It’s a Bananarama split for Keren and Andrew

THEY were one of the power couples in pop music world – but Bananarama’s Keren Woodward and Wham! star Andrew Ridgeley have called it quits on their 25year relationship for the second time.

Ridgeley, 54, told the The Mirror: ‘As close friends, with different lives, we see each other as circumstances allow and retain a great affection for one another.’

Keren, 56, has been living in London since August, away from the former couple’s home near Wadesbridge in north Cornwall. She added: ‘Yes, we’ve gone our separate ways. These things happen unfortunately, but we still speak. He’s actually coming to quite a few of the dates on the new Bananarama tour.’

The former flames initially split in 2015 but they soon rekindled the flames of their romance as they ‘worked through everything’. Andrew and Keren first set their eyes upon each other in the late Eighties but they didn’t start dating until 1990 after Wham! had disbanded.

They moved away from the London scene in 1994 after the Wham! singer failed to make a success of a solo career.

The couple, along with Keren’s son Tom, moved to the 15th-century Cornish farmhouse which they lived in together for more than two decades.

No doubt the Bananarama singer has been keeping busy as she prepares to kick-start the first leg of a new tour, which begins in Belfast on Thursday.

The musician reunited this year with her former band members Sara Dallin, 55, and Dublin-born Siobhán Fahey, 58, after three decades apart.