Island Life Magazine Ltd October/November 2015 | Page 14

INTERVIEW
weddings and private parties.
So how did this unlikely husband and
wife ‘dream team’ come about?

Turning point
David recalls that 2008 was something
of a stand-out year in his life – he’d had a
few down years following the flop of the
reality show ‘Re-born in the USA’, which
he and ex-girlfriend Tereza Bazar had
been hoping might re-ignite the success
of their old band, Dollar.
There had also been his high-profile
court battles over ownership of the Bucks
Fizz band name, and then the revelation
that David was running a burger van
business, which the Press seized upon
with predictable glee.
“I was morphing into a sort of carcrash celebrity,” he recalls. “I’d gone into
Reborn in the USA hoping to get work
from it, but they didn’t really let us sing
a song. The show had a huge budget of
£13m but it didn’t really work either as a
reality show or an entertainment show”.
By 2008, he was up for pretty much
any kind of challenge, and didn’t think
twice when he and Tereza (as Dollar)

were offered a place on The Makeover
Show, which set out to transform a group
of fading stars through major cosmetic
surgery.
“I was 52 and divorced (from ex-model
Maria Day), and thought well, what have I
got to lose?” he says.
“I remember pacing up and
down before the surgery
at Henfield Hospital,
but really, that
was just for the
cameras – I wasn’t
worried”
However, the
surgery did leave
his face very
swollen – and
ironically, it was
around this time that
he met Sue, a former
model and beauty editor
of the Sun newspaper, via a
party invite on Facebook.
Her love life was admittedly ‘tangled’
at the time, since she was dating TV
doctor Hilary Jones as well as being in an
unhappy live-in partnership – so despite
the fact that they hit it off, she and David

went their separate ways for a while,
In his case, it meant a few months
living in Spain, followed by a call to
go in the jungle for I’m A Celebrity in
November 2008.
Sue admits that she tuned in regularly
to watch David’s troublemaking
wind-up antics, which got
him so much publicity.
“I thought he was
funny because I
could see that he
was just acting
up,” she says.
“You have
to be over
the top to
get attention,”
declared David,
in what could
almost be a mantra
for his life. “If there’s no
drama, there’s no show!”
“But I realise now that it hasn’t
always been so good for me, so I do tend
to tone things down now”.
While David was in the jungle, Sue was
sorting out her personal life. He landed
back in the UK having come fourth in

David and Sue pictured with the staff from their favourite Island restaurant Olivo, Newport

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