Watt a way to go public, Rita
Jadelotta Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-anne Pinnock and Thirlwall made €3.8million in music and merchandise sales.
And their 2016 tour took their earnings to a total €7million.
New figures for Eternal Dance Media show that they made €2million more than in 2015, buoyed by their chart-topping single Black Magic.
And their new company used specifically for touring revenue, Eternal Magic Touring, declared a €3.6million gross profit.
The group were in action at Manchester Arena on Friday night and are back on the road next week, starting at London’s O2 on Thursday.
A source tells me: “The girls have been touring Here is the loved-up picture that proves singer Rita Ora and rocker Andrew Watt are making sweet music together. Rita, 26, posted the cosy snap of her with her new man, also 26, and captioned it: “Happy birthday baby. Oh gawwwwwdddd @thisiswatt”. The pair have reportedly been dating on and off since last November. And while she looks a little coy under that baseball cap, she could clearly no longer keep things under her hat. I caught up with Scouting For Girls frontman Roy Stride, who tells me about the band’s former wild days. New album Ten Add Ten: The Very Best Of is out now. We have virtually sold out our tour, we are playing to 40,000 people but we never get hassled. My kids are like: “Are you famous, Daddy?” And I go: “A little bit, a very little bit.” We’ve had the best of both worlds. When we came off playing Glastonbury we walked past Mark Ronson, got straight in a car to Heathrow and got on a plane to Australia, where we went straight on TV. We had no sleep and partied the whole time on the plane. We didn’t do very well in Australia and I think that might have had something to do with it. Liam Gallagher. He just doesn’t care. It’s exciting. I think an amazing TV show would be The Gallaghers, because those brothers are two very funny people.
I’ve met Madness frontman Suggs and while he’s a dude, I wouldn’t pay €3,600 to have a pint with him. But someone did in an auction at An Evening With Suggs And Friends in London this week.