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The One Show star Roman Kemp has been spotted wandering around London hand-in-hand with his stunning new girlfriend, Carmen Gaggero.The TV presenter and Capital radio host, 31, has been keeping his new relationship under wraps, but it looks as though the new couple are slowly easing into the spotlight. Roman, who is the offspring of Spandau Ballet legend Martin Kemp and singer Shirlie Holliman, tends to keep his romantic life private but has occasionally given fans a peek into his personal world. Over the past few years, he was rumoured to have become close to Maura Higgins after they were spotted looking cosy at the Brit Awards afterparty in 2022.

Kate Middleton made a surprising move during her recent interview with U.K. radio host Roman Kemp.Detailing the interaction with the Princess of Wales, Kemp told about the surprising but «respectful» gesture from Middleton during their talk about mental health earlier this year.

George Michael came out to the world after he was arrested by an undercover policeman for engaging in a lewd act in a public bathroom.But, long before that scandalous outing occurred at Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills, the late ’80s pop heartthrob revealed his sexuality to his Wham! mate Andrew Ridgeley. It was July 1983 — a year before the chart-topping duo first went No. 1 with “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.”They had just wrapped filming the video for their post-disco single “Club Tropicana” in Ibiza, Spain.“About six months before … I’d actually had something go on that made my attraction to men fairly clear,” Michael reveals in “Wham! The Documentary,” which premieres on Netflix July 5.

Radio Times that he enjoys watching shows like Downton Abbey and The Mandalorian with his wife Shirlie Holliman, 59, but that Shirlie prefers not to watch anything that will keep her up at night.Describing themselves as “bingers” when it comes to watching TV, the actor, musician and director explained: “We definitely share the remote.”“Shirlie and I have to find a space that we can both sit in and that’s usually drama.”He added: “During lockdown, we rewatched all of Downton Abbey and loved every second of it.“We are definitely bingers; we watched up to four Downtons at once.”Martin explained: “Shirlie never wants to watch anything that will disturb her sleep; if she watches something late at night, it will appear in her dreams.“So sometimes I wait for her to go to sleep then put on the documentary that I really want to watch.”Martin also shared that their children Harley Moon, 32, and Roman, 29, still visit “from time to time”.In his new BBC series, Martin and MOBO award-winning grime artist Lady Leshurr will take on mentoring duties for amateur musicians aged 64 and over who will form a band with the aim of performing at the Isle of Wight festival.Speaking about Rock Till We Drop, Martin (who found fame in the 1980s with hit-making band, Spandau Ballet) said: “I loved the driving force behind the show, because it’s so heart-warming: to help people realise a dream that they’d all but given up on and put them on stage in front of 60,000 people on a sunny afternoon.”In a statement, Martin told the BBC: “The hardest thing has to be telling some of the guys that we couldn’t take them along to the next stage, as a performer I know how much that hurts.”Spandau Ballet had eight UK top 10 albums, including three greatest hits

TV and radio star Roman Kemp has revealed that he was close to committing suicide as he battled with depression for 13 years.

Martin Kemp will join the Saturday Morning Live Studio as Matt Tebbutt, and chefs Olia Hercules and Bryn Williams cook up something special in the studio.Martin and Shirlie are reported to have first met in 1983 while Shirlie at the time was performing with Wham! on Top of the Pops.Reminiscing on the first time they met, Martin told the Mail Online he couldn't keep his eyes off Shirlie.Martin said: "I'd seen Wham! on Top Of The Pops singing Young Guns, and I couldn't take my eyes off Shirlie."I thought she was the most beautiful woman I'd seen."Martin went on to say how the pair then met two weeks later where they exchanged numbers.The Spandau Ballet singer said: "Two weeks later we were at some VIP screening and there she was."I gave her

Roman Kemp with wife Shirlie Holliman, who he married in 1988.The 58-year-old had his world turned upside down 25 years ago when doctors discovered that he had two brain tumours, with one the size of ‘a grapefruit’.He underwent surgery and radiotherapy to remove the tumours and, despite recovering, he has been left with epilepsy – which he controls with medication.While Roman was just a toddler at the time, Martin explained the ‘shock’ he experienced was ‘passed down’ to his children.Speaking about whether his illness made him closer to his son, he said: ‘When I was going through that, Roman was really young, so I’m not even sure how much he remembers.