Alexa and nobody can tell I have such a diverse mix as they all think I'm strictly white. Cheers.

[hipnhappenin]

I hate when people take "American" to mean "white". This is 2009, my friend. White-Americans are slowly becoming the minority in the country.

[BLovesCunt]

sexxy bitch

[Lilcutegrl93]

she has a very awkward sense of humor but it's funny

I like her, and she doesn't look stuck up at all for being a model before.

[MFCirca]

She has cute humor and she's witty. That makes up for her not being all that great looking. She's cute, but not as cute as people rave.

[GBlunted]

bombest girl ever...1) Alexa Chung 2) Erica Hill!!

[SHoliday09]

i keep wandering why they gave her a t.v. show. still don't get it.

[Spg69200]

she is soooo beautiful

[emmagurliiie]

hahahahahhahah japsseee

[dasfsadg]

she kind of ....... hot

[abelizable]

quite charming

[Xpoohb3arX]

shes soo hot lol

[WicKedM3]

Fuck she is hot! And the accent just kills me. She's amazing.

[guerillacity]

Unbelievably Beautifully Stunning

[ChiDynasty12]

she is my crush, i feel so juvenile

[DeltronsBET]

Why does she have a british accent? thought she's Asian- American.

[becky2shoes]

She's half Chinese and half white and from the UK.

[followyourdreamxox]

really i never new that :O she dusnt look chinese

[zzflorg]

She's from Britain, and her mom is English.

[imanijonny123]

She was raised in the UK. And she is not american, her mum is English, and her dad is chinese....

[ople125125]

i dont think shes very funny on her show but her hawtness makes up for it.

[OnTheOtherSide7658]

she has weirdly deep voice........but shes pretty

[fionalina]

Is she really half chinese? If it wasn't for her last name.. I would've assumed she was just full caucasian.

[mabb1234]

her name used to be alexa chunk but she changed it to chung cos she didn't like it.

[gretna4life]

no thats a lie it always been chung her dads asian hence her asian lookin eyes

[IHyRaXI]

yeah her dads chinese. some people you just cant tell there mixed. im also half asian but msot peoplewouldnt notice it.

[emzdiz]

Same here! I'm half chinese too and people seems to think I'm Italian or hawian haha.

[hipnhappenin]

What the hell does that mean? "Overlap"?

[AKPennState]

check out: Alexa chung song

[DSkehan2004]

I like her she's funny. she's interesting, part chinese and english. that's cool.

[lexxypexxy]

so her father isn't full Chinese, right? I was gonna comment on how she looks more Caucasian than Asian.

[bartkid911]

does she smoke?

[sjpavix123]

lol i love everything after 1:18 XD

[yalungogogo]

she doesn't look like mix, i mean not a bit chinese characteristic she has got . no offense, me myself is a chinese. btw what is her eyes colour ? blue? becoz how can she has blue eyes when she is a mix .. just kind of confuse me..

[DianeRules]

her father is 3/4 chinese, mother full british

[sakMFKR]

i love her voice. its sooooo hot. i think im going to marry her.sorry dudes!:(

[Ulmeyda08]

Best get strumming that guitar then mate, she only fucks rockstars.

[sakMFKR]

i do play guitar!

[Ulmeyda08]

then go forth and join the ranks of the legends.

[XxVwQu33nxX]

haha , dont fucking blame her , espeshh when they are alex turner :)

[Ulmeyda08]

She seems to get though rockstars like after eights, at one point she had three a month.

[Held4Court]

I wouldnt call the arctic monkeys rockstars,it must be a british thing.

[Ulmeyda08]

No.

They Play rock music.

They are Popular.

Rockstars.

[ricky1602]

shes flat

[TomSELECTT]

but look at her face mate!! so georgeous

[saywhatmane]

she does have a great voice and she looks really good

[valeaja12]

i love her voice.

i wake up early just to see its on :)

[pureecstasy]

she is. so.gorgeous

[miaVega]

what does she say at 0:38? i can't understand!

[jpsmith89]

"pretty much most of them actually"

[miaVega]

thank you!:)

[sjpavix123]

sweat shops, pretty much most of them actually

[procreation100]

she is so beautiful and she likes weed

[orduni90]

beautiful girl!..that sounds like Michael Madsen LOL

[blogboardbusters]

Why is her last name Chung? She looks 90% maybe 10% horse

[anditgoeson925]

i think one of her parents has some aisan in them i think i read that somewhere.. maybe

[fcsblog]

her dad is chinese her mum is english.

[junmae808]

her father is Chinese...