Jamie’s getting into 50 shades of hay Star of saucy film buys animals and grows own veg
has revealed how she got over her acrimonious split from ex-hubby
The star was left in turmoil after the convicted drug dealer did a runner in 2013, just six months after they tied the knot.
But Myleene, 42, who is now dating businessman
reveals how she managed to move on.
She says: “You make a pact with yourself and your mates never to let anyone treat you so badly again and you stick to it.”
And the singer revealed how she nearly lost out on meeting Simon after going to the wrong restaurant for their blind date.
“I thought he’d stood me up!” she laughs. “Simon’s the man I was always meant to be with.”
Ain’t love grand?
has been indulging in Fifty Shades of GREEN by turning his country house into a farm during lockdown.
The Fifty Shades of Grey actor has bought goats, chickens and a horse for his Gloucestershire pad, where he lives with wife Amelia Warner and their three daughters, Dulcie, six, Elva, four, and Alberta, one.
Like characters Tom and Barbara Good in 1970s sitcom The Good Life, Jamie has also taught himself how to grow veg – and he’s become such an animal lover, he’s even a fan of the bats at his house.
Jamie, 38, explains: “We’ve got some bats. We’ve a horse, two goats, five chickens and a dog. It’s lovely.
“The chickens do 10 eggs a day. They are really good quality. And we grow chillies and stuff like that.”
Despite loving his spuds after growing up in his native Northern Ireland, Jamie says his attempt to grow potatoes failed in December when he had 16 relatives over for a festive meal.
“We tried to do potatoes for Christmas,” he says. “Dulcie, our eldest, was helping me pick. She started digging and said, ‘Daddy, I’ve got one’.
“It was literally tiny. We were talking 16 people from Ireland for Christmas.” Jamie bought his £1.75million fivebed mansion near Stroud in 2015. The luxurious stone house has a swimming pool and tennis court, as well as a landscaped garden and double garage.
But despite his newfound love of self-sustainability, Jamie can’t wait for “things to normalise” after lockdown.
He says that while he has loved doing things like going to a drivein cinema near his country pad, he wants to get back to “normality” and misses going to festivals such as Glastonbury. Don’t we all…
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