![]() ![]() “Every time I took a step it would be so painful, as they had to break my bone and put metal and screws in there. I had a lot of negativity about my career and whether I’d be able to perform again. “For 12 weeks I was sat in a chair staring at four walls with crutches and Amelia having to help me to the toilet and get me in the shower. ![]() He was forced to cancel his summer shows after undergoing his third major knee surgery to replace a torn ligament. Her mum was videoing it – she was going, ‘Oh my God, he’s doing it!’ They were over the moon.”Ĭreating that moment wasn’t easy for Olly. "Not many things in my life are private and this moment for me was the one thing I wanted to keep private. “We were on a walk with her family, but nobody knew what I was going to do. “It was on top of a cliff in this little place in Cornwall,” he reveals. Sharing the details of his proposal for the first time, Olly says he didn’t tell a soul about his plans. Isolating together proved to be the making of them and Olly had no hesitation in popping the question 16 months later. Olly asked Amelia to move into his Essex mansion during that emotional holiday in Bali in February 2020 – just weeks before England was plunged into a national lockdown. I was like, ‘What am I doing, she’s f**king perfect, she’s the one for me. “I broke it off, but we rekindled things in the summer. I was very wishy-washy, very noncommittal. “To be fair, our first dates were pretty crap – even she admits that. “I thought, ‘She’s a right sort,’” he says. It took Olly a while to let down his guard when he and Amelia first started dating. I was like, ‘Are people with me for the right reasons?’” The star, who shot to fame on The X Factor in 2009, continues, “My private life was nonexistent, I had no girlfriend, no one to share it with. I just felt really s**t, down and lonely. “But all the cheekiness and the fun in the years I was single, it was just a facade. “I don’t want to bang on about mental health and the difficult times because I’m feeling great at the moment,” says Olly. It’s a weird feeling – the album came naturally and it just felt great.”ĭespite being known for his happy-go-lucky nature, Olly’s carefree persona hasn’t always painted an honest picture of how he’s feeling. I’m not under any stress, like, ‘I’ve got to go on a date tonight and I don’t know what she’s going to be like,’ or, ‘What if a pap gets me going out on a date?’ It was such a stress being single. “I’m in love, I’m feeling great, I’m going into work happy. “She definitely inspired the conversations we had in the studio, little nuggets about how she makes me feel,” Olly continues. “We’re just about to have our first dance, this is our moment. “The first few lines of that song is that moment of us on our wedding day, all eyes on us,” says Olly, who confesses he’s yet to play it to Amelia. Stripped back and packed with emotion, Olly sings, “My darling, my love, I get the feeling all eyes are on us, we’re standing close, but baby close ain’t enough, my heart needs the touch of you.” Unsurprisingly, Amelia has inspired not just the album title, but much of the feeling behind it, although there’s only one ballad, a track called Let Me Just Say. When I heard Die Of A Broken Heart, with the steel drums and a sort of Police or Sting vibe, I was like, ‘I’m f**king vibing off this.’ It was quirky and different.” “I needed a minute to refresh and wanted to come back with something that was different for the ears. They changed my life, they signed me, I’ve had six albums with them, four No.1 albums, four No.1 singles. “I had the most amazing 12 years with Sony. “I just felt it was time for a fresh change,” he explains. His seventh album, Marry Me, has been two years in the making, with the lead single Die Of A Broken Heart – written with Dave Stewart – identifying a new sound that’s a step away from his “cheeky chappie” persona.
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