Pulp rocker Jarvis Cocker has revealed he has married his partner of 15 years Kim Sion in a very unique ceremony after proposing to her while sat in a London traffic jam
Jarvis Cocker doesn’t have a lot in common with people when it comes to events surrounding his wedding. The Pulp star, 61, reveals how he proposed in a traffic jam while driving through West London.
And whilst many stag dos find themselves in popular resorts like Benidorm or on a pub crawl with the lads – Jarvis and his friends visited a cement site. The wedding was also a unique affair, with the rocker marrying wife Kim Sion, a creative consultant, in a circus.
Talking about his recent nuptials on the Jonathan Ross Show, he recalled: «We got married at the circus. It was good. I was thinking of learning a circus skill, but I didn’t manage to do that. But I did enlist people from the circus to help for the introduction to the party [on the day].”
The couple, who have been together over 15 years, were married during a performance at Giffords Circus in Chiswick, west London. Explaining his decision to pop the question in the car, the Sheffield-born rocker said: “We’d been to Mexico.
«I thought about it a lot there, but something stopped me. We were in a traffic jam near Shepherd’s Bush and the conversation stopped and I thought, ‘I’ll do it now…’. When the muse speaks to you, you have to answer.”
Never one to follow the crowd, trailblazing Jarvis was keen not to have a conventional stag do. “Being an older man, I wasn’t going to do the normal thing, so I had my stag do at a cement works,” he explained.
“It’s got a really nice social club. We had a tour round and we saw the furnace and the quarry and everything. We were cementing a very important event…”
The Britpop frontman and band – famous for hits like Common People and Disco 2000 – are back with new music. Playing More on tomorrow night’s show, he said: “We just decided to see how many songs we could write and ended up with a record.”
Talking about his well-known quirky fashion style, he went on: “When I first started clothes for myself it was jumble sales…. You could get a whole bin bag of things for 10p, so I could experiment. Sometimes it would fail, but you try things. It would be like people’s reaction, if people laughed as I walked past, I’d think, ‘I won’t wear that again’. I evolved through that.
“My mother’s brother had married a German woman and her family would send over clothes for us and one Christmas these lederhosen arrived, they were grey suede with green leather edging and braces. Obviously going to school with those on in Sheffield was not the best thing. My mum thought I looked cute.”
He’s joined on the show by Sherlock actor Martin Freeman, The Last Of Us star Bella Ramsey and comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Sindhu Vee.
The Jonathan Ross Show, Saturday, ITV, 9.20pm.
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