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devastating news with fans overnight on Instagram, posting a lengthy tribute to his mom who passed away peacefully last week.“I am heartbroken to announce my beautiful, extraordinary, magnificent, wondrous Mother, Judy, passed away peacefully surrounded by love on January 17, 2025 in Brisbane, Australia,” he wrote.“I am absolutely devastated, as are her siblings, her grandchildren, my sister, our close family and all of her wonderful friends and anyone who knew her. She was the kindest person any of us knew and everything I know about love, I learned from her.”Hayes, 52, said he is not in the right mind frame to “have a conversation or engage in dialogue about this immense loss” of the woman whose “presence in my life was the engine to my heart.”But he appreciates the “outpouring of empathy for my family and your appreciation for her.”“We always had an invisible string, a magical connection that was unbreakable no matter where I was in the world,” said Hayes, who reached astronomical success with Savage Garden.“I like to imagine that string was a little bit like twine and she a beautiful balloon.

Savage Garden lead singer Darren Hayes is looking so fit these days!

TMZ. The news of their upcoming divorce doesn’t come as a complete surprise, as the two announced their separation in May.

Darren Hayes is filing for divorce.

An iconic 90s pop star who was part of the biggest band at the time selling 200 million records has revealed how they've swapped fame for painting houses. Musician and songwriter Daniel Jones, 50, was part of the iconic music group Savage Garden alongside Darren Hayes.The pair founded the band in 1993.The duo shot to fame with hits such as Truly Madly Deeply and Crash and Burn before they publicly split in 2001, just two years after releasing their second album and despite selling millions of copies from both albums. Daniel who notoriously hated touring has since swapped his singing career for a completely different trade and is now flipping houses.

Affirmation, the band’s second album, and it proved to be just as musically delicious as the first.The follow-up CD landed in music stores at the end of 1999. To date, the two albums have sold a combined total of approximately 23 million copies worldwide.And then, just like that, it was over.

Savage Garden frontman Darren Hayes has announced that he and his husband Richard Cullen are splitting after 17 years of marriage. The 50-year-old revealed on Instagram on Wednesday night that he and artist/director Richard, 52, had separated earlier this year and were "supporting each other emotionally" throughout the split. "After 17 years of marriage to the best person I ever met, Richard and I have chosen to accept that our union has greatly and beautifully come to rest," he wrote.

Darren Hayes says his father was the first person to insult him for being gay. The 50-year-old pop star - who has been married to Richard Cullen since 2013 and was previously married to Colby Taylor - explained that his childhood was "traumatising" because his father was a "violent alcoholic" who would beat his mum and "insult him" about his homosexuality. He exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "My experience was so traumatising.

Darren Hayes thought he was going to "die from AIDS" when he realised he was gay. The 50-year-old pop star - who has been married to Richard Cullen since 2013 and was previously married to Colby Taylor -explained that he "didn't understand how sex worked" throughout his "traumatising" childhood as he grew up as a confused teenager at the height of the HIV epidemic.

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Darren Hayes opened up about his struggles with coming to terms with his sexuality in an HuffPost op-ed on Friday.The 50-year-old Savage Garden singer wrote about his mental health struggles admitting that he was on 'the brink of suicide.'He elaborated on his words in the op-ed during an interview with People. Mental health struggles: Darren Hayes opened up about his struggles with coming to terms with his sexuality in an HuffPost op-ed on Friday (pictured 2011)'I would say my new album honestly saved my life,' the musician said.

Darren Hayes is sharing his story of struggle with mental health as part of one of the biggest music groups of the 90’s.

 Hayes has been away from the musical spotlight for years now but is roaring back to our consciousness with a flurry of activity, including a successful promotional visit of Australia, a banging headline set to a sold-out crowd of 40,000 at the 2022 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade and announcement of his 2023 Australian tour, where he’ll be performing in six Australian cities between January and February next year.“More of a mini-film than a video – come spend seven minutes in heaven with me and my gang in our fictional CLUB U WISH!”, Hayes posted on social media.The music video, totally conceptualised by Hayes, couldn’t be described better than how the press release did it: “Hayes continues to present a version of his past that is clearly a peach tinted re-imagining of his actual life. Timelines blur with the neon and pastel of the 1980’s sitting comfortably next to a Dandy-esque 60’s presentation of the singer portraying himself having a blast.”The single is inspired by the “late 80’s drum-machine, synth-bass heavy R&B pop that influenced his youth” Savage Garden fans will know that Hayes had previously alluded to his first kiss in the 1999 song Chained To You.“Acting like a mover shaker dancin’ to Madonna then you kissed me,” Hayes sang on Savage Garden‘s sophmore record.In 2022, he re-visits the moment, but this time it is an out and proud Hayes re-telling the story and its queer elements.“After so many years of being placed in a neat and tidy package, it’s nice to remember why I got into this business in the first place: to be an artist.

Steps have always kept one eye to the past, but now they're concerning themselves with a more optimistic future.