Jake Bugg shocked by Twitter spank

Jake Bugg has revealed how he was made to blush when a cheeky fan sent him pictures of her own spanked bottom.

The 19-year-old admitted he was taken aback when the red backside flashed up on his Twitter feed.

‘There was a picture of some girl with red hand marks on her bottom, which was quite a bit of a shock when I saw it early one morning,’ he told Guilty Pleasures in an exclusive chat at the Brits.

‘I don’t believe it was my handiwork,’ he added, hurriedly.

The Nottingham-born star’s fan base affectionately call themselves the Love Buggs, and he told us how he won’t stand for them being abused.

‘I remember someone tweeting me saying out of all the Beliebers and Directioners and everything, that Jake Bugg fans were the worst because they think they are smarter than everyone else,’ he laughed.

‘It is good I get to connect with my fans. They are all cool.’

Meanwhile, the Two Fingers singer says he enjoys nothing more than kicking back and playing football online during time off from his British tour.

‘I’m quite good at FIFA. Sometimes I put on a funny American accent and start insulting [strangers] heavily. A lot of them think that I do sound American,’ he chuckled.

[Originally published Metro, Guilty Pleasures, Wednesday 19 February 2014]

John Newman: I want to fight Jake Bugg... at table tennis

John Newman has warned fellow Brit award nominee Jake Bugg he wants to ‘smash his arse’… at ping-pong.

The Love Me Again singer’s challenge is of a somewhat tamer nature than Robbie Williams’s famous invitation to Liam Gallagher at the Brits in 2000 to step into the ring.

But the 23-year-old insisted: ‘I’ve heard Jake’s really good at table tennis and I want to play him. I don’t want to smack him or fight him. I’d just quite like to play against him. I can hold my own. I could smash his arse around the table!’

Bugg, 19, is the only rival for the best British male Brit that Newman could imagine confronting, the sensitive songwriter admitted. ‘I wouldn’t want to take on James Blake. He is a quiet guy,’ he mused. ‘Or Tom Odell – I love Tom Odell, he’s lovely.

‘And David Bowie! Imagine punching Bowie? It would be the most surreal moment of your life and the biggest regret ever.’ The Yorkshire lad also thinks Bugg would be a worthy winner of the British male gong.

‘Jake hasn’t been credited for the brilliant work he has done yet,’ he said – noting that Odell claimed last year’s Brits critics’ choice award and Blake won the Mercury Music Prize.

‘It is a tough category. I just see it as I am new blood and I feel fortunate to be nominated,’ he added.

Newman is also up for honours in the British single of the year and British video categories – both for Love Me Again. And he said fans may not have to wait too long to hear more of his top-class tunes.

‘I don’t like to stop song-writing or expressing myself and being creative – that’s why I do what I do,’ he said.

‘I don’t understand how people say “I’m writing a new album” – because surely you should write all the time?

‘That way, you’ll have more practice, and can make an album with better material.’

[Originally published Metro, Guilty Pleasures, Wednesday 19 February 2014]