EMILY PRESCOTT: Andrew Bridgen splits from his second spouse
As a number one Brexiteer who parted methods with not one however two political events final yr, Andrew Bridgen isn’t any stranger to troublesome break-ups.
Now I can reveal that the controversial MP has cut up from his spouse of seven years, the glamorous Serbian opera singer Nevena Bridgen.
The politician – who was booted out of the Conservative Party final yr for likening Covid vaccines to the Holocaust – informed me: ‘I can affirm that Nevena and I are separated.’
He wouldn’t be drawn additional on the break-up, saying it has nothing to do along with his public life, however mentioned it was ‘disappointing that my non-public life is worthy of newspaper headlines’ when his theories on vaccines will not be.
Andrew Bridgen (pictured) has cut up from his spouse of seven years
Nevena Bridgen (pictured) married Andrew in 2017 and the couple share a five-year-old son
He added: ‘I’ll be making no additional remark.’
Mr Bridgen, 59, hammered house the breakdown by blocking his 43-year-old spouse on social media after she made some pointed responses to his tweets. ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, the reality teller and free speech advocate Andrew Bridgen,’ she responded sarcastically.
The pair married in 2017 and share a five-year-old son. Nevena beforehand ran a tell-all weblog about politicians’ wives and has mentioned Westminster is ‘stuffed with traps and temptations’.
Mr Bridgen – who was briefly in Laurence Fox’s Reclaim social gathering after leaving the Tories, however resigned in December – was beforehand married to Jackie, a Tory councillor in his Leicestershire constituency, however they divorced in 2012.
He’s additionally been concerned in a long-running dispute along with his household vegetable enterprise AB Produce, which led to him and Nevena being pressured out of their £1.5 million house in 2022 after a choose branded him ‘dishonest’, ‘abusive’ and ‘smug’.
