I’m the UK’s most married man and I’m on the lookout for wife number NINE – I hate being alone
THE UK’s most married man is now on the lookout for wife number nine.
Ron Sheppard, 74, called off his last engagement to an American woman called Rose Hans, who he’d never met, in 2019, saying it “didn’t feel right”.
After that relationship ended, the dad-of-eight who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, admits he retreated into his shell.
Ron told : “I’ve taken time for myself and been a recluse because of my medical problems and Covid.”
The dad who lives in Somerton, Somerset, is launching a second book The Wife Collector, which is to go alongside a film currently in pre-production with West Coast Pictures in the US.
His autobiography, Lord of the Weddings, was published in 2014.
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Ron has been looking for love ever since Filipino Cristel Lalec, who he thought would be his “forever wife,” left the UK five years ago.
The former tour manager of comedian Norman Wisdom says “I’m just plodding along,” although he says he has been chatting to a woman based in the UK in the past few weeks.
He told DevonLive: “It’s very early days… I’m not rushing into it. I am still looking for love.”
Even though he has been married eight times, he says he has has “never given up on love”.
He said: “I hate being alone – I just want a companion. I’d like to find someone I can have a good conversation with; who will support me; go out to places.
“I don’t go out in the evenings now but that would be nice to have somebody with me.”
Ron, who thinks he has 13 great-grandchildren, has made love and marriage a key preoccupation throughout his life.
His longest union lasted 13 years; the shortest was just 10 months.
He first got married in 1966 to Margaret and the couple had three kids but they later divorced after two years.
Wife number two was Jeanette and they wed in 1973 although the marriage lasted just one year.
Ron married for the third time in 1976 to Lesley and they had two boys together before he left her five years later.
Kathy came wife number four in 1982 and they had a daughter with husband and wife working at Pontins as bluecoats with Shane Richie.
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Ron then married Sue in 1986 and had two boys. After 11 years she threw him out though.
Usha from Singapore was next to tie the knot with him in 1999, followed by Wan in 2003 and Weng a year later.
