Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Ronnie Wood and Sally Humphreys are reportedly engaged...

Ronnie Wood and Sally Humphreys are reportedly engaged.


Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, 65, is reportedly engaged to theater producer Sally Humphreys, 34, whom he has been dating since late 2011.
Wood and Humphreys have not yet commented on this report, which originally appeared in The Sun. A source told The Sun: “Ronnie and Sally have been friends a long time. He always had an eye for her but she was in a relationship. They’ve been inseparable for months and he decided to tie the knot again. Keith Richards has been laughing about it. He’s sick of buying him wedding presents.”
Ronnie has been married and divorced twice. He and his first wife, Chrissie, were married from 1971 to 1978. Chrissie died of a suspected Valium overdose in 2005. Ronnie and his second wife, Jo (a former model whose maiden name is Howard) got together with Ronnie in 1977, when he was still married to Chrissie. Ronnie and Jo got married in 1985. They have two children together: Leah (born in 1978) and Tyrone (born in 1983). Ronnie's eldest child, Jesse, is from his first marriage. Jo's eldest child is a son named Jamie from a previous relationship.
In 2008, Ronnie left Jo for Ekaterina Ivanova, who was an 18-year-old waitress at the time. That relationship ended about a year later, shortly after Ivanova accused Ronnie of domestic abuse. (He was let off with a strong warning by law enforcement.)
In 2009, Jo filed for divorce. The divorce was finalized in 2011.
From January 2010 to September 2011, he dated polo instructor/student Ana Araujo. After breaking up with Araujo, he had a brief fling with jewelry salesperson Nicola Sargent before he went public with his romance with Humphreys in late 2011.
As far as anyone knows, Humphreys has never been married before and she does not have children. She comes from a middle-class family (he parents are music teachers) in Birmingham, England. Unlike Ronnie, who is a recovering drug addict and alcoholic, Humphreys has led a healthy lifestyle (one of her hobbies is running marathons), according to anonymous sources who've known her for a long time who talked to the tabloids about her. Humphreys studied drama student in her university days, and she has been descried by friends as intelligent, very easy to like, and having a passion for theater. She met Ronnie several years ago when she collaborated with him on a few of his solo projects and his 2007 memoir, "Ronnie."
In a June 2012, interview with the Daily Mail, Ronnie's stepson Jamie told the Daily Mail that he approves of Humphreys: “She’s a lovely girl and she’s no groupie — I can assure you of that. It’s good for him because he needs someone a bit more like my mum — someone more solid — and that’s what Sally is. She’s a nice girl and we’ve known her for years.
"She’s been a friend of dad’s for a long time, but she always had a boyfriend, which I think held him back. But now the boyfriend’s gone, they’re free to be with each other. She’s not his type, that’s the unusual thing. Sally’s definitely not one of the bimbos he usually goes for. That’s great because she’s exactly what he needs. He’s getting a bit old now — I don’t think he can keep up with bimbos any more."
Jamie and Ronnie's kids with Jo had been estranged from Ronnie after he left Jo for Ivanova, but the children have since reconciled with Ronnie now that Ivanva is out of his life.