CBB star Jim Davidson calls off 6th wedding & reveals he’s paid a HUGE price for split from fiancée 23 years his junior
COMEDIAN Jim Davidson has called off his sixth wedding to his fiancée Natasha after secretly separating – and exclusively revealed to The Sun the reasons behind the split.
The Celebrity Big Brother star, 72, was set to wed at Hampton Court Palace last year – and ending it all has come at quite a cost.
The palatial venue, where all six of King Henry VIII’s wives lived during their marriages, was an amusing nod to Jim’s string of failed marriages – but Davidson and Natasha, 49, have now lost their £10k deposit.
Despite plans to marry six times like the former King of England, funnyman Jim confirmed the engagement is off.
He told The Sun: “There’s no bad blood. Natasha is the most caring and dutiful person.
“It’s not like we’re splitting up because we don’t love each other anymore.
“It’s a sort of a grown-up separation. The timing’s not right because she has so much time for everybody and how can you knock that?”
Dad-of-five Jim met Natasha, who is 23 years his junior, at the Southampton Boat Show in 2023 soon after the breakdown of his fifth marriage.
The smitten comic later introduced her to pals at Reform leader Nigel Farage’s birthday party saying he was going to make her his sixth wife – despite previously admitting his divorces had cost him around £60million.
He even renamed his £350,000 yacht – previously called Princess Mitchie after his ex-wife Michelle Cotton – Lady Natasha in honour of his new love.
However, the former Big Break and Generation Game host says the couple are no longer in a relationship ahead of their third anniversary.
He told us: “We still speak every other day, but whether we’ll ever find room to see one another again, I don’t know.
“She is very dutiful. She puts family first. And of course she has three children and now a grandson as well.
“She is just so busy and so I’m very busy as well. I’ve just finished a tour and my a*** is shaped like my car seat after travelling around the country. I get out of the car and I walk like I’m still in it.
“Our busy lives mean we’ve not been seeing one another. I previously fitted into her life because I’m hardly ever around myself.
“But there’s no bad feelings. I do love her. She’s fantastic.
“She’s the best friend you could ever have. She’s the best mother you could ever have.
“She’s the best daughter you could ever have. And I’m so proud that she was my girlfriend up until now.”
Jim – who was awarded an OBE in the 2001 New Year Honours – launched the Ustreme streaming channel after a successful stint recording short videos during Covid when he was unable to perform live and had no idea how audiences would respond.
The content includes exclusive stand-up shows and in-depth interviews with the aim of “making people laugh like they used to”.
Natasha’s new series is set to air on Jim’s website, where she jokingly refers to herself as the ‘future ex Mrs Davidson’.
Jim continued: “We planned to get married last year and even booked Hampton Court Palace, which we thought was great because Natasha would be the sixth wife and she thought that was hysterical.
“But these days we just don’t have the time to see each other and split up every month.
“So going forward, we might end up seeing each other again, or we might draw a line under it because it’s not practical for the pair of us.
“I said to her, ‘Are you going to give me my jewellery back? and she told me, ‘If you want it back, I’ll just get it from someone else’,” Jim laughed.
“She’s a beautiful girl. How she found time for me, I’ve no idea. She does everything for everybody and asks nothing for herself.”
Ruling out there being another potential wife-to-be on the cards, Jim joked: “The only thing that’s in my life now is a Hyundai Santa Fe and a dressing room.”
Natasha’s new eight-part series launches in October, interviewing an array of celebrity guests.
Meanwhile Jim Davidson – The Christmas Cracker Tour – launches on December 2.
Jim’s five wives and a fiancee
JIM married his childhood sweetheart Sue Walpole in 1971 at the age of 17 after she became pregnant with their daughter Sarah.
The marriage only lasted a year, and they divorced in 1972.
Jim wed second wife Julie Gullick in 1981 and had his second child, Cameron, but split five years later.
Jim wed TV presenter Alison Holloway in 1987, but the marriage was hit with rumours of infidelity and was over by 1989.
One of Jim’s most successful relationships was a 10-year marriage to former Page Three girl Tracy Hilton – the mum of his three youngest children – Charlie, Fred, and Elsie.
Jim married his fifth wife Michelle Cotton in 2009 with hopes that she was ‘the one’.
During an interview on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, the host asked him about his wife, and Jim replied: “She is a very nice person. She’s impatient, she’s fiery like me.
“I hope I’m with Michelle for the rest of my life, there’s no one better I’d want to spend the rest of my life with. Liz Hurley, perhaps?”
However in 2023, the comedian revealed they had split up, with their divorce finalised in 2024.
He said in an interview posted on ustreme.com: “There you go, the divorce came through today, so it’s done. I’m divorced again, my fifth divorce.
“The house has been sold and that will be going through in March, fingers crossed.
“It’s a new chapter for all of us.”