Dido unveils new image

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Dido sees red in Red

Dido is Britain's richest and most successful female recording artist, but personal happiness has eluded her.

Now, after two traumatic break-ups, Dido has revealed that she has found love again and is celebrating with a dramatic new image - the singer best known as a blonde now has russetcoloured hair.

Dismissing reports that she had returned to her ex-boyfriend, record mogul Ferdie Unger-Hamilton, she tells Red magazine: "Nope. I'd gone shopping with him, that's all."

And is she seeing anyone now? "Yep. But that's all I'm saying."

In the interview, the 33-year-old also spoke about the trauma of her father William's illness. She has been keeping a vigil at his bedside at London's UCL hospital since he had a stroke in the autumn.

She says: "Last year I got into a routine: go to the hospital, make the record, go back to the hospital."

Dido also reveals that, despite reports that she is worth more than £20 million, she worries about overspending as her family was short of money when she was young.

She says: "When I went to Westminster [School], all my friends had tons of money. I'd go to secondhand shops and Mum would tell me I looked good." And that thriftiness appears to have rubbed off. "I'm obsessed with price tags. It has to make me look pretty damned amazing if I'm going to spend a fortune on it."

The full interview appears in the February issue of Red magazine, out on Friday

 

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