THE UK’s most married man is now looking out for spouse quantity 9.
Ron Sheppard, 74, known as off his final engagement to an American lady known as Rose Hans, who he’d by no means met, in 2019, saying it “didn’t really feel proper”.
After that relationship ended, the dad-of-eight who suffers from Parkinson’s illness, admits he retreated into his shell.
Ron instructed Devon Stay: “I’ve taken time for myself and been a recluse due to my medical issues and Covid.”
The dad who lives in Somerton, Somerset, is launching a second guide The Spouse Collector, which is to go alongside a movie at present in pre-production with West Coast Photos within the US.
His autobiography, Lord of the Weddings, was printed in 2014.
Ron has been in search of love ever since Filipino Cristel Lalec, who he thought can be his “without end spouse,” left the UK 5 years in the past.
The previous tour supervisor of comic Norman Knowledge says “I’m simply plodding alongside,” though he says he has been chatting to a girl primarily based within the UK previously few weeks.
He instructed DevonLive: “It’s extremely early days… I am not dashing into it. I’m nonetheless in search of love.”
Regardless that he has been married eight instances, he says he has has “by no means given up on love”.
He stated: “I hate being alone – I simply need a companion. I would like to seek out somebody I can have a superb dialog with; who will help me; exit to locations.
“I do not exit within the evenings now however that will be good to have someone with me.”
Ron, who thinks he has 13 great-grandchildren, has made love and marriage a key preoccupation all through his life.
His longest union lasted 13 years; the shortest was simply 10 months.
He first obtained married in 1966 to Margaret and the couple had three children however they later divorced after two years.
Spouse quantity two was Jeanette and so they wed in 1973 though the wedding lasted only one yr.
Ron married for the third time in 1976 to Lesley and so they had two boys collectively earlier than he left her 5 years later.
Kathy got here spouse quantity 4 in 1982 and so they had a daughter with husband and spouse working at Pontins as bluecoats with Shane Richie.
Ron then married Sue in 1986 and had two boys. After 11 years she threw him out although.
Usha from Singapore was subsequent to tie the knot with him in 1999, adopted by Wan in 2003 and Weng a yr later.