David and Victoria Beckham’s son Cruz announces he is launching a music career a day after turning 17
VICTORIA and David Beckham's youngest son Cruz is making a bid to become the UK’s answer to Justin Bieber.
The teen, who turned 17 on Sunday, confirmed last night that he is launching a career as a singer, and he will be working with the writer who helped cement Justin as a superstar.
He has been in the studio with Poo Bear who wrote the Canadian’s songs Yummy, What Do You Mean?, Intentions and Where Are U Now.
Cruz, trying to break the charts 25 years after his mum did it with the Spice Girls’ Wannabe, teased: “We’ve just been in the studio a few times and made some songs together.”
He added that he has been writing about “personal experiences, real experiences”.
Cruz released festive single If Everyday Was Christmas for charity in 2016 but this time he is taking things seriously.
In a new interview with i-D magazine, Cruz explained: “I thought I would want to do football and I did that for a bit.
“At that point, I just decided this is exactly what I want to do.”
Since then he has taught himself how to play the guitar, piano, drums and more.
He continued: “I even learnt how to play the mandolin for a song I wrote.
“I don’t think you ever stop learning, but I’m taking my time seeing what happens.”
While his former pop star mum has never been considered the most talented singer, I have high hopes for Cruz’s career.
And he has shown the makings of a performer from a young age, having joined the Spice Girls on stage at New York’s Madison Square Garden in 2008, when he was just three.
Cruz said in the interview: “I was doing head spins and stuff, which is great to look back at now.”
But it was years later, when he was singing Beyonce’s Love On Top in the car that his parents realised he had the potential to make it big.
Cruz added: “I was still really little! My voice hadn’t really developed, so I could just sing that high!”
Maya's koma to bed guise
MAYA Jama was checking out the latest catwalk looks over the weekend.
The presenter opted for this eye-catching black and white number as she hit up designer David Koma’s London Fashion Week show.
Matching it with a jacket, Maya turned heads as she took her seat on the front row.
She is engaged to Australian-American basketball player Ben Simmons, but was at the bash alone.
The couple jetted to New York earlier this month for a loved-up weekend away.
Ever the romantic, the sportsman covered their hotel room in rose petals and candles.
He will probably be up for repeating that behaviour after seeing how good she looked here.
Well, oar blimey Jordan
RADIO 1 DJ Jordan North struggled with the I’m A Celeb trials but now is tackling a bigger battle – rowing from London to his home town of Burnley.
He has signed up for Comic Relief challenge Rowing Home With Jordan North, which will see him paddle 100 miles along a series of canals, all through next week.
“I’ve been doing this every morning before the show, six days a week, and it’s safe to say this is the hardest I’ve ever trained for anything in my life.
“It’s been absolutely exhausting. Some days my whole body is sore, my legs refuse to work, my back aches but the worst thing has got to be the blisters.
"My hands are covered in blisters and they absolutely kill.
“I am about to do something that is going to be so difficult and challenging both mentally and physically that if I’m honest with you, on bad days, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do it.”
Grammy bid to lure ABBA
GRAMMY organisers are pulling out all the stops in an effort to get ABBA to perform for the first time in 40 years.
I’ve been told that bosses of the US ceremony are desperate to get all four members – Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad – to reunite on stage at the ceremony in Las Vegas in April after they landed their very first Grammy nomination.
Their comeback single, I Still Have Faith In You, is in the running for Record Of The Year, putting them up against acts including Billie Eilish and Justin Bieber, and it is hoped the prospect of a win will tempt them over to the States.
A source said: “The team pulling the Grammys together have approached Bjorn and Benny about all four reuniting on stage in April.
“They are prepared to move heaven and earth to make it happen, but persuading the group themselves is proving tough.
“The dream would be to have them sing live there, which could potentially be their last ever performance, but they would also do anything just to have them in the room.
“If they do go, a medley of their hits performed by other artists is an idea that has been discussed.
“Abba have an amazing musical legacy and the Grammys want to celebrate it, if the group are game.”
The group have not appeared together publicly for several years but are all expected to fly to London for the launch of their digital concert residency Abba Voyage in May.
Their last performance together was in 1982.
But after years of refusals, if Grammys chiefs can get all four of them over to Vegas for the big night on April 3, I will be amazed.
Millie's milestone at club to stars
MILLIE Bobby Brown only just turned 18 at the weekend but she’s already having more lavish nights out than I have in 30 plus years.
I can reveal the Stranger Things star splurged on a night to remember at exclusive club Cirque Le Soir in London’s West End to celebrate the milestone birthday.
The quirky venue is known for its fire-eaters, giant ball pit and indoor swing and the club flogs bottles of luxury champagne like it’s fizzy pop.
An onlooker said: “It was crazy.
“Millie was clearly on a mission to let her hair down and security was tight
“Even inside the club she had three big guards protecting her area, as well as the usual venue staff. Cirque is one of the most exclusive clubs but she had a really big group with her.
“She was with her boyfriend Jacob Bongiovi and they looked really loved up.”
It is thought that Jacob, the son of rocker Jon Bon Jovi, helped organise the boozy night out via his close friendship with the club’s so-called Ring-master Tom Eulenberg.
Bottles of champagne cost upwards of £500, with VIP tables priced at more than £2,000.
Over the years some of the biggest stars in the world have partied away at the elusive venue including Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and Rihanna.
Time to go with the Flo
FLORENCE and the Machine are finally gearing up for a comeback, four years after their last record.
Frontwoman Florence Welch has disappeared from public life for the past few years but I’m told the group’s fifth album is finished and will be out in the spring.
But she will be hoping it is a return to form, after under-whelming sales for 2018’s High As Hope.
The first single is expected in the next few weeks and a major tour will take place later in the year.
Over the years, the band have had some cracking tunes, like Sweet Nothing, Dog Days Are Over and Spectrum (Say My Name).
Hopefully this record has more summer anthems just like those – we all need them after the last few years.
Brit's big reveals
BRITNEY Spears’ family ought to brace themselves – she has signed a deal to release a bombshell book about her life.
The Toxic singer has put pen to paper for a tell-all memoir after being snapped up by publishing house Simon & Schuster.
The deal is believed to be worth £11million and means she will spill all about her career and controversial conservatorship.
The book is sure to be packed with bombshell revelations.
Britney is thought to have been driven to the agreement by the recent release of her younger sister Jamie Lynn’s scathing book Things I Should Have Said, which featured several tales Britney insisted were untrue.
Britney has previously teased that she could write a book following the termination of her conservatorship in November, but now she has finally signed up to actually do so.
Alongside an image of a typewriter on Instagram last month, she wrote: “Shall I start from THE BEGINNING???”
Recently she has also said she is working on her first music in five years.
It would be so good to have her back in the charts, where she belongs, after all this time.
Megan’s net gain
MACHINE Gun Kelly scored a slam dunk by arriving at a basketball game with his sexily dressed girlfriend Megan Fox.
She wore a tiny black top with patterned co-ords while he wore sequins for the match in Ohio, where he gave a performance at half time.
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He is gearing up to release his sixth album Mainstream Sellout next month.
The tracklist is yet to be revealed but something tells me there will be lots about Megan on there.
Indie feeest bonanza
INDIE fans are in for a treat with Two Door Cinema Club, The Wombats and Pale Waves all performing at this summer’s Community Festival.
The one-dayer in North North London’s Finsbury Park on Saturday July 16 also features Circa Waves, Nothing But Thieves and Abby Roberts.
Two Door Cinema Club said: “It’s been a rough couple of years for live music so we’re excited to get back to doing what we do best.”
It is part of a super weekend, as Sam Fender plays there on the Friday and George Ezra on the Sunday.
Tickets go on sale on Friday.