Foxes seeks Clairty on fame from Michael Fassbender

Foxes says taking fame tips off her hunky pal Michael Fassbender will help her cope with fame after the Southampton-born singer stormed to the Grammy award for best dance recording on Sunday.

The 24-year-old songstress, real name Louisa Allen, is confident she will keep her ego in check and revealed her friendship with the 36-year-old pin-up has got her hot under the collar at times.

‘I know Michael quite well. I’ve known him for a while. My sister is friends with him and I’ve known him since before he turned into a mega superstar,’ the victorious star told Guilty Pleasures in an exclusive chat.

‘It’s weird when I see him on the front of magazines or in great, massive movies. The first time I felt really freaked out was when I watched X-Men and I was like, “That’s his face blown up on the big screen”. It was really freaky,’ she laughed.

Foxes also explains it was something of an embarrassment when she first watched Shame, the film in which Fassbender won acclaim and raised eyebrows in equal measures for his gritty performance and full-frontal sex scenes.

‘I watched Shame with my sister and my mum. It was the weirdest experience we have all been through together as a family,’ she laughed.

‘My sister went to the premiere and sat next to him when they watched it. I think that was slightly more awkward. At least he wasn’t there when I watched it.’

Foxes provided vocals on German producer Zedd’s hit smash Clarity which scooped the Grammy.

The duo beat off stiff competition from Calvin Harris, Florence Welch, Duke Dumont and A*M*E to secure their gong, but the honour still took Foxes by surprise.

‘WE F****** WON WTF I HAD GUM IN MY MOUTH @Zedd,’ she said on Twitter, shortly after the win was announced.

‘I want to thank Zedd so much for giving me the opportunity to sing on his song and to take me on this journey. It has been like a dream and I can’t believe it,’ she gushed when accepting the Grammy along with 24-year-old Zedd – real name Anton Zaslavski.

[Originally published Metro, Guilty Pleasures, Monday 28 January 2014]

Foxes: Kinky tweets make me feel like a Vixen

Emerging music star Foxes has revealed she delights in receiving kinky tweets from fans.

The doe-eyed beauty, 23 – whose real name is Louisa Rose Allen – has been inundated with indecent proposals on social media, and has been guilty of accidentally whipping fans into a sexual frenzy herself.

‘Once I tweeted the word “boobs” and it got the biggest response I’ve ever had on Twitter. Boobs. Lots of retweets,’ she laughed before disclosing some of the saucier replies she gets from fans.

‘They get so explicit, it’s brilliant,’ she told us during a trip to LA. ‘The other day someone said I want to drink your bath water and lick your toes. People want to marry me a lot as well, which is nice.’

Foxes has so far declined to accept any of the proposals she has received online, but she does appreciate that she can use the medium of Twitter to debunk any rumours before they take hold.

‘There is this thing going around that I’ve had lip injections,’ she told me, horrified.

‘I’m not big enough to have rumours about me yet, but I found that hilarious. I put a picture up online and someone said “Oh, lip injections already. So sad. So sad.” And I messaged back and was like “What? No! I would never do that!” So that was weird. But we can clear that up now – I’ve definitely not had surgery.’

With her debut single, Youth, out this week – which has been livening up the recent Debenhams adverts – the singer has seen her hopes of performing on the X Factor so far dashed.

‘I don’t think I’m going to be on The X Factor, no,’ she laments, adding: ‘Simon hasn’t called. But it is quite early days for that kind of thing so hopefully by the time my album is ready I’ll be on shows like that.’

[Originally published Metro Guilty Pleasures Monday 21 October 2013]

Foxes: I get hunted down as Zooey Deschanel

Rising British singer Foxes is being hunted down on the streets of America – but mainly by fans of ‘lookalike’ celebrities.

The 23-year-old – real name  Louisa Rose Allen – has cracked the Billboard top ten with her track Clarity, in collaboration with German music producer Zedd.

‘I have been chased down the street,’ she told Metro, while by the pool in Los Angeles.

‘There was one time it was because they thought I was Zooey Deschanel. So that’s the reality of it.

‘I was just walking down Hollywood Boulevard and someone was like, “Oh my God, Zooey. Is that you?” And I was like “Um… no?” and then they got aggressive shouting, “It is. You’re lying!” and then chased me,’ she recalled.

Another well-wisher was ‘a crazy man, old, with a limp and a peg leg’, she recalled.

‘David Guest – that is probably the other one I get. We have the same eyes. I also get a bit of Hagrid from Harry Potter.

‘When I’m hungover, I get Hagrid hair,’ she added.

Foxes was speaking before taking to the stage to entertain the likes of Kelly Osbourne at the British Airways and Variety bash in Tinseltown on Wednesday.

She is preparing to release her single Youth on October 20 and her debut album early next year, after featuring on tracks with Fall Out Boy and Rudimental this summer.

‘I am now banned from features,’ she laughed. ‘Lots of DJs have approached me but my manager said “no”. It has been a running joke that it would be a Featuring Foxes album if I put it out in light of everything I’ve done this year.’

However she is holding out for one US superstar to call.

She admitted: ‘If Eminem asks, then I’m game.’

[Originally published Metro Guilty Pleasures Friday 27 September 2013]