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Danny Baker reveals he was secretly married to another woman for six WEEKS before exchanging vows with current wife Wendy

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Danny Baker has revealed he ended up married for six weeks before exchanging vows with his current wife - all thanks to the debauched antics of a 70s pop group.
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Danny Baker has revealed he ended up married for six weeks before exchanging vows with his current wife – all thanks to the debauched antics of a 70s pop group.

Baker was working as a journalist at the New Musical Express with his future second wife Wendy when he went on tour with Darts, a nine-piece doo-wop band popular in the 1970s and early ’80s.

Things soon went wrong when he married another woman, but he barely saw her again after the “wedding day.”

Appearing on the Rosebud podcast, Baker, 67, recalled: “I was married for about six weeks. On tour with the Darts, a fantastic group of people, nine in total. Absolute debauchery, although it was a fantastic time.

And there was this young journalist from the rival newspaper, the Disc and Music Echo.

“And she was a bit lost in this rock ‘n’ roll maelstrom and one night we came back to this hotel in Derby, and there may have been some hiccups.

Danny Baker has revealed he ended up married for six weeks before exchanging vows with his current wife – all thanks to the debauched antics of a 70s pop group.

—I was not involved in the setbacks. Several chandeliers were destroyed. They were a nine-piece rock band.

He added: “They called the police and I said, ‘The only way to get out of this is to pretend we’re a couple trapped in this.’

‘That’s how I met her. And we kind of got off. A week later, for fun, we got married and barely saw each other again.

Baker married his second wife, Wendy, in 1988 and the couple had three children.

He said: ‘Wendy was one of the few working class people in the NME. Julie Burchill later.

‘I have always been an absolute fan of regional accents. Wendy’s Romford. But it’s also a shared humour, a shared background, the whole thing: we were both adrift in the NME.

“We both left and married other people.”

After separating from their respective partners, the couple gets married and remains happily married.

Baker was working at NME alongside his future second wife, Wendy, when he went on tour with Darts, a nine-piece doo-wop band popular in the 1970s and early '80s (pictured in 1982).

Baker was working at NME alongside his future second wife, Wendy, when he went on tour with Darts, a nine-piece doo-wop band popular in the 1970s and early ’80s (pictured in 1982).

Darts in 1978. The band enjoyed moderate fame in the UK in the late '70s.

Darts in 1978. The band enjoyed moderate fame in the UK in the late ’70s.

Baker, who is no stranger to controversy, was condemned by social media users in 2020 after joking that former Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne’s past cocaine use had caused him to develop Parkinson’s disease.

The comment came just eight months after the BBC fired him for a tweet in which he shared a photo of a couple walking a chimpanzee shortly after Meghan Markle gave birth to her eldest son, Archie, with the caption: “Royal baby leaves hospital”.

He tweeted: “Not to be unkind to a genuine hero, but when Ozzie Osbourne says his ‘mild Parkinson’s’ is due to a fall he once had, I think it must have been when he fell into a vat full of cocaine in ’72 and I didn’t go out again for 35 years.

Twitter users were outraged that many said he was “disgusting” and outraged that he could even joke about the illness.

One of them said: “Parkinson’s is a cruel disease.” Keep that in mind,’ and another user added: ‘Very bad. #Parkinson’s is not a consequence caused by cocaine. “It is an indiscriminate swine of a disease that can ruin anyone’s life.”

Another user said: ‘Really helpful when talking about a situation that tears a) the person and b) their family. I’m not “woke,” but you and I are old enough to remember the phrase “no laughing matter.” Cruel.’

Things soon went wrong when he married another woman while on tour with Darts, but he barely saw her again after the

Things soon went wrong when he married another woman while on tour with Darts, but he barely saw her again after the “wedding day.”

Baker was condemned by social media users in 2020 after joking that former Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne's past cocaine use had caused him to develop Parkinson's disease.

Baker was condemned by social media users in 2020 after joking that former Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne’s past cocaine use had caused him to develop Parkinson’s disease.

The comment came just eight months after the BBC fired him for a tweet in which he shared a photo of a couple walking a chimpanzee shortly after Meghan Markle gave birth to her eldest son, Archie.

The comment came just eight months after the BBC fired him for a tweet in which he shared a photo of a couple walking a chimpanzee shortly after Meghan Markle gave birth to her eldest son, Archie.

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Social media users responded to his tweet, with many calling him

Social media users responded to his tweet, with many calling him “cruel” for joking about the disease.

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