Amelia Lily loves drinking...and cleaning

Amelia Lily is ready for a booze-up to celebrate her pop comeback – as soon as she can tear herself away from her mop and bucket.

The 19-year-old X Factor star said she has developed a love for cleaning but her Geordie roots mean she knows how to live it up when she does head out for a night on the town.

‘I like to have a party and I like to drink. I’m a northerner – I’ve got a Geordie dad so I like to let my hair down,’ she told Guilty Pleasures in an exclusive chat.

'I’ve not had a mad one in a while. I need one. I’ve just kind of got more domesticated. I’ve become a bit of an old woman,’ she went on.

‘I like to clean and I’m just getting the hang of using the iron. So rock and roll, I know.’

Lily is now gearing up to release her new song, California – a summer pop tune that is all about a long distance relationship between a guy and a girl who are constantly flying between LA and London and passing each other like ships in the night.

While the singer was known to be dating Lawson hunk Adam Pitts last year, she refuses to say if the song – out on August 24 – is about him.

‘I can’t name names. I don’t kiss and tell. I’ll have to keep you guessing,’ she teased.

[Originally published Metro, Guilty Pleasures, Tuesday 15 July 2014]

Lawson: We’re worried we’ve been spotted naked in our kitchen

Lawson have revealed their shock when they discovered a crazed fan knew where they lived – sparking fears she may have seen them all naked through their windows.

The hunky quartet shared their tale with Guilty Pleasures in a talk ahead of the release of their new single, Brokenhearted featuring B.O.B, out on Sunday.

‘There was one who said I know where you live,’ Joel Peat, the band’s guitarist, explained.

Although drummer Adam Pitts called their fan’s bluff retorting, ‘You don’t know where we live,’ when the fan made her claim, but: ‘then she said the address and she said I’ve seen Joel in the kitchen.’

The news worried the band as bassist Ryan Fletcher revealed: ‘And after recent events you’ll know we don’t like to be clothed very often!’

Indeed the lads – including lead singer Andy Brown – aren’t afraid to be in the buff around each other, recently starring in a naked centerfold for Cosmopolitan to highlight male cancer, although they haven’t fallen foul of the inevitable celeb scandal – the sex tape.

‘I’ve never actually made a sex tape but it’s something I wouldn’t mind doing,’ Andy said in our chat, revealing he fears his housemate has.

‘I got home the other day and my roommate and his girlfriend had set up a tripod in the living room and I thought that was strange. I had to ask him and said ‘mate to a bystander this looks very odd.’ I was like, ‘what’s been going on here?’ And he said they’d just been filming a funny sketch. But I was like this stinks of a sex tape. But I’ve never done one.’

With the band all living together they concede that seeing each other naked is inevitable – with Ryan explaining he and Andy just showed each other their junk just so they could get it over and done with – and the band also end up hearing each other in action.

‘I’ve heard you,’ Andy said to a not-embarrassed Ryan, adding: ‘I think you’re doing a good job.’

Meanwhile Adam reveals the thin walls sometimes give the wrong impression.

‘I remember one time we thought we heard Andy, but he was just blowing up a double inflatable bed in our lounge,’ he laughed.

‘Andy and a girl were in our living room and all we could hear through the wall was lots of panting’ Ryan added.

While Andy confirmed it was not what the boys thought, although he did reveal: ‘I was out of breath.’

[Originally published Metro Guilty Pleasures 4 July 2013]