Pixie Lott shows off her LA glow as she jets home after two months in California

Pixie Lott has spent the past two months in Los Angeles recording her second album.

But it looks like the pop star wasn't spending all her time locked away in a dark studio given her glowing tan today.

The Essex-native, 20, was looking bronzed as she jetted in London Heathrow from Los Angeles' LAX.

Wearing a pair of bright orange short shorts, Lott's legs were nearly the same colour.

Lott has been in Los Angeles for two months recording the follow-up to her double-platinum selling 2009 debut album Turn It Up.

She has been working with some top producers and songwriters, including Dallas Austin, Diane Warren and Toby Gadd.

Speaking about her upcoming disc, she said: 'I’ve basically been trying to make it more soulful. It will still have some upbeat, pop songs on it, but it’s definitely more a soulful sound.

'I’m so excited for America to hear more of my music because I haven’t really released anything yet.'

At the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards earlier this month, Lott admitted she was missing England.

She told the Daily Mirror: 'I’ve been in LA for six weeks now, recording tracks for the new album but I’m ready to come back to London and go to Camden market.'

She has been visited by her model boyfriend Oliver Cheshire, 22, who she has been dating since last August.

Although she spent months being coy over her new love, Lott said recently: 'He’s really cool and makes me smile.'

Following a role in teen film Fred: The Movie last year, Lott is hoping to break the United States and has been spending increasing amounts of time Stateside.

Lott is set to follow up her debut film with a starring role in UK movie Sweet Baby Jesus, with Bette Midler, Robbie Coltrane and Sean Brosnan.

The comedy, slated for release this year, stars Pixie as 'a pregnant girl named Mary who goes back to Bethlehem Maryland at Christmas time.'

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Nigella Lawson hits the beach in burkini-style outfit

As a rule, Nigella Lawson is only too happy to show off her voluptuous figure in low-cut outfits.

On a visit to Bondi Beach, however, she went to the opposite extreme.

The 51-year-old Domestic Goddess opted for a full cover-up against the late-summer Sydney sun as she splashed in the water with a companion.

Miss Lawson’s outfit resembled a burkini – a three-piece swimsuit designed to preserve the modesty of Muslim women – with a baseball cap beneath the hood.

The explanation was that the fair-skinned star was worried about sunburn. Prompting the question: Why bother going on the beach, then?

The mother-of-three is currently down under to film a new series of MasterChef, on which she will be making a guest appearance alongside Rick Stein and Heston Blumenthal.

Renowned for her flirtatious manner of presenting, Lawson has been called the ‘queen of food porn’.

She is often seen spilling out of her dresses during parties and regularly opts for racy outfits during her cookery shows.

Despite never training as a chef, she has a value of £7million, selling more than 3 million cookery books worldwide.

Miss Lawson and her second husband, advertising guru and art collector Charles Saatchi, 67, have a combined fortune estimated at £128million.

Just before Christmas they moved into a  seven-bedroom £12million home in Chelsea with underground pool.

The kitchen alone cost £500,000, but  will double as a TV studio.

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'I feel betrayed': Big Brother's Imogen Thomas breaks silence over affair with married Premier League star

Former Big Brother star Imogen Thomas has spoken out about her affair Premiere League footballer former lover - and says she feels betrayed by him.

The 28-year-old model has revealed she rang him last week as details began to emerge of their relationship to plead that the story be kept quiet and he promised: 'I'll look after you.'

Instead, she was slapped with a High Court gagging order threatening her with jail if she named him.

Talking in today's Sunday Mirror, she said she felt 'betrayed' by the married footballer's behaviour.

She told the paper: 'I believed him when he said he would protect me but he’s only looked out for himself. My world has fallen apart.

'I can’t work because of the fuss so I don’t know how I’ll pay the mortgage, and I’ve been branded a homewrecker and a whore.

'But he hasn’t lost anything – he can go back to his big house, his wife and kids and still be worshipped when he plays football.'

Meanwhile, Thomas's friend claim he rang her yesterday to say he still has feelings for her and to beg her not to reveal his identity, say her friends.

The star gained a legal gagging order last week which prevented any newspapers from naming him.

But it is being claimed in today's papers that he called 28-year-old Thomas yesterday saying: 'If my name gets out I'll be divorced...and it will cost me millions.'

Rhe People says that the ace also confessed to still having feelings for the Welsh beauty following their six month affair and expressed his remorse that she'd been named as his mistress.

A source told the paper: 'He accepts she loves him and wanted to be with him. It would have been easy for her to make his life very difficult. He understands that. However, he begged he, "Please don't name me.'

Model Thomas is said to be 'devastated' that their relationship was revealed, effectively ending it.

She is said to have confided in a friend, saying: 'I believed it was true love and feel devastated...I wanted to settle down and have the whole marriage and kids thing with him.'

Thomas, who was in the 2006 series of Big Brother and was a beauty queen beforehand, is being comforted by her close friend Dancing On Ice star Elen Rivas, 35.

They became friends when Thomas was dating Jermain Defoe, 28, and Rivas was still with her former boyfriend, Chelsea footballer Frank Lampard.

Rivas said: 'I urged Imogen to dump him because I knew he would never leave his wife but Imogen always insisted he would.

'She was saying to people her lover told her he had never loved anyone as much as he did her. 'Thomas said she met the love rat in a London nightclub in September.

She claims he did all the running and pursued her by constantly calling and sending flirty texts and messages.

She told the Sunday Mirror: 'For the first few weeks I wouldn’t even put his number in my phone. I liked him but I had to pull myself away.

'I called it off a million times but he kept coming back. He knew it was wrong as well, he said as much, but he was pursuing me.'

'We didn’t want it to go any further but feelings take over and it just happened.'

The couple met for the second time the month afterwards and she says it became clear their relationship was developing into something more than a casual fling.

However, when it appeared that their affair had been rumbled last week, Thomas rang him.

She said: 'I rang him and said, "They know about it, you’ve got to speak to someone at the club and get the story quashed.

You’ve got to protect me and yourself". He said "Oh my God". He promised he would look after me.'

But from then on, Imogen only heard from the footballer through his lawyers.

First she was hit with a personal gagging order, which carried the threat of jail, then in the High Court Mr Justice Eady ruled her name could be made public.

She added: 'These injunctions only seem to exist to look after high-profile people. I know what I did was wrong but he’s the one with a wife and children – he’s the cheater. Now my life is in pieces.'

'I can’t stop crying, but I don’t suppose he is because he is protected by the law.'

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