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Wait, how is Liam Fox connected to Natalie Imbruglia’s ‘Torn’? I’m all out of faith!

Poke Reporter. Updated July 26th, 2024

Just when you think the Tories can no longer ruin your life, out they pop like the hand from the grave at the end of Carrie (the movie, not Johnson) to provide one last jump-scare.

Former Tory MP Liam Fox was on Iain Dale’s show on LBC last night, where he was asked one particular question by a listener.

“Is it true you dated Natalie Imbruglia in the 1990s? I need to know,” Iain reads out. To which Fox replies:

I would say that if you need to know that, you probably require a level of therapy. But yes, we were very good friends, and yes, I did help her pick ‘Torn’ out as a single. And yes, I was on the credits of the album.

Whaaat? Let’s back up.

It is indeed true – and die hard trivia experts remember – that Fox and Australian singer Imbruglia were friends back in the day. Imbruglia released her debut LP, Left of the Middle, in 1997, and it was the album’s lead single, ‘Torn’, that turned Imbruglia into a pop sensation. The song became a ubiquitous feature of radio airplay for literal years afterwards and it still holds up to this day.

Here’s another thing to blow your mind: ‘Torn’ is actually one of those songs that’s a cover version that nobody realises is a cover version. The song was originally recored by a few different artists in the early ’90s, including Lis Sørensen, Trine Rein and Ednaswap.

ANYWAY. Back to the revelation (to some of us) that Liam Fox had a hand in ‘Torn’s’ success. People don’t know what to make of it. One might say, they’re all out of faith? They’re cold and shamed, lying naked on the floor at the news?

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