MUSICIANS have suffered well-publicised addictions to drink, drugs and sex over the years, but you would not expect exercise to be on that list.
Ellie Goulding has opened up about how she became so hooked on going to the gym that it consumed her free time and took priority over her passion for music.
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In an exclusive chat, the singer said: “I don’t consider myself to have an addictive personality but I felt as though I did at one point have a gym addiction that was just not fun. I felt I had to go to the gym every single day.
“I don’t know whether it was a survival thing, because touring was so tiring, so hard, really taxing on your body and your mental health.
“I felt as though it was a survival instinct to be working out all the time, making sure I was super fit, super healthy and tried to counteract having drinks on tour and perhaps not eating very well.
“When you go to the gym or you work out, you release so many endorphins. It’s such a good feeling that you just want to have that feeling over and over again.
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“But when it got to the point where I was skipping the studio and skipping writing sessions to go to the gym, that was when it just wasn’t worth it.”
Ellie has had an incredible career since releasing her debut album a decade ago, during which time she has scored three No1 singles and landed two Brit Awards. And today she is back with a brand new single, Worry About Me, featuring US singer Blackbear, which will feature on her as yet untitled fourth album, out on June 5.
It will be her first collection since 2015’s Delirium, after which she took a break from the industry and subsequently met former Sotheby’s art dealer Caspar Jopling.
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They married last August in York and Ellie credits her husband with helping her find balance in her life. She explained: “I thought the touring life was real life.
“I thought that was how my life was, and the idea that I could wake up in the morning and not have anything to do was really bizarre.
“Whereas now I have a much healthier diet and I’m quite into biohacking, which is an extreme word of trying to be the healthiest version of yourself you can possibly be. So not to be a complete nerd right now but it’s a genuine interest.
“I’ve been really inspired by my husband because he is an athlete, he has been rowing for years. He has such an amazing routine for that rowing and so I’ve been quite inspired by his amazing willpower and determination.”
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But if you think being loved-up newlyweds means they will soon be announcing a pregnancy, you’d be mistaken. Ellie finds it odd that people seem so eager for her, and other young women, to start a family.
She said: “I’m just curious as to why there’s such an interest in it. I’m trying to understand why people want women to have kids so bad. I felt as though the second I got married it was like, ‘When are you going to have kids?’
“There is quite a big and admirable platform of women, who like to talk about motherhood and share stories about motherhood and support each other, and I think that is so brilliant.
“I just don’t know if there is as much as a platform for women, who perhaps don’t want children the second they get married or haven’t even thought about it, or perhaps are just not at a point in their lives where they want to have kids. I just don’t think there is an equality in those two things.”
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Fleur flames fame
FLEUR EAST has issued a stark warning to anyone searching for fame.
The former I’m A Celebrity campmate – a household name after reaching the X Factor finals six years ago – has recorded a track aimed at deterring people hunting stardom.
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On the song Fame, from her second album Fearless, out next Friday, she raps: “So you wanna be famous? Everywhere you’re going everybody knows what your name is. Getting high when you see yourself in the papers, drop it low for the gram, flashing for the haters. You’ll do anything, so shameless, to be anything but nameless.”
Highlighting the dark side when the five minutes of fame is over, she continues: “God only knows what you’ll begin to do when it all fades, what you gonna do? When they don’t tap tap, when they don’t clap clap, where’s your entourage? Where’s your crew? All you got is you.”
And in the chorus she sings: “When the lights go down, when the music stops, it’s a long way down when you’re falling from the top.” In my time as a celebrity journalist, I’ve seen plenty of people come and go and I know just how fickle this industry can be – as does Fleur.
At least she’s not falling victim to what she’s singing about.
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Natural high is in the Blud
YUNGBLUD is one of the zaniest characters in music but insists it’s all-natural.
The 11 Minutes singer, below, says he is always asked if he’s on drugs, but his overexcited nature is actually down to him having ADHD.
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When the Doncaster lad came into Bizarre HQ last year, he was literally jumping on my sofa.
Yungblud said: “People always ask me, ‘Are you into drugs?’ Because I’ve got ADHD I don’t need them.
“I will still be up at 7am when everyone hits the dark hours and starts to hate themselves because of their comedowns. I’m like, ‘Let’s go get breakfast!’ I’m in their face like, ‘Come on! Let’s keep going.’”
He told the Slacker podcast: “Young people are always going to do drugs – that’s just the way it will be. They always have and we always will. It’s a part of growing up and experimenting.
“I just say be safe, like at festivals in Australia – they’ve got drug testers.
“Because I’ve been writing my album, I’ve been up for days, I’ve only been sleeping two hours or one hour a night.
“I think when I get into that zone, I just can’t sleep, I’m just so wired.”
I think that’s called being a workaholic.
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GLASTO chiefs have confirmed that Kendrick Lamar will be headlining the festival. I exclusively revealed last year how the US rapper would be added to the line-up for Worthy Farm this June.
Rob’s cape-r round
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HE’S playing the caped crusader in upcoming movie The Batman yet Robert Pattinson was no hero when it came to his first job – a paper round.
Vipin Patel, who owns Natsons newsagents in Barnes, South West London, says when it rained, R-Patz would get his parents to drive him around to deliver the papers. Vipin said: “I gave Robert his first job.
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“He worked as a paperboy for two years.
“Whenever it rained, his parents used to help him do the rounds.”
Rob, who went on to find fame in Twilight and Harry Potter, previously said the paper round had given him the ambition to land a high-paying job.
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RITA ORA had to spend three hours scrubbing after shooting her latest music video – despite filming half of it in the bath. She has released new single How To Be Lonely and in the video – out next week – she flies through the air, teams up with an alien and bathes in gold paint, which proved a tad tricky to wash off.
WEST End musical Come From Away celebrated its first birthday on Thursday by flying over some of the real people the show is based on to see it in London. The hit show, which has won four Olivier Awards, tells the story of air passengers diverted to Gander, Canada, during 9/11 and the welcome they got.
THE KILLERS have announced their sixth album, Imploding The Mirage, will be released on May 29 – three years after 2017’s Wonderful Wonderful. The record will feature guest appearances from Lindsey Buckingham and KD Lang and coincides with a string of UK stadium shows in May and June.
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