I’m giving up on marriage, says Lulu the granny

WI TH youthful looks and popstar credentials, Lulu has plenty to shout about — but the 67-year- old has revealed she is giving up on marriage.

The diminutive singer – raised in Glasgow’s Dennistoun – has been married twice and is currently single. She says: ‘I’ve been there and done that and got the T-shirt.

‘ I’ve had such unbelievable success — but then I’ve also had really awful relationship disappointments and horrible crashes in my career. It’s been an amazing rollercoaster.’

However, she isn’t giving up on love entirely.

‘I like the word “partner”. Finding or being with a partner is such a nice phrase,’ she adds.

Lulu’s first marriage, to Bee Gees’ Maurice Gibb, faltered in 1973 after four years together. Her second, to celebrity hairdresser John Frieda, ended in 1992, after 15 years. She has a 38-year- old son, Jordan, from her relationship with Fried a, and is a doting grandmother to Jordan’s two children, Isabella, six, and threeyear-old Teddy.

Last year, she released her first studio album in more than a decade, Making Life Rhyme, citing music as her ‘ passion’. Reflecting on her relationship with Gibb, who died i n 2003 f rom c omplications f ol l owing an operation, Lulu explains: ‘I was only 20 when I married Maurice. Perhaps if I’d married him in my 30s, the relationship may have lasted longer. Who knows?’

It’s a change of tune for the former Eurovision Song Contest singer, who revealed in 2007 that she was on the lookout for husband number three.

‘I have to meet somebody and like them before I go out with them,’ she said at the time.

‘If it’s right, great. If it happens, it would be nice. Who knows if it is in my future, but I feel it might be. But I like being on my own, too.’