4 d. ago Charlotte Church says she's trying to find her peace after childhood fame

Charlotte Church has admitted that she hopes to 'find peace' now that she runs her own wellness retreat after growing up in the limelight as a singer

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4 d. ago Charlotte Church admits she's trying to 'find peace' and 'reclaim her creativity' after growing up as a child star

The 39-year-old singer turned activist has created a new life for herself in recent years, working as a sound healer on the retreat she owns in rural Wales.

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5 d. ago Cate Blanchett, Heston Blumenthal, FKA twigs: best original Observer photography

From Heston Blumenthal on the bipolar diagnosis that saved his life to FKA twigs and Charlotte Church on her retreat space in Wales: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in March 2025 Continue reading...

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1 week ago Charlotte Church was 'sexualised, patronised and ridiculed' during early days of fame

Singer Charlotte Church has opened up about her experience of being in the public eye, and has detailed how she was 'sexualised, patronised and ridiculed' by the press

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1 week ago Charlotte Church says she was 'sexualised, patronised and ridiculed' before escape to the country

In an interview with the Guardian, the Cardiff singer spoke about living her young life in the limelight, the media attention that followed and her wellbeing rural retreat, The Dreaming, in Powys

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1 week ago Charlotte Church addresses the media frenzy over her turning 16: ‘The tabloids were always right there’

‘Crazy Chick’ singer said that the media tried to turn her into a ‘caricature: sexualised, patronised, ridiculed’

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1 week ago ‘I was sexualised, patronised and ridiculed’: how Charlotte Church survived the tabloids to become an earth mother

Charlotte Church has lived her life in the full glare of publicity, rising from child star to tabloid target. Now, happier and more free than ever, she’s found her feet – and her voice – at her healing retreat in the Welsh valleysWhen Charlotte Church arrives, she starts to cry. “I break down,” she says, “every time I reach here. It’s the first thing I do when I set foot on this soil.” It’s a two-hour drive from her home in Barry to The Dreaming, the retreat centre she opened in 2023, a pilgrimage across Bannau Brycheiniog and into the myth-steeped hills of the Elan Valley in Powys, central Wales. “Two to three weeks,” she’s explaining, icy ground crunching underfoot, “is the longest I can stay away before I start clucking. As I get closer, I feel myself relaxing, a calm coming over me, my nervous system resetting.” That bodily response, she’s sure, is physiological. Tears stream. “This land holds me like nothing else. It feels like coming home; I’m enveloped here.”It’s early Januar...

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