Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett reveal how they met

THEY may seem like an unlikely duo, but Lady Gaga has revealed the lengths she’s gone to get cheek to cheek with Tony Bennett.

Unlikely pair ... Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett will release a collaborative jazz album. Picture: AP

LADY Gaga and Tony Bennett may seem like an unlikely couple (she’s 28 and he’s 88), but it seems they have more in common than just their new album of duets.

“When I met her, the first thing I said (was), ‘Let’s do an album together’,” Bennett said in an interview with CBS News. “She said, ‘Okay.’ It was just that quick.”

“I was a jazz singer since I was a little girl,” Lady Gaga said, “and nobody had really picked up on it. So when Tony asked, I got really excited.”

Asked if she was intimidated by Bennett, Gaga was emphatic.

“Oh, yeah,” she replied.

“Oh, no,” Bennett interjected. “Come on.”

The two met at a charity event a few years ago and immediately hit it off.

Bennett also recalled how Gaga serenaded him at one of her concerts earlier this year.

“When you started climbing up the ladder, I said, ‘What’s going on? Why is she doing that?’” he said.

Gaga replied, “I had to get closer to you. I told you, I don’t like to be anywhere but cheek-to-cheek when you’re in the room.”

The two also live just a block apart in New York.

“We sing all the time duets right over 6th Avenue,” said Gaga. “It’s just nobody knows it’s us.”

Coming out soon ... this is the CD cover image of “Cheek to Cheek” by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga. Picture: AP/Interscope

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