Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Pointless star Richard Osman reveals childhood trauma that led to four-decade addiction battle
ok.co.ukRichard Osman has revealed how his childhood trauma led to a four-decade battle with addiction.The TV presenter and best-selling author opened up about struggling with a food addiction, triggered by his dad leaving the family home when he was nine years old.
The Pointless co-host told the How To Fail podcast: "It’s so ridiculous, this food stuff. Alcoholics will tell you the same, like it’s absurd that there’s a bottle of vodka in front of you or there’s a packet of crisps in front of you and it’s more powerful than you.
It makes no sense. People are very judgmental in this world.” The father of dad-of-two, added: "I think, ‘How can you judge anyone in this world and how they behave, or how they act, or what their instant reaction to something is when you are less powerful many times in your life than, like, a big bar of chocolate in front of you?’ “We’ve all got human minds and we’re all crazy in slightly different ways." “That’s my version of it since I was probably nine years old.
It’s been absolutely ever-present in my life — weight, food, where I am in relation to it, where I am in relation to happiness because of it, hiding it." “All of that stuff, it’s been absolutely like the drum beat of my life.” Richard told host Elizabeth Day how he was left traumatised after his father told him at the age of nine that he’d been having an affair.
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