We found Valeria on Instagram! And thanks to TripAdvisor, we found that the two were on a Meditteranean cruise in 2016 where they enjoyed a day out at a local restaurant in Lisbon. After drifting away from playing, he embarked on a career as a sports journalist, writing for the Guardian before joining Test match Special in 1972. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click here. Valeria also has children of her own from a previous relationship. As we talk, his third wife arrives home. Blofeld has been married three times.
"After a slow, watchful start, we came together like a couple of well-trained magnets.".
He blames the frenetic competitiveness of today’s game. “I am just going to do one rather rude thing,” he says, apologising for glancing at his post. When you get to the medium and slow bits when there is nothing happening, you’ve got to make it live for the listener. After a slow, watchful start, we came together like a couple of well-trained magnets. Popular Tags: ITV,Channel 4,BBC,Love Island,Netflix. It does seem extraordinary that with so many helpers of every sort, they didn’t see this coming.”. “There’s much more cricket now. He had a bad summer against Australia. Do people give in a bit too early? “May I call you Elizabeth? That was all you had as back-up, so you got on with it. Her only near rival in his affection is BBC Radio 4’s Test Match Special, to which he has been attached for 43 years.
Blowers is a big, genial man whose long lived-in face would look very good in a mitre. Henry Blofeld, The Real Marigold Hotel S4. She is the bravest woman in the world for taking me on and she needs your deepest sympathy. When he was 17 and at Eton, he cycled under a bus carrying members of a French Women’s Institute – “I lay like a broken jam roll in the gutter”. Henry, 80, and Valeria, 76, married back in 2013 which is his third marriage until this date. On the day we meet, the news is dominated by Jonathan Trott’s stress-related departure from the Ashes tour.
The BBC One programme returned for series 4 with a new line-up of celebrities who want to test the sweet retirement life in India far away from gloomy and cold Britain.
Blofeld has authored eight books to date, which mostly feature idiosyncratic recollections of cricket told with an autobiographical slant. From former Bond actress Britt Ekland to cricket commentator Henry Blofeld, the celebs are keen to take on the new challenge and explore the local traditions, sightseeing places and cuisine. Valeria is a mother to two daughters named Tanya and Nahila.
"The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. I’m fairly uncomplicated about life, really. “You look like an animated crossword puzzle,” he tells her.
“I love golliwogs,” he booms. Audiences never tire of commentary box howlers.
He does one-man shows stuffed with cricket anecdotes and is in huge demand as an after-dinner speaker. I soon found the importance of making someone smile.”. The Test Match Special legend hung up his microphone in 2017, but he's still going strong – here's what you need to know about him... Henry Blofeld was born in Norfolk on September 23, 1939 and was educated (where else?) Blofeld with his third wife Valeria Chianale Credit: Rex Features Speaking to the Telegraph shortly after they tied the knot, he said: "Valeria is the only girl I’ve met who loves what I do. This Morning viewers divided over London Mayor candidate’s comments, {{^disable_secondary_title}} {{#secondary_title}} {{secondary_title}} {{/secondary_title}} {{^secondary_title}} {{title.raw}} {{/secondary_title}} {{/disable_secondary_title}} {{#disable_secondary_title}} {{ title.raw }} {{/disable_secondary_title}}. “Our man [Jimmy] Anderson comes in and he says – forgive my French – 'We’re going to break your f------ arm.’ Any captain making a remark like that should not be on the field. “Cricket is like a symphony concert, you see.
The best thing to do is try to pay for it. You don’t get the time off you did. Were the fondness between them not so obvious, this would seem like a dreadful lapse of chivalry. The 78-year-old continued to commentate regularly until he stepped down in September 2017 – his final test broadcast was England vs West Indies at Lords. Speaking to The Telegraph after their wedding, the former Test Match Special commentator spoke of his wife: Valeria is the only girl I’ve met who loves what I do. Darling, you look gorgeous in anything.”, Blowers is 74, the survivor of several health catastrophes and two previous marriages, the first of which produced a daughter, Suki, now 49.
Henry retired a few years ago, enjoying retirement life with his new wife Valeria. He has also toured with several stage shows and is predictably an incredibly popular public speaker, who has appeared on TV panel shows such as Would I Lie to You? 'It’s not cricket’ is the phrase, isn’t it?”. A disastrous financial venture in the Nineties meant he had to sell all his beloved P G Wodehouse first editions.
Follow her under the handle @wilderthanwild. In the quick bits you stick with the cricket. They met in 2009 in a near-deserted Chelsea restaurant, where Valeria, the widow of an Italian engineer, was dining with a girlfriend. Blofeld has been married three times in total, and has a daughter called Suki from his first marriage. BBC Radio's Test Match Special veteran commentator 'Blowers', 74, is cockahoop on the eve of marrying third wife Valeria, Henry Blofeld stands on the threshold of his Chelsea home extending the sort of welcome he might give the Archbishop of Canterbury. Meet Henry Blofeld’s wife Henry’s wife is Italian national Valeria De Bruyn Chianale. He performs a double act – “Memories of Test Match Special” – with his great chum Peter Baxter (“Backers”), who produced him in TMS for 34 years. Pip-pip.”, 'Squeezing the Orange’ by Henry Blofield (Harper Collins, £20) is available from Telegraph Books for £18 plus £1.35 p&p. “My father was a splendid chap but he would never spend a ha’penny if a farthing would do. In 2013 he married his third wife Valeria Chianale, an Italian woman who he has described as "the bravest woman in the world for taking me on". Valeria has a pink fringe and hails from Zimbabwe. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. He excelled in schools cricket and represented Cambridge in 16 First Class matches, but failed to scale the heights of many of his commentating contemporaries due to injuries.
He claims to be colour-blind but has teamed dark blue cords, bright blue shoes and light blue socks with a blue and white check shirt. at Eton College, followed by Cambridge University.
Valeria, a Rhodesian-born Italian, has become his tour manager, dealing with theatres and hotels, promoting his latest autobiography, Squeezing the Orange, and his own wine label. “I’m working harder now than ever. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Valeria is a keen Insta user and she regularly shares images with Henry, as well as snaps with her two daughters and grandchildren. The fruity-voiced cricket commentator fiddles with the coffee, hoping that the woman who will become his third wife on Tuesday will rescue him from the distracting rituals of domesticity. WATCH THE REAL MARIGOLD HOTEL FROM APRIL 30TH AT 9 PM ON BBC ONE, AND GET FREAKY WITH US ON INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK. For other inquiries, Contact Us. I always think it’s polite to ask.
Speaking to The Telegraph after their wedding, the former Test Match Special commentator spoke of his wife: His idiosyncratic ramblings in the commentary box, sweeping well beyond the boundary, have endeared him to millions.
I love it.
The stars of The Real Marigold Hotel have settled in their new home in Puducherry, India. That ability led to his second career as an entertainer. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. It is 10am. Although he had previously commentated for ITV in the 1960s, it was on TMS that Blofeld became a broadcasting legend to cricket fans. Of their two-day weddingfest, Blowers says: “It is going to be the greatest fun. WITH his plummy, aristocratic accent and occasionally surreal observations, Henry Blofeld became one of the nation's most beloved sports broadcasters. Speaking to the Telegraph shortly after they tied the knot, he said: "Valeria is the only girl I’ve met who loves what I do. His dislike of political correctness is exhibited in the person of a large golliwog propped up in a chair. For the photographer, he reserves his signature greeting: “My dear old thing!” To the tribe of hairy‑legged gardeners who shortly come clomping through his antique‑laden sitting room with saws and lopping tools, he mutters: “Lovely! “I’m all for good and solid fierce aggression,” he says, “but sledging is dreadful.” He cites the Australian captain, Michael Clarke, as an offender in the recent Test.