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When he bashfully stands up to prove her statement, the crowd roars in excitement.

“I’m sorry. I don’t date guys … who look like you,” he stammered, in a bashfully amused sing-song, as if I had asked him to autograph my underwear.

It sounds like fan fiction and looks like it, too, particularly when Galitzine dips his chin bashfully — a tic that Princess Diana passed on to her boys.

They smile at the camera bashfully, young and smooth-skinned and full of hope, blind to the ways life would prise them apart.

“This is a vintage Bob Mackie showgirl costume,” he bashfully confesses, acquired through a “bad business divorce.”