KT Tunstall's romcom love story with partner and unlikely first encounter

Brit Award -winning singer, who celebrates her milestone 50th birthday in June - twenty years on from her breakout debut album Eye To The Telescope , the Brit Award-winning singer-songwriter, has opened up about (and her love of the iconic movie), as well as how she met her current partner - and as she admits, it was like something out of a cutesy rom-com.

The Scottish Suddenly I See singer, who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, tells us she met her partner, Chris totally unexpectedly during lockdown - and it was their respective pooches that brought them together, "We both adopted and met at the dog park. It was like something out of a John Hughes 80s movie. A love story!"

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The music star, who was previously married to Luke Bullen, the drummer in her band from 2008 before their divorce in 2013, adds with a smile: "My rescue dog is called Mini, and his is Nova. Mini’s a miniature pinscher and has PTSD, she doesn’t play with other dogs. But that day, she started playing with Nova. I looked up, and there’s this 6ft 3in jiu-jitsu instructor and I thought, “Oh, hello!”

previously admitted that she has dated both sexes in the past, and was not 'lockdown' straight, She said in 2016 that kissing girls was “a really important part of my formative years", adding that there is “less angst” in the new generation of young people around sexuality. “It feels like there are less and less shackles on young people to adhere to old norms and that inspires me just to be brave in everyday life and to honor how confident and self-assured they are becoming at a much younger age than I did.”

Elsewhere, KT - who has also - opens up in the interview about how, despite her confident stage persona, she is actually quite the introvert at heart. 'Yes. I’m a bit of an introvert, a lot of artists are. When I first got big, I ended up pulling the “performer” lever, even in social situations. I’d have drinks after the show and was a bit of a party animal but I was actually pretty anxious. I had a lot of fun, but it was an unsustainable way to live. In my forties, I realised I was burning out."

Revealing her most bizarre celebrity encounter over the years - at the Q Awards, where she bagged an award, she admits, "I went to the toilet and Björk was there, washing her hands. I introduced myself and said, “I just won Best Song,” she said, “I know… Who are you?” and I was like, “ that’s too much of an existential question, I can’t answer that after a gin!”

KT has written the music for Clueless: TheMusical, which has extended its West End runat London’s Trafalgar Theatre until 28 March2026. Tickets from

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