(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Ellie Goulding has recalled a time when she "flexed her muscles" at an over-zealous club-goer to scare them off.

The British songstress, who famously performed at Buckingham Palace following the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge last month, isn't afraid to stand up for herself.

The 24-year-old star has recalled one particular incident at a nightclub where she performed a hulk-style manoeuvre by ripping off her T-shirt and showing her toned physique to ward off any trouble.

"Once, when I was DJ'ing at a club, someone threw a bottle of beer at me. I was so angry I took my T-shirt off and flexed my muscles. I'm quite ripped for a girl, so no one messed with me after that," she explained in an interview with Heat magazine.

Ellie is partial to searching for herself on the internet every once in a while. The pretty blonde avoids "scandalous gossip" because she is normally so well behaved.

"I googled a picture of myself to show a stylist in America what my hair usually looks like. That's dorky, right? There's never any scandalous gossip written about me, as I don't fall out of clubs flashing my knickers. I've fallen out of my tour bus before, but no one saw," she said in an interview with Heat magazine. (C) Cover Media