Since he wasn't the only rock star back then, I think it's more telling that the carrot top (not to be confused with the real
Carrot Top, who in turn is not to be confused with
Shaun White) was able to bag
Helena Christensen (top-5 supermodel in the '90s) and
Catherine Zeta-Jones (though in retrospect she's an obvious hypergamous slut) rather than hitting anything that offered herself to him.
So he must have had some game other than fame, whatever it was, although we have to account the overall scene as well. In the UK his "pop/rock star" competitors among band singers back then were largely gay or "weird" (Freddie Mercury, Boy George, George Michael, Marc Almond, Morrissey, Limahl, Neil Tennant, Robert Smith) and the only roughly comparable real competition was Bono (Ireland) and Simon LeBon (both who were married by the time he hit those two) and Dave Gaham (who was likely bi). And I guarantee you that Helena or Catherine would have rather hit Le Bon or Gaham (if they could) than the carrot top. So he undeniably had a right amount of "stars aligned".
Anyway, now at the
chewed up age of 50 he claims to see it differently, and is content in being a beta provider, running > "my woman and my offspring are my saviors" game.
Take a look at this, you younger fellas, chances are that's some of you 20-30 years from today.
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“I was going around the world, following models: London, Paris, New York, Ibiza… I was a boy in a candy shop. I did what you’re supposed to as a rock star.
“It’s great in your 20s and 30s, but if I’d carried on like that I’d have been dead. I realised I wanted something else.
“Family puts things in perspective. Romy doesn’t care about fame, she wants feeding in the morning.
“It’s precious to me because, before, I never knew what a family was and now I know, I am never going to f*** it up. Fatherhood has changed me completely.”
Nowadays, the only “other” woman in his life is
Dora the Explorer."