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Inside James Martin's torrid love life - why TV chef split with Louise Davies and how he might finally have found the one


When housewives' favourite James Martin was seen this week browsing a jewellery shop on Mayfair with his new girlfriend, there was much amusement among his pals.

Yet just weeks into his new romance with Knightsbridge-based socialite Kim Johnson, and already the pair are visiting one of the world's most famous shopping destinations for engagement rings, home as it is to upmarket jewellers such as De Beers and Tiffany & Co. Speaking to one interviewer five years ago, Martin — who started working in kitchens aged just 12 as a pot washer on the Castle Howard estate where his father ran the culinary operation — said of marriage: 'No, it doesn't interest me in the slightest, mainly because I've catered for so many weddings. Johnson then turned to Prince Andrew's friend and well-known party girl Caroline Stanbury — who now lives in Dubai and is married to a Spanish footballer some 18 years her junior — to help mend her broken heart.

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