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SHE CHANNELS HER INNER GUY ON STAGE

- HAILEY Baldwin’s Billy Justin Bieber.

FLORENCE Welch hates being called a “female headliner” at festivals as she feels genderless.

The Brit award-winning singer wants events to remove the gender labels because she doesn’t identify as a woman on stage.

Florence admitted: “I get asked quite a lot about how it feels to be a woman headliner.

“It’s something I find interestin­g because when I’m performing I don’t really know if I’m in the male or the female.

“I feel like it’s this strange straddling of both – I feel like both the masculine and the feminine exist inside everybody.

“I don’t know what that energy is when I’m up there, it seems almost genderless.”

However, she feels Florence + The Machine now has a clear musical identity after going sober.

The Hunger singer told Elle magazine: “I was a party monster and it was getting to the stage where I was just mashing myself to bits all the time.

“The scariest thing is, I used to think what made me creative was the fact I was a big hedonist.

“I sort of stopped just before I made the track How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.

“To show people this side of yourself, which is so frightenin­g to you, and for people to accept it with love and to sing it with people was a really big catharsis.”

Florence added taking control meant she can finally label herself a producer on last LP High as Hope.

She said: “I’ve been doing this for 10 years now.

“And this time, I was finally like: ‘Yeah, I’m co-producing this one’.” „

uncle is hoping to cash in on her wedding to The couple are said to have tied the knot last month, but are prepping for a huge ceremony later this year – and Billy is giving fans a chance to attend. „

He’s teased he may raffle off his “plus one” to raise money for charity.

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