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‘Fame is weird...’Katherine Jenkins

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‘My cheesehad a toothinside it’HARD cheese took on newmeaning when Jane Betts bitinto a Wensleydale from aCambridge supermarket – andfound someone else’s toothin it.

An investigation has beenlaunched by health expertsafter Mrs Betts, of Janes Court,off Seymour Street, tuckedinto the Wensleydale JervaulxBlue from the discountshelf at Sainsbury’s in Cold-ham’s Lane.

Now the tooth – which is be-lieved to be dental work – hasbeen handed over to healthexperts at Cambridge CityCouncil for investigation.

The 42-year-old said: “Thiswas extremely disturbingand even more so as I hadjust been to the dentistmyself the day before.Because of this I thoughta piece of my own dentalwork had come off; I wascompletely disgustedto find that it was infact someone else’s.

“I was also very

confused for several min-utes as I searched my mouth

and all my teeth looking forwhere the piece had comeoff. Now I just feel sick.It was a bizarre and trulyhorrible coincidence.”

The shopper took thetooth to her den-

tist in Newmar-ket Road. Theself-employed

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Katherine Jenkins:

IT’S always the pretty, talentedwomen that get the trolls, the hate,and all the online bile.

Cheryl Cole, Jennifer Aniston,Rihanna, Miley, Lana. . . their clothes,relationships and careers rippedinto on a daily basis, shredded byscathing tweets, spiteful editorialsand plastered all over the deliberatelyhumiliating sidebar of shame.

And it’s become normal. So normalI’m expecting the Daily Mail disciple,publicity junky and bonafide divaversion of Katherine Jenkins toanswer the phone, because in aGoogle snapshot, that’s what she’smade out to be, not the sweetnessand light version that really does takethe call.

To be fair, getting to speak toher was a slight struggle: severalcancellations, one bitter, sacked PRcompany and a phone connectionthat kept dissolving, which meantseveral minutes braving Psy’sGentlemen while on hold.

Once we’d got through thatthough, the Psy moment being themost traumatic, the Welsh classicalcrossover singer was polite, kind,succinct and private, without beingpeevish or cold. It was almostdisappointing; a demanding,unfriendly interviewee can be rathera joy to write up.

Right now the 33-year-old lass fromNeath, whose soft Welsh murmuris borderline hypnotic, is preparingfor a concert alongside the NationalSymphony Orchestra and specialguest Celeste as part of the ForestryCommission’s Forest Live series (“It’san amazing setting,” she bubbles.“I’m very, very delighted that I’vebeen invited back.”) It’s just anothermoment to add to a year that’sproving, so far, to be giddily hectic.

In January, Jenkins re-joinedDecca Records, the label that firstdiscovered her a decade ago whileshe was a 20-something singingteacher, and went on to produce sixof her albums. The move comes aftera lucrative but fairly miserable stintwith Warner Bros, who wanted tocapitalise on her poppier elementsand drag her into the mainstreamslush. It didn’t work.

It makes you wonder whethershe wished she’d returned to Deccasooner. “I think sometimes youhave to go away to try other thingsto realise what you want and whatyou enjoy most and the things thatmatter,” she admits.

“[Decca] totally understandclassical music,” she adds. “I’mcertainly having a fantastic time;

I’ve nearly finished the album. Idon’t want to change things becausethey’re working. I’m in a reallyhappy place.”

The album, her tenth, whichhas a nice symmetry to it, is set forrelease in November, but Jenkinswill perform the odd track off itthroughout the summer if youcan’t wait.

Between the label switch and thenew album she also got engaged toNew York artist, actor and directorAndrew Levitas in April, and he,by the way, has a very good beard(she split from former fiancé, TVpresenter Gethin Jones, in 2011).Have they started planning the bigday? “There’s a lot going on andwe haven’t been engaged for toolong yet, so we’re working on itbut no set plans yet. . .”

And she’s just become an auntyfor the first time too, to her sister’stwo-week-old son Rhys: “I know! It’sbeen a wonderful year in terms ofthe album, Decca, the OBE, andthe wedding and then the baby!

Has it made her broody? “I’vealways wanted children becauseI have a big, close family. Itcouldn’t make me want childrenmore because that’s always beena priority for me. It makes mehappy to see a family growing.”

On top of endlessly flittingacross the globe on tour (“You’renot excited by airports anymore,but I like getting there andsinging”), from the outside oneof the most challenging aspectof being a mezzo-soprano starseems to be the constantpaparazzi attention. Type“Katherine Jenkins” into anysearch engine and pages andpages spit out images of her instories that can be summed upas “Welsh singer wears clothes”– the latest instance being adapper trip to Ascot in a bluenumber with a metallic belt.

“It’s just strange because I’mnot sure anybody would get used tothat,” Jenkins muses, explaining howshe tries to deal with the arbitraryattention and flashing lenses. “I tryto live a normal everyday life behindthe scenes. When people are sointerested in what’s going on in yourpersonal life, of course it’s weird. I’mnot sure I’ll ever be used to it, but Ithink every job has parts to it thatmaybe you’d prefer didn’t happen.

“The good parts of my job areamazing and I would never want tochange that so you just deal with it.”

The good parts have included

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A diva? Not likely. Theclassical superstar talksbabies, press intrusionand returning to the recordlabel that discovered herwith ELLA WALKER

being awarded that OBE for services tomusic and charity, running the Londonmarathon in memory of her father whodied of lung cancer when she was 15,coming second on America’s Dancingwith the Stars, and celebrity perks likeeasily getting tickets to Wimbledon onyour day off (photos online soon, nodoubt, and yes, we are terribly jealous).

Her career highlight though is farmore grounded: “I would probablysay going out to sing for the troops inIraq and Afghanistan, that was a reallyspecial time,” and, despite the glamourand wealth that comes with classicalstardom, losing your best friend isalways heart-breaking.

Life coach Polly Noble, who lived in

Hauxton and underwent treatment atAddenbrooke’s to try to beat cervicalcancer, died in May after an eight yearbattle. She’d been best friends withJenkins since 2001 when they wereboth trying to break into the musicindustry, and it was Jenkins whoannounced that Polly had passed away.

“Her life has affected so manypeople in a really positive way and Ithink she’ll always be a big influence topeople, certainly to me, she was one ofthe most amazing girls, it’s tragic whathappened but for the time that she washere, she was an absolute superstar,”says Katherine. “I feel very privilegedto have had her in my life, even for avery short time.”

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