Dan Walker has shown support for his friend and co-presenter Helen Skelton after she decided to quit her job on 5 Live. The radio host broadcast her final shop on Sunday morning after taking over the slot from former Love Island host Laura Whitmore.
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Alex James was a rockstar of the nineties with his Britpop band Blur , crafting the soundtrack to a decade with the likes of Parklife and Girls & Boys. Life now is very different though, he tells OK! in an exclusive chat and walkabout his farm, as he spends his days tending to the land, feeding his army of five teenage children, and organising their annual on-site music festival.
He's a changed man, he says, thanks to his wife of 20 years, Claire Neate, and the "anchoring influence of a family". "I didn’t really choose for Blur to stop when it did" he reveals, "but fortunately I was still young enough to have the energy to embark on another mission.” Register for FREE to read this article in full.
Just pop your email address below for free access to our exclusive magazine content as an OK! VIP. As Blur 's floppy-haired bassist Alex James proudly shows us around his sprawling 200-acre Oxfordshire farm, it swiftly becomes very apparent that the 54-year-old is fully embracing this “second act” of his rockstar life.
It’s a world away from his rather hedonistic early days in Blur, the band that dominated the Britpop music scene in the mid-90s with the likes of Song 2, Girls & Boys and Parklife. Late nights of drinking have been swapped for cosy breakfasts, feeding his family “à la carte eggs” (he likes his mixed with a dash of cream and baked in hot butter, for the record), healthy workouts in the home gym and meetings for his annual Big Feastival – a sort of Glastonbury-meets-MasterChef mash-up.
Dan Walker has shown support for his friend and co-presenter Helen Skelton after she decided to quit her job on 5 Live. The radio host broadcast her final shop on Sunday morning after taking over the slot from former Love Island host Laura Whitmore.
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