Rylan Clark 'teams up for music with huge songwriter' who has link to his pop star pal

TV presenter has reportedly collaborated with an acclaimed songwriter. The commentator is said to have spent time with her in a studio in recently ahead of potentially releasing any .

Rylan, 36, has pursued opportunities as a host on shows like since he rose to fame on the in 2012. The winner - who has his own - however announced last year that he has been but not under his own name.

It's now been reported that Rylan - whose real name is Ross Clark - has just worked with songwriter , 68. She's written a number of chart-topping songs in her career to date and her accolades include a .

Her work includes ' Can't Fight the Moonlight and Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, which both reached number one in . 's Un-Break My Heart, 's If I Could Turn Back Time and 's I Don't Want to Miss a Thing are among her other well known songs.

According to , Rylan worked with Diane after flying out to Los Angeles last month. A source said he had a "great time" with Diane, who wrote the song Don't Leave Me in This Love Alone, which featured on Rylan's pal ' debut solo album My Wildest Dreams in 2019.

The source told the outlet: "His first love has always been music. He has been writing songs for years, so when the chance for him to get into a studio with Diane came up he couldn't say no." They concluded by saying: "He was out in Los Angeles for four days and they had a great time together."

The news comes after Rylan previously revealed that he had quietly released music. He made the announcement on an episode of the Table Manners podcast that was released in May last year, which featured him and , 46.

Rylan said: "I write music. So I've done quite a lot of songs." Rob the commented: "They're really good." Rylan went on to share that he had written tracks for himself and revealed on the podcast that some have even been released.

He explained: "Some have been released, but not under 'Rylan,' and they've done well, which is fun." He said: "I've released a couple of tracks, yeah, that have done well and I'm happy with." He didn't provide the names of them though.

Rylan said that he hadn't produced the songs but provided vocals for them and had written the tracks too. Podcast host , 40, reacted: "Have they been named more as a producer... DJ..." Rylan interjected to tell her: "Featuring someone else." And asked why he hadn't wanted people to know, Rylan shared at the time: "I'm not ready for that yet."

He said: "Honest truth, because I think where I started out on X Factor and... I had a very easy role to play on that show and that was be the one that everyone talks about... and my job wasn't to sing on X Factor. I think if Joe Public read tomorrow 'Rylan's bringing out a CD' people would go 'shut up' and it would already be prejudged."

Rylan added: "And I've been really like lucky over the last 12 years - I've been successful in my career. I've done really, really well. And this hand is telling me 'don't tell people it's you because they'll prejudge' but then there's this sort of like curiosity killed the cat hand going 'could you do it all again, like from scratch?'"

The star later suggested on the podcast that he "badly" felt as though he needs to "scratch that itch" as a performer. He said that earlier last year he had an moment where it had felt like it was "now or never".

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