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James Blunt has denied reports he is quitting the music industry, instead hinting to fans that he is in fact making new music.

The singer took to his official Facebook page today (October 23) to deny rumours that were sparked following an interview with the Mail on Sunday, where he seemed to suggest that he was quitting music.

The singer cited recording commitments as the reason for giving no comment and deliberately posted his location as Conway Recording Studios in California, showing he has no plans of retiring.

In his post on Facebook, Blunt writes, "The Mail on Sunday has reported that James Blunt has split up due to musical differences. Neither could be reached for comment due to recording commitments - at Conway Recording Studios."

He's Staying Around! James Blunt Denies He's Quit Music

James Blunt Denies Plans To Quit Music (Wenn)

During his interview with the newspaper he had said: "I just want to take some time out for myself. I havent got any plans to do more songwriting. I have been chilling out since I finished my world tour and Ive spent a lot of time in Ibiza, where I have a villa."

Blunt added: "Sofia and I had a great time hanging out with friends on my yacht but we partied as well. I do like a good night out and that is why its great fun to hang out at Barbarella. London needs more nightclubs like this".

Three years after quitting the Army in 2002, the singer rose to fame with his ballad 'Youre Beautiful', which stayed at the top of the UK charts for five weeks. His debut album, Back To Bedlam, sold six million copies.

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He's Staying Around! James Blunt Denies He's Quit Music

Has James Blunt quit the music business? Hardly, it seems.

A recent interview with the U.K.'s Daily Mail had fans wondering whether the 38-year-old British singer was throwing in the towel.

"I just want to take some time out for myself. I haven't got any plans to do more songwriting," he said. "I have been chilling out since I finished my world tour and I've spent a lot of time in Ibiza, where I have a villa." He added,

After word spread of his so-called "retirement," Blunt posted this message on his Facebook page: "The Mail on Sunday has reported that James Blunt has split up due to musical differences. Neither could be reached for comment due to recording commitments. -- at Conway Recording Studios."

He also linked to a BBC America article, which disputed his retirement.

So, it appears that Blunt was being tongue-in-cheek while chatting with the Daily Mail journalist at a nightclub opening in London.

Either way, the "You're Beautiful" singer has been spending a lot of time with his model girlfriend, Sofia Wellesley, since wrapping his tour earlier this year.

"Sofia and I had a great time hanging out with friends on my yacht but we partied as well," he told the Daily Mail. "I do like a good night out and that is why it's great fun to hang out at Barbarella. London needs more nightclubs like this."

Blunt first burst on the music scene in 2004 with the Grammy-nominated debut album, "Back to Bedlam." His most recently album, "Some Kind of Trouble," came out in 2010.

Check out a live performance from December 2011:

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After selling 18 million albums worldwide and a year of playing sell-out shows on his world tour, James Blunt has decided to quit his career in music.

The 38-year-old, who served as an officer in the Life Guards cavalry regiment and saw action in Kosovo before embarking on his hugely successful singing career, wants to settle down and enjoy the fruits of his labour.

Speaking of his plans to retire, the singer told the Daily Mail:

"I just want to take some time out for myself. I havent got any plans to do more songwriting. I have been chilling out since I finished my world tour and Ive spent a lot of time in Ibiza, where I have a villa."

James was in town with his girlfriend of nine months, model Sofia Wellesley, for the relaunch of nightclub Barbarella in Fulham, London.

The crooner went on: "Sofia and I had a great time hanging out with friends on my yacht but we partied as well. I do like a good night out and that is why its great fun to hang out at Barbarella. London needs more nightclubs like this".

Three years after quitting the Army in 2002, the singer rose to fame with his ballad 'Youre Beautiful', which stayed at the top of the UK charts for five weeks. His debut album, 'Back To Bedlam', sold six million copies.

James has won two Brit Awards and received five Grammy nominations. His final performance in Britain was a concert at the Shepherds Bush Empire in February, watched by his entire family.

James was spotted partying with Peaches Geldof earlier this summer...

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A holiday camp in Great Yarmouth. My dad, who was a turf accountant, used to send me, my brother and my mum off because he was always working. Back then, holidays weren't associated with sunshine I remember wind, wellies and walks on the coast.

Favourite place in the British Isles?

I get to travel to some amazing places and I'm constantly thinking the grass is always greener. But if I was living abroad, I know I'd be missing London particularly Richmond Park. I've also really got into road cycling lately, so I'm a big fan of Box Hill in Surrey.

Best holiday?

I've been to two places this year that I'd visited before, but hadn't fully appreciated: Mustique in the Caribbean for a friend's wedding, and Portofino on the Ligurian coast of Italy, where I went to escape the season in Ibiza. I loved it because there were no nightclubs and nothing was open late.

What have you learnt from your travels?

Get out and walk. I'm always stuck in jets, cars, trains, planes and, some of the time, I don't even know where I've been. I arrive late, go to the hotel, sort my music out and then go straight to the club. It drives me crazy. So now I just like to walk for at least half an hour around a place. Itgives me a completely different perspective.

Ideal travelling companion?

My wife, because we always have a great time. But I do like travelling alone, too. In a very busy life, the time you get alone on planes becomes invaluable.

Beach bum, culture vulture or adrenalin junkie?

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So The Only Way Is Essex is back. Let's stop and think about this for a minute, has it actually been away? Well yes it did briefly vanish from our screens but you'd be forgiven for failing to realise this since the cast have managed to do their usual job of turning up to the opening of an envelope wherever possible (complete with perma-tans and dazzling teeth), falling out of nightclubs, squeezing themselves into tight frocks, crying noisily about their other halves on the front pages of tabloids...you get our drift.

And thus, this increasingly critic-proof show returned to screens for its seventh outing, the first without Lauren Goodger, but with all our other Essex favourites present and correct.

And it came as no surprise to anyone that the first episode had a heavy focus on Gemma and Arg and their barely-out-of-the-papers romance, one which apparently ended abruptly when he took off for Ibiza without her

This of course led to lots of scenes in which she stumbled around the neighbourhood trying to persuade anyone and everyone to spill the beans about his holiday shenanigans, while he confessed that a One Direction song had inspired him to end the relationship.

Yes, you heard correctly, while some of us take our wisdom and guidance from the world's great poets, philosophers and intellectuals, Arg is gleaning his from One Direction's Live While We're Young. Honestly, you couldn't make it up. And we're not sure we'd want to.

Still, not all of the episode was about wondering whether any of the Essex boys had a brain cell between them and whether or not they'd be dangerous if they did. Lucy's mind was firmly on weddings, which in TOWIE terms was an excuse for everyone to take off in a limo for a hastily organised 'hen night' before floating around in wedding dresses for the sole purpose of - well, floating around in wedding dresses really.

The likes of Mick, Diags and Bobby also turned up but none of their activities could really hold a candle to Arg's hilarious dim-wittedness so we'll just gloss over them for now.

In other words it was business as usual down Essex way then. But be honest, did you really expect any different?

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