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WELCOME TO BANG...SOCK! Newsgirl is thumped by barmy Bjork.

by chris hughes, the mirror 1996

THIS is the moment that touchy pop singer Bjork went berserk - after British journalist Julie Kaufman told her: "Welcome to Bangkok."

The star let go of her luggage trolley, lunged at startled Julie and wrestled her to the floor. Then Bjork repeatedly banged the newsgirl's head on the floor. The amazing attack was caught on television cameras when the 30-year- old Icelandic star arrived at Bangkok airport on Monday night. On the same night, Bjork was named Best International Female at the Brit awards in London - which featured another pop star, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, acting like a yob on stage. Julie, 24, was standing at the edge of a group of cameramen when she greeted Bjork, who was pushing her nine year-old son Sindri in a trolley. She was there to give a concert in the city's Huamark Stadium - where fewer than 30 per cent of the tickets had been sold. Shocked Julie suffered bad bruising after Bjork pounced on her. The pop star later phoned Julie to apologise - but was still unable to explain why she did it. Thai police said they would arrest Bjork if a complaint was lodged. But Julie said she would not sue. She said: "I feel sorry for Bjork. She must have a lot of anger inside her. And she did it all right in front of her young son. "I have been asked to make a complaint against her but I cannot take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. "This has never ever happened to me before. But when Bjork rang me to apologise we got on really well. " I won't be going to her concert, though. I am not that crazy about her music, quite honestly." The London-based pop star was leaving for Singapore yesterday for a concert on Saturday. Bjork first earned a reputation as an oddball while growing up as a child star in Iceland. The elfin-faced singer was brought up in a hippy commune and cut her first record when she was 11, before turning to punk. Earlier this week, she behaved oddly in Hong Kong, trying to run away and hide while she was being presented with her Brit award.