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The Shires’ new album, 10 Year Plan, is out now

What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to you?

We performed a couple of songs for about 500 Amazon music employees, but when I walked out on stage, I accidentally said, ‘Hello, Apple Music’ instead of Amazon music… they all roared with laughter, but I felt very embarrassed!

Your funniest celebrity encounter?

Ed Sheeran held me upside down while I did a Keg Stand at his after-show party in Nashville. (A keg stand is where you do a handstand over a keg of beer and drink it upside down!)

Tell me a secret?

Our tour in April/ May this year is almost sold out.

The most expensive thing ever bought (not a house or car)?

My upright piano, which is in my kitchen. I had a terrible keyboard before and so this was a massive upgrade for me.

An eye-popping

– or rather bottle-popping – 1,500 bottles of wine are typically consumed

over the EE BAFTA Film Awards weekend, with white wine just edging it as the preferred choice. Sounds like the Sunday Mirror Christmas party.

Hic.

It isn’t winning that’s important for Leading Actress nominee

Joanna Scanlan.

The After Love star, who will battle Gaga for the coveted BAFTA, believes she’s already a winner.

Joanna, 60, says: “When I was a young person I didn’t know that you could think differently or act differently in this world. It was films that showed me.” The Vengaboys showed me…