SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Grief-stricken Rev Richard Coles picks his ideal woman for a happy retirement

He has variously been a pop icon, broadcaster, vicar — and most recently a bereft widower following the death, 15 months ago, of his beloved civil partner and fellow clergyman David, after the latter’s protracted battle with alcohol. But I can disclose that the Rev Richard Coles, one-time multi-instrumentalist in 1980s duo The Communards, is now … Read more

Rev Richard Coles admits he tried to save his alcoholic partner David

Reverend Richard Coles writes about how his late partner David ‘destroyed himself’ with alcoholism in his forthcoming memoir. In an extract from The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss, Richard, 59, pens: ‘It was really, really tough to see somebody you love destroy himself. It is like someone is drowning and you throw them … Read more

Reverend Richard Coles admits his husband David would ‘hate’ his memoir about ‘gruelling time’

Rev Richard Coles admits his alcoholic partner would ‘hate’ his memoir about ‘gruelling time living with him’ but he wanted ‘to help other addicts’ spouses who are going through similar’ Reverend Richard Coles’s partner Reverend David died in December 2019 He asked David’s family for permission to share his grief in an autobiography  Admits David … Read more

Reverend Richard Coles admits his husband David would ‘hate’ his memoir about ‘gruelling time’

Rev Richard Coles admits his alcoholic partner would ‘hate’ his memoir about ‘gruelling time living with him’ but he wanted ‘to help other addicts’ spouses who are going through similar’ Reverend Richard Coles’s partner Reverend David died in December 2019 He asked David’s family for permission to share his grief in an autobiography  Admits David … Read more

Rev Richard Coles reveals police probed vile hate mail he received as he prepared to bury partner

A few days after my partner David’s death in December 2019, I went to visit Lorna, an old friend who had once been mine and Jimmy Somerville’s manager when we were The Communards. I remember nothing about the journey from Northamptonshire to Sussex, save for straying carelessly into the path of a juggernaut driver, who … Read more

Rev Richard Coles reveals police probed vile hate mail he received as he prepared to bury partner

A few days after my partner David’s death in December 2019, I went to visit Lorna, an old friend who had once been mine and Jimmy Somerville’s manager when we were The Communards. I remember nothing about the journey from Northamptonshire to Sussex, save for straying carelessly into the path of a juggernaut driver, who … Read more

RICHARD COLES recounts the paralysing despair of his partner’s agonising death from alcoholism 

Richard Coles is pictured above with his dogs My partner David had a deeply enjoyable habit of not knowing who famous people were. Once we were dining with friends and he sat next to a young fellow who said he played the piano. ‘Oh, Richard’s a pianist,’ David said. ‘Yes, I know,’ said the young … Read more

RICHARD COLES recounts the paralysing despair of his partner’s agonising death from alcoholism 

Richard Coles is pictured above with his dogs My partner David had a deeply enjoyable habit of not knowing who famous people were. Once we were dining with friends and he sat next to a young fellow who said he played the piano. ‘Oh, Richard’s a pianist,’ David said. ‘Yes, I know,’ said the young … Read more

Karl Stefanovic buys Coca-Cola and ginger beer at Coles

Karl Stefanovic fills his trolley with Coca-Cola and ginger beer at a Coles store while on holiday in Queensland By Kristy Johnson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 11:29 GMT, 13 December 2020 | Updated: 11:29 GMT, 13 December 2020 He’s been enjoying a sun-soaked getaway in Queensland’s Noosa with wife Jasmine Stefanovic and their adorable … Read more

Phillip Schofield gets flirty as he’s asked out live on air by Rev Richard Coles

Phillip Schofield was asked out live on air during a radio interview on Saturday. Host of Radio 4’s Saturday Morning Live Rev Richard Coles invited the This Morning presenter, 58, onto the show to chat about his autobiography, Life’s What You Make It – and then invited Phillip to join him for dinner sometime. Richard, also 58, asked: ‘If … Read more