It’s one of the most enduring marriages in showbiz. But Martin Kemp is worried he didn’t even legally tie the knot to wife Shirlie. The Spandau Ballet man has been married to Shirlie since 1988, when they got hitched in a clifftop ceremony in St Lucia.
Speaking to his son Roman in their new podcast FFS! My Dad Is Martin Kemp , he says the occasion may not have been as officially binding as he first thought. He says: “Me and mum were in St. Lucia.
We were standing on this clifftop overlooking the Caribbean. Mum had this kind of mini skirt, white dress thing on and I remember standing on the clifftop waiting for her and she climbed out the back of a truck to climb up the rocks to get to the clifftop. When she got there, there was this person that we’d collared to be the witness.
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I don’t remember signing anything. Shirlie and Martin married in 1988 ( Image: Getty Images) However, the singer and actor fears they may not be legally married ( Image: Roland Leon Sunday Mirror) Alpha-H beauty treatment 'worth its weight in gold' leaves skin 'radiant' and 'glowing' “I just remember going to the clifftop, giving someone a couple of hundred dollars! (..
.) She basically said to me and mum, ‘Martin do you love Shirle?’ And I said yes. Then she said, ‘Shirlie do you love Martin?’ and she said yes, and then she said you’re married.
It was as basic as that. “Then the person that was the witness that we called, bought us a bottle of champagne and opened the bottle of.