EXCLUSIVE: TV star Vanessa Feltz invites OK! into her amazing abode - an 18th Century Gothic Folly - as she shares the story of her success and heartbreak from her new book
At 62 and back on the dating scene, Vanessa Feltz needs just three words to describe her past relationships. “A car crash”, she says. “My entire love life has been a complete abomination, a catastrophe, an absolute f***ing car crash. People might think I’m an absolute fool. And they’d not be wrong.”
Today Vanessa is happy to show us around her unique home - a 18th Century Gothic Folly she calls Feltz Towers. It’s packed full of eccentricities, including some faux Roman frescos which were there when she moved in 20 years ago. There's a charming caricature of her in a fetish outfit on one wall and a side table etched with the face of Leigh Francis. The dining table has been folded away for the time being to make floor space for parties. But one thing you won’t find in there much is….
And looking back, she admits, she ignored the warning signs. So many times he wanted to be her plus one for showbiz events. But then he would stay on to go partying alone. Over the years she had been contacted multiple times by people - usually via social media - making claims about his bad behaviour. Yet he nearly always managed to explain them away.
“I opened the door of the moving taxi and jumped. My coat was torn. Blood was seeping from a cut on my arm,” she says. “I assumed he’d stop the cab to see if I’d survived the leap. He didn’t.” She asked the only question she could: “why?”. His reply was chilling. “‘You’re just so fat. It’s hideous. I keep waiting for you to get diabetes’.” The star went into shock. “I couldn’t breathe,” she recalls. A few days later Michael outrageously offered her a 12-week “trial” period to save the marriage.
“I think one can forgive on one’s own behalf. But I feel very differently about anyone who does anything to my children,” she says ardently. “Especially the person who’s meant to love them the most in the world. So I cannot feel that I can forgive. I don't feel that I can forgive anybody who does anything to cause my children pain and shock and grief and thoroughly destabilise them.”
Vanessa has been happily talking us through her wardrobe and showing us around. But the mask has dropped. Suddenly a lot about the woman who appears so bubbly and strong-willed on the outside but ends up in unwise, unsatisfying relationships, starts to make sense.
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