Lulu has looked back at having a sexual relationship with David Bowie, and compared his thighs to those of supermodel Naomi Campbell.
The singer and ‘60s icon revealed last year that she and Bowie had a brief relationship years ago, during an interview with ITV daytime show This Morning.
Speaking about their time together for the first time publicly, she said during the interview: “You know what? I have never said, ‘Yes, I had sex with David Bowie,’ until now. This is the first time I’ve said it because I’ve always chosen not to speak about it.”
“It was private… I wouldn’t share the details anyway,” she added. “I do have boundaries. I’m learning to have boundaries.”
Now, she has spoken again about their time together again, and told Louis Theroux on his podcast about how she would best describe the status of the relationship they had.
“I had a brief relationship [with him]… a fling,” she said, before the host recalled seeing a 2015 interview she did with The Mail, in which she complimented the ‘Starman’’s thighs in particular.
“I think you don’t have to have had an intimate relationship with David Bowie to know he had the best thighs,” she told Theroux. “He and Naomi Campbell.”
“He never wore tights. Well, he did occasionally, but he would often come on with a swimsuit on, and you’d go, ‘Jesus!’” she added, before the host asked her what “was so special about them”.
“They were very strong thighs!” Lulu replied.
Both Lulu and David Bowie had a professional relationship as well as a personal one, and worked together on a version of ‘The Man Who Sold the World,’ which previously featured on Bowie’s 1970 album of the same name.
The ‘Shout’ singer would then go on to look back fondly on that collaboration in 2016, shortly after the rock icon’s death from cancer.
“Making a record with David Bowie was pretty rock ‘n’ roll!,” she told Good Housekeeping. “I thought he was so cool and I wasn’t so cool. But when he met me, he said, ‘You have a fuck off voice and I’m going to make a hit with you’.”
“I always perform ‘The Man Who Sold the World’, the song that we recorded together in 1974,” she added.
Last year, Lulu opened up about her battle with alcohol in her new memoir, If You Only Knew, and later admitted that opening up about her sobriety and struggles for the first time felt “liberating”.
Before then, the singer announced her retirement from touring after 60 years in music, and her final tour culminated in a Glastonbury performance. She also launched Lulu’s Mental Health Trust, saying: “I probably have never been happier in my life, and at the same time, never been more in touch with my feelings.”
As for Bowie news, it was recently shared that a new immersive show, David Bowie: You’re Not Alone, is coming to London next month, and will showcase some of the iconic musician’s most famous performances as well as rarely seen material.
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