Singer Mick Hucknall is ‘much happier’ now than he’s ever been in his life (Picture: Jan Hetfleisch/Redferns)
Mick Hucknall has said he ‘doesn’t miss’ his days of wild partying and womanising.
The Simply Red frontman is infamously thought to have slept with over 1,000 women – including Martine McCutcheon, Helena Christensen, Melanie Sykes, Steffi Graf and Catherine Zeta-Jones – at the height of his fame.
Now though, the 62-year-old has admitted that although he had a ‘good time’ during his heyday of the 1980s, he loves his more recent quiet life with wife Gabriella Wesberry and their 15-year-old daughter Romy just as much.
‘I was just touring the world and being single, being a playboy, being a bachelor — I didn’t really know what I was doing,’ he recalled.
The chart-topping singer said he was simply ‘just having a good time whenever’, adding: ‘I think in your life it’s a good thing to have dimension, to have done lots of different things, to have lots of different experiences.’
However, he told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: ‘I am a father and a husband [now]. And I’m still having a good time. Very, very different, yeah, but I love it.
The star dated the likes of Catherine Zeta Jones and Martine McCutcheon back in the day (Picture: Alberto Roveri/Mondadori via Getty Images)
He is also thought to have slept with over 1,000 women (Picture: Getty)
‘Those days are long gone. I don’t miss them. I’m in a much happier place now than I’ve ever been in my life.’
Despite his years of excess, the Holding Back the Years singer is focused on staying as healthy as possible now.
Mick, who also likes to wade into political issues from time to time now, revealed he was currently ‘in good condition’ without aches or pains or serious illnesses and feeling ‘very happy about that’.
He also credited the Covid-19 pandemic for strengthening his relationship with Gabriella and Romy, as he mused on people who ‘now prioritise differently because of the experience of the lockdown’ and put family time first – like him.
Mick married wife and old flame Gabriella Wesberry in 2010 (Picture: David M Benett/Dave Benett/Getty)
The musician shared that his relationship with his art dealer wife Gabriella, whom he married in 2010, ‘grew deeper during lockdown, absolutely’.
‘My relationship with my daughter and my wife has been really confirmed and actually enriched by the experience,’ he added.
The star previously denied having sex with 3,000 women in three years – but doesn’t actually know his ‘number’.
He had told the Guardian back in 2010: ‘When I had the fame, it went crazy. Between 1985-1987, I would sleep with about three women a day, every day. I never said no.
‘This was what I wanted from being a pop star. I was living the dream and my only regret is that I hurt some really good girls.’
However, Mick later insisted the numbers were blown out of proportion.
The Simply Red frontman previously denied reports tht he had bedded 3,000 women in three years (Picture: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage)
‘I had said, “In the crazy days, it was screaming girls everywhere and it felt like you were sleeping with three women a day.” It wasn’t literally that,’ the 62-year-old clarified to Rob McGibbon for the Sunday Times magazine in 2019.
When asked about the real numbers, the Fairground singer said: ‘I have no idea. I don’t put chips on the bedposts. I haven’t a clue, and have never thought about calculating.
‘Anybody who knows me knows that I do not treat or talk about women like that, not even among friends in pubs.’
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He and Gabriella reunited in 2002 after previously dating in the 90s, tying the knot three years after welcoming Romy together.
Simply Red have sold over 50 million albums worldwide and had huge success with songs including Holding Back The Years, Stars and Fairground.
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The singer is thought to have slept with over 1,000 women previously.
