Cover Drive love touring with Kelly Clarkson

Bajan band Cover Drive have been taking tips from Kelly Clarkson on tour, but are still finding time to play pranks on each other backstage.

The 'Twilight' group are picking up tips while supporting the former 'American Idol' winner on the UK leg of her tour, and take every opportunity to talk to her because they think she is a real sweetheart.

Singer Amanda Reifer exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "Touring with Kelly Clarkson has been amazing so far. She's an amazing singer and performer as well so we get to learn from watching her, but it's also a great opportunity to just share a stage with her and see her fans and win new fans over from those performances.

"It's usually so busy backstage, but sometimes we do see her in the cafeteria and we have a quick catch up. She's very down to earth, very friendly. She's exactly what you'd expect. A Southern US girl; she loves to laugh and have fun, she's really sweet."



The band - also made up of drummer and rapper T-Ray Armstrong, guitarist Barry 'Bar-Man' Hill and bass player Jamar Harding - hail from Barbados and like to bring their fun-loving spirit to the backstage area where they constantly surprise each other with pranks.

Amanda laughed: "I'm used to hanging out with guys so I like it, it's a lot of fun. There's a lot of jokes, pranks, a lot of teasing all the time.

"We haven't played any on Kelly - we don't feel right doing that yet - but we play pranks on each other. For instance when someone's in the bathroom, we'll run in and throw cold water on them. It's pretty funny."

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Dappy didn’t eat while recording

Dappy only ate once a day while recording 'Bad Intentions'.

The 'No Regrets' rapper was so focused on making his debut solo album, he didn't eat or sleep properly for months.

He said: "I could've kept going adding to the album but when I lost all the weight in my face and my body I thought 'I got to stop.

"My metabolism was running crazy. We was sleeping at eight in the morning and waking up at six in the afternoon.



"Eating once a day - so you can imagine four months of that. I'm only just coming round to normal life again now."

Dappy - real name Costadinos Contostavlos - also said he will be "devastated" if all his efforts don't pay off with him scoring a number one record in his native UK on Sunday.

He told the Daily Star newspaper: "If it doesn't go to number one I will be devastated. I'm going to curl up in a ball and cry.

"If I don't go number one what am I gonna do? It's over. Obviously I got Taylor Swift and Lawson also releasing albums and I'm s**t-scared if I tell you the truth.

"I got a dream to fulfill and kids to feed."

Taylor Swift Torments Her Ex’s In This Way

Taylor Swift thinks it's "fun" to torment ex-boyfriends on her songs.

Speaking about 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together', Taylor - who has previously dated Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner and John Mayer - said: "I made a song that I knew would absolutely drive him crazy when he heard it on the radio. Not only would it hopefully be played a lot, so that he'd have to hear it, but it's the opposite of the kind of music that he was trying to make me feel inferior to. I did that because that's fun."

While her bad relationships have given her lots of hit records, Taylor - who is now dating Conor Kennedy - wishes she never had the inspiration and her romances had worked out.



She told USA Today newspaper: "I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times. I know red flags, and I steer away from them, because I have a priority on being happy.

"At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again. Thankfully, I hadn't learned that lesson yet when I wrote this record."