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Grace Jones Wants to Perform at Glastonbury SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2015 Grace Jones wants to perform at Glastonbury he 67-year-old music icon is getting African music and explores all the different ready to release a new album in 2016, sides of her eccentric personality. The ‘Pull Up Ther first studio release since 2008’s To the Bumper’ hitmaker admits the album ‘Hurricane’. Grace will be heading out on tour should have been finished earlier and she’s and she will be keeping the weekend of June unhappy she’s kept her loyal fans waiting for 24 to June 26 free in case Michael and Emily new songs.Grace - who has a book out, ‘I’ll Eavis want her to sing at the world famous Never Write My Memoirs’ - said: “The album is music event. In an interview on TV show called ‘She’, at least that is the title so far. It’s a ‘Alan Carr’s Chatty Man’, she said: “Absolutely mix of African rhythms, all my personalities in I’m going to go on tour, next year. If one. It’s coming out hopefully. Its two years Glastonbury can afford me I might show up. I late. It’s really taking the p**s.” will be touring.” Grace has also revealed the LP - entitled ‘She’ - has been influenced by Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin reunited to celebrate Thanksgiving he former couple - who announced they were “con- sciously uncoupling” last year - spent the holiday Ttogether with 11-year-old daughter Apple and nine- year-old son Moses. Taking to Instagram, she wrote: “Happy Thanksgiving from us to you! (sic)” The pair have remained friendly ever since they decided to go their separate ways, with Gwyneth having recently featured on Coldplay’s new song ‘Everglow’. Meanwhile, the 43-year-old actress - who is now dating the executive producer of ‘Scream Queens’, Brad Falchuk - previously admitted she felt like she had failed when she split from Chris. She shared: “My marriage. I am from a tribe of people who stay married. My parents stayed married until my dad died. I really don’t come from a culture of divorce at all and I had very high hopes for what my life could be like. “I think that it was very difficult for me that I couldn’t do that and that I wasn’t able to be married to the father of my children for the rest of my life. It was very challenging for me in terms of having to re-assess what that said about me, ideas that I had about that kind of failure.” Neil Patrick Harris gave his twins ‘biology’ lesson he 42-year-old actor - who has a five-year-old son, posted an image of the delicious-looking food he’d prepared Gideon Scott, and a daughter, Harper Grace, with his for the big day. He captioned the image: “Happy Thanksgiving Thusband David Burtka - cooked up a spectacular feast to everyone! I’m so thankful for food, family, friends, and [David]. mark the annual celebration and also posted a photograph of Loving today (and turkey)!” Neil also gave fans a further his children holding misshapen carrots while dressed in their insight into his personal life by broadcasting his family’s din- pajamas. Writing on his Instagram account, Neil joked: “Earlier ner via the video streaming app Periscope. Earlier this year, Rita Ora is reportedly today, prepping for Thanksgiving dinner. Teaching our chil- Neil admitted he comes across as the “bad cop” when he disci- dren both cooking and apparently, biology. #thankful” The plines his children. former ‘How I Met Your Mother’ star - who revealed he is gay dating Krept Johnson in 2006 and had his children via a surrogate mother - also he pair have been close friends for a while and collabo- rated together on her hit ‘Poison’ back in May, but their T“chemistry” has led to romance and the 25-year-old stunner is now apparently enjoying secret dates with the ‘Freak Of The Week’ rapper. A source shared: “Rita is enjoying being single but there is certainly chemistry with Krept. “They’ve known each other for a long time and get along real- ly well.” Last week, Casyo ‘Krept’ Johnson - who is one half of hip-hop duo Krept and Konan - was spotted linking arms with the blonde bombshell outside of Mayfair restaurant Hakkasan in London. And despite Rita’s relationship with Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker ending earlier this month, she is happy meeting up with the talented musician and wants to keep “trying” for love. The insider told The Sun newspaper: “Her tight schedule means it’s tough to maintain a relationship but she’s having fun trying.” Meanwhile, Krept has been vocal about his feelings for Rita and recently gushed about her “vibe”..
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