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Texas have announced a second Scottish date as part of their 2024 UK tour.

Sharleen Spiteri of Scottish rock band Texas has opened up on the difficulties she’s experienced in her time in the public eye, revealing she’s ‘never had a great relationship with the music industry.’

Fans of The Masked Singer are convinced an American popstar is behind Eiffel Tower. The fun and funky ITV singing competition returned to screens on Saturday night (January 27) for the latest installment of famous faces singing in the disguise of elaborate costumes and guessing from the celebrity judges.

Rylan Clark, the star of This Morning and former X Factor contestant, wowed fans with his singing on New Year's Eve. He performed alongside music legends Rick Astley and Sharleen Spiteri at BBC One's New Year's Eve Rocks celebrations.The 35 year old TV presenter sang a version of You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by British pop band Dead or Alive. After his performance, Rylan joked on Twitter: "It can't get worse than me singing you into the new year.

Rylan Clark's New Year's Eve performance with the iconic Rick Astley has left fans begging for the former X Factor star to restart his music career.

Lauren Mayberry covered Texas‘ ‘Say What You Want’ at her show in Glasgow last night (October 5) – check out the footage below.The Chvrches frontwoman was performing at the SWG3 TV Studio venue in the Scottish city as the first stop on her 2023 solo UK headline tour.Towards the end of the set, Mayberry paid homage to Glasgow band Texas by delivering her own take on their 1997 hit single ‘Say What You Want’.You can watch a fan-shot video of the performance here:Mayberry’s recent North American tour saw her cover Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’, Adam Schlesinger’s ‘That Thing You Do’ and PJ Harvey’s ‘Down By The Water’.She also performed a solo version of Chvrches’ “OG deep cut” ‘Lungs’ in Toronto to mark the 10th anniversary of the synth-pop trio’s 2013 debut album, ‘The Bones Of What You Believe’.Additionally, the singer-songwriter has showcased numerous as-yet-unreleased solo songs at this year’s gigs including ‘Change Shapes’, ‘Bird’ and ‘Mantra’.This week, Mayberry confirmed that her second single ‘Shame’ will be arriving next Tuesday (October 10) and shared a snippet of the track. It’ll follow on from ‘Are You Awake?’, which came out last month.Mayberry’s UK headline tour continues tonight (October 6) in Birmingham ahead of dates in Manchester (8) and London (9).

Sharleen Spiteri has revealed a new hack for opening jars that's completely changed her life. She revealed on Claudia Winkleman's Radio 2 show that a friend recently gave her the "insane" tip. Sharleen recommends whacking a tight jar lid hard with a wooden spoon, saying it's the easiest way to remove it.

Sharleen Spiteri has revealed the 'worst thing' she's ever done in a bid to get back at a rude customer who made her young colleague cry.

One Direction star Niall Horan was seen with not one but two Celtic tops, including the controversial new home kit, while he was in Glasgow to play his set at TRNSMT.

Texas’ Sharleen Spiteri has thanked Glastonbury’s Emily Eavis for being a “massive supporter of female musicians” during the band’s performance on the Pyramid Stage.The Glaswegian group took to the stage on Friday afternoon (June 23) to perform a career-spanning set. Towards the end of their one hour slot, Spiteri praised Eavis.“Not because she’s ticking a fucking box to put us on these stages, she’s putting us on these stages because she thinks we’re fucking amazing,” Spiteri told the audience.

Spice Girls star Emma Bunton got firmly put in her place in an abrupt and awkward exchange during her appearance on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch this weekend when she got told to "shut up" by a fellow guest on the show.

Texas frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri joined Wu-Tang Clan onstage during their recent performance in Scotland – view footage of the moment below, along with the full setlist.The band took to the stage at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro arena on Monday (June 12), as part of their ongoing ‘N.Y. State Of Mind’ tour.Towards the end of their 24-song set, the band surprised fans with a guest appearance from Spiteri with the Texas singer joining them onstage for a rendition of ‘Say What You Want (All Day, Every Day)’ — a track which she re-worked with the hip-hop group in 1998.The moment also marked nearly 25 years since Wu-Tang Clan and Spiteri first joined forces to collaborate on the track, which occurred when she passed the song ‘Say What You Want’ – taken from the Scottish rock band’s 1997 album ‘White On Blonde’ – to RZA to mix and finalise the recording.Eventually, the two ended up making an official collaboration of the track, and named the remixed version ‘Say What You Want (All Day, Every Day)’.

Folk singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte has died at the age of 96, his spokesman has confirmed.

Dame Judi Dench, 88, left hotel guests stunned after she was seen giving a musical performance on New Year's Eve just before midnight fireworks at a hotel in Aberdeenshire.The Hollywood star joined in on singing parts of Abba’s hit Waterloo, as she was joined by Sharleen Spiteri, 55, who belted out the main vocals. Scottish singer and guitarist Sharleen is best known for being the lead singer of the rock band Texas. A video of their joint performance posted to Twitter has now amassed over 100,000 views.The clip shows the pair sharing a stool, with Dame Judi playing the piano while Sharleen sings.The incredible event took place at The Fife Arms in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, just before hotel guests welcomed in 2023.Onlookers appeared to be delighted by the unexpected occurrence, while others took to Twitter to share their amazement. Ewan Venters, the chief executive officer of Artfarm, which owns The Fife Arms, told BBC Scotland the rendition sparked joy just before the New Year. “Judi Dench and Sharleen Spiteri were staying at the hotel and we had an impromptu moment at the piano,” he said.“It was a happy evening with lots of guests and locals clapping.”He later told the PA news agency: “(Judi and Sharleen) had met previously but after dinner they met in the lobby and took to the piano.“Guests were somewhat shocked but loved it!” he continued. “Two legends – a Scottish musician, Sharleen Spiteri – and Dame Judi who, although born in the city of York, is an honorary Scot for not least playing Queen Victoria on so many occasions.“Mrs Brown was back on Royal Deeside!” he added. Dame Judi recently left Good Morning Britain favourite Ben Shephard gobsmacked, when he discovered they had shared the same dressing room. The icon was

A Scots pub has been left stunned after two famous faces hijacked the piano to perform an impromptu Abba duet during Hogmanay celebrations.

Gok Wan says he'd love to have the opportunity to dress Sharleen Spiteri because he thinks she's one of the most stylish women in media.

Sharleen Spiteri is an ambassador for this year’s National Album Day on Saturday 18 October. Texas are on tour across the UK in 2022. For more of the latest showbiz news from Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.

Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway revealed that her family is taking every day as it comes in regards to her husband Derek's recovery.The presenter was speaking candidly to musician Sharleen Spiteri who opened up the conversation about Derek on Friday morning's show.Sharleen said: "Kate, I have to say, you're bloody amazing, how is your husband?"To which Katie responded: "We're keeping on and keeping on, it sounds like a cliche but it is one day at a time"He is still here and here are we are, so I am very lucky."This comes a few days after Kate revealed that she got her "happy ending" while updating her fans on Derek Draper's recovery.Speaking to Piers Morgan's wife Celia Waldren for the Telegraph, Kate, who is a regular GMB anchor,

Kylie Minogue has been named an Album Day Ambassador for 2021, and she’s also confirmed that she’s reissuing her ‘Fever’ album to mark its 20th anniversary.The pop icon – who released her most recent album ‘Disco’ last year – is one of five women who have been chosen to be National Album Day ambassadors alongside Laura Mvula, Ray BLK, Joy Crookes and Sharleen Spiteri of Texas.Taking place Oct 16 and presented in conjunction with BBC Sounds and Bowers & Wilkins, National Album Day’s theme this year is: “Celebrating Women In Music”.“I’m so proud to be a part of National Album Day alongside such amazing, inspirational female artists!” Minogue said of the honour.Her iconic album 'Fever' turns 20 today, and we're delighted to announce

SATURDAY Kitchen has been hit with hundreds of complaints after Matt Tebbutt served severely allergic Sharleen Spiteri a "dangerous" meal. The shock scenes aired on 18 September, and have also been slammed by a leading charity.

Texas front woman Sharleen Spiteri says she'd love to go to Ibiza with GBX DJ and producer George Bowie to perform their new remix together. Sharleen admits she used to dread the idea of Ibiza, and even turned down an offer by Roger Sanchez to play there, but she'd love to perform the banging GBX remix of Mr Haze there with George when it's released on September 22.