Carol Decker Eternal Flame.
It’s Friday night; 80s icon Carol Decker – frontwoman of multi-platinum album selling band T’Pau - is waiting for me at The Club at The Ivy. At 59, in six-inch heels and a green lace minidress, she’s one red hot mama. As she tousles her trademark fiery mane she tells me that whilst it’s good to have a night out in London, it’s also a long drive home. Home these days for Carol and her husband Richard Coates (Executive Chef of Bodean’s) is picturesque Henley-onThames. They have a house with a pool; although Carol insists “...it isn’t a fancy pool. Richard does the chemicals and I scrub it. But we’re very lucky, I always wanted to live in a house with a pool…”
Carol explains she just came late to the motherhood game. “I was 40 when I had Scarlett and 45 when I had Dylan – I never expected to be a mother, I was always the first to complain about other people’s noisy kids in restaurants. After a couple of failed relationships I met Richard and he wanted a family. I guess around 1996 I kind of grew up…”
Idyllic domestic bliss or a popstar mansion?
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