STAR’S STRUGGLE 

Niall Horan fears he’ll need major surgery for debilitating health problem & says ‘I was f****d from the day I was born’

HE loves to spend his time playing golf, walking his dog and enjoying the occasional pint at his local.

Now Niall Horan’s body is living up to his OAP lifestyle, because aged just 32, he’s admitted his hips are “going” and he fears he may need a double hip op, just like his dad.

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The One Direction star had reconstructive surgery on his knee in 2014 and then needed injections in his other knee nine years later after tearing a tendon.

So he reckons it’s his genetics that have let him down, and suggested it’s just a matter of time until he needs an intervention.

The Slow Hands singer admitted: “My knees are f****ed.

“The hips are going now too.

“I think I was just genetically f***ed from the day I was born.

“My dad is 66 this year.

“He’s just had a knee replacement.

“He’s had a hip done 18 months ago.

“He’s getting another hip done now.”

When it was pointed out that his father is double his age, he replied: “I know, but it was clearly in there.

“My uncle had two knees done.

“Like, it’s a thing.

“I think I was just ruined from the day I was born.”

Fans will be hoping Niall can still move his hips on stage after last night announcing a six-date UK arena tour, starting in Birmingham on September 22.

For his fourth album Dinner Party — which is released on June 5 — he admits his girlfriend Amelia was the “muse” for many of the songs.

And he may even have a song to rival his pal Harry Styles’ euphemistic hit, Watermelon Sugar, which is about the female orgasm.

Niall said: “Tastes So Good and Monochromatic are probably on the sexier side of things.

“They give a little bit more detail.”

While Monochromatic is about being nude, the former track features the lyric: “I don’t know what you’re made of, but it tastes so good to me.”

Some other songs are a bit more soppy, because asked how Amelia reacted when she heard it, he said: “She did a lot of crying.”

And he has confessed he owes a fan a writing credit for a lyric on his upcoming track Flowers.

On The Zach Sang Show podcast, he explained: “It came from a tweet.

“I’d posted something and one of the fans had written underneath it, ‘Your eyes could grow flowers.’

“I just thought that was a really cool concept, straight from a fan.

“I need to find that person because I need to give them their writing credit.”

DUA’S DIAMOND LIFE

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DUA LIPA proved diamonds are a girl’s best friend at a fancy Bvlgari party in Italy, as she earns even more millions from her brand deals.

Dua, who is a global ambassador for the jewellery company, wore a purple bra top under a black velvet dress to the event.

A string of high-end brands have signed deals with the singer over the years, and she is being handsomely rewarded.

Dua is also the face of Porsche and YSL Beauty, and last week signed up to join George Clooney as a brand ambassador for posh coffee machine company Nespresso.

No wonder she always seems to be on holiday – she must be raking it in.

JON PUP FOR GIGS

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JON BATISTE was in the dog house at this year’s Oscars – but not in the way you might think.

The eight-time Grammy winner told me he and his author wife Suleika Jaouad have a quirky tradition of rescuing a pup every time they head to Los Angeles for the big night, and this year they doubled up.

In an exclusive chat, Jon, left, said: “The main reason we went to the Oscars this year was to pick up two new dogs.

“It’s a tradition of ours.

“Every time we go, we come back with a dog and this time we came back with two.

“They’re very, very miniature chihuahuas . . .  incredibly furry with white fur and big eyes.”

Jon, who starred in Channel 4 show The Piano alongside Mika and Claudia Winkleman, has more memorable nights on the horizon with his four-night residency at North London’s Koko from June 24 to 28.

He said: “What I love about this residency is that it allows me to take things from my entire history and share them in this brand new way.

“With everything that I’ve learned today as a musician, as a person, as an artist, I have evolved and expanded.

“So even playing my old records now, it’s a brand new experience.

“The guests are just gonna be spectacular.

“There are some very, very well-known and very celebrated friends of mine who are going to join.”

With that line-up, and a couple of new four-legged fans waiting at home, it certainly sounds like quite the show.

Tickets are on sale for his shows at livenation.co.uk.

CHAKA NOT EVERY WOMAN

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SOUL diva Chaka Khan is unimpressed with younger women in pop who dance provocatively to get attention.

Speaking to Jessie Ware on the Table Manners podcast, which is out today, she said: “The game has changed.

“All bets are off.

“These women are doing any and every damn thing on stage and trying to sing, too.”

Chaka, whose Seventies hit I’m Every Woman is still a party favourite, added: “The ones who are doing the most physicalities with their butts and stuff, and their body parts are the ones that usually are compensating for what they don’t have.

“I came to sing, and I came to really do a good job, and that’s hard work.”

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SAM FENDER, Lily Allen, Max Richter and Ludovico Einaudi are among the first recipients of the Nordoff and Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards 2026.

The music therapy charity’s 50th annual awards will be held at London’s Royal Albert Hall on July 9, where Sam will get Best Live Act and Lily will take the Icon gong.

Composer and pianist Einaudi receives Innovation in Music award while Max gets the Contemporary Music prize.

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GLASTO SEND OFF SUITS ZOE

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ZOE BALL wants to be partying in the afterlife – after revealing she wants her ashes scattered in the party area at Glastonbury festival.

She told the Where There’s a Will, There’s A Wake podcast: “Could some of my friends take some of my ashes to Glastonbury during the festival?

“That is the place where I’ve had the most fun with my friends, with my kids.

“I love the idea that one of the afternoons or evenings or up at Shangri-La, your mates get together and everybody takes a little bit and you’re going to scatter it around at the rave.

“So you’re forever in that fabulous place, because I’ve had so much fun there.

“I love that place.”

Me too, Zoe.

OASIS BOOK IS THE REEL DEAL

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THEY ended their feud for their 2025 comeback tour, now Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher are letting us into their family photo album to show how good the gigs were.

They are releasing a book of unseen images taken on the road last year, featuring 1,000 photos celebrating their legacy.

The Oasis Live ’25 Opus is the official photographic chronicle and Simon Emmett, who took the iconic photograph of the brothers walking back on stage on the opening night in Cardiff together after so many years apart, collaborated with them on it.

He said: “When I saw the reaction to the photo, it was obvious to me that this wasn’t a single event.

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“The photograph was the beginning of something.

“I felt strongly that this needed to be documented.”

There will be four editions and fans will be racing to the stores in May when one of the hardbacks, titled the Live Forever Edition, will be available to buy.

In true Gallagher style, these won’t be any average books.

The Wonderwall Edition comes in a clamshell case, weighs 12kg, and will come with a commemorative ticket.

DWAYNE ROCKS LOCKS

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DWAYNE JOHNSON must have felt like he’d turned back the clock with these flowing locks for the live-action remake of Moana.

The first trailer for the film has just been released, and The Rock returns as demigod Maui – ten years after he voiced the character in the animated hit.