{"id":91497,"date":"2025-08-25T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91497\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:28:12","slug":"martin-kemp-in-tears-over-heartbreaking-realisation-about-son-roman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91497\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Kemp in tears over heartbreaking realisation about son Roman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Kemp says he has found himself in tears over his son Roman as he reminisced on old times with the presenter, admitting he “misses” quality time with him.<\/p>\n

06:30, 25 Aug 2025Updated 08:17, 25 Aug 2025<\/p>\n

\"MartinMartin Kemp says he has found himself in tears over his son Roman as he reminisced on old times with the presenter(Image: Dave J Hogan\/Getty Images for Sony)<\/p>\n

He may have been the life of the party at the height of his music career but, these days, Martin Kemp<\/a> prefers his home comforts. \u201cI always used to look at myself as an anecdote vampire. I would go out every night and stay until I had a great anecdote to tell around the table the next day.<\/p>\n

“I guess these days you\u2019d call it fear of missing out,\u201d laughs the former Spandau Ballet star <\/a>as he sits down for a chat with Mirror<\/a> at his Hertfordshire home. And while he clearly looks back on his past with fond memories, Martin, 63, is a far cry from the party boy he once was.<\/p>\n

\u201cNowadays, the fear of missing out doesn\u2019t come into it any more,\u201d he says. \u201cI kind of feel like I\u2019ve been there, I\u2019ve got the T-shirt \u2013 now I can just enjoy life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MartinMartin admitted that it’s sad to see his children, now in their thirties, having grown up so fast(Image: Jeff Spicer\/Getty Images)READ MORE: Road trips to Europe’s most beautiful cities planned using free travel tool<\/a><\/p>\n

Away from work, enjoying life means spending time in his garden and relaxing at home with wife Shirlie, also 63.<\/a> \u201cI like to exercise in the morning, just to go out and get my headspace. Then I love spending a lot of time in my garden. Being out there gives me real peace of mind. I can be out in the garden for hours. Shirlie and I will often take pictures of it over the seasons to see how it changes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin tied the knot with Shirlie \u2013 who found fame in the 1980s as a backing singer for Wham! and one half of pop duo Pepsi & Shirlie \u2013 in 1988, making it one of the longest-standing marriages in showbusiness. Is there a secret to their success?<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think there is,\u201d replies Martin. \u201cI think it\u2019s just what everybody knows. It\u2019s about being kind to each other, loving each other, looking after each other and the person that is your best friend. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a secret because everyone knows what it is, but you just have to make it real and put it into action.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor admits that looking through old family memories makes him “tear up” (Image: PinPep \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n

They are parents to daughter Harley, 35, and son Roman, 32, who has followed his mum and dad into showbiz with a presenting career, <\/a>and is now a household name. But to Martin, it only feels like yesterday that his children were growing up.<\/p>\n

Detailing his fond family memories, Martin says, \u201cMy kids are now in their thirties, but I\u2019ve got footage of them taking their first steps, and it\u2019s mind-boggling when I watch it back.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou miss them so much when they grow up. It\u2019s weird<\/a>, when I watch old videos of Roman I can even remember the way he would smell of milk as a baby. Both of my parents have passed on now, but I\u2019ve got memories of them and it feels like I can still smell them when I see old clips. It\u2019s priceless.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a load of old tapes of the kids, and a few Christmases ago, Shirlie bought me a camera that can play them all. I hadn\u2019t seen these tapes in years, so I was watching them back through this little lens on the camera with my eye up against it, crying my eyes out!<\/p>\n

\"MartinMartin and his wife Shirlie have been married for over 30 years, but say there’s no secret to it(Image: Dave Benett\/Getty Images for Netflix)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt brought back so many of the beautiful memories. That\u2019s the power of capturing these moments. It\u2019s something that we mustn\u2019t take for granted. The older you get, the further away you get from memories like that and you want to bring them closer. You don\u2019t realise how important they are until you\u2019re older.\u201d<\/p>\n

Realising the importance of family milestones and memories is what led Martin to working with Samsung on their Life Unfolds Fast campaign,<\/a> which featured the former EastEnders actor taking part in a short film where he looked back on old family footage from his own life.<\/p>\n

The campaign encourages users of Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Z Fold7 to view and capture memories with its Galaxy AI-optimised large screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to get involved with this campaign because I know the value of video and I know how valuable life is,\u201d he says. \u201cBack in the day, we filmed a lot, but I still feel like we never filmed enough, so I wanted to get involved to tell people how important it is to capture these good times while we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin is focused on his DJ career, but says he hasn\u2019t got Shirlie and the kids VIP tickets to his events yet. \u201cThey haven\u2019t been to my shows!\u201d he admits. \u201cI like to keep it quite separate. It\u2019s the weirdest thing, you know. I just find that when I walk out of the house and I go and work. It\u2019s my thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MartinMartin still enjoys DJ’ing and often tours across the country, something he has no plans to stop(Image: Redferns)<\/p>\n

Martin\u2019s work as a DJ has seen him tour the UK this year and take to the booth with sets of 80s classics, and he says that while he may now enjoy a slower pace of life in some areas, music is something he has no plan to retire from.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI love it. I DJ up and down the country and we have played to thousands and thousands of people over the last few years. I absolutely love it, It\u2019s a thrill. I\u2019m at a stage now where my hobby and job are blurred. It feels like I\u2019m just going out to do my hobby, so why would I ever stop that?<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at The Rolling Stones and think, they\u2019ve got plenty of money, but they do it because they love it. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever stop doing what I love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin Kemp narrates a new short film of the poem \u2018Life Unfolds Fast\u2019 which accompanies a movie featuring a selection of home videos from his family archive. The film supports the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7,celebrating life\u2019s greatest moments which you can relive on Samsung\u2019s most expansive phone screen yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Kemp says he has found himself in tears over his son Roman as he reminisced on old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,1078,96,6647,45622,5346,17811,2534,45623,56,54,55,45624],"class_list":["post-91497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eastenders","tag-entertainment","tag-fitness","tag-martin-kemp","tag-samsung-galaxy","tag-samsung-inc","tag-soap-operas","tag-spandau-ballet","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}