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Daily Mail
27-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Pregnant Pixie Lott showcases her blossoming bump in slinky black two-piece at Formula E World Championship
Pixie Lott showcased her baby bump as she arrived at the Excel Centre in London, where she performed at the ABB Formula E FIA World Championships. The singer, 34, who recently announced she was expecting her second child with husband Oliver Cheshire, happily showed off her growing bump in a form-fitting skirt and crop top for the event in London on Saturday. Pixie looked sensational as she showed off her skin and flashed a glimpse at her blossoming belly. The hitmaker styled her outfit with a pair of strappy black heels and added some delicate gold earrings to her look. She left her platinum blonde locks to fall loose down her shoulders and finished her glamorous look with a perfectly applied pallet of make-up. The singer appeared in great spirits as she walked down the street baring her midriff, with a huge smile on her face and confidently showing off her effortless style. Last month, Pixie announced live on stage that she was expecting her second child at London's Mighty Hoopla. The married couple are already the proud parents of son Albert, who they welcomed in 2023. While belting out her hits for the crowd of excited fans, Pixie happily declared: 'I'm having another baby!' She put on a very leggy display in a bright red blazer and a matching tie, while leaving her toned legs on full display. And after revealing her pregnancy, the stunning star cradled her blossoming bump and she flashed a radiant smile for the cheering crowd. Her very public announcement comes in contrast to her first pregnancy, which she kept a secret until she was 31 weeks along. The pop star took to Instagram to break the joyous news in June 2023, showing off her blossoming bump in a black sports bra and leggings, while Oliver planted a kiss on her stomach. The overjoyed couple also flashed a huge smile as they held up a snap of the ultrasound for the camera and admitted they were counting down the days until they would meet their little one. Pixie wrote: 'We are beyond excited to announce we are expecting our first child together and cannot wait to start a family of our own.' She gave birth to a baby boy in September, later revealing his full name and adorable nickname, Bertie. She wrote: 'Albert Charles Cheshire. It has already been the most amazing time of our lives with you little Bertie and we feel so incredibly lucky you chose us to be your m and d xx.' While the hitmaker has previously revealed her desire to have a 'big family', telling The Sun in 2021: 'I'm a big family girl, a very big family girl. 'It is everything to me so I would love to have my own when I can find the time. It's such an amazing thing to have.' Pixie and Oliver met for the first time at a Select Model catwalk show back in 2010 and quickly struck up a romance. The model then popped the question in November 2016 on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral in London. The couple finally tied the knot in June 2022 at Ely Cathedral after they were forced to cancel their wedding several times due to the Covid pandemic
Telegraph
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
£300 to see Elvis perform live? This immersive show is not worth a tenth of the price
The King of Rock 'n' Roll is hardly an underexploited figure when it comes to depictions of his life and music, most recently in Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster biopic. Still, when the production company Layered Reality announced that they would be putting on a 'brand new interactive experience' at the Excel Centre in London with Elvis at its heart, it was suggested that cutting-edge AI and holographic imagery would allow excited audiences to get up close and personal with the Memphis hip-thruster himself as never before. However, if audiences have been expecting Abba Voyage-esque technical wizardry, they are likely to be disappointed. I was unable to discern any sign of hologram effects in this show. Instead, all you get is a limp assembly of video, actors, a live band and indifferently recreated sets, at high prices. The central conceit, if that's not too grandiose a term, is that the audience has been corralled at short notice for a recreation of Elvis's 1968 comeback special, when he performed live on NBC. This was once rumoured to be the centrepiece of the performance – Elvis resurrected via the latest in AI and three-dimensional video – but this has not quite taken place. Instead, spectators are firstly shown an indifferent recreation of an NBC studio backstage, which might as well be labelled 'selfie opportunity'; there is no information about anything, just influencer-bait. The room comes festooned with large, cheap-looking boxes with memorabilia of mugs and key rings. It is not clear if this is a satire on the mass merchandising of Elvis, or simply gift shop memorabilia that has been left out too long. Then the show begins proper, as an actor playing Elvis's childhood friend Sam Bell leads the audience through a sanitised, tedious account of Presley's coming-of-age in rural Mississippi, described in the clichéd script as 'the only place in the country that you can hear the music come from soul and yearning.' After an interval, complete with opportunities to buy blue-tinted cocktails in a themed bar, it's straight into an underwhelming partial recreation of the 1968 special, complete with three musicians and Elvis videos that you can probably find mostly on YouTube. All of this starts at £75 a ticket; if you want the 'If I Can Dream' Super VIP package, it will set you back £300. It is not worth a tenth of the price. Although there are hundreds of people credited for Elvis Evolution, from a revolving cast of actors to two separate live bands to the technological types responsible for what little pizzazz there is, the overall impression is of something rushed and cheap, flung together once the approval of the Presley estate had been obtained, and designed to appeal to only the most committed super-fans. As I fled through the gift shop, looking suspiciously at the £35 T-shirts around me, the words 'we're caught in a trap' most certainly came to mind. At the end, we are solemnly informed, 'None of us knew this at the time, but [Elvis's] death wasn't the end of his music.' If this underwhelming show is to be the King's epitaph, he may have wished the whole industry died with him in 1977.
