Tragic reason why Michael Ball can’t have kids as partner helped him ‘not feel like a freak’
02.06.2024 - 10:01
/ ok.co.uk
Singer and West End musical theatre star Michael Ball is set to take over the much-loved Love Songs show on BBC Radio 2, following Steve Wright's tragic death earlier this year. Michael quit his mid-morning show on the station last week, to host the two-hour-long Love Songs With Michael Ball from Sunday, 2 June after being offered the slot sadly vacated by Steve's passing.
Steve, aged 69, was found dead at his home in Marylebone, London, on 13 February, with Metropolitan Police declaring the death as “unexpected, but is not being treated as suspicious.” Fans and celebrities were devastated at the news.. A funeral is yet to be held for the beloved DJ and presenter who was one of BBC Radio 1's biggest stars in the 1980s, before he moved to Radio 2 where he broadcast an afternoon show, as well as Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs, for 23 years.
Michael, 61, met his partner Cathy McGowan in the 1980s, and they have lived together since 1992, but many years he ago opened up about his personal heartache, revealing why he would never experience the joy of fatherhood. The musical theatre icon, known for his roles in Les Miserables and Aspects Of Love, shared that a terrible accident in his teens left with severe injuries, after he took party in a charity parachute that went wrong.
"I was going to earth at four times the speed I was meant to and got dragged along the floor," he shared, recalling the harrowing incident. At just 18, the accident resulted in a ruptured groin and internal bleeding, leading to multiple surgeries over four years and a painful secret – his impotence.
Michael confessed: "It was very difficult to come to terms with. I was so embarrassed by what had happened to me down below that I didn't tell anyone for
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