Comedian Jim Davidson has reportedly split from his fifth wife, Michelle Cotton, after a 14-year marriage.
The 69-year-old Celebrity Big Brother winner is said to have revealed onstage during his Not Yet Canceled tour on Friday night that he is currently experiencing ‘divorce number 5’.
Jim, who hosted The Generation Game and Big Break, has previously said his four other divorces cost him £60m.
said a source Sun: ‘Jim is really sad and broken, he and Michelle haven’t been able to make things work.
He is not enthusiastic about the idea of going through another public divorce. He is resigned to the reality that nothing can be done.
More: Comedian Jim Davidson has reportedly split from his fifth wife, Michelle Cotton, after 14 years of marriage (pictured in 2014)
Tough: The 69-year-old Celebrity Big Brother winner is said to have revealed onstage during his Not Yet Canceled tour on Friday night that he’s currently experiencing ‘divorce No5’ (pictured with Michelle in happier times )
Ouch: Jim, who hosted The Generation Game and Big Break, has previously said his four other divorces cost him £60m (pictured with Michelle in 2002)
MailOnline has contacted Jim’s representatives for comment.
Speaking on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories in 2018, Jim said of Michelle, whom he married in 2009: “She’s a really nice person.”
‘She is impatient, she is fiery like me. I hope to be with Michelle for the rest of my life, there is no one better that I would want to spend the rest of my life with. Liz Hurley, perhaps?
Jim has had a tumultuous love life.
He was 17 years old when he married his childhood sweetheart, Sue Walpole, in 1971, after she became pregnant with their daughter. They divorced the following year.
The couple share their daughter Sarah Walpole-Davidson, now 50.
He married Julie Gullick, mother of his second child, in 1981. They divorced in 1986. They have one son, Cameron, now 40, together.
Davidson has said that during that marriage he paid for an orgy with 12 prostitutes in a London hotel as part of a celebrity stag party.
His marriage to television presenter Alison Holloway in 1987 ended after two years amid allegations of domestic violence.
Love life: Pictured on the left, Davidson with his teenage girlfriend and first wife Sue Walpole and on the right, with third wife, TV presenter Allison Holloway.
Relationships: Second wife, Julie Gullick, married the former Big Break and The Generation Game host in 1981.
Joanne Urch later alleged that she had an affair with Davidson when she was 16 and he was still married to Miss Holloway.
He had three children with former Page Three girl Tracy Hilton, whom he married in 1990 and divorced in 2000.
Speaking to Piers in 2018, she said she “absolutely” thought it was always the woman to blame for her failed relationships, admitting that divorces had cost her dearly.
It’s how much money I’ve spent over the years. Getting to 50, 60 million must have passed through my hands,” Davidson said.
Asked how he felt about it, he told Morgan: ‘Brilliant. Thank God I had it. When I won New Faces [in 1976] I told her, ‘Mom, you’ll never have to work again as long as you live,’ and she never did.
Back in the day: Jim was with his fourth wife, Page Three girl Tracy Hilton (pictured) for 10 years.
OMG: Speaking to Piers Morgan in 2018, he said he “absolutely” thought it was always the woman to blame for his failed relationships, and he admitted that divorces had cost him dearly.
Davidson, who has written about his battle with alcoholism, also spoke about his arrest as part of the controversial Operation Yewtree police investigation into allegations of sexual abuse, which he said he found “quite traumatic”.
He faced no further action, but told Morgan, “Now I won’t have a conversation with a woman in a room without someone else there.”
I need to protect myself, I’ve been through hell. I’m easy to accuse.