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Splitting up: Wham! star Ridgeley and model with ‘longest legs in Belgravia’

In public: At Wimbledon last year By Richard Eden

WHAM! star Andrew Ridgeley was left heartbroken when he split from his longterm partner, the Bananarama singer Keren Woodward, in 2017.

So fans were delighted when the Mail disclosed last summer that he had found love again, with super-rich divorcee and former model Amanda Cronin.

But the singer’s ray of sunshine has proved sadly fleeting after Ms Cronin, 54, revealed the pair have separated.

She told the Mail: ‘I’m grateful for the time we’ve had together. He’s smart, funny, sexy and cool.’

Speaking at the launch party for presenter Lisa Snowdon’s book, Just Getting Started, at Langan’s Brasserie in Mayfair, Ms Cronin explained: ‘Andrew is such a phenomenal guy, but I don’t think he’s really relationship material, although he has been in a very long relationship.’

She added: ‘I will get married again, and it won’t be to Andrew.’

The pair made their first public appearance together to watch the tennis at Wimbledon in June last year.

Friends told the Mail at the time that the ‘public debut’ showed the couple were ‘ serious about their relationship’.

Ms Cronin, who is said to have ‘the longest legs in Belgravia’, was the subject of Channel 4 programme The Millionairess And Me last year.

She landed a multi-million-pound divorce settlement in 2019 from Monaco energy mogul Mark Daeche, with whom she had a daughter, after six years of marriage.

Before meeting Ridgeley, Ms Cronin had complained: ‘I am looking for love, but I never get approached. I want a man who is kind, passionate, sincere and authentic. I don’t want to do dating apps – I just believe the right person lands in my life, it always has.’ Ridgeley, Ridgeley 60, 60 founded Wham! with George Michael after they met at school. He amassed an estimated fortune of £25million from their music career together.

He and Ms Woodward, 62, surprised fans in 2017 by announcing they were separating after 25 years.

Ridgeley is said to be working on a Netflix documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of Wham!’s debut album, Fantastic.

The duo were one of the most popular bands of the 1980s and Ridgeley is reported to have been working with the estate of George Michael, who died in 2016 aged 53, to come up with ideas for the anniversary in July.

There are also plans to re-release some of their hits. An insider said: ‘There are still millions of Wham! fans around the world and it will be really special for them to hear the group’s stories because there’s lots in there that Andrew has never spoken about before.’

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