Beth Ditto Bans Girlfriend From UK Tour

Gossip singer furious with UK press

Gossip singer Beth Ditto has apparently banned her girlfriend from travelling on the band’s forthcoming UK tour.

Beth Ditto is a continual contradiction. A pop star with bona fide underground credentials, the Gossip singer is an extravert onstage yet ferociously private of her personal affairs.

Springing to fame on the back of the single ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ the group returned earlier this year with their new album ‘Heavy Cross’. A blistering mixture of punk and funk, it kick started the summer.

ClashMusic caught up with Beth Ditto to talk about the new album, and how she has coped with the pressures of chart success. Click here to read her thoughts!

Basking in the glory of her new hit, the Gossip singer seems to be loving her new found fame. However it seems that Beth Ditto is less enamoured with the more negative side of the British press.

In a new interview the singer revealed that she refused to allow her girlfriend to travel with the band on their forthcoming UK tour. Arguing that she wants to protect her from the British press, Beth Ditto claims that newspapers have been contacting her family.

Speaking to Contact Music she said: “(It’s) not because I don’t think she can handle it, but because that’s my life. Say what you want about me. Say it to my face, say it behind my back, write it on the fucking bathroom mirror, I don’t care. But do not talk about the people I love. I will lose my mind.”

“The Mirror went all the way to Arkansas to look my dad’s number up. I was just furious!”

Gossip are set to kick off their forthcoming UK with a show in London’s HMV Forum. The band will then travel across the country, playing shows in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and more.

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