Sir Tom Jones has opened up about his marriage to wife of 59 years, Linda, as the 83-year-old continues to perform across the world with his latest tour.
The Delilah hitmaker married his wife, real name Melinda Trenchard, in 1957 and the pair remained united up until her death in April 2016.
Jones and his wife first met when they were just 12 years of age, tying the knot a few years later in their mid-teens.
However, their romance wasn't without its controversies, with Jones hitting headlines throughout the 1960s and '70s with affair and infidelity scandals.
Jones even admitted himself that he slept with upwards of 250 women a year when he was in his Lothario era - allocating a dressing room on his tour to entertain his female fans.
But in a new interview eight years on from his wife's death, Jones has admitted she remained the "the most important thing" in his life.
Sir Tom Jones and his wife and son
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Delving into their marriage, the 83-year-old recently told the Mirror: "We loved one another ever since we saw one another."
Jones's words echo the sentiment and fondness he held towards his wife in the years before her death.
During an interview with the Telegraph in 2012, he divulged: "I still love my wife – the longer you’re married, it changes.
"The older you get, it’s no longer a sex thing. There’s got to be more than that in order for it to last. You have to like one another; you have to have the same values.
Sir Tom Jones, 83, admitted to being unfaithful to his wife when he was younger
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"We both came from a working-class background, we both came from the same place, so we’re not like two foreign people having to explain to the other what their childhood was like.
"A lot of that, I think, has to do with the marriage lasting as long as it did. We grew up together. To walk away from that would be terrible."
The pair grew up in the Welsh town of Treforest, Pontypridd and went on to have one son together, Mark.
Jones hasn't publicly embarked on another romance since his wife died of lung cancer and revealed on Joe Wicks's podcast that he has no plans to find love again.
Speaking in 2021, he told the fitness coach: "No, I'll never love again. There was one love of my life, and that was Linda.
"I'm glad we had our lives together but I wish she was here now; we would be old together.
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Sir Tom Jones has reflected on his marriage to Linda in a new interview
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"I was in love with my wife as a kid," he admitted. "We grew up together and we loved one another ever since we saw one another."
Jones isn't the only legendary singer of late to open up about their love life in their older age, with Lulu recently opening up about her marriage to Maurice Gibb on the Jonathan Ross Show.
