EMILY PRESCOTT: Rev Richard Coles finds love again
EMILY PRESCOTT: Reverend Richard Coles, 61, happy to be ‘dating again’ four years after the death of her husband, David, as former Bronski Beat singer finds love
Fans of the Rev. Richard Coles were shocked when the pop star, priest, writer and broadcaster said he was leaving his popular BBC radio show after 12 years. But now I can reveal a possible reason why she didn’t want to follow Radio 4’s Saturday Live when she moved from London to Cardiff last month: she has found love again after the death of her husband four years ago. years.
The 61-year-old former vicar, who lives on the East Sussex coast, revealed: “I met someone. For the first time since David, my husband, died, I’m dating someone, and I want to have more time to date him.’
The Reverend David Coles, who married Richard in a civil partnership in 2010, has died aged 42 after battling alcoholism.
In an excerpt from his book The Madness Of Grief: A Memoir Of Love And Loss, Richard wrote: “I tried everything I could think of to help him stop drinking, and to be fair to him, he tried too, but it was too much”. a lot for him.
In addition to finding new love, since leaving Saturday Live, which he co-hosted with Nikki Bedi, Richard has started a podcast with Princess Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer, called Rabbit Hole Detectives, in which they uncover the background of historical artifacts.
The Rev. Richard Coles, pictured right, has said he has entered a new relationship for the first time since the death of his husband, the Rev. David Coles, left, who passed away four years ago.
His television career and religious vocation (Richard was Vicar of Finedon in Northamptonshire from 2011 until last year) follow fame as a pop star with Bronski Beat and The Communards in the 1980s.
Despite his departure from Saturday Live, he says he wants to return to Radio 4 one day, adding: “I didn’t want to go, but the BBC is a great institution and has considerations that aren’t just about a particular program or a presenter in particular.
Speaking to Radio 4’s Feedback programme, he said: “I’m really looking forward to coming back to Radio 4 one way or another.
“I love working with Nikki Bedi and would love to reunite with Nikki in some capacity.
‘I mean, there are plans, but they’re just plans.’
After a few difficult years, he has a new love and a new show. It seems that her prayers are being answered.