Alexa Chung Reportedly Asked a DJ to Turn Off a Song By Her Ex Alex Turner’s Band Arctic Monkeys
Hearing a song you shared with an ex after the breakup can be a painful experience, but how about when said ex is in a band? It’s nearly unavoidable as Alexa Chung has learned. The music aficionado, model and designer apparently was caught in an awkward position at a Paris Fashion Week event — the Chez Away pop-up hotel — when her former boyfriend Alex Turner’s voice came on as a DJ played ““Fluorescent Adolescent,” an Arctic Monkeys song from their 2007 album Favourite Worst Nightmare, which is one way to describe a former relationship.
Unwilling to hear the song, or bored by a decade-old song that peaked at No. 5 in the UK singles chart, Chung reportedly called on a friend, Brioni’s former creative director Justin O’Shea, to request that the DJ change it, according to Page Six. Instead, Chung suggested that the DJ play a Rolling Stones song, an idea that may have come from Chung herself considering the music festival staple is such a big fan. “I was lucky enough to watch the Rolling Stones from side of stage a few years ago and it was one of the best things I’ve ever seen,” she told W this summer of her favorite Glastonbury memory.
To do a bit of rewinding, Chung has recently gone through another breakup with Alexander Skarsgård, and it’s been six years since she and Turner have broken up, which she opened up about several years ago. The cause? “It was various people,” she told The Guardian in 2013. “There was one big thing, and then there were various ill-advised flings I had to get over him, so yeah. Is this gross to talk about? I feel he wouldn’t talk about it. I don’t know how relevant it is now, whereas if you asked me at the time, ‘How you doing?’ No one even asked… But I don’t know whether to be open and vulnerable about it and say, ‘I had a s–t time’, or to be quiet.”
In the same interview, Chung also talked about how the pair have remained friends since then, adding, “I’m grateful for the experience of that time, and for being on my own. I’d never really been on my own before–I’d always gone from one relationship to the next–so I had to learn all this stupid stuff. Like, how do I work my TV? And now there isn’t a dude to tell me how to put up the blinds. But it’s good to learn how to work your way round a drill.”
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After being engaged for nearly a decade, Jennifer Hudson called it quits with David Otunga in November, as well as receiving a protective order of their 8-year-old son that they share.
After ten months of dating—and one public outing to the Met Gala—Selena Gomez and The Weeknd called it quits in October, just a few days after Gomez was spotted having breakfast with her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber.
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Jenny Slate and Chris Evans quickly became an Internet-beloved couple when their pairing was revealed in 2016, but split after a year.
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The teen set’s coolest couple, Jaden Smith and Sarah Snyder, broke up after nearly two years of dating.
Jane Fonda split from longtime partner record producer Richard Perry after nine years together in January.
After nearly two decades together, Summer Phoenix and Casey Affleck separated last year, officially filing for divorce last week.
After dating for a decade, Paramore singer Hayley Williams and New Found Glory frontman Chad Gilbert married in 2016, only to file for divorce a year later.
Janet Jackson gave birth to her first child, with husband Wissam al Mana, in January; the pair filed for divorce in April.
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Jemima Kirke married lawyer Mike Mosberg in 2009; the duo separated in January.
Supermodel Elle MacPherson split from Florida-based hotel heir Jeffrey Soffer earlier this year.
Phoebe Tonkin and Paul Wesley met on the set of The Vampire Diaries, and stayed together for nearly four years.
After a tumultuous year together, Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna officially split this spring.
After 17 years of marriage, Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor announced their separation in May.
In January, Nicki Minaj announced on Twitter that she had split from boyfriend Meek Mill.
After nearly two decades together, basketball star Carmelo Anthony and La La Anthony broke up earlier this year.
David Schwimmer separated from British artist Zoe Buckman after a decade together.
Billie Lourd briefly dated Scream Queens co-star Taylor Lautner before calling it quits this summer.
Mariah Carey got over her called-off engagement to James Packer by briefly dating dancer Bryan Tanaka.
