Snooker legend Stephen Hendry confronted upheaval in his life after splitting up together with his wife after virtually 20 years of marriage
Seven-time world snooker champion turned TV pundit Stephen Hendry is an icon of the game(Image: George Wood/Getty Images)
Snooker icon Stephen Hendry was pressured to shell out a fortune in divorce payments after splitting from his wife of 19 years. The Scottish hero grew to become the game’s youngest-ever winner of the World Snooker Championship on the age of 21 years and 106 days – a file which he nonetheless holds to this present day.
The knowledgeable Hendry, 57, shall be on punditry obligation at this 12 months’s championship, starting on Saturday. Known as one of many best to ever maintain a cue, he additionally held the primary spot on the earth rankings between April 1990 and May 1998.
He tasted success at The Masters too, lifting six titles on the prestigious match – together with 5 consecutively between 1989 and 1993 – in addition to 5 UK Championships.
One extremely documented factor of his private life is his divorce from his wife, nonetheless, after he fell for a youngsters’s performer and actress who is nineteen years youthful than the Scotsman. Wales Online takes a more in-depth have a look at Hendry’s private life.
What is Stephen Hendry’s net worth?
Hendry is reported to be worth a staggering £13.5million. His prize cash within the recreation was achieved by 36 rating match wins over the course of his profession, from 57 finals.
He has additionally seen success in workforce tournaments, profitable a World Doubles Championship and a World Masters Men’s Doubles alongside Mike Hallett. He has additionally picked up a World Cup and a Nations Cup for Scotland and a Euro-Asia Team Challenge with Team Europe.
He continues to make his cash by working on the earth of snooker, regardless of now not taking part in on the highest degree. His YouTube channel ‘Stephen Hendry’s Cue Tips‘ has been extremely profitable with virtually half one million subscribers, whereas he additionally lends a daily hand with punditry work.
Why did Stephen Hendry get a divorce?
His astonishing wealth got here in helpful when he was pressured to settle a significant divorce bill. Hendry met his first wife, Mandy, at Pontins when he was simply 16. They tied the knot in 1995 and had two sons collectively, Blaine and Carter.
However, the couple divorced in 2014 following 19 years of marriage. Speaking about this in his 2018 autobiography, Me and the Table, Hendry mentioned the large divorce bill he confronted.
“The three years between my leaving and the divorce itself are the most stressful of my life. The legal bill from the divorce comes to a hefty six-figure sum. Mandy will continue to live in the house in Scotland with the boys,” he wrote.
Addressing how his divorce got here to fruition, and how he met his present accomplice Lauren Thundow, he mentioned: “People talk about mid-life crisis. But I met someone else and it knocked me for six.
“Driving again from a purchasing journey, my wife Mandy asks me what’s improper. She assumes it’s money-related. I inform her it isn’t. Then she tells me to cease the automobile, saying that we’re not going an inch additional till I inform her what’s occurring.
“So I do. I tell her that I have feelings for someone else. She is shocked and devastated. It’s the last thing she expected me to say. She knows me well enough to know that other women have never been my thing.
“We drive dwelling in a fog of bewilderment, however we don’t inform the kids. There are tears and conversations late into the night. Mandy informs me she needs me to maneuver out till we’ve sorted issues.
“I stay with friends and family while Mandy and I attempt to patch up our marriage. We agree to give it another go. I’m riddled with guilt about the whole thing, but I’m also in love with someone else.”
Who is Stephen Hendry’s girlfriend?
Hendry started courting youngsters’s entertainer and actress Thundow after they first met at a snooker occasion over 10 years in the past. At the time, Thundow was 26 and Hendry was 45, leaving an attention-grabbing 19-year age distinction between the 2.
Writing in Me and The Table about their assembly, Hendry mentioned: “I first met Lauren when she was selling merchandise after a Legends snooker exhibition. She’s attractive and we smile at each other but I think nothing of it. Gradually, we start to say, ‘Hi’, and share a bit of small talk.
“I’d by no means be one to go striding over to any girl who caught my eye – after all. I’m the one that bought to know my wife’s dad and mom earlier than I plucked up the braveness to speak to her.
“As time goes on, we chat more often. It’s becoming clear we have a connection… Over the next few months Lauren and I become friendly. After a while we realise we’re falling in love.” Hendry and Thundow have now been collectively for virtually 12 years.
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