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In Hollywood, the pressures to glow up—to look sleeker and smoother and uncannily better —are so immense that not even hallways are immune. Consider the passageway between the backstage area and the set of The Jennifer Hudson Show , which, thanks to a series of short-form videos, has become known as the “spirit tunnel,” a dance floor-ish Rubicon that must be crossed by (almost) every guest who appears on the talk show. Last season, it was a nondescript hallway furnished with the same dreary drop ceiling and gray tiled carpeting that you’ve probably encountered in countless office buildings. At the beginning of the show’s new season earlier this month, it got a

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