Sting sang ‘I’ll be everything you wanted’ to Melody Gardot in their 2021 duet Little Something.
But the American jazz star has been left singing the blues after heartbreak in her private life.
I hear that Melody has been dumped by her fiancé when she was five months pregnant with their first child.
‘My partner abandoned ship at approximately 20 weeks pregnant,’ the Grammy winner confirms. ‘At 40 years old, this pregnancy is already under scrutiny, but I refuse to let a man turn a miracle into a mistake.’
She adds of the man, whom she declines to name: ‘I refuse to believe that I chose the wrong partner. In fact I know I chose the right person but, in the process, he finally chose another person…himself.’
This week, Melody is due to attend the Jazz FM awards in London, where she will receive the Gold award for services to music.
The singer, who wears dark glasses after developing light sensitivity following a road accident in her youth, admits that she’s been forced to hand back her bridal gown.
‘In this mess, I’ve had to return my wedding dress,’ she says online. ‘I’ve cried so hard my eyes became edemas. I feel like a fraction of myself though I am bigger every day. I look down at my belly and wonder what’s going for happen. Scared, alone and broken.’
American jazz star Melody Gardot has confirmed her ‘partner abandoned ship at approximately 20 weeks pregnant’
The Police singer Sting has spoken of how he bonded with Melody, who lives in Paris, over racy jokes
It is not the first time that Melody has suffered trauma in her love life. In 2019, she revealed that she had broken off her engagement to a different man after becoming the victim of violence.
The Police singer Sting has spoken of how he bonded with Melody, who lives in Paris, over racy jokes.
‘We met and we really got on,’ Sting says. ‘We had a joke-telling competition, I think she won.’
When asked by The One Show host Alex Jones to repeat the joke, Melody warned: ‘It’s not for television, my love.’
Superfit Iris proves she can put herself in pole position
Liverpool star Trent Alexander-Arnold is expected to transfer to Real Madrid at the end of the season and it looks as if the footballer’s ex-girlfriend Iris Law is keen to try new things as well.
The 24-year-old model has taken up pole dancing – and has shared a video online to prove it. Iris, who’s the daughter of Hollywood’s Jude Law and actress Sadie Frost, could be seen showing off her flexibility with a move called the ‘side-saddle superman’ which involves bringing your legs up behind you so that you are flying in a horizontal position.
‘I really like running on a running machine, spinning and hot yoga,’ Iris has previously said of her training regime.
The 24-year-old model has taken up pole dancing – and has shared a video online to prove it
‘I really like running on a running machine, spinning and hot yoga,’ Iris Law has previously said of her training regime
William and Kate’s family service
The Prince and Princess of Wales broke with tradition by not joining the King and Queen at the Easter Sunday service at Windsor Castle.
But our next Supreme Governor of the Church of England and his wife did still celebrate elsewhere.
I hear that Prince William, Catherine and their three children attended the service at St Mary Magdalene church at Sandringham, where they spent the Easter weekend.
The family, whose holiday home, Anmer Hall, is on the private Norfolk estate, were joined by Catherine’s parents, Michael and Carole Middleton.
Prince William, Catherine and their three children attended the service at St Mary Magdalene church at Sandringham, where they spent the Easter weekend
Crowds were hoping to get a sighting to Prince William and Kate who were attending the Easter service
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Timothy Spall’s character, Peter Pettigrew, could magically switch species from human to rat.
Off screen, the Bafta-winning actor has been changing shape, too.
‘I wanted to lose weight for a part, so I stopped drinking wine and that regulated my diet,’ says Spall, 68.
‘The weight came off and I started to get parts I wouldn’t have had before. Funnily enough, I’m currently filming a Netflix movie directed by Kate Winslet called Goodbye June where I had to fatten up by wearing a strap-on belly.’
I wanted to lose weight for a part, so I stopped drinking wine and that regulated my diet,’ says Timothy Spall
Birds Of A Feather star Lesley Joseph treasures a fond memory of her one encounter with the late Pope Francis when taking part in 2019 BBC series Pilgrimage: The Road To Rome.
Granted an audience with the Pontiff during filming, Lesley proudly recalled Francis telling her: ‘You don’t look 72.’
Later receiving a parting embrace and kiss on the cheek from the Pope at the end of his audience, Lesley added: ‘He burst out laughing and said, “You still don’t look 72”. At which point I put my arm on his arm and said, “Oh, bless you!” Everybody fell about. “I can’t believe you’ve just blessed the Pope.”’
Lesley Joseph treasures a fond memory of her one encounter with the late Pope Francis when taking part in 2019 BBC series Pilgrimage: The Road To Rome
Damian: Live life to the full as a defence against grief
Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory died of cancer in 2021 and her widower, Damian Lewis, has now spoken of his reaction.
‘There’s a well-known psychological state in grief, or post any sort of trauma, which is called the manic defence,’ says Homeland actor Lewis, 54.
‘I have the manic defence in a very pronounced way, which is that you affirm life. So in amongst the inevitable days of being in a heap on the floor bawling your eyes out, there is your manic defence, which is like, “Come on, live life, move forward, and reaffirm life”. ’
Damian, who has two teenagers with Helen, adds: ‘Life is there for the taking, to be lived.
‘Especially when you have two children – making sure they have a sense that everything is not over.’
‘Life is there for the taking, to be lived. Especially when you have two children – making sure they have a sense that everything is not over,’ said Damian Lewis after the death of his wife Helen McCrory
Spandau Ballet star Gary Kemp claims British showbusiness is still riddled with snobbery, with actors sidelined for leading roles because of their accents.
‘Working-class actors do struggle, London working- class especially – they’re still seen as the cheeky chappy or the cockney or the villain, and not seen as someone who can just slip into doing Hamlet or something,’ says the stage and screen star, 65.
‘I did a few films as an actor when I was a kid and that’s my real accent – it’s like really, really cockney. Over the years I did work on speaking better.’
He adds: ‘There’s this obsession with RP [received pronunciation]. That accent only exists with actors and newsreaders, it seems to me.’
Spandau Ballet star Gary Kemp claims British showbusiness is still riddled with snobbery, with actors sidelined for leading roles because of their accents
