Superstar Couples

You might not like the music he makes but if there’s one thing he doesn’t do as a rock star is hooking up with young models and divorcing his wife of 18 years, Dorothea Hurley. In fact, the new album, “Lost Highway,” in which he cowrote with guitarist Richie Sambora, who has left a rehab in California for an undisclosed problem, is full of ditties that deal with love and lovers and lost loved ones.

The 45-year-old rock star talked to British Daily Mail recently about his graceful aging, his advice to young celebrities to escape Hollywood as fast as they can and the reason he won’t replace his wife for a skinny body of a young model or fake beauties in the Tinseltown.

You always see the couple together attending parties and events but the singer admits that he is no saint and has his lapses. His long partnership and the lack of controversial flings made curious publishers to urge the rock star to relate his own version of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. Though he confessed that during the early days of Bon Jovi he wasn’t at all well-behaved.

I’ve not been a saint. I’ve had my lapses…. One of those big publishers gave us a million dollars recently to write a book about our experiences, but we just gave the money right back because it’s no one’s business.
They wanted the cliched story about being a rock star and I’m not going to tell them. It doesn’t mean it didn’t happen and doesn’t mean it did happen; it just means, isn’t there anything more important to talk about?”

Meanwhile, as he fellow band members underwent painful separations–David Bryan from his wife April McLean and Richie Sambora from actress Heather Locklear and later, with Denise Richards, he and Dorothea have shared four children to date.

“Richie’s OK, but he’s a work-in-progress, you know. We’ve been in the band together for so long and gone through a whole range of experiences, but to be honest, we’d had no real strife until recently. Then parents were passing away and divorces were happening and kids were coming of age and suddenly it wasn’t me, me, me any more, but we, we, we. The subject matter for the album just presented itself.
There’s a song called ‘Whole Lot Of Leaving,’ an obvious phone call home to my wife saying: ‘Hey baby, be strong, because there’s a whole lot of leaving going on.’
I’m there as the third person sitting on that bed while Richie’s telling Heather or Dave’s telling April that they’re strangers and I’m there telling them there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
There’s another song called Seat Next To You. For Richie, it was about missing his father. For me, it was about missing my girl when I’m away.”

His high school sweetheart Dorothea gave him Stephanie Rose, 14, Jesse James, 12, Jacob, five, and Romeo, three.

“And we’re definitely not having any more.”

He also mentioned the trend of getting a botox and liposuction to preserve youthfuness in Hollywood today, the singer proudly urged the reporter to touch the wrinkles on his face and made grimaces to prove that the folds are real. He is old and he doesn’t mind it recognising that it is part of life.

“I’ve just flown from Philly to Honolulu to Maui to LA to Vegas to Boston in eight days and I came home Sunday night. By Monday, I couldn’t get out of bed as my back was killing me.
I’m old, old. I’m Humpty Dumpty.”
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“God no! See, everything moves.”
He removes his sunglasses and scrunches his forehead to prove everything moves.
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“My wife has educated me on Botox and hair weaves and when we’re out, she’ll point out all the people who have had something done. I’m so blind, I can’t even spot a toupee.”

Still Jon insisted that he still has his hair, original hair.

“Ha! No! It’s all mine. Go on, you can pull it! (I do - it’s very real and soft).”

He considers his wife, a karate instructor, a partner of crime and up until now impresses her husband.

“I wouldn’t trade her in for anything. The fact that she’s independent and isn’t needy or possessive helps and she is just a very strong woman. I’ve been cognisant of the fact that relationships have been breaking up around us, but it hasn’t made me cling to her or the other way round. And although everyone says we’re about the only couple still together in the rock business, it’s not really true. There’s Bono and his wife Ali and Bruce (Springsteen) and Patti. We’re not the only ones.”

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“No. I find that women are much sexier when they age gracefully. I want to see them in cowboy boots and blue jeans and not with so much liposuction that they can’t even close their eyes. You see women with it everywhere in Hollywood and, urgh…”

And before the interview ended, he talked about how the young celebrities’ determination to destroy their careers in front of the public wth the likes of Britney Spears and the others. A complete different scene when he started in making movies ever since working on the soundtrack for “Young Guns” in the ’80s.

“Look at what the world of Hollywood is doing to our young kids. There’s Lindsay Lohan - gorgeous girl and a pretty decent actress too, but she needs to get out and go anywhere else in the world but Hollywood. Britney, too. And as for Paris: I think it’s sad that that young girl has to go to jail, but I also think her poor great-grandfather (Conrad Hilton, who founded the Hilton hotel empire) would be turning in his grave over what’s happening now because he worked hard for what he achieved. They need to get the hell out of that town. When I go there, I just do my business and run.”

The singer’s band is currently enjoying the rank No. 18 from Forbes Top 100 in entertainment rubric.

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