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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Celebrated theatre director Jamie Lloyd, who's worked with Hollywood stars including Tom Holland and Rachel Zegler, splits up with his Harry Potter star wife and finds love with male American dancer

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Jamie Lloyd has consistently suggested that, however compelling the drama he contrives for audiences, it can never quite compete with the intensity of his own life.

But Jamie Lloyd, who has three sons with his wife, actress Suzie Toase, 45, best known as Alecto Carrow in Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, and other films in the boy wizard series, has consistently suggested that, however compelling the drama he contrives for audiences, it can never quite compete with the intensity of his own life. ‘You couldn’t script my childhood,’ he once observed, recalling that, when he was five, his mother, Joy, owner of a fancy-dress shop, split from his father, Ray, a truck driver, and took up with the first of Lloyd’s stepfathers, a clown whose stage name, Uncle Funny, belied his menacing presence and taste for violence. Nick Shymansky, the music executive who discovered a 16-year-old Amy Winehouse, managed her for seven years and brought out her debut album, Frank, only to be sidelined afterwards, has finally given his view on Back To Black, the biopic starring Marisa Abela – and he isn’t impressed.

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