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80s icon Kim Wilde - ’I got bored of singing the same songs so I became an award-winning gardener’
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Not-so-secret Swiftie’ Kim Wilde chats about why she gave up her pop career for horticulture - and how that made her eventual return to music even more of a thrilL...
While Kim, 63, shares her dad’s enthusiasm for Beyoncé’s diverse Cowboy Carter album, her heart very much lies rooted in the 1980s, where she cemented her own status as a pop legend with hits such as Kids In America, You Keep Me Hangin’ On and You Came. The singer in her happy place at The Chelsea Flower Show in 2005, where she won an award (Image: Eddie Mulholland/REX/Shutterstock)It’s not all pop, though – Kim tells us that she is currently listening to an American folk band called Bonny Light Horseman, and that she’s also a “not-so-secret Swiftie”. When you see the joy, when you see people’s faces light up, when that pulse starts at the beginning of that song, it’s hard not to love it.” Aside from music and her two children – Harry, 26, a guitarist with the band Wunderhorse, and Rose, 24, a psychology student, who she had with her ex-husband Hal Fowler – gardening is the lifeblood of Kim’s mental and physical wellbeing.
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