Wham star Andrew Ridgeley, 61, looks worlds away from his 80s heyday in rare snap

Andrew Ridgeley is champion known arsenic 1 fractional of the iconic 80s popular duo, Wham! but has mostly shunned the spotlight since the set divided successful 1986 - and is present virtually unrecognisable

Wham! fable Andrew Ridgeley, present miles isolated from his 1980s teen idol heyday, remains mostly retired of the limelight since the group's divided successful 1986 aft their past gig astatine Wembley. Despite a little effort astatine solo stardom, helium shifted to penning tunes for different stars and lone re-emerged publically to honour precocious bandmate George Michael, who passed distant connected Christmas Day successful 2016.

Opting for a low-key manner successful Cornwall, the singer, worthy an estimated £30 cardinal acknowledgment to Wham!'s timeless classics, devotes clip to foundation done cycling fundraisers. Recently, however, Andrew popped up connected Magic FM, chatting with broadcaster Sonali Shah astir the evergreen classical Careless Whisper successful a documentary featuring unseen footage and interviews, reports OK!.

Sonali shared snaps alongside Andrew, whose iconic acheronian locks are present a distinguished grey, captioning: "40 years aft its archetypal release, we look backmost astatine the communicative down this iconic opus and research its bequest with uncommon audio and exclusive interviews."

Clad successful casual cogwheel with a radiant smile, Andrew has evidently embraced alteration portion maintaining privacy, especially post-breakup from socialite Amanda Cronin. Last year, helium offered a uncommon glimpse into his emotion life, revealing he's successful aggregate relationships and isn't looking to settee down with 1 person.

In an interrogation with the Telegraph, helium said: "I person respective [romantic] relationships. Love comes successful a assortment of forms. I had a semipermanent narration with Keren for galore years, and we inactive person a large affection for each other. But astatine this constituent successful time, I'm not aspiring to a monogamous one, oregon to perpetrate to a azygous idiosyncratic for the foreseeable future."

He continued: "The mode my beingness is makes it a spot tricky to clasp down immoderate 1 peculiar relationship, due to the fact that I'm not successful immoderate 1 peculiar place. But yes, I americium happily single."

Andrew was successful a 27-year narration with Bananarama's Keren Woodward from 1990 to 2017. Despite their semipermanent partnership, they ne'er got joined and lived unneurotic successful a restored 15th-century farmhouse successful Cornwall with Keren's son.

Speaking to The Mirror, Andrew described their existent narration arsenic friendly, saying: "As adjacent friends, with antithetic lives, we spot each different arsenic circumstances let and clasp a large affection for 1 another."