Hugh Jackman
feel closer to someone, but now that we share a
child together, I feel incredibly close to Elton.”
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY
“She was a great motivation and inspiration,” he says. “The title track is about her. It’s about finding new love.”
DAME HELEN MIRREN Helen Mirren has previously confessed that she only married for ‘economic’ reasons and that her and her husband don’t send each other Valentine cards and regularly forget to mark birthdays with a present.
However, the 68-year-old actress seems to think that not being overly affectionate in a relationship, might indeed be the key to keeping things special. “Taylor and I aren’t remotely romantic with each other. And actually we appreciate the lack of romance in the other person. I’d be completely horrified if Taylor gave me a Valentine’s card! That’s not our sort of relationship at all – we would pour cold water on that sort of thing.” “We even forget to get each other birthday presents – I’m always thinking the day before, “Oh, I must get Taylor something for his birthday. Without being corny, we try simply to be considerate to each other every day rather than lavishing each other with gifts.”
She has confessed, rather romantically, that “being with Taylor is exciting and I feel as if
I’m on a permanent date with him.”
Sometimes in a relationship, perhaps a quiet and understated love can be more romantic than a huge token or gesture. “The one thing that Taylor does always do for me, though, is to send me a bouquet of yellow roses on a first night for luck. When they arrive, I know they’re from him and I love that. And they are all the more special because he’s not constantly giving me things.”
ONE DIRECTION The One Direction boys could probably bring most cities to a standstill if they were too public about their romancing techniques.
In previous interviews the band have said that they enjoyed going to Paris for the romantic holiday, and that “even though it sounded like we were going on a romantic trip for five, we really went to meet the French fans. It was so nice to spend the day in the city of love” There is also speculation as to whether this season of love will be marked with member Louis Tomlinson proposing to his long-term girlfriend Eleanor Calder FEB-MAR 2014
Despite a widely public and turbulent recent love life, Paul McCartney remains a loving romantic. The songwriter behind Beatles ballads: ‘Yesterday’,‘The Long and Winding Road’, and ‘My Love’, showed his affection for his wife Nancy Shevell by playing his new songs to her down the phone before he went into the studio to record his new album. “I got in the habit of writing a song in the morning and then ringing her up and saying, ‘Do you fancy hearing it?’ He also recorded the song, ‘My Valentine’ for Nancy in 2011, the year that they married. “I wrote the song on Valentine’s Day in Morocco where we were on holiday and it had been raining, and she’d said to me "it doesn’t matter, we’ll have a good time" – and I really liked that because I know there’s nothing you can do about weather.”
Asked what his last romantic gesture was, he laughs: “We’ve done millions. There are too many.”
He wrote some of songs on his new album – it’s actually called New – in honor of Nancy.