IF my last bash had been as poorly received as Rita Ora’s, I’d probably tuck myself up in bed at 9pm with a cup of Ovaltine each night for the rest of my life.
So I can’t say I’m surprised that the glam singer has vowed to give up her party lifestyle following the backlash to her lockdown-breaching 30th birthday celebrations.
Explaining her decision to become a homebody, Rita said: “I feel like as soon as you hit 30, the next day everything changes.
“You start feeling like you’ve got wrinkles, as though your joints are hurting you. I can’t do what I used to do any more.”
Rita added that her past partying had not only harmed her reputation, but her vocal abilities too.
She said: “I can sing better, not lose my voice as much. Why do you always shout when you go out?
“Obviously, if the music is on, you have to shout over the music, but even when there is no music we seem to shout. You have to vocalise everything.”
Rita didn’t have much to shout about in November after police caught her partying alongside pals including model sisters Cara and Poppy Delevingne at west London restaurant Casa Cruz.
The venue’s then boss Scottie Bhattarai said he was offered £5,000 to host the bash.
Rita apologised for the “serious and inexcusable error of judgment” and volunteered to pay any fine — totalling as much as £10,000.
The restaurant had its licence suspended for six weeks.
In another sign Rita is abandoning her wild side, the Masked Singer judge revealed she plans to reduce the number of tattoos she has — to her mother Vera’s relief.
The Kosovo-born singer, who has nearly 30 inkings, told Australia’s Ash London Live: “I have a lot of tattoos and I kind of wish I didn’t have half of them, as everyone who has tattoos eventually ends up saying. Next on the list is [removal].
“But there is one that I love, it’s on my neck. It says ‘Zog’, which means bird in my language and my mum always used to call me her little bird.
“When I got it done, I was like, ‘By the way Mum . . . ’. The last thing you want to text your parents is that you’ve got a neck tattoo, she was thinking, ‘Whaaat?!’”
The only late-night inking for Rita now is a crossword before lights out.
Olivia’s pickle pickle
HARRY STYLES’ girlfriend Olivia Wilde got herself in a right pickle after accidentally revealing she was staying at the singer’s London home.
The Hollywood actress and director shared a seemingly innocuous picture of her brandishing a jar of Branston to her 3.8million followers with the caption: “England, I’m yours.”
But those ever “passionate” Directioners ate up the condiment snap, claiming the distinctive blue patterned curtains in the background matched those in leaked pictures taken in the kitchen of the £8.8million home harry as in Hampstead, in the north of the capital.
And the amateur sleuths’ theory was seemingly confirmed when Olivia, who at 37 is ten years Harry’s senior, deleted the photo after fans cottoned on.
Olivia got together with the One Direction singer after casting him in her upcoming movie, Don’t Worry Darling.
They went public in January, holding hands at the wedding of Harry’s agent in California.
I revealed that Harry’s flirty texts to mum-of-two Olivia prompted the end of her nine-year relation- ship with funnyman fiance Jason Sudeikis the previous November.
Fittingly, Jason has since been linked to Brit beauty and former Page 3 girl Keeley Hazell after this month accepting his Golden Globe award for their hit comedy Ted Lasso from a living room that resembled her London pad.
Sneaky stars need to be more mindful of their surroundings.