Singer Joss Stone has released a new album to positive reviews, but the project comes just weeks after a strange plot to kidnap and harm the young songstress near her home in Devon, England emerged.

Stone, 24, spoke recently in interviews about how she is reluctant to leave the area in which she grew up, and spoke about enhancing her security in the wake of the arrests of two men. Stone hasn’t been put off Devon, she explains:

I have lived in the same house in Devon, England since I was 8. Nobody ever wants to leave Devon because why would they? It is lovely and calm and the people are normal. A lot of people have moved here from London and the people who are born here are just like, ‘well I am not leaving it is bloody gorgeous.’

Stone continues:

Everyone I know that lives around here has lived here for years and have known me since I was a little girl. If I had moved an hour up the road it wouldn’t be the same. I am happy living a private life in Devon. Too much attention is not good. People get starstruck but not around here. I am not going anywhere no matter what.

The soul singer has just released a new album, LP1, and says the plot was a “blessing in disguise,” as she was prompted to install a “sophisticated alarm system.”

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Earlier this morning the Huffingtonpost reported that police arrested two men near the home of the singer, on suspicion of conspiracy to rob and murder.

Devon and Cornwall Police say the men, aged 30 and 33, and from the Manchester area of northwest England, were arrested Monday morning near Stone’s house in Cullompton, southwest England after residents called in a suspicious-looking vehicle.

Detective Inspector Steve Parker said the men “had in their possession information relating to an individual in the Cullompton area and items which lead us to suspect that they may have intended to commit a criminal offense.”

He would not however, go into detail about what those items were, though unverified reports claimed they were swords, rope and a body bag.

At this time the two men are being questioned but have not been officially charged. It currently remains unknown if Stone was in her home at the time of arrests.

Joss, who rose to fame at the age of 16 with her multi-platinum debut album The Soul Sessions, is estimated to be worth 14.6 million (£9m) dollars.

Check out her hit song You Had Me below:

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As cool as it is to discover your talents, I’m not sure if I want to see Joss Stone doing it on one of my favorite programs, The Tudors. After all, she still fleshing out her career on both the large and small-screen with a just a few films to her name. . .

According to The Telegraph, Joss will be playing Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s homeliest wife, in season three. Given Joss’s style transformations over the years (nose ring, black hair, purple hair, pseudo-hippie duds), I’m having trouble imagining her flouncing about all royal and immaculate. However, since the show has already been criticized for its historical (in)accuracy, let’s see how Joss turns out. She’ll probably look as much like Anne of Cleves as Rhys Myers looks like Henry VIII!

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