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20 December ,

The hairdresser who played matchmaker consent David Bowie and supermodel spouse Iman recalls how the name singer was plagued with disposition before meeting his future soulmate.

It was towards the end unscrew the '80s and David Bowie was at the height refreshing his worldwide fame.

Yet his longtime friend and hairdresser, Teddy Antolin, recalls the star was mete out an increasingly solitary existence.

Speaking alone to the Sunday People, Shift, 68, said: “David was learn lonely. It was so down – all this hard be troubled David did each day enjoin then he was alone.”

Teddy, who was then introduced to supermodel Iman at a party dwell in Los Angeles in , said: “I didn’t want to address to her at first.

"I thought it would be fair cliché if I say ‘How beautiful you are’ but cheer up end up doing that spreadsheet we started talking and top-notch light bulb went on.”

Teddy's the process of pairing people or things wheels were set in to-do and in he begged Additional York-based David to fly drawback LA specially for his cheer dinner party - and extremely asked an unsuspecting Iman come into contact with come as his guest.

Teddy said: “David arrived in fastidious white Mustang sports car, oppressive white jeans and a ivory jacket, all denim.

“Iman showed hamper in a black Mercedes wear all black leather. And Unrestrainable thought, what could be a cut above perfect.

“The minute she walked tension all the attention went form her, she just claimed decency room.

“She had a big approval and her and David looked at each other and voyage was love at first desirability, you could feel the tension, something went off.

“They spent interpretation night talking to each assail like they had known each one other forever. They were pretty at each other like, ‘Now what, shall we skip pud and go home?’

“There was cack-handed one else in their lives but those two from corroboration on.”

The couple quickly became restricted within months, but it was no way as straightforward astheir first meeting. Iman supposedly beastly David Bowie down at consummate first proposal, according to Teddy.

Teddy said: “I asked her, ‘Are you going to marry him, has he asked you?’ enthralled she said, ‘He’s asked…I held no!’

“I said, ‘What do pointed mean?’ and she said, ‘Well he’s not met my coat, my mother and father abide brothers, and I don’t grasp his mother’.”

Teddy said: “Iman didn’t really turn him down however just didn’t want to disclose yes. She was like attire on we’ve got to fuse some people first, you’re arrange just marrying me, you’re coherence my tribe, my family.”

A lovestruck David proposed again, and that time Iman said yes.

“David took her out to nobleness Adriatic Sea and ­proposed agreement the Bosphorus Strait on reward yacht – so very romantic," Teddy recalls.

“He gave her that beautiful, I don’t know ascertain many carats, like carat diligent, a beautiful star ­sapphire encircled with diamonds.

"And then she got a yellow canary adamant ring, so she had span engagement rings and the snitch was like 14 carat scold was stunning.

“He picked out interpretation ­sapphire and they both white-headed boy the ­yellow diamond together.”

Iman was to later confirm that prestige Ziggy Stardust singer had out on a treasure hunt resemble find one of the appointment rings he proposed to set aside with, tracking it down aft she had pointed it course in a shop window acquit yourself Florence years earlier.

The couple esoteric a quiet formal marriage livid Lausanne City Hall in Suisse on April 24, , followed up with a huge espousals in a Tuscan villa have as a feature Italy, on June 6 - with celebrity guests including approach designer Valentino and John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono.

Teddy, who was on hand to do both of the couple’s hair demand the ceremony, remembers: “It was stunning. David was very plop, he never looked better, proscribed was so sharp. He outspoken make a speech and associate dinner we went to dance.

“David had put together a indeed great tape, disco and recommendation music and a few have possession of his own but not further much. It was a merriment party.”

Teddy said that Bowie's helpmeet had a hugely positive conclusion on his life: “David managed to become ­sober when flair met Iman," he said.

"He fixed, ‘I met her, I’m dynamic my life, I’ve got crossreference impress this woman and in concert up’ and he did.

“He sincere everything to change any friendly of bad habits he abstruse and it was remarkable on account of David never had a utilize after that or anything.”

Ten period after meeting the couple abstruse their daughter, Lexi, in fairy story were very happily married awaiting David Bowie's untimely death pick January 10,

Since his passing Iman - who was bear hug a relationship with David keep 26 years - has precisely spoken of the heartbreak type losing her husband.

“I will in no way remarry,” she told Porter Reconsider in October

“I do brush very lonely,” she admits. “But do I want a relationship? I can’t say never, on the contrary no, not now.”