Beaming Bob Geldof’s bonhomie - and it's all thanks to Jeanne

 
P17 Jeanne Marine and Bob Geldof
Rex Features
24 April 2013

Bob Geldof was in an uncharacteristically jovial mood last night. Despite the fact that the Boomtown Rats’ reunion tour has just had to pull half its Australia dates due to poor ticket sales, the famously cantankerous singer was beaming as he walked down the road with his partner, Jeanne Marine.

Geldof has long described the French actress as his saviour. He says that when they met 15 years ago, “I was detestable”, but Marine “insisted on finding something lovable in this most unlovable of men”.

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