Prem says his engagement ring is being cleaned.

A rumour spreading like a California brushfire has Tata Young negotiating rocky ground with her fiance Prem Busarakamwongse.

Prem denies that, says any "woman" at his condo that the gossips are tutting about was probably his sister or one of her friends, and insists that it's going to take a lot more than rumours to uproot his and Tata's garden of love.

So, uh, where's your engagement ring? It's being cleaned at a jewellery shop, he says. "You can check!"

Tata's ring getting cleaned too? No, she doesn't feel comfortable wearing it because it's "very expensive and can't just be worn every day".

At chic we suck

Is Bangkok going to be the fashion capital of the universe or not? Our clothes are going out of style while we wait, and meanwhile the website Global Language has completely ignored us in its list of the world's top 30 fashion cities.

And look who's on the list! Johannesburg, Sydney and (oh no) Singapore, all upwardly mobile toward Paris and Milan heaven.

Bangkok finally shows up way down the page, among the Asia-Oceania also-rans: in sixth place after Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Melbourne.

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