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Sixties 'Shout' singer Lulu has revealed she believes her late ex-husband Maurice Gibb may have fathered a child during their marriage.
Appearing on The Louis Theroux Podcast, the 77-year-old singer opened up about her six-year marriage to the Bee Gees star, as well as her later relationships with David Bowie and celebrity hair stylist John Frieda.
Lulu, who divorced Maurice in 1975 and did not have children with him, said she has recently been shown evidence suggesting he secretly fathered a son following a brief encounter.
'I think he's got a son,' she said. 'It might have happened when we were married. I just found out.
'Someone showed me something and I can't remember the year he impregnated this girl after a one night stand and he has a son who has had his genes taken. It's proven. He's a hundred percent Maurice’s.'
Maurice, who died in 2003 after suffering a cardiac arrest at his Miami home, had two children — Samantha and Adam — with his second wife, Yvonne Spenceley.
In 2019, Nick Endacott-Gibb publicly claimed he was the biological son of the musician and former Bee Gees studio manager Patti Nolder. Adopted as a baby, Nick said a DNA test showed a “100 percent match” with Maurice’s son Adam.
At the time, he alleged that not everyone in the family accepted the findings.
'For some reason some members of the family still want to publicly cast doubt on the validity of my DNA result from two years ago, rather than listening to the music I'm creating which surely speaks for itself,' he said.
Nick had spent years searching for his birth parents and eventually met Patti in 2003, discovering her close professional relationship with the Bee Gees — brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice.
Raised in Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, Nick previously believed his father was Sixties rocker Chris Andrews, but a 2009 DNA test ruled that out. After being told by Patti’s sister that Maurice was his biological father, he undertook facial recognition tests, one of which reportedly showed a 95.2 per cent likelihood of a match.
Although Maurice’s widow declined to take part in further testing, Nick later submitted his DNA to an online genealogy site and discovered that Adam had already uploaded his profile — leading to the match he says confirmed his parentage.
Reflecting on the situation with Louis Theroux, Lulu admitted she had not focused on the timeline.
Speaking about whether the child was conceived during their marriage, she said she hadn’t checked his birth date “because it wasn't that important.”
'I think I used to take myself way too seriously,' she added. 'I know you're surprised at that, but it's true, I think.
'And it's painful when you take yourself too seriously or when you see the world black and white because there are many grey areas and I've learned through trial and tribulation.
'You know, I've had unbelievable highs, but I've also had a lot of lows, which most people have in their life. For God's sake, I'm no different to anybody else in that respect.
'So I've looked at it, I've wanted to know why. I'm always curious and I think that's probably helped me to survive all the ups and the downs in my life.'
After her divorce from Maurice, Lulu began dating John Frieda. During that time, she also had a short-lived romance with David Bowie.
'I had a brief relationship with him, we had a fling,' she said, noting that Frieda 'knew, and it was an issue'.
Lulu and Maurice later reunited professionally in 2002 when he appeared on her ITV special An Audience With… Lulu, just a year before his death.
'I sort of knew in my heart that he would probably jump and he did,' she recalled. 'But Maurice was a very sweet guy though. You know I didn't want to use him, but I was using him. You know what, now I'm glad because it touched people's hearts.
'They saw a vulnerable side in him and I and in our relationship. It was also a chance for me to honour Maurice by himself without his brothers. And now I'm so glad I got to do that.'
She continued: 'You know, sometimes in ending a relationship, you don't say all that you wanted to say or you don't explain yourself, or there's confusion or there's misunderstandings. It seemed to close the circle.
'He was very pleased because he always felt the lesser of the three. And him being on the show by himself with me, gave him respect, you know, it was respectful.'
The full interview is available now on The Louis Theroux Podcast.
Claire Tapley is a digital editor for Yours.co.uk. She is a journalist with over 18 years' experience writing for women over 50. Before moving to Yours.co.uk, she was deputy editor of Yours magazine for nine years. Claire is extremely passionate about all things TV related, with her favourite shows including Traitors, Strictly and The Great British Bake Off.