{"id":682,"date":"2017-02-27T09:31:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T09:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/sebastian-shakespeare-lord-melvin-bragg-gives-his-wife-a-huge-pay-off-but-no-divorce-broadcaste\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T17:19:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T17:19:47","slug":"sebastian-shakespeare-lord-melvin-bragg-gives-his-wife-a-huge-pay-off-but-no-divorce-broadcaste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/sebastian-shakespeare-lord-melvin-bragg-gives-his-wife-a-huge-pay-off-but-no-divorce-broadcaste\/","title":{"rendered":"SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Lord Melvin Bragg gives his wife a huge pay-off&#8230; but NO divorce: Broadcaste&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">When the distinguished broadcaster Melvyn Bragg confirmed to me last June that he had separated after 43 years from his wife, author Cate Haste, many of his friends assumed divorce proceedings would soon follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, I can disclose that the Labour peer, 77, who presented ITV\u2019s flagship arts programme The South Bank Show for more than 30 years, has agreed a huge financial settlement with Lady Bragg, 71, that will, unusually, involve the couple remaining man and wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I would rather keep it private, but it\u2019s true that we have agreed an amicable settlement,\u2019 Lord Bragg tells me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"splitLeft\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-847502ac4163d3c4\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/27\/01\/156E4E6100000514-4262578-image-m-49_1488157387231.jpg\" height=\"441\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Gabriel Clare-Hunt and Lord Melvyn Bragg\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><noscript><br \/>\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-847502ac4163d3c4\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/27\/01\/156E4E6100000514-4262578-image-m-49_1488157387231.jpg\" height=\"441\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Gabriel Clare-Hunt and Lord Melvyn Bragg\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splitRight\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-a94dc86eb615d71c\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/27\/01\/00D9996500000190-4262578-image-a-50_1488157397220.jpg\" height=\"441\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Melvyn Bragg confirmed to me last June that he had separated after 43 years from his wife, author Cate Haste\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><noscript><br \/>\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-a94dc86eb615d71c\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/27\/01\/00D9996500000190-4262578-image-a-50_1488157397220.jpg\" height=\"441\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Melvyn Bragg confirmed to me last June that he had separated after 43 years from his wife, author Cate Haste\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Gabriel Clare-Hunt and Lord Melvyn Bragg, left, and him with ex-wife Cate Haste, right<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As part of the deal, he is understood to have shelled out several million pounds to buy his wife, who co-wrote a book about 10 Downing Street with Cherie Blair, her own home in Hampstead, North London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">One of his friends tells me: \u2018It\u2019s not far from his own large home. Melvyn has been very generous to her. It\u2019s nothing to do with religion, but Melvyn does not like the idea of divorce. He\u2019s a very complex person.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The settlement means there is no prospect of his mistress, Gabriel Clare-Hunt, 61, becoming the new Lady Bragg in the near future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Their relationship began in 1995 when she was a secretary at London Weekend Television, where Bragg was arts controller. While Lord Bragg lives alone during the week, the pair spend weekends together at Gaby\u2019s South London home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She is divorced from prep school head Peter Clare-Hunt, 64, and has no children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lord Bragg, who presents acclaimed Radio 4 discussion programme In Our Time, is also reported to have had an eight-year affair with Lady Jane Wellesley, Prince Charles\u2019s former girlfriend, which is believed to have ended in 1987. She is the daughter of the 8th Duke of Wellington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The confirmation of the Braggs\u2019 separation came just nine months after he led a chorus of Happy Birthday at his wife\u2019s 70th celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Among the 50 friends and family members at the dinner in Buckinghamshire was Jeremy Paxman\u2019s now ex-partner, television producer Elizabeth Clough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lord and Lady Bragg have two grown-up children together: filmmaker Alice, 39, and science journalist Tom, 36. He also has a daughter, Marie-Elsa, 51, a Church of England priest, from his first marriage to Marie-Elisabeth Roche.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Miss Roche, known to friends as Lise, killed herself in 1971. She was estranged from Lord Bragg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In a BBC 2 documentary profile marking his 75th birthday in 2014, Bragg admitted that Lise\u2019s death had cast \u2018a long shadow\u2019 over his otherwise successful life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He said it was something he \u2018can\u2019t get over\u2019. The programme made no mention of any mistresses.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-subhead\">Fury over BBC Balls tweet\u00a0<\/h2>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-748bedb28a1df0d4\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/27\/01\/04025B37000003E8-4262578-image-a-65_1488157934680.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Ed Balls was joined by Tess Daly and his Strictly chums on Saturday at his riotous 50th birthday party\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><noscript><br \/>\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-748bedb28a1df0d4\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/27\/01\/04025B37000003E8-4262578-image-a-65_1488157934680.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Ed Balls was joined by Tess Daly and his Strictly chums on Saturday at his riotous 50th birthday party\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Ed Balls was joined by Tess Daly and his Strictly chums on Saturday at his riotous 50th birthday party<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ed Balls was joined by Tess Daly and his Strictly chums on Saturday at his riotous 50th birthday party, which concluded with the former minister bashing at a drum kit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But a \u2018happy birthday\u2019 tweet from BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan, perhaps fishing for an invitation, prompted a furious response from Labour defector George Galloway: \u2018Pass the sick bag. Top tip \u2014 don\u2019t make the fraternising with the New Labour elite quite so obvious.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Rajan retorted: \u2018But I fraternise with all sorts, George \u2014 I even came to your wedding.\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-fe2906966f94dc88\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/27\/01\/3DB5147600000578-4262578-image-a-66_1488157996227.jpg\" height=\"455\" width=\"634\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka walk to board Marine One at the White House in Washington\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><noscript><br \/>\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-fe2906966f94dc88\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/27\/01\/3DB5147600000578-4262578-image-a-66_1488157996227.jpg\" height=\"455\" width=\"634\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka walk to board Marine One at the White House in Washington\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">US President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka walk to board Marine One at the White House in Washington<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Twitter-loving U.S. President Donald Trump publicly attacked a U.S. department store for dropping daughter Ivanka\u2019s clothing line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Now Ivanka has jumped ship from three of her father\u2019s companies in this country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She stood down as director of SLC Turnberry, Trump International Golf Club Scotland and Nitto World Co. Her father had to do so as President, but she was under no such obligation. His sons, Eric and Donald Jr, remain at the helm.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5216e653bd42fc0e\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/27\/00\/3DB1A22700000578-4262578-image-a-39_1488157182571.jpg\" height=\"807\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Rachel Hunter, 47, the ex-wife of Rod Stewart, showed the 72-year-old crooner what he\u2019s missing\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><noscript><br \/>\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5216e653bd42fc0e\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/02\/27\/00\/3DB1A22700000578-4262578-image-a-39_1488157182571.jpg\" height=\"807\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Rachel Hunter, 47, the ex-wife of Rod Stewart, showed the 72-year-old crooner what he\u2019s missing\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Rachel Hunter, 47, the ex-wife of Rod Stewart, showed the 72-year-old crooner what he\u2019s missing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-medium\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Rod\u2019s ex wears it well&#8230; even at 47<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In these cold, wet and windy days, what better way to make everyone jealous than by posting a picture of yourself sunbathing in a bikini?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Rachel Hunter, 47, the ex-wife of Rod Stewart, showed the 72-year-old crooner what he\u2019s missing in this picture taken on Pakiri Beach in her native New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018My sand box,\u2019 said the model, who has two children from her 16-year marriage to Stewart, which ended in 1999. Rachel said she had to leave him because she was too young for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But notorious ladies\u2019 man Rod went on to marry another blonde model, Penny Lancaster, who is two years younger than Rachel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-4262578\/Melvyn-Bragg-gives-wife-huge-pay-NO-divorce.html\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/contact-us\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/footer-300x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/footer-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/footer-150x50.png 150w, https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/footer.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/elementio.io\/url\/js\/jquery-1.8.3.min.js\"><\/script> <script id=\"lead_force_script\" data-campaign_id=\"5449\" data-campaign_slug=\"domxxxx\" data-campaign_user=\"simonlongster\" data-campaign_id=\"5449\" data-campaign_link=\"http:\/\/elementio.io\/url\/simonlongster\/domxxxx?id=5449\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/elementio.io\/script\/loader.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/\/elementio.io\/dashboard\/js\/moment.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/\/elementio.io\/dashboard\/assets\/js\/external.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/\/elementio.io\/dashboard\/js\/bootstrap.min.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/elementio.io\/dashboard\/bootstrap\/js\/avgrund.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/\/cdnjs.cloudflare.com\/ajax\/libs\/gsap\/latest\/TweenMax.min.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/\/cdn.rawgit.com\/hilios\/jQuery.countdown\/2.0.4\/dist\/jquery.countdown.min.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the distinguished broadcaster Melvyn Bragg confirmed to me last June that he had separated after 43 years from his wife, author Cate Haste, many of his friends assumed divorce proceedings would soon follow. 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