Jane McDonald details 'dodgy marriage' with ex-husband Henrik
express.co.ukLoose Women panellist and singer Jane McDonald, 58, has spoken about her ex-husband and the reasons their marriage broke down in an unearthed interview, as well as sharing how she first met her late fiancé, Eddie Rothe.The host of Channel 5 show Jane McDonald: My Yorkshire described her marriage to Danish-born Henrik Brixen as “dodgy”.Speaking in 2014, Jane told The Bolton News the marriage had been one of life’s “ups and downs”.The Yorkshire native said: “My life has been full of ups and downs.“Yes I had a dodgy marriage with Henrik but it was circumstance, not personal.”The couple had met on a cruise ship and married in 1998 but the marriage only lasted for five years.Jane said she bears no ill will towards her ex-husband.She explained: “I won’t hear a word said against him.”The Loose Women favourite also spoke to The Mirror, in 2018, discussing the reasons her marriage to Henrik failed.Henrik, who was a plumber when they met, became Jane’s manager.He became concerned that her singing career may be negatively impacted if they stayed together.Jane explained: “Henrik tried his very very best and he was brilliant at what he did, but he didn’t know the industry.She added: “We'd come to a point where Henrik had made quite a few enemies and he said, ‘If I don’t leave you, you are never going to have a career.“And that is why I never talk about Henrik in a bad light at all because he was the one that walked out of the marriage to save my career.”Jane later became engaged to Liquid Gold and The Searchers drummer, Eddie Rothe, in 2008.They had previously dated when Jane was 18 but the relationship had been short-lived at the time.As a panellist on Loose Women, Jane was reintroduced to Eddie years later.Jane was a part of the.
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