X Factor winner Leona Lewis has revealed that she will be buying her first home later this year. It won’t be in the UK, but in LA where she will spend next year promoting her new album.

“We are promoting the album in the UK, then in America. So I want to buy a place in Santa Monica,” Lewis told the Sunday Mirror. “I love being by the beach and the Pacific Ocean.

“When I first moved out there I was really missing my family and my boyfriend. But my dream now would be to live in California in the winter and here in the summer. I’m going to buy a house there first. And maybe one in London later.”