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Secret ex-lover to dish dirt on pop king Cole in tell-all memoir

Cole Kennedy’s top-secret gay lover during his Go Tos heyday has written a scathing, no-holds-barred memoir about his eighteen-month relationship with the one-time hellraiser.

Jasper Horner, 32, was the band’s costume designer at the height of Kennedy’s drunken, drug-fuelled rabble-rousing period, which saw the one-time teen heart-throb fall from grace. It was during this period that Kennedy and Horner carried out their illicit affair.

A statement from Horner’s publishers said: “There’s a dark side to Britain’s prince of pop, and the world deserves to know about it. The real Cole Kennedy is not the fun-loving boy bander the Kenneddicts think he is. In this gripping, breathtakingly candid memoir, we hear first-hand from the man who knows Kennedy better than anybody else—the man who loved him, lived with him, worked with him, travelled with him, and secretly shared his bed for a year and a half. You think you know the story of Cole Kennedy. ‘Dirty Little Secret’ will shatter those illusions.”

It turns out pop king Cole was a dirty old Cole, and a dirty old Cole was he!

“Dirty Little Secret” is out later this month and will be serialised in The Bulletin in the week leading up to publication.