How Tom Jones skipped teenage ‘lust’ for his wife
Tom Jones and his wife Melinda Trenchard married in 1957, and were together until Melinda’s death in 2016. In an interview with GQ magazine, Sir Tom revealed how he skipped a stage of teenage life with his childhood sweetheart.
Talking to GQ less than two months after his wife’s death in 2016, Sir Tom revealed the details of his married life.
He recounted his first days meeting her to the moment he learned her cancer was fatal.
The couple were married for 59 years and met at the young age of 16.
“I felt very lucky to have fallen in love at an early age, when we were teenagers, and we fell in love, not just in lust.
“A lot of teenagers do fall in lust, and it doesn’t last.
Tom Jones also told of how grounding his wife was for him, keeping him a humble man as he reached the crescendo of fame.
He said she wouldn’t allow him to forget his real name, and not to become too ‘Tom Jones’.
“I had a glass of champagne, a cigar, and I was like what do you think of my house, and my snooker room?