Fifty Shades of Grey writer EL James has amassed a £123 million fortune with her erotic novels and films but her personal life is hardly lacking drama of its own.
The London-born author, whose real name is Erika Mitchell, reveals she suffered a terrifying bout of amnesia before lockdown while staying at her £1.1 million Cornwall home with husband, screenwriter Niall Leonard. I just forgot everything. I phoned my husband who was walking the dogs and he came back and found me sitting in my little study and I couldn t remember where I was, says James, 58. I was put in an ambulance and blue-lighted to Truro.
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Rag n Bone Man on his emotional Brit Awards, returning to live music after COVID-19 lockdowns, and the possibility of Bake Off
He needed them, he tells Sky News. Singing Anywhere Away From Here, his duet with
Pink, in front of an audience filled with excitement and expectation for the first major live music event for more than a year in the UK - and alongside an NHS choir to mark the period in which health workers have saved thousands of lives and been pushed to their absolute limits - it was an emotional moment. I had these glasses on when I was doing that, says Graham. And by the end of the performance I was really fighting away tears. It was an amalgamation of stuff: being at the
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Verdict: Needs an edit
Keen to avoid the sophomore slump that afflicts so many artists on that tricky second album, Rag’n’Bone Man flew to Nashville in a bid to step away from the blues and soul of 2017’s Human, a polished debut that topped the charts and turned him into a major star.
A change of scenery has certainly had an impact on the imposing singer from Uckfield in East Sussex, who uses Life By Misadventure to try his hand at acoustic folk, Coldplay-like balladry and guitar-driven numbers with a country-rock feel. Such an eclectic approach can sometimes work a treat, but the effect here is merely scattergun.