Lorde has revealed that she often rifles through bins – but always gets recognised.

The Royals singer, whose real name is Ella Yelich-O’Connor, admitted to looking through other people’s trash in her native New Zealand.

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Lorde has a strange hobby (AP/Vincent Yu)

She told The Daily Telegraph: “I’m boring because my favourite thing to do is trawl the inorganics.”

She explained: “It stays on the street for a few days and then it’s collected and put into a landfill somewhere. But people drive around and go through other people’s household rubbish.”

The 18-year-old singer claims that this has resulted in some great fashion finds, saying: “Honestly, I’ve gotten amazing furniture, shoes, hats, jackets.”

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Lorde at the premiere of the new Hunger Games film (NEWZULU/RICHARD GOLDSCHMIDT)

Fame hasn’t prevented her from her favourite hobby, which she last took part in three weeks ago, but she admitted to being “recognised every single time”: adding: “So embarrassing!”

Lorde has rejected some of the trappings which come with fame. She explained that her desire to stay off the red carpet was to keep herself “stress-free”.

She added: “I thought, ‘I don’t have to do this if I don’t want to.’ And it’s been so amazing and so stress-free not doing it.”

Lorde recently compiled the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, contributing a new single, Yellow Flicker Beat.