PALOMA FAITH shot her red carpet look at home to celebrate the return of The Voice Kids... and revealed why she turned down the chance to break America.
The quirky pop star claims she was asked to reshoot her video for 2014’s
Only Love Can
Hurt Like This because it featured her kissing a Ugandan childhood friend.
She said she was told: ‘America will not buy a song with a white woman kissing a black man.’
Paloma, 38, whose partner Leyman Lahcine is black, was ‘completely shocked’ by the
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warning from a
‘very high-up exec who was African-American’. Explaining why she refused the reshoot, she added: ‘I wouldn’t be able to live with myself.’ She was joined in her wardrobe faceoff by fellow coach Pixie Lott, 29, relishing the chance to dress up after coronavirus postponed her wedding to Oliver Cheshire. The Voice Kids is on ITV at 7.25pm on Saturday.
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Dressed to trill: Paloma and Pixie in their virtual red carpet outfits for The Voice Kids s
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KASABIAN have accused Tom Meighan of ‘misleading’ fans regarding his exit from the group. The frontman was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work this week after pleading guilty to assaulting his ex-fiancée. When they heard about ththe charges, Kasabian said: ‘We as a band made the ddecision d that we could no longer work with him.’