I HOPE Leigh-Anne Pinnock enjoyed our summer high temperatures — because she is moving somewhere where it is hotter more often.
I’ve learned the Little Mix singer is relocating to Greece and will split her time between the UK and the sun-soaked city of Thessaloniki.
She recently returned from a month in the area and is planning to put down roots there after her footballer fiance Andre Gray signed a four-year contract for the local team Aris FC.
The couple, who have one-year-old twins, are expected to spend several months there each year as he competes in the Super League Greece and this season in European competition.
A source said: “Andre’s job means he will need to be based out of Greece for the next four years. It is part of the deal that he needs to be there for training and matches.
“Obviously it’s easy enough to fly back and forth as it’s only a three-hour journey, but it makes total sense for Leigh and the kids to be out there with him as much as possible.
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“The plan is for them to split their time between the UK and Greece. They had long discussions before he signed and they reckon it will be a really exciting move.
“Being out of the UK will give her extra privacy but she will still be here loads, especially as she is gearing up to launch her solo career. Some distance away will help her lead a more normal life, though, and after a decade in Little Mix, that’s very welcome.
“But the nature of their jobs mean she will have to be back in London more than him.”
Before the move Andre had spent five years playing for Watford and was on loan to Queens Park Rangers in West London last season.
He made his debut for Aris FC last month and has already scored a handful of goals, which is a good sign for his time there.
Hopefully that success will rub off on Leigh-Anne when she kicks off the next stage of her career, too.
HARRY STYLES has told of the pressure his dates have felt due to the risk of abuse on social media.
The superstar posed in these kooky leggings and a variety of other outfits as he told of the toll of fame on his personal relationships.
He branded Twitter “a s***storm of people trying to be awful to people” and said it had hurt those close to him.
Harry said in Rolling Stone magazine: “Can you imagine going on a second date with someone and being like, ‘OK, they’re going to say this, and it’s going to be really crazy, and they’re going to be really mean . . . But anyway, what do you want to eat?’
“It’s difficult to feel like being close to me means you’re at the ransom of a corner of Twitter. I just wanted to sing. I didn’t want to get into it if I was going to hurt people like that.”
His girlfriend, actress and filmmaker Olivia Wilde, who he has been dating for a year and a half, added: “That kind of toxic negativity is the antithesis of Harry and everything he puts out there.
“I don’t believe the hateful energy defines his fan base at all. The majority of them are true champions of kindness.”
IT has been a while since there was a major chart battle but now two pop stars with similar names are going head to head.
I can reveal there is set to be a photo finish this Friday between pop group Steps, including band member Ian “H” Watkins, and Manchester-born rapper Aitch.
The Nineties group are leading the race with their greatest hits album Platinum Collection, which features the singles Tragedy, Scared Of The Dark and Deeper Shade Of Blue, and has already sold 16,609 copies since it came out on Friday.
Aitch, who wasn’t born until two years after Steps’ debut single 5, 6, 7, 8 hit the airwaves, is taking them on with his album Close To Home, which includes his new single My G, featuring Ed Sheeran.
According to the latest figures last night, he had sold 8,394 copies, only half as many as Steps, but the gap is closing.
The majority of the group’s sales came from pre-orders, while Aitch’s album is proving popular online and is currently outstreaming Steps by seven to one.
Madonna‘s compilation collection Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones is sandwiched between them at No2 but is forecast to drop down as the week goes on. On TV’s This Morning yesterday, H said: “We are doing a HMV tour at the moment, we’re in Leicester and Coventry on Wednesday . . . and the chart battle is really close.”
Claire Richards, who is in the group with Lee Latchford-Evans, Lisa Scott-Lee and Faye Tozer, wasn’t impressed and responded: “You always jinx it.” Only time will tell.
On the right I have done a tale of the tape for Aitch and H.
RISING star Dylan will headline War Child’s Day Of The Girl concert.
The Suffolk-born singer, who is pals with Ed Sheeran, will perform at the bash at Lafayette in North London on October 11 following the success of last year’s event headlined by GRIFF.
Tickets for the gig go on sale on Thursday at 10am.
Other up-and-coming artists on the line-up include Mae Muller, Cate and Lola Young.
MAYA JAMA didn’t look too happy to be in London, so it’s no wonder she’s flown off again.
The telly presenter spent the weekend in the capital and shared this snap of herself, which was liked by grime artist Skepta, actress and comic Emily Atack and telly favourite Alesha Dixon.
But yesterday she shared a video of herself on board a plane once again, following a summer of sunny holidays.
CALVIN HARRIS and Vick Hope looked like a match made in heaven as they enjoyed some quality time together in Ibiza.
She was photographed hanging out with her DJ fiance on the White Isle, where he lives, and will spend a few more days sunning herself, meaning her Radio 1 co-host Jordan North has been left to present their show on his own.
Vick wore a brown, £30 halterneck dress from Ann Summers while out and about with Calvin, who she got engaged to in May after a whirlwind romance.
Even while earning the megabucks, she is still a bargain hunter.
ROCKER Alex Turner has turned to Thai boxing to keep fit and emulate his idol, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.
The Arctic Monkeys singer said seeing Mick rock out on stage aged 79 had given him food for thought.
He told L’Equipe magazine in France: “I run a little and I practise Muay Thai. I discovered this discipline several years ago, when I was in a nightclub in New York. I met a security guard from the North of England and he encouraged me to train with him.
“I take great pleasure in it, it’s good for the body and the mind, during the sessions you don’t think of anything else. I will never be Mick Jagger, but we are still working on it.”
Fighters use hands and feet but fans can expect Alex to keep getting his kicks in the music world, as he confirmed he would never quit his day job.
As his band prepare to headline Reading & Leeds Festival this weekend, he added: “I will never reach the level to one day fight in a cage like a UFC fighter. I have not excelled in any of the sports I’ve taken up.”
Music, on the other hand Alex, is where you shine.
SCOTT MILLS and Chris Stark will host their final Radio 1 show on Thursday and Chris has a lot to thank his co-host for.
As well as getting him on the station, Chris has revealed he met his wife Ria while shooting a skit to promote Scott’s 2012 autobiography Love You Bye – dressed up as a superstar singer.
He explained: “I met my wife dressed as LADY GAGA, for Scott. The book needed promoting. He didn’t tell me until I got to his house that I needed to dress as Lady Gaga.”
Chris and Ria married in in 2018 and the couple have since had two children. She was working for Scott’s agent at the time and helped shoot the promotional video.
But even that didn’t go the way they planned.
Chris added on the Scott Mills Daily podcast: “We found it so funny filming this thing that we had to abandon the actual video that they were trying to make and they ended up just putting up a load of outtakes from the recording.
“It was so funny.”
OLIVIA RODRIGO may just have a new heartbreak to inspire her next album, she has split from her DJ boyfriend Zack Bia.
The Good 4 U singer, who is working on her second album, had been seeing him for six months.
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They struggled to spend time together when Olivia was on tour and making music.
Sources in the States said that the relationship had simply fizzled out.
COLDPLAY have announced more UK shows for 2023 after completing six sold-out gigs at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Tickets will go on sale on Thursday for appearances at Manchester’s Etihad Stadium on May 31 and June 1 as well as Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on June 6.
The group could well bring more guests out too, having been joined on stage by Stormzy, Natalie Imbruglia, All Saints’ Shaznay Lewis and . . . Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge among others during their week in London.
