Island Life Magazine Ltd October/November 2015 | Page 15

INTERVIEW
the show, and was met with a whirlwind
of publicity, after which he took off for
the Caribbean with his daughters Olivia
and Amber.
“It was after I got back from holiday that
I contacted Sue because I’d decided to
rent a flat in London for six months”.
Their whirlwind romance lifted off
from there and within three months
they were living together, then six
months later married secretly at
Hornchurch Register Office.

Public vows
Even their marriage was a publicity
fest, however – for as far as the public
was concerned, they got married on
TV, on the 2010 “Celebrity 4 Weddings”
reality show, along with a group of other
celebs and their partners, including acidtongued Katie Hopkins.
“I didn’t want that to be my real
wedding” says Sue “because it was just
a circus”.
Their ‘real’ registry office wedding came
shortly afterwards, and was decidedly
more modest – just the two of them
along with three friends.
“So we’ve actually been married twice!”
laughed Sue, “which means we’ve got
two marriage certificates. The same
registrar did the ceremony both times but
kept it quiet when we did it all again”.
One thing they quickly discovered
that they had in common was a love of
singing – which isn’t necessarily what
you’d