Is tom jones gay

It's no longer a sex thing.

The couple met when they were 12, the year the Sexbomb singer was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent two years recuperating in his bed. Tom and Linda spent the majority of their marriage in Los Angeles after moving there in But biographer Sean Smith said while the couple had been married more than 50 years, they had probably only spent 10 years in each other's company.

Mills promptly changed the singer's name to Tom Jones, to exploit the popularity of the current film by that name, and for six months he and Tom and the accompanists lived off a loan Mills talked a bank into giving them. I said 'Go ahead'. The performer had never been down a coal mine either, although his dad had worked at the local colliery.

The singer lost his beloved 'Lady Linda' to lung cancer back in And while his appetite for affairs during their marriage is well documented, he never considered leaving his first love.

Tom Jones under fire : In an interview with The Big Issue, he confesses that he once held

Tom denied parentage of his son Jonathan for two decades and later blamed Katherine for his conception, saying "I was tricked, really. I just fell for it. It isn't known how much Linda knew about the true extent of her husband's philandering but she did find out about several of his affairs, including her husband's relationship with Miss World Marjorie Wallace.

Tom Jones has talked about his early days in the music industry and described being “thrown off” after meeting his first homosexual when he moved to London. To walk away from that would be terrible.

Iconic Entertainer Tom Jones : Tom Jones has angered fans on Twitter after admitting that he used to be ‘paranoid’ about homosexuals

Linda died from lung cancer inaged 75, a time the singer described as the 'lowest part of my life'. Linda, Tom revealed in his autobiography Over the Top and Back, would smile at him as she walked to school in Treforest, South Glamorgan, and when he turned 15 she agreed to go on a date.

Linda later fell pregnant and the couple married shortly after her 16th birthday at Pontypridd register office, in She remained in the background throughout Tom's career, which began with his manager claiming he was a year-old single Welsh coal miner rather than 24 and married, with a seven-year-old son called Mark.

We grew up together. Here, we look at Sir Tom's complicated love life over the years, including the devastating moment his late wife found out about his infidelity Despite his womanising ways Sir Tom always maintained his wife of 59 years was 'the love of my life', saying he had 'never had that feeling for anyone else, I don't think you can fall in love more than once'.

She punched and shouted. Sir Tom Jones has responded to criticism he has received after stating that he was “paranoid” of homosexuals when he first started in the music industry. Welsh superstar Sir Tom Jones celebrated his 84th birthday this week, without the love of his life.

We both came from a working-class background, we both came from the same place, so we're not like two foreign people having to explain to the other what their childhood was like. After conceiving their son, Linda was left infertile after a miscarriage so it must have been painful when it emerged her husband had fathered a child with US model Katherine Berkery in She moved back to Wales but later returned to their home in Los Angeles.

When Tom's in LA they are a retired couple in their 70s, having gentle drives and enjoying reading in the sun and TV, like a million other pensioners. There's got to be more than that for it to last. The singer hinted the couple had come to an arrangement in the late s, when his wife stopped going on the road with him.