{"id":261590,"date":"2026-01-24T12:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261590\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:37:11","slug":"olivia-dean-receives-surprise-elton-john-call-on-pembrokeshire-camping-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261590\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Dean receives surprise Elton John call on Pembrokeshire camping trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Olivia Dean shot to fame in 2025 with her soulful album The Art of Loving<\/p>\n

Singer Olivia Dean has revealed she was cooking sausages and beans on a camping trip in Wales when she was star-struck by a call from Sir Elton John, telling her he was proud of her.<\/p>\n

The Man I Need singer, who has picked up a string of award nominations<\/a> in recent months, was enjoying a trip away in Pembrokeshire when her team gave her the heads up she might receive a call from the British music legend.<\/p>\n

Despite initially declining the unexpected video chat, Dean got another chance to speak to Sir Elton, who told her “I’m really proud of you”.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old’s soulful album The Art of Loving saw her rise to fame last year, and Sir Elton told her he thought she was “ready now”.<\/p>\n

Dean was asked about the “starry feedback” while appearing on The Graham Norton Show last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I was on a camping trip in Wales, in Pembrokeshire, and I was cooking sausage and beans on a little gas stove,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Someone from my team said ‘you might get a phone call from Elton John today’ and I said ‘oh gosh’.”<\/p>\n

But Dean nearly didn’t get to speak to the star, as she declined his first call in a panic. <\/p>\n

“It rang and it was a FaceTime and I said ‘no – I’m not ready’,” she recalled, as fellow chat show guests Idris Elba, Martin Freeman, Erin Doherty and Wunmi Mosaku laughed.<\/p>\n

“Then I was like, ‘oh no, I should have picked up… I’ve missed it’.”<\/p>\n

But Sir Elton called back, and told her: “I’m really proud of you, and it looks like you’ve worked really hard and you’re ready now.”<\/p>\n

She added: “I just said thank you, and then I collapsed on the floor [like a] starfish.” <\/p>\n

That time Elton John called when Olivia Dean was camping in Wales<\/p>\n

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Olivia Dean (right) appeared on The Graham Norton Show alongside Idris Elba, Erin Doherty, Wunmi Mosaku and Martin Freeman<\/p>\n

Norton said Sir Elton “loves the phone”, while Golden Globe-winning Adolescence actor Erin Doherty<\/a> quipped back “I wouldn’t have picked up”.<\/p>\n

Dean said the British icon “has everybody’s number”. <\/p>\n

“Not mine,” replied actor Wunmi Mosaku, who has received an Oscar supporting actress nomination<\/a> for her role in 2025 horror film Sinners.<\/p>\n

Dean isn’t the first star to speak out about receiving uplifting and supportive calls from Sir Elton.<\/p>\n

The Your Song singer reportedly called Squeeze guitarist Chris Difford every day <\/a>while he battled depression and addiction, while Ed Sheeran has previously spoken about Sir Elton checking in with him regularly during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Olivia Dean shot to fame in 2025 with her soulful album The Art of Loving Singer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-261590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}