MOTHER LOVE

As she awaits the arrival of baby number four, singer Joss Stone exclusively reveals that her new passion project is inspired by her brood - and her Devon roots

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With three children aged four and under, plus another due in a matter of weeks, you'd think Grammy and Brit Award-winner Joss Stone would be taking it easy. But that isn’t the nature of the 38-year-old, whose talent was first revealed on the BBC’s Star for the Night when she was just 13.

Not only is she just back from a US tour with rock star Melissa Etheridge and hosting weekly podcast A Cuppa Love with fellow singer Lemar, but Joss is also designing a range of baby products to be launched later in the year – inspired, as she exclusively tells HELLO!, by her idyllic upbringing in Devon.

Now, she’s planning to return there next year. “We'll be back for my eldest, Violet, to start school,” reveals the star, whose mother Wendy and three siblings live in Devon. “Me and my siblings can all help each other and it’ll be lovely for the kids.

“When I went away when I was 30, I told my mum: ‘I’m not coming back until I have a husband and a kid’ – and I’m coming back with four!”