So much for blonde jokes. Seems they're out of flavour thanks to one British teenager, who scored higher than Stephen Hawking on a recent IQ test. Lauren Marbe was as stunned as everyone else when she scored 161 during Mensa testing conducted at her school.
The 16-year-old from Essex has a reputation for loving trashy TV and fake tans, but she's no ditz. Even though she now has one of the highest IQs in the world, Lauren has less cerebral ambitions. Seems she wants to be a West End stage star, having already performed as part of the chorus in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph. She also hopes to study architecture degree at the University of Cambridge.
"It was such an achievement and I got a bit tearful to tell you the truth," she said in an article by the UK Daily Mail, which listed the following table of famously high IQs:
Fortunately the student at Roding Valley High School is making teachers and classmates eat their stereotypes.
"I love living in Essex and I'm glad that I might be able to show people that we aren't all ditzy and blonde."
Indeed. I have a funny feeling Cambridge will come calling, on hands and knees.
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