Jamie Redknapp: Age, Family And Divorce
Find out everything you need to know about former footballer Jamie Redknapp’s age, family life and marriage to pop singer Louise Redknapp.
Jamie Redknapp put away his football trainers for the final time back in 2005 and has since gone on to pursue an active career in sports media. He is currently a team captain on Sky1’s A League Of Their Own, working alongside Freddie Flintoff and James Corden.
The sports personality married Louise Nurding, who was a member of girlband Eternal from 1992-1995, in 1998.
What Is Jamie Redknapp’s Age?
Jamie Redknapp is 46 years old. He was born on 25th June 1973 in Barton on Sea, Hampshire. The son of football manager Harry Redknapp and cousin of fellow footballer Frank Lampard.
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Jamie Redknapp Is The Son Of Football Manager Harry Redknapp
Jamie Redknapp is the son of England football manager Harry Redknapp, who has managed West Ham United, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers, Birmingham City and AFC Bournemouth during his extensive career.
The footballer played under his dad’s management for Bournemouth and Southampton.
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Jamie Redknapp Attended Twynham School In Christchurch
Jamie grew up on the south coast while his father Harry coached Bournemouth. He started playing in the Sunday league youth teams with his brother while he was still in school.
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Jamie Is The Cousin Of Football Manager And Ex Footballer Frank Lampard
Jamie is the maternal cousin of former footballer Frank Lampard, whose father Frank Lampard Sr used to play for West Ham United and work as Harry’s managerial assistant.
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Jamie Redknapp Age 16 – He Starts Playing For Bournemouth
In spite of being offered a contract at Tottenham Hotspur, Jamie turned them down to play for Bournemouth under manager and father Harry.
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Jamie Redknapp Age 25 – He Marries Pop Singer Louise Redknapp (née Nurding)
In 1998, Jamie got hitched to former Eternal singer Louise Nurding. Unlike many other high-profile celebrity couples, the pair decided to have a small, intimate wedding. They married the same week they got engaged on a holiday in Bermuda.
Just 23 at the time, Louise told the Mail Online in 2017 that their wedding day had been ‘perfect’.
She also said:
‘Neither of us wanted a big, glitzy wedding.’
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Jamie And Wife Louise Filed For Divorce After 18 Years Of Marriage
Jamie and Louise decided to call time on their 19 years of marriage in 2017, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’.
The couple kept the reasons behind their split private although Louise has spoken out about the couple’s relationship status.
She revealed to HELLO! that she would always love her ex-husband:
‘After 21 years together how could I not still love him? He’s the father of my boys. Jamie’s a great dad and is very proud that our sons love me so much. He has old-fashioned values and tells them to respect and love their mum.’
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The Pair Have Two Sons: Charles William Redknapp, 15, And Beau Henry Redknapp, 10
Louise has stressed that she and ex-husband Jamie Redknapp put sons Charley and Beau first and have remained close as they co-parent:
‘We have a great system co-parenting them between us. Our rule is that while one of us is working, the other is with them. We both want the kids all the time and encourage the other to go out so that we can have them. We share everything, too.
‘On Christmas Day we do the presents together, they’re from us both. Maybe this works now because neither of us is in a relationship, but I like to think it will always be like that.’
She also told This Morning host Eamonn Holmes:
‘My priority and his priority is our children and protecting them and keeping as much of it as private as possible and loving them and putting them first and that’s what we’re focusing on.’
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‘I adore him and always will. Jamie was the absolute love of my life.’
Louise opened up to Fabulous Magazine about the real issues that led to the breakdown of her two-decade long marriage:
‘I adore him and always will. Jamie was the absolute love of my life.
‘I guess I was happy to be invisible for a little while, but at the same time I felt I was becoming less and less of a person. And being less and less visible was kind of hard to take when I used to be a pop star.’
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Jamie Redknapp’s Son Beau Recently Starred Alongside Jamie For Vodafone’s Christmas Campaign
Jamie and his family filmed a festive advertising campaign together for Vodafone late last year.
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The ex-footballer told Metro that even though he tries to keep his kids out of the limelight, he says that he would be happy if that’s the life his sons were to chose.
‘I try my best to keep my kids as private as possible, but there are certain times when it’s a nice thing to be involved in.
‘I’d think it was great. As long as it’s the right way, and if he wants to do it and he’s passionate about it, I’d do everything I can to help him, my dad did the same with me.’
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