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Henry Yates

"I was intubated, put in a coma for seventeen days. I had to relearn how to walk and talk – and my voice was completely different." Elles Bailey talks fame, vanity, mental health and the childhood trauma behind her smoke’n’honey battle cry

Elles Bailey studio portrait.

What you see is what you get with Elles Bailey. No filter. No subject off limits. No stage-managed Zoom backdrop. And, as the Bristolian singer-songwriter points out with a cackle, no personal stylist to primp her for today’s video call.

“This is how I look ninety per cent of the time. The idea that I’d have to actually put some make-up on and do my hair just sounds horrendous. I would be that person in Hello! where it’s like: ‘Oh, Elles Bailey, snapped again, looking like a bag lady.’”

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