SINGER KT TUNSTALL THANKS FRIEND

Singer KT Tunstall was very quick to accost 'Take That' star Mark Owen at the Brit Awards last night, and thanked him for giving her his loose change during her hard early days. The star spent her pre-fame years strumming a guitar and singing on the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland for money. And Tunstall, who was nominated in the Best Female Solo Artist category at the event in London, remembers kind hearted Owen strolling by one day and furnishing her plastic money cup with some much needed cash. She says, "Mark Owen is lovely because he gave me a quid when I was busking when I was 19. When we met I told him that."