Sue Barker slams Sir Cliff Richard
msn.comSue Barker has slammed Sir Cliff Richard for still talking about their brief relationship, 40 years after they split up. The 66-year-old tennis player admitted she was shocked when she woke up the day after her wedding to Lance Tankard in 1988, to see an interview with Cliff, 81, talking about why he wouldn't marry her and she begged him to have some "respect" for her marriage.
Writing in the Daily Mail, she said: "Over the years, we stopped seeing each other much, yet remained friends. The only thing we fell out over was the fact that he kept harping on about me in interviews — ‘I didn’t love her enough to propose,’ and so forth. "This went on and on.
It really upset me. In fact, Greg Norman had been much more important in my life than this brief time with Cliff. Yet it’s this relationship that is still hanging around my neck.
It’s the one that just won’t go away. "I was desperate for Cliff to meet someone else and take the focus off me. One day, the late BBC presenter Jill Dando, who was a sort of mentor in the early days of my broadcasting career, asked if I’d mind if she tried to make a go of it with Cliff.
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