Victoria Mary Clarke
Victoria Mary Clarke is an Irish journalist and writer. She writes a column for the Sunday Independent.[1][2] She has also written for The Guardian and the Daily Mail.[2][3] She is the author of Angel in Disguise?.[4] In 2007, she appeared on Celebrities Go Wild, an RTÉ reality television show in which eight celebrities had to fend for themselves in the wilds of rural Connemara.[5]
Aside from her writing Clarke is also known for her relationship with her long-term partner of Shane MacGowan, singer-songwriter with The Pogues. She met him when she was sixteen years of age and began dating him four years later.[2] She assisted him with the writing of his autobiography, A Drink with Shane MacGowan.[6] They appeared together on The Late Late Show in April 2007.[7] They began searching for a house together in Dublin, eventually settling in a Victorian era residence in the Donnybrook area.[8] They do not allow celebrities or journalists to frequent their house but Sinéad O'Connor has previously visited them.[8] In December 2009, the couple appeared together on the RTÉ One reality television special Victoria and Shane Grow Their Own in which they attempted to tend to their own vegetables at an allotment in Dublin.[9][10][11][12] She returned to The Late Late Show with MacGowan on February 26, 2010 to discuss their single for the 2010 Haiti earthquake relief effort.[13][14]
Clarke grew up in the countryside in Ireland.[2] Her mother was born in Herbert Park,[8] and went on to fall pregnant with her when she was nineteen years of age, subsequently being abandoned by her father when she was a young baby.[2] Clarke has a sister called Vanessa.[2] Her surname comes from the man her mother wedded when she was one years of age, a man called Dardis Clarke.[2] Like MacGowan, she is a fan of literature and music.[8] She is also a yoga enthusiast.[3][4] She believes in angels and believes she speaks to them on a regular basis.[15] She is a friend of such well-known people as Bono, Johnny Depp, Peter Doherty, Kate Moss and Marina Guinness.[4][15]
References
- ^ Victoria Mary Clarke (2009-11-22). "'I am used to Shane being unpredictable, he has disappeared before, in worse places. I console myself with Ozzy's autobiography'". Sunday Independent. http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/i-am-used-to-shane-being-unpredictable-he-has-disappeared-before-in-worse-places-i-console-myself-with-ozzys-autobiography-1950726.html. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- ^ a b c d e f g Victoria Mary Clarke (2009-01-17). "Looking for a father figure". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/17/shane-mcgowan-victoria-mary-clarke. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- ^ a b Victoria Mary Clarke (2007-06-02). "Shane's certainly no Brad Pitt, but he is my sweet pea and I'm marrying him". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-459423/Shanes-certainly-Brad-Pitt-sweet-pea-Im-marrying-him.html. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- ^ a b c Mary McCarthy (2007-07-31). "Angel in Disguise? by Victoria Mary Clarke". RTÉ. http://www.rte.ie/arts/2007/0731/clarkev.html. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- ^ "Celebrities". Celebrities Go Wild (Raidió Teilifís Éireann). http://www.rte.ie/tv/celebritiesgowild/celebrities.html.
- ^ Ian Penman (2001-04-14). "The sound and the fury". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/apr/14/fiction.biography. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- ^ "Friday, 13 April 2007". The Late Late Show. 2007-04-13. http://www.rte.ie/tv/latelate/20070413.html. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- ^ a b c d "At home with: Victoria Mary Clarke". Hot Press. 2008-09-11. http://www.hotpress.com/archive/4788126.html. Retrieved 2009-12-18. "We actively discourage visitors, especially celebrities! The only visitors we encourage are those who know how to go home at a reasonable hour. Getting rid of people can be really hard, and journalists are the worst. One from an American magazine came to interview us, and ended up lying on the floor, out of it. Myself and Shane had to drag him back to his guest house across the road. And then he lied about it in the article, claiming that Shane was drunk. Sinead O’Connor is the only person we’ve had around recently that you might call a celebrity. We probably wouldn’t mind if Madonna popped round, because she’d be fairly quiet.”"
- ^ "Shane MacGowan to grow his own vegetables on reality TV programme". NME. 2009-12-01. http://www.nme.com/news/the-pogues/48668. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- ^ "Homegrown for Shane". The Irish Times. 2009-12-04. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2009/1204/1224260028281.html. Retrieved 2009-12-18. "Victoria and Shane Grow Their Own is said to echo 1970s sitcom The Good Life, and follows the pair as they attempt to live on homegrown produce — apparently not very successfully."
- ^ "Is Shane MacGowan the new Monty Don?". The Guardian. 2009-12-01. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/dec/01/shane-macgowan. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- ^ Pat Stacey (2009-12-09). "Loads of manure and very little else". Evening Herald. http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/loads-of-manure-and-very-little-else-1968544.html. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- ^ "Late Late Show guests are revealed". RTÉ. February 26, 2010. http://www.rte.ie/arts/2010/0226/thelateshow.html. Retrieved February 26, 2010.
- ^ "MacGowan and Clarke Lead Late Late Charge". Hot Press. February 26, 2010. http://www.hotpress.com/Shane%20MacGowan/news/MacGowan-and-Clarke-Lead-Late-Late-Charge/6280124.html. Retrieved February 26, 2010.
- ^ a b Hilary Fannin (2009-12-12). "Shooting the sheriff". The Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1212/1224260566849.html. Retrieved 2009-12-18. "VMC has a “rock’n’roll lifestyle” to sustain, and various “angels” to communicate with, which doesn’t leave her a whole heap of time for digging and weeding. [...] VMC’s mate, Marina Guinness, lent her an allotment on her estate, and a harvest party was planned."
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