Singer turns to therapy but their rift isn’t healed
How Here’s a snap that shows romance with brother Anwar is hotting up. The pop star, 23, took the model, 20, to the O2 Silver Clef Awards and yesterday they went backstage at BST to meet Stevie Wonder and Lionel Richie. “Dua and Anwar really get on, ” say
Dua Lipa’s
Gigi Hadid’s 33, tel ls me: “I remember talking to Dougie ( Poynter ) and saying, ‘ I’ve got these weird fee lings, hot sweats, my heart rate goes up, I feel unstable, I can’t think straight’ and he said, ‘Me too, man’. As soon as he said that I knew I wasn’t the only person.
“As a band, we knew we had issues we needed to sort out but we weren’t overly open.
“Tom ( Fletcher ) recommended a guy he saw for his bipolar. I went to therapy four times. I saw someone who told me to breathe out a bit.
“They explained what was actually happening to my body. You don’t understand your own brain.” He adds: “It’s a lonely feeling. It’s like having a massive shopping list of worries. If someone reminded me of my dad, that would trigger it.”
He recalls how his dad left 15 years ago. He says: “I was in McFly, doing a movie with Lindsay Lohan in New Orleans, then I had this crushing news that my home life was about to be destroyed.
“I didn’t know how to cope. My stability had gone. Your first idols are your mum and dad, and when they break up you realise the magic has gone. I went through a few years of feeling lost.”
Danny says that having his own family – wife Georgia and son Cooper – has helped him get to a better place, but he says he still hasn’t built bridges with his dad.
“It’s a shame with my dad,” he says. “I chose not to speak to him because of how much pain I felt at the time. He’s still my dad at the end of the day, but it’s still difficult. Being a dad myself, I now know what being one takes.”
Bolton-born Danny says that writing his own material has been therapy, and he has a newfound love for exercise. He is now supporting a physical activity campaign – PHE and Disney UK’s Change4Life – inspiring kids to get active with “10 Minute Shake Up”
games this summer.
, performing at British Summer Time Hyde Park on Friday, inspired fellow singer
to party until 3am.
Adele was joined by comedian and his
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husband
Hollywood actor
also attended in a “Queen Celine” T-shirt. And
’s diva-like antics included having her own roped-off VIP area. The are her guests of honour when she headlines
tonight. Soon-to-be jobless PM Theresa May finds an unlikely new pal in exEastEnder Sid Owen. Now a walkon part in Walford? Start practising your line now, PM: “Rickaayyyy!”