Roman Kemp claimed that Justin Bieber once questioned him during a private consultation for his album Changes, but the radio host’s opinion didn’t really matter.
Roman Kemp said he was once “singled out” by Justin Bieber during an awkward meeting with the Canadian singer.
The radio host, 32, revealed details of the encounter which happened during private listening session for Justin’s 2020 album, Changes. Roman said Justin invited him on stage to give feedback on the album in front of music industry executives – but their exchange quickly took an awkward turn.
Roman said on the latest episode of his BBC Sounds podcast You About?, co-hosted with singer Tom Grennan: “He singled me out. He said I’ve got to come up on stage. He plays these tunes to all these label execs, looks at me and goes, ‘What do you think of that one?'”
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Roman said, “It’s alright, share your opinion.” However, the former Capital Breakfast host claimed that Justin didn’t seem too impressed when he responded, “Roman said it’s alright”? Alright”?
He said he then felt the need to share more details and told Justin: “Well, yeah. It’s not your best, not your worst.” He added: “My words were, ‘It’s decent’ – but I don’t think he appreciated it.” Roman still follows Justin on Instagram, but the singer doesn’t follow him back.
Back in 2021, Roman said he would often go out to party with Justin when they were younger – but admitted he is now a changed man. Chatting to The Sun, Roman revealed Justin invited him along to dinner before a party around the time he released his Purpose album.
He was “the wildest without a doubt,” he declared. He’s now developed into a completely different person. He appears to be much more focused and serious than he is, according to Roman. However, I have never seen anything like that in my life, and I thought I had seen a lot of it when he was in London for his Purpose album in 2015. Every single night, it persisted for three weeks.
Roman added that the partying “just kept going” and he reflected on the attention he received while in the presence of Justin. “I think I was 24, he’d just turned 21 and I remember standing on a sofa in a nightclub looking up and every girl in that room was trying to get my eye to say, ‘You can come on to this table.’ It’s different world.”
He continued, “We’d go for dinner, and when we left, he didn’t call for the bill.” He said, “Oh, they sort it. On a different level, it’s unbelievable. Roman admitted that there are times when he feels like he doesn’t “care” and acknowledged earlier this year that he was sensitive to a family trait’s “pressure.”
In a March recent instalment of their podcast, FFS! My dad Is Martin Kemp, Roman confessed to being “stressed” this week and often wanting to “turn everything off”. This led him to question his dad, Martin, about the idea of retiring, only to learn that Martin couldn’t imagine stopping.
The conversation took a turn when Roman pinpointed the source of the pressure: “You.” To which a surprised Martin responded, “From me? Why me? You’ve got a great work ethic. Is work ethic…is that another way of saying you work your b***s off?”. Roman clarified his view on what constitutes a good work ethic: “Good work ethic isn’t you working your b******s off. It’s about a balance between work and life split whilst maintaining drive.”
Then he addressed his personal struggle, asking, “Can you maintain drive and ambition while also being real to yourself and understanding who you are? I have a lot of trouble with that because, to be honest, I just get carried away by this thought. I’m not interested. “Ssack it all off, like”
Source: Mirror
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