Paul O'Grady's secret wife breaks silence after TV star's sudden death
dailyrecord.co.ukPaul O'Grady's secret wife has broken her silence weeks after the much-loved TV star's sudden death.Teresa Fernandes, who was secretly married to Paul for 28 years, has spoken of her sadness following her friend's death.
Paul passed away aged 67 last month due to cardiac arrhythmia. "We probably enjoyed one of the longest marriages in showbiz," she quipped to the Daily Mail.The Blankety Blank presenter was openly gay, however, he previously admitted he had married Portuguese ex wife Teresa Fernandes in 1977 to stop her from being deported.The pair met in a gay club where they worked, and he decided to marry her out of "convenience" and to stop her being "hassled" by her family.Despite losing contact, they only legally divorced in 2005 after being married for 28 years, but Paul said he had never been in a relationship with her.Speaking about the marriage, Paul said: "Teresa, I call her the lesbian Portuguese barmaid, was lovely.
She looked like David Cassidy."We worked in a club in Westbourne Grove, London, when I was 22. She was from a very strict Catholic family and was always being hassled by them: 'Why aren't you getting married?' So I said: 'Come on then, we'll get married', and we did.
We were married for 28 years."He also admitted he had forgotten he had married the barmaid all those years ago, until his manager Brendan reminded him.
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