Leona Lewis: I won’t move to the US full time, my life is in London

Leona Lewis has dismissed suggestions she’ll move to the US even though her career is going from strength to strength over there.

She told Hello magazine recnetly: “I don’t think I’d move permanently. I love going to America, there are so many great people there and I spent a lot of time there when I was recording the album, but I like spending time between the two countries.

“I’m not sure I could permanently uproot myself from the UK - it would be too hard.”

The X Factor winner is currently in the process of buying her first home with boyfriend Lou Al-Chamaa, near their friends and family in Hackney, East London.

She explained: “We were renting it but the landlord was like ‘You have to get out now.’ I talked him into selling it to me.

“When you’re settled it’s hard to move. I love the flat - it’s really private and the neighbours are cool - and it’s very close to my mum and dad.”