The couple (pictured below) announced their engagement last year in November after meeting back in 2011, and Example explained to the Daily Star newspaper that he's leaving most of the planning to McNaught because she's enjoying the whole process:

"She's sort of planning the wedding pretty much on a daily basis and it gets more and more expensive. Random guests keep popping up. It started off with 50 and now it’s almost 100."

"I can't give you specifics about the wedding. Just that it's in May, and in Australia."

Earlier this week (January 9), the star tweeted a message to his fans to let them know he's enjoying his trip to New Zealand: "Nice lady just delivered a bucket of ice to my room, said "Enjoy, it's fresh!!" and then skipped away. I love New Zealand."

Watch his newly released music video for 'Perfect Replacement' here:

The star, who is engaged to Australian Erin McNaught, revealed to Capital FM that he once had an unfortunate episode with a koala.

The 'Say Nothing' star, however, believes the animal was holding out until it got passed around to him before letting rip. He said:

"I held a koala and it did a wee on me. It gave me a sort of look first. About seven other people were holding it before me and I think it was just holding in its wee until it got to me. You could see it in its eye."

Example isn't the only music star to fall foul of koalas, with One Direction last year worried they might pick up chlamydia as a result of being peed on.

Liam Payne and Harry Styles were both holding a bear which apparently had the STI before it urinated on them - but the singers were both fine after the incident.

The 30-year-old is set to perform with with DJ Wire as well as full live gigs from June 20.

He told the Daily Star newspaper: “Whether it’s my live show or the We Are Rockstars crowds, the hotels are packed and the atmosphere is incredible.

“I’ve started on new material and have some big collaborations in the pipeline.

“DJ Wire is working on new material too. We’ll change our set over the summer, but it’s the best of my back catalogue mashed up with whatever huge tunes are around for summer.

“It’s not often you can spend all day on the beach and then jump on stage and party with a few thousand holidaymakers.

“Playing the Mallorca and Ibiza Rocks Hotels feels like home for the summer.” 

Watch an interview with Example below:

]]> London Newsdesk http://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/example/view/63263/ Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:28:22 +0000 http://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/example/view/63263/ Example has given his blessings to rumoured love couple Taylor Swift and Harry Styles.

The country-pop star and One Direction singer are reportedly dating after being seen holding hands in New York more than once.

It spawned the term 'Haylor' and sent fans into overdrive as they both praised and lamented the apparent new relationship.

Speaking to Capital FM, Example - who announced in November that he is engaged to model and presenter Erin McNaught - said that he recently saw Swift in Australia.

However, whilst he didn't get the chance to bring up Styles in conversation, he wishes them well in the future. The music maestro said:

"I saw Taylor Swift last week in Australia – she was staying in the same hotel as me."

Asked if he mentioned the One Direction star, Example added: "No, because she's got 17 people around her at all times."

He concluded: "Good luck to young people in love everywhere."

Speaking to the Daily Star newspaper about the famous ceremony, he explained that his music never gets a look in despite his success as a result of not being attached to a major label:

"The Brit is very much a major label party and I'm on Ministry, which is an independent. Regardless of how many records I've sold or how much success I've had, they wouldn't acknowledge me."

Newly-engaged Example went on to add that he's not that bothered by the snub because some of the acts who win BRITs don't go on to do anything that has any career longevity:

"But I don't really mind because if you look at the Brits over the last four, five years, there's plenty of people who have won awards and then disappeared."

Listen to his new track, entitled 'Perfect Replacement', below:

The 30-year-old former Miss Australia confirmed the news on Twitter, thanking fans for their messages of congratulations.

She tweeted: "Yes, Elliot and I are engaged :) Thank you everyone for your lovely well wishes xx @example."

Example - real name Elliot Gleave - later said: "Since I announced my engagement to @Erin_McNaught my album has started to drop on the iTunes chart. Oh well."

Rising star and former tour buddy Nina Nesbitt meanwhile tweeted her thoughts on Example's engagement, saying: "Awww congrats @example and @Erin_McNaught ... very cute."

Example and McNaught are said to have met each other last October whilst filming an interview for MTV in Australia.

The music maestro, noted for his jovial sense of humour on the social networking website, originally tweeted: "What Twitter needs is a block button for the whole of Wigan, most of the abuse I get comes from Wigan. Are there any nice people in Wigan?"

The 'Say Nothing' star then deleted the tweet, before adding: "Tweeted earlier about how most abuse I get on twitter is from people in Wigan. Unsurprisingly this has resulted in more abuse...from Wigan."

It then emerged that Example had made front-page news on local newspaper Wigan Evening Post, which claimed that the singer had "insulted the whole town".

As previously reported, Example recently opened up on the abuse he receives on Twitter, revealing: "Someone said to me the other day: 'I'm going to come to your gig in Belfast and set fire to you'. People tell me they're going to beat me up, stab me, spit on me."

Azealia Banks and Sky Ferreira are also amongst those who have been directed by Rankin for what are now coming to be known as ‘dirty videos’ – creative, spur-of-the-moment music films which Rankin shoots off the back of photo shoots, in his studio. They will all appear exclusively on Hungertv.com. Example’s, which premiered on 19th October shows the artist as he’s never been seen before.  

“I've done photo shoots with Rankin but Come Taste the Rainbow was my first video experience with him,” said the artist who was painted silver for the film. “I like the way he works - it's like my approach to songwriting - he knows in his head what the finished article needs to look like and works towards that end goal - making his mind up as he goes along. We didn't decide to paint me silver until an hour before we starting rolling cameras. I enjoy this approach - fast, confident and instinctive. I think it will surprise some people.” 

Of the collaboration, Rankin says, 'I love working with Example. In the same way that he is unafraid to push his music into new territories, he is also unafraid to experiment with his image. Collaborating with him is a truly creative and open-minded process. Not many artists would buy into a horror-themed video - but he knows how to take a genre and make it unique to him.'

The video for ‘Come Taste The Rainbow’ follows the premiere of new single ‘Close Enemies’ where Rankin and Example teamed up once again telling a dark and sinister tale of love and monsters.  The video aired across all Example official channels last week and has since taken the online world by storm.  

In a new interview with The Guardian newspaper, he explained that his Twitter feed is often overrun with offensive messages from strangers, but he's learned to take it on the chin:

"I get abuse on Twitter all day long. I'm not bothered. Some artists set out to leave a legacy. I'm not trying to change the world. I was meant to be a film director. This was just a hobby – a hobby that's gone right. I'm adaptable. If I put my mind to it, I could smash it."

"I was a TV editor, I did voiceovers for the Paramount Comedy Channel and MTV – I've got a deep voice, and when your voice operates at certain frequencies, it resonates more in people's ears. I also did landscape gardening in Australia for six months, I did removals, I still paint – I painted my flat in a day and a half."

When asked about the kind of Twitter abuse he finds himself subjected to, Example revealed: "Someone said to me the other day: "I'm going to come to your gig in Belfast and set fire to you." People tell me they're going to beat me up, stab me, spit on me. They say, "I hate you, you're a prick, I hate your haircut, your face, you look like a horse, you can't sing, you can't rap, your clothes are shit ..." I've got 1.5 million followers. 20,000 people mention me a day. I'd say 500 of those are abuse."

He even added that he keeps a weapon in his house: "I've got a metal bar. I keep it by the door."

The 'Beez In The Trap' singer stole headlines recently after a strop on the set of American Idol was filmed and leaked online.

It is the latest in a string of reported diva-like incidents at the hands of Minaj and Example, who has met her, has criticised the singer and doubted her longevity. He said:

"I've met Minaj. I'm not a fan. I don't think you can be that much of a diva unless you’ve had loads of massive tunes."

The 'Say Nothing' man continued: "In ten years, people are going to be struggling to remember anything Minaj has done except her verse on Monster."

‘Close Enemies’ received its first play on Radio 1 as Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record’, the video was directed by the infamous Rankin who was hot off the set from Azealia Banks’ ‘Liquorice’ and tells a dark tale of love and monsters.  With recent appearances on Celebrity Juice, Alan Carr Chatty Man and an upcoming feature as the host of Nevermind The Buzzcocks, Example looks set to mirror the success of his last platinum selling album all over again.

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The horror movie-themed promo features the London rapper performing the track in a maze of underground corridors alongside various shots of a chainsaw-wielding man and a disturbing clown.

The track, which is released on November 11, is the second cut from his upcoming fourth studio album, 'The Evolution Of Man,' following recent No.2 single, 'Say Nothing.'

Example recently admitted to Digital Spy that he has no idea what the song is about:

"I don't know what it's about because I originally didn't write it for me. I was in a writing session about six months ago and I wrote 'Chasing The Sun' on the Monday - I didn't realise it would be for The Wanted at that time - and 'Close Enemies' on the Tuesday. I didn't know who it was going to be for. 

"I was just writing big pop songs for whoever. I liked it so much, I just tweaked the lyrics to make it suit me, but originally I imagined it suiting someone like Rihanna."

The show, which sees a number of women chat about a variety of topics, seems to have tickled the fancy of the 'Say Nothing' star.

Speaking to Capital FM, Example said that he once saw singer Enrique Iglesias go on the show and kiss one of the panel.

The music maestro also admitted that some of them are "quite fit". He said:

"I like a bit of Loose Women. I want to go on there and be a guest. I saw Enrique Iglesias went on there and he snogged one of them. A couple of them are quite fit."

Example was then asked which member of the Loose Women cast he would like to kiss, to which he replied: "I don't know. I think if you went on Loose Women, because they're all like 80, if you kiss one or two of them then my girlfriend wouldn't be annoyed because it's playful flirting that helps towards your career in the whole old range. Whereas if you went on TV and snogged a hot 20-year-old you'd get in trouble."

Speaking to Kiss FM, Example teased that he worked on a track with 'Read All About It' sensation Professor Green and although it won't feature on his upcoming new album, named 'The Evolution Of Man', it's likely to be on Green's next full-length offering:

"I've recorded a song with Pro Green about six months ago that's potentially a big single off his album, which hopefully you'll hear next year."

He also admitted that he spent some time in the studio with BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, adding:"And I've got this song I done with Ed Sheeran, but I don't know if we'll give it away for free."

Example's new record is due to be released on November 18 and he recently shared the lyric video for new single, 'Close Enemies'.

Check out 'Close Enemies' below:

The 'Kickstarts' star was due to perform at the University Of Hertfordshire's Hatfield Forum along with at concerts in Africa and Australia, but has now cancelled because he needs to recover fully.

Writing on his official Twitter page this afternoon (October 2), Example apologised for the change of plans and explained that he hopes to make it up to his fans in the near future:

"With huge regret I've had to cancel/reschedule all my Oct shows. My achilles tendinitis has got worse and I need time to recover..."

"Hoping to be back to full fitness asap and in time to play my November/December shows. Details of the rescheduled shows soon."

His forthcoming new album, 'The Evolution Of Man', is due to be released on November 18.