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Make a Wish💙✨ here’s to 26!🥰

Happy Birthday to me

A round up post of the virtual One Tree Hill events that I have done this year. These were so amazing to do as it is my favourite show and experiences that I never would’ve thought I’d get the chance to do!

Back in March Bethany Joy Lenz, Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton hosted a live episode of their podcast Drama Queens live with special guest Bryan Greenberg.

The event in which you bought a ticket and the money was donated to charity, celebrated the three reuniting on screen for the first time since One Tree Hill. The Drama Queens podcast is based on a talk through of each episode of the show and has been said to be reclaiming the show for themselves.

The event was great as you could watch a natural conversation between friends and as a fan of the show so interesting to hear bits of behind the scenes and different perspectives! This was the second live event of the podcast and new episodes are released weekly, currently in the middle of Season 3 of the show!

It’s a perfect podcast and new project to keep the show living on and for fans to get to relive the show with the people who made it so amazing! Hopefully there will be another live episode in the future!

I also had the chance to have a Cameo Call with Bethany Joy Lenz last month! Essentially a FaceTime call this again was a total fangirl moment for me.

Joy was so genuine and one of the loveliest people ever! The app only allows a 2 minute call and does allow you to take a photo, which we both laughed at, being too in conversation to realise until the last minute! It felt like chatting to a friend which was so lovely!

I was honestly star struck haha as it was an amazing/unexpected experience to have a 1-1 call with Joy who is so positive and talented! It was a fantastic experience! Hopefully I get the chance to meet Joy again virtually or in person as it was such a great experience and she was so kind!

Forever and always my Millie ✨ Happy 17th Birthday love and miss you everyday ❤️

3 whole years Wednesday 💔🐾 miss her every second of every day, love you forever and always Millie ❤️✨

So I’ve had this blog post drafted for a few weeks to do a little round up of seeing my forever favourite not and back together and live in concert again after 8 years. It was honestly one of the best nights ever and I was so happy to be reliving my 2011 teenage fan girl days.

Never did I think I would have to edit this post due to the do tragically sad news that Tom has died from his brain tumour.

Sadly he didn’t make the Newcastle show as he was finishing treatment abroad but he was a huge miss and was definitely sent live throughout the night with spontaneous chanting his name and cheering.

He was such an inspiration and always spoke so positively.

The below videos are one I made of the concert just after and the other is from the concert when everyone was cheering.

The lyrics to Gold Forever seem to hit differently now.

There’s no words for how sad this is and my thoughts go to his family, friends and the boys.

So Marvel has not been something I’ve been into and could literally not tell you one thing about any superhero. Probably not what you’d expect to be the first thing you read when clicking on a Spider-Man review but stick with it. If you’ve read my posts in the past then you know I love Disney/Disney Parks and now with Disneyland Paris having a new Marvel hotel and Avengers Campus opening this year I thought it was finally time to see what it’s all about so I have a bit of a clue what everything means when I go!

What a year! The best of highs and the occasional dips but so thankful for family, friends and all of the amazing memories! No year is ever the same without my Millie❤️ Who knows what the next year brings, hoping it’s a wonderful time for everyone! Happy New Year! Here’s to ‘22?✨??

Ok so let’s clear up the fact that this is well overdue since the book came out in August but I guess I’ve been trying to prolong the inevitable of writing my last review of The Kissing Booth series and have to come to terms with one of my favourite ever series ending. However what I will say straight away is that it was the best ending and round up of the full series you could wish for as a fan!

As mentioned several times before I’ve done multiple blog posts on The Kissing Booth books and films which you can find on my blog. And while I’ve done a round up of the detours coming to an end I couldn’t not do a bit more of an in-depth look at the final book too!

So here goes.. firstly if you’re reading this and you’ve seen the film but haven’t read the book stop and go read it asap! This might include some spoilers but not giving too much away!

So it’s been a week since The Kissing Booth 3 was released and I’m still not over it. And yes I’m nearly 25 and not the target audience but sorry not sorry I absolutely loved this whole series, books and films!

I feel my side note from last years post is still applicable so here it is again: while The Kissing Booth is aimed at a younger audience it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it. Let’s face it rom-coms are everyone’s guilty pleasure! Also as I’ll hopefully point out there’s more to the movie than what it seems on the surface of a teen high school love story. Standing out for itself within Hollywood movies over time. Critics should probably just chill out because if a film is feel good and you can enjoy watching it then I’m pretty sure it’s served it’s purpose! I think we can all agree we could all do with that right now!

I was so looking forward to this film coming out since it was announced at the end of The Kissing Booth 2 fan fest last year. I’ve done lots of Kissing Booth related posts last year including, an overview of the fan fest experience, movie review and a summarised look at the books series which you can find on my blog!

This week is 1 year since The Kissing Booth fan fest and virtual fan premiere event I attended via Zoom!

It was such an unbelievable experience and crazy to look back on, never in a million years did I think I would be able to be involved with something like that and definitely not from my own home haha!

I wrote more in detail about the full event here: https://lauramerritt96.com/the-kissing-booth-2/

I have also done several book and movie reviews of the series.

The cast were so lovely and very surreal to be meeting them. Hopefully it might happen again in some aspect with the 3rd film coming out next month!?✨

I made a TikTok summing up the whole experience since it’s the reason I got a TikTok account lol which you can find above!