Denise Van Outen makes return to music after pulling out of Dancing On Ice

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DENISE Van Outen was forced to pull out of Dancing On Ice after fracturing her shoulder – now she hopes to crack the charts.

I can reveal she is making a return to music after almost two decades with a new single next Wednesday.

Denise Van Outen is making a return to music after almost two decades
Denise had a pull out of Dancing On Ice after fracturing her shoulder

She has recorded a cover of the track On My Own, from musical Les Miserables. It is being put out in aid of theatre charity Make A Difference Trust.

It is the first solo music from Denise — posing here to promote the track — since her album Tell Me On A Sunday in 2003.

She said: “This is what I was going to sing live on Dancing On Ice on musicals week. When I had to drop out I decided to release my own version to raise money for theatre professionals out of work and highlight how difficult it has been for the industry in the pandemic.”

She has recorded her song with hit pop producer Steve Anderson, who has worked with Kylie Minogue and Britney Spears, and added: “Les Miserables is the first West End musical I performed in when I was just 11 years old, so this song has always been very special to me.”

Denise last released solo music in 2003

The TV star has made her song with hit pop producer Steve Anderson

It is just a taste of what’s to come as she is making an album.

The busy star will also be spilling the beans with a tell-all autobiography later this year, which she said will include “lots of stories about the Nineties.”

She has teamed up with Heineken for their annual Brewing Good Cheer campaign to showcase the positive roles pubs play in the community.

Denise said: “The great British pub is such an institution, and it’s such a big thing, and played a massive part in our family lives, you know, from being a kid.

Denise has teamed up with Heineken for their annual Brewing Good Cheer campaign
Denise says the pub was a big part of her family life

“My dad – I’d always hear him come in from work – my dad was a docker in the East End – and he would come in and he would say, ‘I’m popping down the pub for a pint.’

“We’d always mimic him and say, ‘dad’s going to the pub for a pint.’ And literally it would just be a pint. It was a big part of his social life.”

Now that’s a cause I can get behind.  

Rita back with bang

RITA Ora is getting back to what she does best following her lockdown party controversy – making music.

She is coming back with a bang almost a year after she last released a song, putting out a four-track EP with the Kazakh DJ Imanbek.

Rita Ora is putting out a four-track EP with the Kazakh DJ Imanbek

The collection, Bang, will be released next Friday and was written and produced entirely over Zoom with the help of a translator.

I am told it is inspired by 80s and 90s club culture and features Big, a collaboration with David Guetta.

Rita said: “When we started this project we were looking to develop creative connections.

“Collaborating with Imanbek was a unique experience, we had meetings through Zoom to discuss the music and we had to use translators, so we really had to adapt to a new way of recording.

“It’s amazing how much technology allowed our connection to shine through. Music truly is a universal language, and this EP is proof that creative process has the power to transcend any obstacle that separates us.”

Good for her.

Time to face Kate’s music

THE woman who made us all hold our hands over our ears and howl in pain with her rendition of A Whole New World is returning to music.

I am sorry to say that Katie Price has another blistering assault on the cards, two years after her last single Hurricane reached a dismal No63 on the iTunes chart.

Katie Price is planning to start making music again

During an interview on FUBAR Radio last night, Katie, below, said: “I’ve now bought myself a studio for YouTube. So I’m going to do my, like, karaoke versions and acoustic versions of songs.

“I’m not giving up. I’m going to do it . . . If you don’t want to hear it, don’t listen.”

The former glamour model also admitted she was trying to land a slot on TV singing shows in a bid to get noticed for her musical talent.

Katie added: “When I say I want to be on the Masked Singer, or I want to be on The Voice, everyone takes the mickey out of me saying, ‘Oh shut up Kate’.”

If that is what her loved ones say, I had better not tell her what I think.

Lily: Are you a Dupa me?

LILY Allen hasn’t done a great job of making friends in the industry over the years.

And now she can add Dua Lipa to list of people who won’t be cosying up to her any time soon.

Lily Allen has taken a swipe at Dua Lipa

The Noughties pop star has taken a swipe at the Don’t Start Now singer, suggesting she has copied her look on the artwork for her upcoming single We’re Good, out on Thursday .

In a not-so-subtle jab at Dua, Lily retweeted a message on Twitter which included a video of a woman saying: “It took me a while to realise that you wanted to be me.”

Alongside the video was the caption: “Lily Allen seeing this single cover.”

It’s not the first time the pair have been compared.

Lily suggested Dua Lipa has copied her album artwork

Fans suggested the song Good In Bed, on Dua’s second album Future Nostalgia, released last year, sounded like Lily.

Reacting to the comparisons last year, Lily said: “I heard Dua’s album leaked and my whole timeline is full up with people saying that there’s a song of hers called Good In Bed that sounds like me.

“Then also I’ve seen people say that’s the worst song on the album.”
Awkward.

Zoom chats are easy Cleesy cash

JOHN Cleese was one of the funniest blokes on telly at one point, but now he is resorting to embarrassing new lows to make a quick bit of cash.

The once-loved Fawlty Towers legend is charging an eye-watering £730 for a 15-minute Zoom call with him through Cameo – that’s 81p a second and more than most people’s monthly mortgage.

John Cleese is charging fans £337.50 for a short recorded video message

In what to me seems like an absolute rip-off, he is also charging his long-suffering fans £337.50 for a short recorded video message, which is almost £100 more than he was charging for the same thing last year.

There was a time when John was known as one of Britain’s comedy greats. He was one of the genius brains behind Monty Python and a man you’d jump at the chance to have a pint with.

Back then, paying this princely sum could have been just about justified as being worth it for a nugget of comedy gold from such an esteemed star.

But he hasn’t forced a giggle in decades and this feels like an insult to his fans.

He seems to have become a dinosaur, an out-dated relic who is angry about the passage of time and the changing world around him.

Why anyone would be interested in even listening to his chunterings is baffling to me.

His followers should do their own funny walk in the opposite direction and say ‘No thanks’.