Sophie Ellis Bextor
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: London, 10 April 2020
Sophie and Richard were seen having a good time, lasting out until 3am - not bad for a lass who is four months pregnant. The Daily Mirror went on to say that Sophie looked ’radiant, was dancing and showing off her bump’. She was wearing white knee high boots and a green 60’s style dress.
Sophie’s pregga’s - 03/12/03
After splitting up from old boyf Andy four months ago, Sophie Ellis Bextor and new boyfriend Richard Jones are having a baby.
The singer is three months pregnant by Richard, just four months after splitting from her manager and boyfriend of six years Andy Boyd. The couple are apparently ’thrilled’ by the news, and Sophie said ’I’ve always wanted to be a mum and Richard and I are really excited’.
The pair live together in her £400,000 home in Notting Hill and they met backstage on Jonathan Ross’s TV show. Although Sophie will continue to release songs from her new album ’Shoot From The Hip’, she has cancelled a planned tour of Europe, Japan and South America.
Bextor’s DVD release - 29/01/03
Sophie Ellis Bextor is releasing a DVD featuring material taken at her home in Chalk Farm as well as live concert footage.
Watch My Lips is due out next month and includes a concert at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire last year.
The DVD will also include videos videos for the singles Murder On The Dancefloor, Get Over you, Move The Mountain and Music Gets The Best of Me.
The DVD also features interviews with the pop-star and celebrity fans including Blur’s Alex James and Moby. The 52-minute DVD is released on February 24, Sophie is currently on a nationwide tour.
Sophie is Europe’s No 1 - 24/01/03
Sophie Ellis Bextor’s song Murder On The Dance Floor was the most played tune on European radio last year.
The song, which made it to number two in the UK singles chart, beat the likes of Westlife, Sugababes and Atomic Kitten to take the top spot.
Industry magazine Music Week, which released the figures, said the list reflected the huge fan base Sophie has gained in countries such as Denmark, France, the Netherlands and Norway.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor shocks in anti-fur campaign - 12/11/02
Sophie Ellis Bexter is shocking all in a hard hitting anti fur campaign. The singer is seen wearing a black evening dress, holding the dead body of a skinned fox. The ad contains the slogan "Here’s the rest of your fur coat."
The striking image was taken by Mary McCartney, fashion photographer and daughter of Sir Paul McCartney, who like Ellis-Bextor gave their time for free. The advertisement for anti-fur group Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is due to appear in magazines around the world and billboards.
Ellis-Bextor, who has had hits with Murder On The Dancefloor and Take Me Home, said: "I think fur is really pathetic when there are so many alternatives’.
New Years G.A.Y party - 25/10/02
Sophie Ellis Bexter is set to headline Europe’s biggest gay and lesbian New Years Eve Party at Alexander Palace.
The event is sponsored by G.A.Y and guests to the Ally Pally (as the famous landmark is called by locals) will be able to enjoy an indoor ice rink and fun fair - with more acts to be announced. Lots of people are expected to this event - so dust down your pink feather boa and pull on the leather! Let’s party!
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She’d already started singing and at the club Uncle Bob’s Wedding Reception met musician Billy Reeves and handed him a tape. Two years later theaudience emerged, dressed in black, with spiky guitar pop and a bona-fida star in the shape of chicly glamorous Ellis-Bextor. But despite the media acclaim, two Top 30 singles and a breezily confident album that owed more to classic Pretenders than it did Pulp, theaudience crumbled when Billy, the brain of the band, walked out.
In the summer of 2001 though Sophie stepped into the limelight as a solo artist. Her voice on Spiller’s "Groovejet (if This Ain’t Love)" was deliciously infectious, with a sexily-composed vocal that sang, "If this ain’t love, why does it feel so good?" Sophie and Spiller shot to Number One beating off competition from Victoria Beckham and leading to her being dubbed ’The Real Posh’ as she sported a cheeky ’Peckham’ tshirt to celebrate her victory.
Sophie follwed up her success with a debut album, Read My Lips, and several successful singles including Murder on the Dancefloor, Take Me Home and Music Gets The Best Of Me. However, when Shoot From The Hip, her second album failed to produce any real hits she took time off to be with her baby Sonny and marry The Feeling guitarist Richard Jones.
She is currently set to release a third album in collaboration with, among others, Fred Schneider of the B52s, Cathy Dennis and Shelley Poole. Trip the Light Fantastic is expected to be released in the spring of 2007.
September 2007