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Cliff Richard needs to realise that with music, looks are the last thing that should matter

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In another life, Cliff Richard could have a photo with his hero, Elvis Presley, stuck to his fridge. Imagine! But alas, he doesn’t. Why? Because Cliff Richard is a shallow guy who values looks over all else, apparently. In an interview on ITV’s breakfast show This Morning on Monday, the British crooner stunned presenters Alison Hammond, Dermot O’Leary and, er, Sarah Ferguson, by claiming he once turned down a photo opportunity with Elvis because, as he put it, the King had put on “a lot of weight”.

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