Rach has gong out on town...
Close encounters for Wallis and Pine
I caught up with former JLS singer Aston Merrygold, who has just teamed up with Gawler for new single Across My Heart. The star – who is on tour now – tells me about his trainer collection...
I tend to embarrass people if someone says ‘Ashton’. I’m like ‘No, Aston’. That always creates a little bit of an awkward atmosphere if there is more than one person around. They are always like, ‘Are you not embarrassed by that?’ I’m quite an awkward person, I just say it how it is.
I have a room full of trainers, more than 100. You constantly keep finding new ones but they aren’t new. It’s like shopping every day.
I’ve actually written songs for artists in Korea. I wrote them in English and then they translate them, so there are songs I’ve written in Asia that people would never know I had written. That’s quite cool. What a great week for Tulisa, who won her legal fight with Britney Spears and Will.i.am over being left out of writing credits on their hit Scream & Shout. I’m told she is working on new music and has plans for TV in 2018. Zayn Malik’s romance with Gigi Hadid is about to cause him even more pain – as he plans to erase his tattoos dedicated to her.
The former One Direction star, 25, who split from the supermodel, 22, last month, has inkings including eyes on his chest with a striking resemblance to hers.
A source tells me: “Zayn was talking about his tattoos and said he needed to get his Gigi stuff covered up.
“He has been looking at different designs to see if something could work. If it looks good, he will go for it. He just wants to move on with his life.”
Zayn got a tattoo of Perrie Edwards on his arm covered after they split too. I sense a pattern... Love is in the air for actors Annabelle Wallis and Chris Pine, who played Kirk in 2009’s Star Trek.
It emerged earlier this week that the pair are dating. Sources said: “She was seeing someone else when they met. They kept it casual for the beginning. Chris was very attentive and wooed her to get her attention.”
I can reveal the other guy is TV super-hunk Jon Hamm, 47, below left. Earlier this year I revealed he dated Peaky Blinder star Annabelle, 33, after her split from Coldplay’s Chris Martin, 41, right. It was a great year at the Oscars for Brits and Rachel Shenton carried on the party this week.
The ex-hollyoaks star was clutching her gong – which she nicknamed, er, Oscar – for her short film The Silent Child. And it was a double celebration as London Flair PR toasted 10 years.
Rachel, right, is turning the short into a feature film and I hear the script is “incredible”. Oscar may get a pal...
I wonder what George Michael would think about Shayne Ward’s take of A Different Corner on lowbrow C5 show Jane Mcdonald & Friends. If there is any good news, it’s that all money is going to charidee. Rap megastar Jay-z says that his superstar wife Beyonce was “understanding” and forgave him for cheating as she believes his bad actions didn’t represent his real self. That old chestnut, eh?!