Harry Styles’ Scottish dream
When Harry Styles opens the Grammys tonight, Scotland might help him bag a top award.
Casting director Claire Catterson will be cheering him on after helping bring the One Direction star to East Lothian to shoot the video for his hit Adore You.
The promo is up for Best Music Video and Catterson is convinced Scotland’s natural beauty could swing it.
The respected casting director, who has put together a raft of acclaimed videos and adverts, cast all the characters in the film, including Zac Mcgoldrick, 11, Jude Shedden, 12, and Ty Mcphee, 12, who plays a young Harry Styles. The young actor, who shot a number of scenes with the real Harry, is better
known as Calum Adams in BBC Scotland soap River City.
The film features Port Seaton harbour, Cockenzie High Street and its atmospheric Thorntree Inn.
Claire, who comes from
Erskine, said: “I’m always looking for opportunities to share how beautiful Scotland is and we have so many talented people who are natural entertainers and just comfortable in front of the camera.”
The 63rd Grammys will take place in Los Angeles tonight, with performances from Styles, who is also up for Best Pop Vocal Album for Fine Line and Best Pop Solo performance for Watermelon Sugar, Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion.
Beyonce leads the way with nine nominations, while Taylor Swift is favourite to pick up the coveted album of the year award for her first lockdown record Folklore.
Lorraine Kelly hopes she is encouraging daughter Rosie to pursue her dreams the way her own mum encouraged her.
She said: “I think one of the things I learned from my mum that I have taken into parenthood is to let your children do what they want to do. I hope Rosie knows I am behind her 100% whatever she wants to do, because that is what my mum did for me.”
Rosie returned last year from a three-year stint in Singapore, a trip of a lifetime Lorraine backed her on, even though it was pretty emotional.
“I missed her so, so much,” Lorraine said. “But you have to let your kids spread their wings.
“You can influence them and teach them to treat people with respect, but you need to let them go their own way and find themselves.
“Mum’s pearls of wisdom have definitely shaped me going on to be a mum myself.”
Rosie, 26, is now back living with Lorraine and husband Steve in London, following in her mum’s journalistic footsteps with a job as a reporter for Hello! Magazine.
And Lorraine loves nothing more than having her daughter at home.
“We’re definitely close, as close as I was with my mum, and I love that.
“I was 34 when I had Rosie, much older than when my mum had me, but there are advantages to both.
“My mum, being young, was full of beans and energy. She was a great mum – and now she’s a fantastic gran to Rosie.
“She always had time to play and make up adventures.
“And she was a fantastic help looking after her when Steve and I were busy working.
“But I established my career first. And having a child made me 100% better at my job.
“I had plenty of empathy, sympathy and life experience.”
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