Mixes on a mission

Rita’s in lip-sync battles

STEPS legend Claire Richards has dropped an early festive anthem called My Heart Is Heading Home (This Christmas).

She said: “It’s really heartfelt and it made me quite teary recording it.” „

THAT retiring story gets sillier by the day. Fresh from topping the charts with his new album, Love, the Canadian crooner has announced another run of UK dates.

„

Bublé will now play a second date at Birmingham’s World Arena on May 21 followed by shows in Glasgow,

Manchester and

Leeds.

That’s 11 UK arena gigs

– not bad for a retired dude. „

defended after she was caught lip-syncing at a Thanksgiving Day event in New York.

Legend said: “We all have to lip sync on this parade because the floats don’t have the capacity to handle the sound requirements for a live performance.”

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Meanwhile, another new Rita song landed yesterday called Summer Love courtesy of Rudimental. „

HE might be almost as old as the outgoing

007 Daniel

Craig – who’s 50

– but Americans think Idris Elba

should be the next

James Bond.

„

A Hollywood

Reporter poll found that 63% of its readers want the 46-year-old, pictured, to play the spy next.

It seems unlikely though as, despite his age, Idris is currently bulking up for a role in the next Fast & Furious movie.