Watch Natasha Bedingfield join Ella Henderson for ‘Unwritten’ at Radio One’s Big Weekend

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Natasha Bedingfield joined Ella Henderson onstage at Radio One’s Big Weekend yesterday (Friday May 24). Check out footage below.The ‘These Words’ singer performed her viral hit ‘Unwritten’ with the X Factor star during Henderson’s main stage set at Stockwood Park in Luton.Ahead of inviting her to the stage to duet on her Rudimental-collaboration ‘Alibi’, Henderson said: “This song means so much to me.

It’s about grit, empowerment and revenge.“I thought to myself ‘this doesn’t feel right just doing it on my own. Surely there’s a version I can do with another female on it that’s really empowering and strong, and someone that I admire and look up to’.”Before performing ‘Alibi’, they treated the Luton audience to a duet of ‘Unwritten’, a song which Henderson said she “grew up listening to and would sing into a hairbrush in her bedroom.”A post shared by BBC Radio 1 (@bbcradio1)After sharing a hug, they performed ‘Alibi’, including a new verse from Bedingfield, who recently announced a show at KOKO in London and a vinyl-re-release of ‘Unwritten’ to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary.After she left the stage, Henderson said: “I love that girl.“Do you know what’s crazy?

The ‘Unwritten’ album is literally one of the first that I sang in my bedroom with a ghetto blaster and a hairbrush in my hand, so that was wild.”A post shared by BBC Radio 1 (@bbcradio1)Reaching the Number One spot upon release in 2004, Bedingfield’s debut album featured th hits ‘These Words’, ‘Single’, ‘Wild Horses’ and ‘I Bruise Easily’, as well as ‘Unwritten’ which recently enjoyed a resurgence after appearing in the Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell rom-com Anyone But You.It entered the charts for the first time in 19 years on January 12, peaking at Number.