Olivia Rodrigo declares love for UK high street store and praises ‘cool’ Britons

Olivia Rodrigo has said she enjoys being able to fly under the radar in the UK, as she believes “British people are just cool – they don’t want to bug you”.

The American singer said she was even able to ride around London on a Lime bike without being bothered after headlining Glastonbury last summer.

She told British Vogue: “‘Maybe I’m not big in the UK’, I had thought when I first arrived here and no one was being weird to me.

“I’m like, ‘do I need to do more press?’ But I think British people are just cool – they don’t want to bug you.”

Describing herself as a “self-professed Anglophile,” she said she would like “to be in London more”.

She continued: “I’ve found a lot of inspiration from being in London. I’ve spent so much time here over the course of making this album.

“It has a lot of songs that are London vibes, about experiences that I’ve had here.”

And she added: “Boots has got to be the coolest store ever.”

Rodrigo, whose boyfriend actor Louis Partridge is British, said she would love to return to Glastonbury, but next time not as a performer.

She told the magazine: “I’m dying to go as a viewer, because this year I was so f****** nervous for the show I didn’t get to enjoy the festival.”

The singer, who starred in the Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series as a teenager, said she felt protected by her parents but some child stars are put under lot of pressure.

Rodrigo said: “It’s a hard thing to put a little kid into. This world where you’re treated like an adult. You don’t know who you are. You don’t have any boundaries. You don’t know what the world is like.

“We should examine the whole industry of child actors. It’s a very strange thing.”

The full interview can be read in the April issue of British Vogue, available via digital download and on news stands from March 24.