Martin Kemp, the star of I’m A Celebrity, opened up to his jungle campmates and shared her story of how she became pregnant with Shirlie, a fellow musician.
Martin Kemp described the unusual pregnancy story his wife told his I’m A Celeb campmates. WHAM has been married to the singer and actor! for almost four decades, including Shirlie Kemp as the singer.
Shirlie’s bandmate, George Michael, and the pair have been together ever since. Before they even met, however, Martin had already fallen in love with Shirlie. He once claimed that Shirlie had been unable to take his eyes off her performance of Young Guns on Top of the Pops.
After a brief break from dating, the couple decided to get married in 1988 on the island of St Lucia, but they later discovered they had incomplete legal documentation.
During Sunday night’s episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! Martin opened up about their marriage after Vogue Williams said she’d been married to Spencer Matthews for eight years. “I got married in St Lucia on a clifftop overlooking the Caribbean” with just three people,” Martin told the camp.
He continued, “We’re not married, if you looked into it more,” he joked. He said, “Sirlie is everything for me, everything I do in my life, I do it for her,” giving an insight into how he and Shirlie have been married for almost four decades.
He added that Shirlie had issues with endometriosis while she was trying to conceive before they tied the knot. Then, he said, “Kaboom, on the night we got married.”
Emmerdale icon, Lisa Riley replied: “Meant to be!” But Martin went on to reveal the advice he and Shirlie received from her parents one day, with Shirlie’s mum asking: “Now, have you tried the wheelbarrow? It’s a position, imagine youre lifting someone up, hands on the floor.”
Everyone was in stitches as Ruby Wax OBE demonstrated the position while the camp was filled with laughter. After he left his number for her, Shirley previously revealed that she was too anxious to call Martin.
She said, “I believed he might not be in my league.” His number remained hidden in my pocket for a long time. She responded, “I just don’t understand why you’re not calling him,” and she said, “I don’t understand why.” I told him that calling him was intimidating. He was, and is, just so gorgeous. In the end, George was the one to call Martin. He picked up the phone, dialed the number, and then just gave it to me while we were in his bedroom. By that point, I was in the deep end.
Without him doing that, Martin said, “I really don’t think Shirlie would have called me.” We owe him a great deal. And we all eventually had a significant relationship with him. He was one of our closest friends, not George Michael, the superstar.
Get Me Out of Here Because I’m A Celebrity! airs on ITV1 and ITVX every day at 9 p.m.
