Francis Bourgeois Is Going To Space?! Kim K Dating Lewis Hamilton & New Wellness Buys | The LuxeGen Group Chat

0:00Lola:This week on the LuxGen group chat, we're talking about a 22 year old that is reinventing a classic sportswear brand. He made a few TikToks about just like the resurgence of some of these old school brands that we used to see in like Sports Direct. And they have given him full creative control, commercial control, everything. At 22? At 22 years old, we are debunking a celebrity dating rumor. Them as a couple makes so much sense in my head. It does, doesn't it? I think that people love to push the narrative of a couple. Like, they are just normal people. They're probably just friends with benefits.

0:27Lola:And finally, the power of finding your niche on social media and how it could just change your life. He put out a TikTok last year saying that it was his childhood dream to become an astronaut, to fly to space. Well, someone got in touch with him and made it a reality. Crazy. And he has documented everything. It's a good one. Stay tuned. Welcome back to the LuxGen Groot Chat. This week, I am joined by Saroop and Lola. Welcome, ladies. Hi. How are we doing? Good, how are you? Kick us off. What are we wearing? I really like your jacket. Oh, me too. Cute. You look very cool to me. I'm wearing like a houndstooth Zara jacket.

1:00Lola:I actually didn't know there's a maxi skirt as well. Someone told me. I like what you've done with the collar. Got a funnel knit going on. Thank you. I've been looking for a pair of cords for ages. You've got a great pair, haven't you? Yeah, mine were Topshop. These are also very nice. These are Zara and they're kind of barrel leg, which is perfect when you're five foot nothing like me. M &S socks and then my charity shop, JW Anderson's. Literally everyone is getting cords like that. Like everyone's looking for them. They're great, aren't they? I think that's the new trend. It is, isn't it? It is.

1:26I've got three pairs of cords have you within the span of like a month you haven't got them on today what are you wearing I have got on some boots from Topshop I've got some white trousers I think these are quite old like H &M manga but I just think a good pair of white trousers changes your whole outfit I've got an underliner from the Couture Club and this cool little fringed high neck scarf situation it's from H &M very nice and my new glasses which are Jimmy Fairley which I'm very excited about they're really cool you look very lady thank you I know I thought quite Tom Ford-esque that's what I was going for you know I really like your trousers though the pleat thank you you can't see them right now but they're like yeah yeah lovely like and they go around

2:01Lola:they're very poppy of me they also look great from the back yes now i saw you i saw you walking i was like lola they look they're just a beautiful cut at the back well i haven't seen it behind of me but i do really love how they go i remember i always wanted these cos ones that sort of like buttoned over on the other side yeah yes absolutely and so these were a much more affordable one from Zara. Then I've got June loafers on which literally the comfiest things. I've never had to break them in. Brilliant. I've got this Massimo sort of rugby shirt on. I've had this for a while but it's so cool.

2:36It's good wear though. It's a really easy piece to start on. Rugby tops are quite in at the moment. I've seen so many in Massimo and Zara. And this mango sort of padded shouldered bomber. My boyfriend says I look like a Roblox character in it. Oh my god, that's such a boy's exaggeration. if your boyfriend hates your outfit

2:54Lola:you're doing something I need to actually start writing them in my notes pages because he is so good at matching me to like some kind of a thing fictional character yeah yeah yeah I reckon there's like there's content idea in that isn't there yeah right well thank you for running through your outfits ladies I'm excited to see you I've been away for two weeks I know it looked like you had the best time of your life it was amazing yeah fell in love with Australia but good to be back I was worried too much I know part of me thinks you're going to go about for a lot longer than two weeks. Oh my goodness, guys.

3:25Lola:The lifestyle is great. Everyone's walking around barefoot. I just love that. You go to the supermarket in your bikini. I wouldn't like that. Everyone's up really early. The whole day starts at 5.30. I know you're trying to convince me, but what I must say is you feel very far away. The time difference is tough. Oh yeah, of course. You can't really talk to people. Yeah, that's true actually. I suppose the family. Do you think you could live there ever? It's too far from family. Guys, I'm such a family person. Yeah, you are. For your brother. My brother's moved there, but if I could uproot my whole family and my boyfriend and just take them there yeah happy days wow what has everyone been up to the last two weeks I've literally just been how many coffees have you made through so many that honestly you just go into like autopilot for context the reason you're making so many coffees yeah I now run a coffee and wine bar in Leeds vinyl grounds and you know what it's been so fun like people are really excited with the space which is really nice when people come up to you and say oh my gosh this is amazing blah blah blah you really do feel like a sense of community wow Yeah, and the best thing is that in Leeds, people are so friendly.

4:23Everybody that comes in, I reckon every fifth or sixth person will be like, how long have you guys been open? How's it going? People are genuinely interested. And it's just really very wholesome. Do you ever feel like you're clocking into a Sims shift? You're on Sims where you're like, I'm playing puzzles. Literally, this is my favourite game until 17 people walk in in all one night. If somebody walks in and they're like, can I get a one-shot decaf iced vanilla oat? I'm like, no. So you turn around. respectfully so now you get it now you can't yeah so i don't know if you saw there was a pop-up over

4:54Lola:the weekend and i thought it was absolutely genius flat white or fuck off yeah someone was on jamie lang's podcast and said they had this brilliant idea i think then someone else had potentially had the same idea they'd got in touch right and they'd launched this pop-up called flat white or fuck off where they only did flat whites yeah which i thought was a genius marketing it is so good it is the most popular order it's simple it's actually it's actual real coffee yeah glona's like caramelized we do that too there you go you could go and get that

5:32Lola:now i feel like there has been so much that has happened over the weekend but firstly francis bourgeois i know yeah wild so for those listening who don't know you've been living under a rock he is the train guy gorgeous human that is obsessed with trains and documents his reactions to trains he put out a tiktok last year saying that it was his childhood dream to become an astronaut to fly to space well someone got in touch with him and made it a reality crazy and he has documented everything through this process and it's coming out in this repart tv episode or something i'm gonna be honest i actually hadn't seen this i only saw it like after you told me and that to me is literally the positive power of social media yeah you've just made somebody's dream come true how incredible how insane is it that you've just like posted a video said this is my dream but doesn't it also show because i don't know if you guys are familiar with his pre with his sort of past life no but just how he he had said that you know in his past sort of school early years he'd very much conformed to just trying to blend in with everyone else and where were all the other boys at school wearing just trying to be this yeah and no one he didn't sort of reveal his passion for trains until he'd left school but doesn't this just show as well like just be the true authentic you yeah people will love you for who you are absolutely yeah people love him that's such like a thing that maybe in school people don't get but like having him for someone like a little boy looking up to him and thinking oh no he's still loving things and he's so much older but i think it's also those niches that people have like the nicher you are i think the more interesting you are as a person yeah like show your own personality yeah what What do you think your most niche interests are?

7:08Oh my God.

7:10Lola:I reckon, Lola, yours are just like transitions. Transitions. iPhone transitions. Yeah. I genuinely think like content was probably my niche one, but specifically funny transitions and like funny videos. Lola was doing Vine before, like you were doing transitions before they were even a thing. Yeah, I came out of the womb and I was just zoom, zoom, zoom. And you know what makes it up? You're the only person I've ever met in this life that was kind of like of the era that I actually did musically. Yeah. I never knew anybody. Well, I've done everything. No, guys, she just showed me, Lola just showed me her screen time on Saturday was 24 hours, 41 minutes.

7:44Lola:23 hours. Surely not. Something's gone wrong. But I do think we need to get, I think both of us need a brick. Yeah. I think that's therapy, not a brick. I fear that is something deeper. 23 hours. I think something's must have gone wrong because I don't believe I didn't sleep that day. Christ, did you not eat? Oh my Christ. I was just there all day. Can you imagine me walking around like 23 hours? Jesus. I can, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Kind of, yeah. It kind of like suits you. I think it is something to do with that social side is my... That is your niche. It's quite nice to lean into your niche and to like, you know, develop it and see where it goes.

8:17Lola:I recommend sports documentaries. 100%. Sports docs. I quite like that for you. I have seen every sport documentary. Really? That's so cool. She's watched every single one ever. On like lots of different sports. Just everyone. Yeah, just everyone's sporting journey. I've watched it. The BBC ones. Two. Yeah, all of them. Wow see What's yours? Mine growing up was marine biology I just I knew you'd have one I just loved Everything to do with the ocean Me and Jay's One of our first dates Was sea life I think I was more interested In the sea life centre Than him No way I just think like How cool is that That they have what we have But in a whole new world Incredible Maybe you should get In Quarim In vinyl crowns Maybe we will No honestly I would stare at it all day long A day at the sea life though That's fun That is like lit Like differently lit But then I used to get like Okay I don't know if anyone else does this but like sometimes if i'm on tiktok really niche i'll go into like run an orca so good shark attacks like i just find it so interesting seeing like how two different worlds like actually like come together like it's it's so interesting there we go guys follow your passion follow your niches do it guys yeah i'm living mine um rumors are kim kardashian and lewis hamilton oh my god guys this i think might be the only thing i have actually paid attention to from the sun.

9:30Lola:Because I'm not 100 % deep breathed on this. I opened my phone today just to get an update from the weekend. I never really use my phones and I'm working and I was like, what's going on? The sun came up. I was going to scroll and then she went, Kim Kardashian, Louis Hamill. And I was like, all right, I'll listen. She was like, Estelle Manor. I'm going there in a few days. I was like, what? Apparently they were spotted. They hired out the spa so it was just there, apparently. This is all alleged. Also, wait, question. If Louis Hamill and Kim Kardashian are dating, hang on, who pays? Him, definitely.

9:58Who hires out the spa? Him. Him. I reckon he would have done it. But like, would she even care?

10:03Lola:Would she not be like, do you not have this hair? No, but I think it's normal service, isn't it? Yeah, I think it's just kind of like him wanting to be chivalrous. What do you mean? What do you mean sharing the spa? Them as a couple makes so much sense in my head. Does, doesn't it? I don't. Finally it fits. I think that people love to push the narrative of a couple. Like, they are just normal people. They're probably just friends with benefits. Like, they live in different countries. She's got five kids. Yeah, but then they do something stupid. I think they're just friends with benefits. You'd do something sneakier.

10:28No, like I think they are friends with Benefits and they're okay with it. There is no way that they haven't been seeing each other before they went to Estelle. Yeah. No, and that's what I mean. I think they will have been like long-term friends. He goes to LA, they see each other here, there and everywhere. Like surely in the celeb world, that's like how we see some of our friends when they end up being like here, they're everywhere. You see people at events.

10:47Lola:Yeah, but they're making a statement going to the Cotswolds. Is that where it is? Yeah, I suppose. Yeah, exactly. I'm not going to Estelle Manor with my boy Bestie. Like I'd rather go with like, my boyfriend do you know what I mean yeah no but that's what I'm saying like sneaky link also who's hiring out the spa for like a nobody sneaky link no way oh my god I do that to me is sexier than being a couple I think though if you're in that world LA they already know like one one on one meet up even if it's for business you're gonna get couple allegations forever yeah but like listen my girl's over here she's probably like let me make it she was here to do like a skims pop up or something and she was probably just like let me make a night of her yeah she was She was here yesterday, wasn't she?

11:27In Selfridges. I don't know. I think there just would be an easier way. No, I'm living out my hot sexy fantasy of them just being sneaky links. Okay, well, when they come out as dating, let me just... Can't believe that, though. He's got some absolute buddies. He's had some absolute worldies. Nicole Scherzinger. Oh, shit. Yeah.

11:44Lola:She's the OG. Imagine that message, like the messages or... Yeah, who DMs who. Yeah. That's what I find wild, that celebs actually DM from their actual accounts. But do they or do they have a whole social team? Kylie Jenner said that she's never ever sent a DM to a boy ever. There are some, sorry, basketball players that have said that they have DMed. Drake DMs on his. He's admitted to it. But Drake's hungry. That man is hungry. I'm hungry. Have you not heard him rap in every song ever? True. I think it's more like, if you've got a crush on someone in that world, you can probably find a friend and be like, I fancy them.

12:19Yeah. You want to avoid the text messages and everything. You don't want any written. you still hear of so many of that like so much yeah you know so and so yeah did you see devon booker oh my god okay yeah the comment on so kyle kendall jenner released this whole super bowl advert where she was like have you not heard of the kardashian curse yeah like apparently i like ruin every basketballer she ruins their sports life yeah and devon booker commented on the video being like, not mine. And then, or something, she replied like, how's the ankle? And he replied, come rub it then. Yeah, how wild.

12:57Everyone's now like, oh, are they back together? Are they just like flirty exes? I like it. It's so fun. That's fun.

13:02Lola:Yeah, I agree. Talking of Kim K, who saw the Skims live stream? I've seen a few. So this was wild. They were live for 45 minutes. Wow. They made£200 ,000 in sales and they had guests like Snoop Dogg. Yes, I saw this. Yes. That is the playbook for live streams in 2026. Yeah. You've got to have something different. It's entertainment. And I think live streams for me just scream discount sales, da da da da products. They've shown that you can actually do it in an entertaining way that's glossy. That's like, you know. Yeah, something different. Something different. Also for a family that's told that they're so over produced or like broadcasted like too specifically.

13:40It's quite nice seeing them just like have to, this is it, no editing. Yeah. you've got no say whatever you say is out there so I think that works for them

13:50Lola:I feel like there is a lot to look out for in the live streaming space this year just whether you're a brand creator I feel like I used to go live every day really? I remember you telling me this I used to literally go live the thing is there is something so fun about it it's so fun I agree I think my fear is that you'd say something afterwards you'd be like oh my god why did I say that no because it's like people asking funny questions I think my funniest one was, it was my A-level summer, and we were in Magaluf, and I went live before our pre's, and we were all getting ready, like, online, being like, woo!

14:24Hi, guys!

14:25Lola:You know that audio that's like, hey, guys, just waiting for a few more people to join? Like, yeah, just waiting for a few more. That was literally me. I'd wait, like, getting ready. It was the best time of my life. That is so fun. Maybe I'll do it. Maybe I'll try it. Also, Trey, it really grows your followers. I'll tell you that. the journal is making a comeback have you guys seen the diy journals where you can add your initials you can personalize what it looks like i just finished 31 days of actually journal like not journaling but just diary writing so for every christmas my sister gets me a diary and normally it's just for like work stuff but i was like no i actually want to keep a proper diary it's quite short it's like your normal standard diary so it's not like paragraphs and she when she gave it to me she'd written in specific days so like at the end of january she's like how is january going give me a full update on our birthdays on like our like you know anniversaries things like that she'd written in it and i did 31 days and you know what i filled it in like even if i hadn't written in it for three days i would sit and it takes you like five minutes to do one day right five minutes that's it and now i've gone back on it and it will be so nice in a few years to be like god this was my 2026 look at what i did i quite like that you've made you put made someone else accountable for it like I like that she has been like so she now knows that she'll be like oh tell me what you did for this and I just think in how many years when you look back like I look back on photo albums we may not necessarily have that although I print mine a lot of people are you not going to sit and look through your eye cloud are you yeah so it's like nice to have diaries instead there's that whole trend on tiktok at the moment where it's like making a photo album because what am I going to give 80 ,000 screenshots to my child yeah like literally like let me show you gotta do Because we are kind of now lacking like physical.

16:09Oh, for sure. Oh, I'm not in that bracket, honeys. Okay, now. 45 free prints a month. You guys know that I do this. I print my photos every single month. I print every single memory that's important to me. I print them out because. And how do you keep them? I put them in an album. I'll just sit, put a film on, just slot them into an album. Even if you don't have them in an album, just to have. I love that story. Physical copies is unreal. Whilst I love our generation, I think there are some things that we're missing like that. Capturing memories. Yeah. like honestly guys you should make that also i feel like in the moment you think it's not a big deal that photo but actually you'll forget about it and look back at it when i was like 15 i asked for 12 disposable cameras from christmas and then took a photo every day on a disposable camera for a year straight and so like i've got my whole school life documented on like all these disposable cameras and it's the best thing i ever did just to see like who i was friends with what we were

17:05Lola:wearing at school like what our haircuts were like everything i got it parties so good it was the best thing i think i'm gonna do that this year because i can also january's now over but i'm gonna do it yeah you're at the start of the year so wholesome it's the best thing love it um who has seen the 22 year old guy that is reinventing slazzinger from his bedroom no so his name is alexi hamblin okay basically 22 year old guy he made a few tiktoks about just like the resurgence of some of these old school brands that we used to see in like Sports Direct and how some brands have really moved forward.

17:36Lola:Puma. Yeah, Pivoted. What else? Adidas. Adidas. Procs. Champion, brands like that. Anyway, so Slazenger reached out to him and he basically pitched to a whole boardroom of team and they have given him full creative control, commercial control, everything. At 22? At 22 years old. And he's documenting it all on TikTok and it's incredible. That's really cool. So is he just going to kind of bring it back to what it could be now? Yeah, so he's sort of looked back in the archives of Slazinger and how like it was really associated to tennis back in the day. So he's bringing the roots through in like a really cool way.

18:11I can see that for them. Because the tennis, like it makes me think of tennis more so. And I think with tennis being on such a high already, now's the time to do things like that. Paddle, group activities. People are also, I think, more daring to try newer things. You know, when we were growing up, there would genuinely have been only Adidas Nike. Now I do think we're all getting a bit better at going for what we like and trying different things, slightly more New Balance, things like that. Well, it's like Umbro. I love Umbro.

18:39Lola:The fact they have revived. They've got some really cool trainers. But they were the ones you'd have on your pee kit shorts back at school. The day that Lonsdale comes back. Oh, my gosh. So here for that. So here for that. Wow. I can see that. But I think also it's like in this day and age, brands are looking for young creatives that are going to bring a fresh vibe, a fresh energy. New personality. Yeah, and you use the sort of skills that you're... You need that energy. Yeah. That's the year for a trade. I just think that's mega, you know. He now could have equity in a brand that has been established for hundreds of years.

19:11Do we have any, like, sneak peeks of what he's thinking?

19:13Lola:Yeah, it's all... He's documented it all. Wow, I'm going to go and have a look. It's really cool. That is. And if you've got those ideas, honestly document them and put them out there because you never know.

19:25Lola:right i'm just jumping in here before we move on to things we're loving please please please hit that subscribe button i want to know firstly tv what's everyone watching i need to binge something okay so mine's actually a film i just finished the rip which i'm not happy about because i watched it too and your feedback is not fair so it's matt damon and ben affleck okay love like Yeah, Matt Damon in terms of acting. Yeah. Incredible. Both of them. So Ben Affleck and Matt Damon both play police officers as part of like sort of a drug busting group of the police. And unfortunately, someone in their group dies and they get randomly murdered, this woman who's head of the department.

20:08And Matt Damon gets basically a text saying, there's a lot of money in this one house. Go and get it. So he basically brings everyone all together. to go and bust. To do a rip? Yeah, to do a rip. Okay. They end up finding all this money, and basically from then on, it's their story of kind of who we trusting. I mean, this is 20 million, and it's based off of a true story. So like in real life, they actually did find 24 million, and it's sort of like how each police officer is like looking at each other. It's sort of like different perspectives. It's different like in the US, they have different levels of policing.

20:44So like how here we have the police, they have the DEA and they have different levels they have the FBI and it's like who basically it's so much money right and each of them are they're living people so they know it'll make their own lives better so it's like who is gonna take the money for themselves and who's corrupt I suppose like how well do you know the people you have around you so it sort of goes into this whole spiel like that you're sort of like loving characters hating characters and you're worried for them are they gonna die and then basically the ending is quite good don't spoil it I won't I won't But I personally like, I kind of wanted it to be a series more than a film.

21:21I did, but I don't know how much you could do with it with a series. I suppose it would need real like thrashing out. It was quite like a basic. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like a short film only because the scenes don't really change. Like it's one. Yeah. You know, they're at this one location for the entire time. I suppose it is more psychologic, isn't it? Like of who you're trusting and who you're not. But it's like. Sounds so good. It's just interesting to see the Netflix. It's on Netflix. Okay. I'm going to watch that. So it's sort of like everything that you'd want from a drug busting crime police thing.