Ex-Towie star Sam Faiers moves into Niall Horan’s bedroom after revealing crush on former One Direction star
SAM FAIERS once admitted to keeping a doll of One Direction’s NIALL HORAN by her bed – now she’s moved into his BEDROOM.
The ex-Towie star, who has admitted to fancying Niall and his “blond hair and Irish accent”, has moved out of Essex and is renting the singer’s £1.5million home in Herts.
A source said: “She’s been seen popping into a few of the shops and enjoying a drink in the local pub. She seems like a lovely girl.”
Sam, who has baby son Paul with partner, er, Paul, moved into the pad a month ago and has been flaunting it in filming for reality show The Mummy Diaries.
A source added: “Sam moved out of Essex because she no longer wants to be seen as the girl from Towie.”
We reckon she still sneaks out to Faces when no one is looking.
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Golden opportunity for Ed
ED SHEERAN has the QUEEN to thank for kick-starting his career . . . sort of.
The serial chart-topper has revealed that it was during ERIC CLAPTON’s performance at Her Majesty’s Golden Jubilee that he decided to become a musician.
Speaking on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, where he chose Layla by Derek and the Dominos, Ed revealed: “It was the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, I think in 2002, and I remember watching it and this guy came onstage with this graffiti-splashed guitar and played this riff and I was like, ‘Dad who’s that?’ ”
“And he was like, ‘That’s Eric Clapton’. And that riff just stuck in my mind.
"That day I was like, ‘I want to be a musician, I want to play guitar’, so I got a guitar for Christmas.”
After finding fame, Ed tracked down a duplicate of Clapton’s guitar and earned praise from the man himself.
Ed said: “I played it on JOOLS HOLLAND’s Hootenanny and woke up on New Year’s Day with an email in my inbox from Mr Clapton just saying, ‘Nice guitar’.”
Things have come full circle for the Shape of You singer as Ed was invited to perform at the Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
He gushed: “The weirdest thing for me is that it was exactly ten years to the day that I picked up a guitar, because I had watched Clapton play the Golden Jubilee and I came back to play the Diamond Jubilee.
“I was kind of standing there like, ‘Well this is a turn of events, isn’t it?’
“That day was definitely a blur – bringing my parents, meeting the Queen, having a drink in Buckingham Palace, it was all pretty surreal.”
Ed, currently on a mammoth world tour with his new album Divide, also spoke candidly about how he had “lost himself” while previously on the road, and only realised he had to stop when his cousin threatened to quit.
Despite his rise to superstardom, Ed showed his humble side on the long-running radio show by choosing tomato ketchup as his luxury item.
Not sure how long he would survive on that island . . .
Adam's so Appy
ADAM J BERNARD might have been turned down by SIMON COWELL but his career has gone from strength to strength ever since.
The former Star Wars stuntman – who entered The X Factor in 2010 – won an Olivier award last month for his role in musical Dreamgirls and he is now the star of new flick App For Life, which premieres at BAFTA HQ this year.
He appears alongside JESSICA ANDREWS and former model TINA HARLOW in the film.
We can’t wait to see it.