Red-faced Ellie in a f lap over ‘Harry’s baby’ rumour
WHAT is it about the mention of Prince Harry’s name that causes famous women such acute embarrassment? Singer Ellie Goulding, who performed at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding reception, has been left red-faced after an awkward grilling about her relationship with Harry on Australian TV.
The interview follows a similarly excruciating encounter on British television when another of the Prince’s pals, actress Jenna Coleman, was asked about her friendship with him.
Goulding, 29, whose hits include Your Song and Love Me Like You Do, was asked if she was pregnant with Harry’s child, in an apparent dig at outlandish speculation in foreign gossip magazines.
Rather than laugh off the question, Ellie squirmed in embarrassment. ‘Please don’t let me go red,’ she replied to the interviewer, looking away from the camera.
‘I’m bright red,’ she continued, dramatically fanning her face. ‘Why did I have a feeling that was going to come up?’
Ellie, a supermarket worker’s daughter from Herefordshire, reportedly began swapping text messages with the Prince earlier this year after she split up with fellow pop star Dougie Poynter, from the boy band McFly. She and Harry, 32, were said to have been flirting and kissing at a post-polo party in June, with a source claiming at the time: ‘Harry and Ellie only had eyes for each other all night. They spent a lot of time sitting together under blankets. ‘They were seen having a kiss before Harry had to go because he was playing polo the next day. Ellie left about five minutes later.’ Goulding has known Harry for years and sang at his 30th birthday party, as well as at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Invictus Games for injured servicemen as a favour to the Prince, left. When Jenna Coleman, who plays the monarch in ITV drama Victoria, was asked on Good Morning Britain about her relationship with Harry, she looked daggers at presenter Kate Garraway before replying: ‘He’s a friend of mine.’