Hubby dumped me... to save my career

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JANE Mcdonald says her husband left her because he feared he would destroy her showbiz career.

Henrik Brixen, a plumber, met the singer on board ship during the filming of fly-on-the-wall series The Cruise.

They wed in 1998 and he became her manager.

He ended their relationship after four years of marriage.

Jane, 55, revealed: “Henrik tried his very, very best and he was brilliant at what he did but he didn’t know the industry.

“We’d come to a point where Henrik had made quite a few enemies and he said, ‘If I don’t leave, you are never going to have a career’.

“And this is why I never talk about Henrik in a bad light at all because he... walked out of the marriage to save my career.”

After the split, Jane became a long-running Loose Women panellist, performed in Las Vegas and at the London Palladium and

GOOD TIMES Jane on red carpet with Henrik in 1999 has recently been nominated for a Bafta for her TV show Cruising with Jane Mcdonald.

But she admits the marriage breakdown left her heartbroken.

Speaking in her new documentary, she said: “I took two years off and it was hard. I didn’t just lose my husband, I lost my manager.”

Jane has found love again. Since 2008 she has been back with her childhood boyfriend, drummer Eddie Rothe, who has been a member of bands such as The Searchers.

■ The Jane Mcdonald Story is on Channel 5 tomorrow at 9pm.