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James Blunt "looks like Barbie" in his new music video.
The 40-year-old singer rides a horse in the promotional film for his new single 'When I Find Love Again' but says the animal's unusual colouring made for a less-than-masculine appearance for him in the footage.
He said: "The horse was albino and had really weird eyes. When it sweated, its hair became transparent, it's skin showed through and it turned pink. So my video is me riding round on a great big pink pony, like Barbie."
The 'You're Beautiful' hitmaker hadn't ridden a horse since leaving the army 12 years ago and admits he found shooting the video tough.
He added "Spending seven hours on a horse for the shoot was pretty funny actually.
"It was exhausting and quite painful. I wasn't walking too well the following day."
James released a new album, 'Moon Landing', earlier this year and admits he was thrilled by the response to the record, despite previously insisting he didn't care.
He told Britain's HELLO! magazine: "I was surprised by the success. When I was doing interviews, they asked if I cared about the chart placing and I would say no and that it was all about the artistic integrity and all that. But the reality is, I was lying to myself. Of course it mattered how well it did."

Rudimental and Gorgon City performed a gig at 30,000 feet on Thursday (23.10.14).
The two groups performed on board a new Virgin Atlantic 787 plane while it was crossing the Atlantic Ocean on its flight from London to Atlanta.
DJ Locksmith urged the lucky passengers onto the makeshift dancefloor during the #FlightDecks event, shouting at them: "This flight right here is going to be the best party of your life!"
They then treated fans to renditions of their two number one hit singles 'Feel The Love' and 'Waiting All Night'.
Speaking after the event - which was streamed to fans from the aircraft via WiFi - Rudimental's Amir Amor shared: "What a buzz. Having all the band together, playing to thousands of people around the world from the bar on a plane, you can't put a price on that. It's an experience we will never forget. "
Kye Gibbon from Gorgon City then added: "FlightDecks has got to be the most unique gig we've ever played and maybe will ever play. We're chuffed to know that so many of our fans were listening from home and we're thankful to Virgin Atlantic for helping us to share a one-off experience like this with them."
The 787 party plane has been named 'Birthday Girl' to celebrate Virgin Atlantic's 30th anniversary.
Virgin Atlantic Director of Communications Meigan Terry said: "By adding the 787 to our fleet, we are taking a big step forward in innovation and an even bigger step forward in continuing our commitment to delight our customers. We decided to christen our new 787, 'Birthday Girl', in true Virgin Atlantic style and are thrilled to have both Rudimental and Gorgon City on board with us."

Wilko Johnson was investigated by police after his manager Robert Hoy accused him of assault.
The R&B guitarist was quizzed by Essex police after Hoy claimed that he had been attacked by the musician in February.
According to The Independent newspaper, Wilko, 67, visited Hoy's property in Canvey Island with a colleague in tow, where the pair allegedly argued.
A spokesperson from the Essex Police confirmed that an allegation regarding assault was made on February 19, regarding an incident that was "reported to have happened on Sunday, February 2 in Canvey."
They also confirmed that the accusation was originally withdrawn on February 20 before allegedly continuing with their inquiries after the complainant asked for the case to be re-opened.
Wilko and his associate were spoken to again by the police, but no further action was taken.
The complaint has resulted in the pair's working relationship coming to an end. Wilko and Hoy had been friends for 40 years, with the latter acting as his manager for the last five years.
Wilko is adamant the accusation against him is false, as he told the newspaper: "This was dealt with back at the time. I've been in hospital and convalescing and the events happened a long time ago. There was no incident and the accusations were slanderous."
Wilko had been battling pancreatic cancer since January 2013 but he announced at this week's Q Awards - where he was presented with the Icon Award presented by Carling's Black Label Project - that he has been "cured" of the disease after undergoing radical surgery in April to remove a "3 kilogram" tumour.

Professor Green meditates and drinks whisky to calm his nerves before gigs.
The 30-year-old rapper, who performed inside a soundproof glass cube at MUSIC CUBE, at Westfield shopping centre in London's Shepherd's Bush last night (23.10.14), has admitted he consumes alcohol and trains his mind to help him chill out prior to taking to the stage.
When asked how he deals with any nerves he might have before going on stage, he replied: "Meditation. And whisky."
Before last night's gig, Pro - who will close the MUSIC CUBE event on November 2 at Westfield in Stratford, east London, where he will be joined by singer/songwriter Ava Lily - admitted he would love to collaborate with music outfit Unkle and hinted that might happen quite soon as he keeps bumping into the group's member James Lavelle.
When asked who his dream collaboration would be, he replied: "I really don't have a list - it's never that contrived, I keep bumping into James Lavelle, an Unkle and Professor Green track might be quite cool?"
MNEK and Neon Jungle are also set to perform at the new music initiative, MUSIC CUBE, and MNEK recently admitted he thinks it is important for new platforms to be created to promote live music for up-and-coming talent.
He exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "I'm really excited by the MUSIC CUBE concept. I love performing live and it's great to see that Westfield has created a new way for people to experience and interact with live music.
"MUSIC CUBE is also about supporting up-and-coming independent talent so I'm looking forward to seeing the other new acts over the two weekends."
Free tickets for the event were given out to fans, who listened to Pro perform through supplied headphones.
MUSIC CUBE, amplified by Infiniti and Sennheiser, is set to revolutionise the way consumers experience live music and is exclusive to Westfield London (October 24-26) and Westfield Stratford City (October 31-November 2).

Dave Grohl could become a director.
The Foo Fighters frontman could have a career as a film director after he successful created a documentary to mark the band's 20th anniversary.
Speaking about his friend's potential career change, Foo Fighters bassist Nate Mendel said: "I think maybe this is a path for Dave, he's directed videos for us and other little projects."
The 'Monkey Wrench' rocker made the documentary whilst he and his band mates - Nate, Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins and Chris Shiflett - travelled across America recording tracks for their new album 'Sonic Highways'.
In a trailer for the film, Dave explained:"I thought rather than just go into a studio and make another record, we could go all over the country and make a record where each song was recorded in a different studio.
"Basically, the process is we come to a city and we spend a week and we start recording an instrumental, because I interview all of these different musicians from that city.
"There's no way that you can tell the history of a city's music in one hour, so we have to do it in a way that relates to the band and goes from point A to point B and becomes a song."
"The night before recording the vocals he would write the lyrics based on the experiences of the city then go in and sing them."
The first two episodes of the documentary, 'Sonic Highways' airs on BBC Four on Sunday, October 26.

One Direction have won the Best UK & Ireland Act prize at the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards. The five boys - Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Zayn Malik - were awarded the MTV EMA award for Best UK & Ireland Act ahead ...

U2 plan to release a new album in just 18 months.
The Irish rockers caused controversy when they allowed their latest LP 'Songs of Innocence' to be given away on iTunes for free but despite only coming out in September the group already have another collection, titled 'Songs of Experience', lined up.
Bassist Adam Clayton told the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine: "We're hoping 'Songs of Experience' will be less about intimacy and more about a celebration of sorts."
Clayton's bandmate Bono has also revealed an album called 'Songs of Ascent' - a record he previously claimed would be the follow-up to 2009's 'No Line on the Horizon' - could still be released as part of a trilogy of themed LPs.
The singer said: "'Songs of Ascent' will come. And there are some beautiful songs."
The band also revealed they scrapped a completed version of 'Songs of Innocence' entirely produced by Danger Mouse because it didn't sound how a U2 record should sound, and instead changed some tracks with Ryan Tedder, Paul Epworth, Declan Gaffney and Flood.
Speaking about the music solely made with Danger Mouse, guitarist The Edge - who is also joined in the band by drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. - said: "We realised, 'OK, we've actually not delivered what you might call the hallmarks of our work - the big music."

Taylor Swift refused her record label boss' request to put two country songs on her new album.
The 24-year-old singer has admitted she was so insistent on changing genre from country music to pop for her upcoming fifth studio album '1989' that she went against the wishes of her label chief, who is now "as happy as a clown" with the record.
She said: "The decision came directly from me. I had to plead my case with everyone and certain people at the record label.
"I had to really campaign and get everyone on my side.
"I showed them that I was doing this for all the right reasons and that this was the creative decision and artistically there was no other option than to boldly hone this album for what it is.
"I had to convince my Nashville record label president it was right for me. I presented the album to him and he said, 'It's great, it's the best thing you've ever done but can you put two country songs on it?'
"But I refused. I explained it would change the solid cohesiveness of the record, so he agreed.
"He's happy as a clown now as we then got our first Hot 100 No.1 with 'Shake It Off'."
The blonde stunner also admitted her famous female pals, Lena Dunham, Lorde and Hayley Williams, helped influenced her to ditch her country roots and make a full-on pop album.
She added to The Sun newspaper: "I cut my hair, moved to New York and completely embraced being single. That was a new bold step forward for me.
"Surrounding myself with strong and beautiful women in my girlfriends has made it a really good two years. And this has helped make the decision to officially change genre on '1989'."
Taylor dabbled in pop music on her last album 'Red' but she has admitted she thought the first single from the record, 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together', "sounded ridiculous" until she was nominated for Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards last year.
She said: "I have got a thicker skin now and I have a better sense of humour.
"Some people think I am serious when I am doing the rap in 'Shake It Off', but the whole song is done with a wink and a comedic vibe, the same way as people thought I was really serious in We are Never Ever Getting Back Together.
"I was going, 'Like EVER'. We did that in the studio and it was so annoying that we just had to put it in the song.
"We cracked up laughing thinking, 'Can we get away calling it a song?' It had the longest title ever and sounded ridiculous. Then I got nominated for record of the year at The Grammys!"

McBusted will release their debut album in December.
The supergroup - consisting of Tom Fletcher, Harry Judd, Matt Willis, James Bourne, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter - have compiled a 12-track collection named 'McBusted,' featuring tracks from a range of different genres, including 'Air Guitar', 'Hate Your Guts' and 'What Happened To Your Band,' which was written by James following the split of Busted in 2005.
Despite forming late last year, the band wanted to wait before they put any material out as "the expectations are so high" they wanted release "f***ing good" music.
The album will also include a number of big-name stars, including a collaboration with Blink 182's Mark Hoppus, who helped write 'Sensitive Guy' and leant his vocals to the punk track 'Hate Your Guts'.
Tom said of Mark: "He'd been such a huge influence on our song writing that to finally get in a room with him was so fun, if slightly surreal."
However, that's not all the group have in store for fans this year as they are also releasing a film called 'TourPlay', which is a behind-the-scenes video diary of their journey over the past year, through Vue cinemas, exclusively, nationwide on October 28.
'McBusted' is set for release on December 1.

The full track listing for the album is as follows:
'Air Guitar'
'Hate Your Guts' (Feat. Mark Hoppus)
'What Happened To Your Band'
'Get Over It'
'Riding On My Bike'
'Gone'
'Sensitive Guy'
'Beautiful Girls Are The Loneliest'
'Before You Knew Me'
'Back In Time'
'How's My Hair?'
'Getting It Out'

Additional Deluxe Edition Tracks:
'23:59'
'In Da Club'
'I See Red'