Jamie Cullums life with Sophie Dahl, famous author | UK News

Jamie Cullum has remained in the public eye for many years. The jazz musician was merely 20 when he’s understood to have produced his debut album, Heard It All Before, in 1999 with just £480 and a restricted run of only 500 copies. Since that time he is achieved outstanding success as a vocalist and performer, releasing additional albums, touring internationally and accumulating quite a few accolades.

The 46-year-old, who was born in Essex and raised in Wiltshire, is equally well-known for presenting The Jazz Show With Jamie Cullum on BBC Radio 2. Fans can have the chance to see Jamie on the new collection of Channel 4‘s The Piano, which comes back on Sunday, July 12 for its fourth collection. Presented by Claudia Winkleman and Mika, the show seeks out the UK’s most interesting newbie piano gamers and Jamie will serve as one of the visitor mentors alongside Jools Holland and Hiromi. Here we study Jamie’s life past the cameras

Jamie has been wed to supermodel Sophie Dahl since 2010 and they share two daughters, studies the Mirror.

Sophie launched her profession as a teenage fashion model and was famously found by British Vogue. She turned celebrated for her curves and was in demand amongst the main designers.

She’s since loved a affluent profession as an author, journalist and tv presenter.

Speaking to Red in 2020, Jamie mentioned assembly his spouse. He said: “We just really hit it off. I thought, ‘Man, that is a cool woman,’ but I didn’t really entertain anything else. We were both in relationships and she wasn’t living in the UK, so we were just friends at first.

“Then, a couple of years later, she moved back right here and that’s when our friendship turned one thing else.

“We had a very immediate connection. While we both worked in a public way, our lives were purposefully quite private.”

Sophie is the granddaughter of the late, legendary author Roald Dahl, celebrated for beloved youngsters’s classics such as Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox and Matilda. Sophie was reportedly the inspiration behind his celebrated work, The BFG.

Born in Cardiff to Norwegian dad and mom, he served in the Royal Air Force. His debut youngsters’s ebook, The Gremlins, was revealed in 1943, that includes mischievous little creatures that have been half of Royal Air Force folklore.

Alongside his celebrated youngsters’s literature, he also loved a extremely profitable parallel profession crafting macabre grownup short tales, regularly mixing humour and innocence with sudden plot twists.

Roald handed away in 1990, long before his granddaughter met and wed Jamie.

Seven years in the past, Jamie launched the album Taller, which some might see as quite ironic, given that Jamie himself has brazenly described himself as “short”. Speaking to The Mirror at the time, the star, who stands at around 5ft 4in, opened up about being “short” and how others appeared to discover it far more following his marriage to the 6ft tall Sophie.

He said: “It is something I’ve been gently teased about my whole life, particularly when I married a taller woman.

“But I’ve taken one thing that may very well be my susceptible spot and used it to say one thing.”

The Piano returns to Channel 4 on Sunday, July 12 at 9pm