Slowthai had his wicker way...

POP star Rina Sawayama has welcomed Brit Awards and Mercury Prize rule changes. Non-British passport holders who have lived in the UK for five years will now be eligible for gongs, after Japan-born Rina, 30, was barred last year.

IT MIGHT just be a load of hot air, but Slowthai has boasted that he joined the mile high club... in a hot-air balloon.

The My High rapper, engaged to Russian singe singer Katerina, shared where he really likes things to take off.

Slo Slowthai spilled: ‘I went on a hot-air ballo balloon in LA above the vineyards and then we g got a badge that said Mile High Club.’

The 26-year-old, from Manchester, is still flying high after his new album Tyron storm stormed to No.1.

LIFE has been a stinker for BRITNEY, as seen in the documentary Framing Britney Spears. But at least the 39-year-old’s bank balance is smelling rosy as fans rush to buy from her Fantasy fragrance collection. Scent expert Mia Gardner said: ‘We are seeing an uplift of up to

335 per cent.’

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FEARNE COTTON

was drunk in love when she first dated hubby Jesse

Wood. Jesse,

44, who has been sober for eight years, was still drinking in those days. Fearne, 39, told Jessie Ware’s podcast: ‘He turned up at my house with a bottle of vodka. We drank that and did not eat a thing.’