James Blunt has dismissed media interest in his private life as irrelevant and “unhealthy”.

The You’re Beautiful star has seen his love life plastered through the tabloids in recent years, with alleged romances with casting director Dixie Chassay, musician Camilla Boler and supermodel Petra Nemcova.

But speaking in the midst of a 14-month world tour, the singer-songwriter said he continues to find media interest in his private life bizarre.

“I’ve never read tabloid magazines, but I think it’s a pretty unhealthy practice,” he told inthenews.co.uk.

“You and I are not dogs sniffing each other, I’m not interested in your private life, nor should I be, and nor should you be in mine.

“We’re hopefully intelligent human beings, who can talk about, discuss and maybe even achieve much greater things than learning about who you’re shagging.

“So, for me, I’ve always stepped away from that and now that I’m in the public eye a bit more, I’ve just tried to ignore it.”

He added: “It’s not important and we’ve got many more important things to deal with. I’m not a celebrity, I’m a musician.

“Whether you like my music or not, music’s part of our art and our culture, which sets us asides from being animals and is much more relevant.”

James Blunt’s new single I Really Want You is out on Monday August 4th.

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James Blunt has broken his little finger, after an energetic stage dive during a gig in the U.S.

The You’re Beautiful singer, who toured North America in February, suffered the injury mid-performance in the States, and now has his right hand heavily strapped in bandages.

He told British newspaper The Independent at an event, “Sorry I can’t shake your hand, I broke my little finger. I somehow managed to do it whilst I was jumping off stage during a gig in America.”

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Soul star Amy Winehouse’s multiple Grammy nods have boosted sales of her sophomore album Back To Black, winning her a place in the U.K.’s Top Ten best-selling albums of the 21st century.

The LP has sold more than 2.4 million copies in Winehouse’s native country since its October 2006 release, with over 318,000 of those having been sold in the last 10 weeks.

Back To Black replaces Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me in the countdown, but James Blunt’s Back To Bedlam is still the most popular album in the U.K. - it’s sold in excess of 3.1 million copies to date since hitting store shelves in 2004.

Winehouse scooped five Grammy Awards including prizes for Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year and Song Of The Year at the prestigious 10 February ceremony.

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The images flashed up on a giant screen as Blunt sang new track No Bravery, which he wrote while serving as a NATO peacekeeper in the former Yugoslavia - part of his stint as a captain in the British Army.

Blunt told the New York Daily News after the gig at the Beacon Theatre, “The film was my footage, taken from our vehicles while we patrolled. “I recently had the chance to go back and play for the Serbs, and they were all in on my message. It’s great because music is the strongest form of communication, and it was nice to connect with them.”

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Celine Dion, Rihanna, James Blunt, Mika, and Kylie Minogue, all seen here, arriving at the 2008 NRJ Awards on January 26th.

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James Blunt, performing live at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, England on January 14th.

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Cool video (it’s the nicest thing I could think of to say), but the boy drives me crazy!