Duffy

Jack White, the former frontman of The White Stripes, has apologised for the seemingly insensitive comments he made in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. White is the cover of June's Rolling Stone magazine and made a series of comments in the accompanying interview in which he appeared to criticise The Black Keys, amongst others, for capitalising on the sound and music style he made so popular. 

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There truly is no smoke without fire. If Duffy didn't already know this, having sung a song of same name, she certainly does now as her £12m ($19m) apartment in Kensington, London was engulfed by flames last night (3rdOct2012).

The 28-year-old singer was apparently with a friend and her cleaner, in the process of packing to move house when the fire broke out. Although the 6000 sq/ft property, that occupies both the 9th and 10th floors of the 12 floor apartment block, has its own pool and private cinema, at the forefront of Duffy's mind were her 2 cats and dog. The Evening Standard reports that the singer was seen to be looking for her cat Felix, “Where’s my cat? Come on, come here.” she shouted, and, as her neighbour Maria McLeod quotes, “Felix this is your last chance!” Luckily, Felix was found later, hiding beneath a van, so all inhabitants of the flat seem to have got out unscathed, if a little shaken.

Duffy has been on hiatus since last year, but has been making plans to begin performing and recording again, as she is due to perform in the United Arab Emirates next month. However, her house fire is another in a long list in unfortunate year Duffy, having broken up with her rugby-player boyfriend, Mike Phillips, earlier in the year and being sued by her former manager.

Duffy once sang the song Smoke Without Fire, and the Welsh singer certainly found herself proved wrong after being forced to flee a blaze that ripped through her 12th floor apartment in Kensington, London last night (October 3rd.) The pop star though didn't leave without her pets, managing to save her dog and one of her cats. Troublingly her other cat Felix disappeared, and she was seen to be crying out "Where's my cat? Come on, come here".

A neighbour who also lives in the 12 floor building told London paper The Evening Standard "I gave her a cup of coffee and she said her cleaner was there and needed some too. She was lovely, just in shock." They added "I asked her what had happened. She said 'that's my flat!' kind of half-laughing in shock. She said that when she left the flat she had to shout 'Felix this is your last chance!' She thought they would have to leave him there. I just felt sorry for her."

"She was running about all over the place" said another neighbour. "When the police arrived they calmed her." Thankfully, Felix was found hiding under a white van and, after being reunited, they were driven away in a black Mercedes. It wasn't good news for others in the building though, who ended up staying in a rescue shelter overnight.