Paul Gascoigne’s Lover Tells Of Fruit, Sex With A Mop And Booster Seats
“I WATCHED GAZZA GO OUT OF HIS MIND.”
The Mirror’s front-page headline focuses on the life of Paul Gascoigne.
Jenny Wilkinson was not watching Gazza as he charged into Gary Charles in the 1991 FA Cup Final. Jenny Wilkinson was not with Gazza when he todl the popel of norway to “f*** off”, drove a London bus or spoke gibberish in countless media interviews.
Readers who have followed Gascoigne’s career may wonder if his was a mind to go out of, or if he was ever in a state of disarray?
But here is Jenny Wilkins. Gazza is in hospital and she is nursing him back to health by telling the Mirror about his “bizarre” behaviour: “He cried before and after sex, he became wired and unpredictable, then violent.”
This is Gazza who famously cried at a World Cup semi-final, and then cried some more in an advert for crisps. This is the Gascoigne who would mesmerise opposition footballers with his jinking runs. This is Gascoigne who smashed his wife in the face.
As sensations go, Jenny’s testimony is up there with “Jordan sleeps on her back”.
Jenny, we learn was nicknamed “Fruit” by Gascoigne. Because she was sour like a lemon, tanned like an orange or shaped like a pear? No. Fruit was rooted in “her bubbly personality”.
Readers familiar with newspaper personals will wonder at anyone billed as “bubbly” and nicknamed “fruit”. They suggest euphemisms for bananas.
Says Jenny: “I’d pick him up in my Golf GTi and he’d sit in the back on my daughter’s booster seat.” (Did the child mind being sat upon?) Then he’d sing Ray Charles’s I’ve Got A Woman at the top of his voice. It was very odd. He sat in that seat every time. Looking back, it was clear this was the beginning of the end.”
He then “started pretending to have sex with my mop”.
But Jenny is not bitter that Gascoigne preferred a back seat to sitting by her side, and romanced her domestic appliances. She recognises that Gazza is troubled and wants him to get better.
But did he ever change?
Posted: 25th, February 2008 | In: Back pages, Tabloids Comments (11) | TrackBack | Permalink
