Lady Gaga has dramatically revealed her previous additions to cocaine.

The Poker Face star, who was seen in London’s Oxford Street yesterday, (08,09,09) said she was hooked on cocaine after dropping out of her music course at New York University just four years ago.

The quirky singer said, “I listened to this one song by The Cure on repeat while I did bags and bags of cocaine.”

However, the 23-year-old singer-whose single Poker face has been named the most downloaded song of all time- said that it was her dad Joseph who cured her of the addiction.

Gaga said, “My father looked at me one day and said, “You are f***in’ up, kid.

“I looked at him and thought: ‘How does he know that I am high right now?’

“He never said a word about the drugs. Not one word.

“But he said: ‘I just wanna tell you, anyone you meet while you’re like this and any friend you make while you are with this thing, you will lose.’

“And we never talked about it again.”

Yesterday Gaga-whose real name is Stefani Germanotta-emulated legendary icon Marilyn Monroe as she attended a photocall at music store HMV.

She wore a platinum blonder curly wig and Matrix-esque chic- turning up in a black dress with a striped, sheer umbrella skirt and satin cape.

2009 is going to be another exciting year for our celebrity friends, and there are many very talented potential stars waiting in the wings, I would say Lady Gaga is the name to look out for. America’s been looking for an answer to our quirky pop females (Lily Allen, Kate Nash etc…) for a while and they may well have found one in the shape of this 22-year-old New Yorker. Not only does she look and sound different but the likes of Britney Spears and Pussycat Dolls have already expressed a interest in collaboration with the artist, she also went to the same school as Paris Hilton, which surely can’t hurt.

As mentioned in the intro to this article, Lady Gaga has the potential to be massive in 2009. Born Joanne Stefani Germanotta, she combines the street savvy of young Madonna with a far greater innate musical talent, along with a unique sense of style and a mixture of music genre’s. One to watch indeed.

Britain has been blessed with a steady stream of innovative female artists over the years and Little Boots (aka Victoria Hesketh) is as interesting as any of them. If you look on YouTube, you’ll find a clip of her in her small, cluttered bedroom, surrounded by shelves of CDs and knick-knacks. Dressed in denim shorts and a sleeveless T-shirt, her dyed blond hair scrunched back from her face, she is hemmed in by two keyboards, a computer screen and a Stylophone, one of those tiny toy music machines that Rolf Harris once advertised on TV at Christmas.

The unique talents of VV Brown are refreshingly honest words of her official biography, her music is “dramatic, charismatic and, frequently, as mad as a box of frogs.” But perhaps the best description comes from the lady herself – she calls it “doowop soul”.

Given that he’s already had an album out, Bryn Christopher isn’t strictly speaking a newcomer his sublime soul voice will reach more people in the coming year. Think David McAlmont crossed with Otis Redding.

Irish soul-pop singer Laura Izibor has already performed with Al Green, been asked to support Aretha Franklin, and had a track featured on Grey’s Anatomy – all before she’s released a note of music. She must be doing something right.

Paris Hilton says she would love to collaborate with her former school mate ‘Lady GaGa’. The hotel heiress, who released her album “Paris” in 2006, even calls the “Just Dance” hitmaker “an incredible artist”. 

Paris says, “I just read about Lady GaGa’s comments and I love her. I think she is an incredible artist, I love her style. I love her music. I listen to her all the time. I would love to work with her. She seems so cool. She is a very smart girl.”

Earlier this month, Lady GaGa also praised Paris and her sister Nicky Hilton, saying, “They’re very pretty, and very, very clean.” The 22-year-old singer added, “It’s impressive to be that perfect all the time. In commercial terms, they’ve been quite an influence on me!” 

Paris Hilton is well know for making sure she looks good, especially as she is always in the public eye being watching by hundreds of camera’s, therefore, the hotel heiress, who broke up with Benji Madden, takes her time to pamper her skin on Melrose Place. 

In related news, Paris recently said that she wants to name her first daughter London. “I’d love to have children in the next two years,” the actress says. “I’d like three or four. I want a boy first, to watch over my girls, and I’ll name my first girl London – I love that name.”