Patsy Kensit wafts into the studio looking like the Mayfair version of a mob wife in skinny jeans, Chanel ankle boots, a white faux-fur Saint Laurent coat and a diamond as big as an egg. “It’s a nice piece of jewellery,” she says, smiling. Is it an engagement ring? “It’s … yes.” I tell her she doesn’t sound too sure. Is she engaged? She laughs. “Yes.” Pause. “No, but it’s time to try and do things differently.”
When you’ve been married four times, and count three pop stars (Big Audio Dynamite’s Dan Donovan, Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr, Oasis’s Liam Gallagher) and a superstar DJ (Jeremy Healy) as your exes, it probably is. Fifth time round she has wisely eschewed the pop gene pool: her fiancé
