Elton John’s Spouse: Who Is David Furnish & How Long Have They Been Married?

• Elton John and David Furnish person been unneurotic since 1993
• The brace person worked unneurotic connected 2 documentaries astir Elton’s life
• They started their household successful 2010 and person 2 sons

Sir Elton John came retired arsenic cheery successful 1988, though helium had antecedently mentioned to Rolling Stone successful 1976 that helium was attracted to both men and women, per HuffPost. “Nobody asked me,” helium reasoned connected the TODAY amusement successful 2012 astir wherefore helium didn’t marque an authoritative announcement for truthful long. “When (journalist) Cliff Jahr asked maine successful Rolling Stone, ‘I’m gonna inquire you a question, but if you don’t privation to reply it, I’m gonna crook the portion recorder off’ And I said, ‘You’re gonna inquire maine if I’m cheery oregon not.’ And helium said, ‘How did you cognize that?’. I said, ‘I’ve been waiting for radical to inquire maine this. It’s not precisely a secret. I unrecorded with my manager. I’m openly gay outside. I don’t person a girlfriend… I conscionable thought it was communal knowledge.'”

The five-time Grammy winner was joined to his ex-wife, Renate Blauel, betwixt 1984 and 1988 — the twelvemonth helium came retired arsenic cheery A fewer years later, helium met his aboriginal husband, David Furnish. The mates has been unneurotic since 1993 and walked down the aisle 2 decades aboriginal successful 2014. Read connected to larn astir David and his narration with Elton.

Elton John and David Furnish person been unneurotic for astir 30 years (Photo: Jason Smith/Everett Collection)

Who Is David Furnish?

David is Canadian and was calved connected Oct.  25, 1962. He grew up successful a middle-class household and was the mediate kid of 3 brothers. He was a hard idiosyncratic his full beingness and got a occupation arsenic soon arsenic helium could. Over the years, helium was a paper transportation boy, a tract mower, a babysitter, a waiter, and more. After precocious school, helium attended the University of Western Ontario for concern studies and kept his aforesaid enactment ethic. “People who partied their archetypal twelvemonth distant were the ones whose parents paid for everything. It was my money, I worked each those years, each those jobs. I studied really, truly hard, alternatively boringly,” helium recalled to The Star.

He came retired to his parent during his 2nd and 3rd years astatine university. “I retrieve my ma saying: ‘I emotion you and I enactment you, but each I look astatine is simply a beingness of unhappiness, isolation, prejudice and illness,’” helium told The Star. He added that his ma besides said it broke her bosom to deliberation of him not being capable to person children.

After college, David got into advertizing astatine Ogilvy & Mather. A fewer years later, helium jumped astatine the opportunity to transportation to the company’s London offices. Sadly, his vocation determination was little influenced by his emotion for advertizing and much influenced by his insecurities.  “I was moving distant due to the fact that I had to travel retired of the closet. By the clip I near Toronto, I was genuinely surviving a treble life,” helium remembered. “I had a girlfriend, and I would permission her level and spell and person enactment with a antheral afterwards. It was not the astir honorable and steadfast and blessed mode to beryllium surviving your life.”

David resigned from his presumption aft helium started dating Elton and switched to filmmaking. He notably directed the 1997 Elton John documentary Tantrums & Tiaras. He’s besides known for producing 2019’s Rocketman and 2011’s Gnomeo & Juliet.

Elton admitted Tantrums & Tiaras was “David’s top gift” to him due to the fact that it showed him a truthful look astatine his property and however helium treated those astir him. “He showed maine who I was and however overmuch I needed to change,” helium told Mirror successful 2012. “I ticker it each 3 years. I inactive cringe but present it makes maine laugh. It’s been 17 years since that was made and I genuinely don’t deliberation I person tantrums immoderate more. I’ve go a overmuch much calm and collected individual.”

How Did David And Elton Meet?

David became a manager astatine Ogilvy & Mather and was invited by friends to a meal enactment astatine Elton’s home, which is wherever they archetypal laid eyes connected 1 another. “In 1993 I went backmost to my location successful Windsor for a while. I wanted conscionable caller radical truthful I rang up a person successful London and said, ‘Could you delight rattle immoderate caller radical unneurotic for meal present Saturday?'” Elton recalled to Parade in a 2010 interrogation astir however the meal enactment came to be.

He besides admitted helium was taken backmost by David arsenic soon we helium met him. “I was attracted to David immediately. He was precise good dressed, precise shy. The adjacent nighttime we had dinner. After it, we consummated our relationship. We fell successful emotion precise quickly,” the “Rocket Man” hitmaker gushed.

David And Elton Are Proud Parents

Elton John and David Furnish person 2 sons unneurotic (Photo: Spread Pictures/MEGA)

David and Elton welcomed 2 sons into their lives. Their eldest son, Zachary, was calved connected Dec. 25, 2010, and their youngest son, Elijah, came into this satellite connected Jan. 11, 2013. They were some calved via surrogacy. “[Having children] makes each the quality due to the fact that it’s astir them, not you. And it’s the top happening you’ll ever know,” Elton raved to PEOPLE in 2017. “People say, ‘Well, I disagree, I don’t privation children and that’s good — I would person said the aforesaid thing, until I had them. Then it was like, ‘Wow this is it? Are you kidding me?’ If I was 15 years younger, I’d person 2 oregon 3 more. Without question.”

He besides expressed his gratitude for the narration helium has with David. “Our emotion has grown stronger and stronger,” helium noted. Keeping it real, though, helium added that they person experienced their “ups and downs similar each different couple.”

The Secret To Their Success

Elton revealed to Parade successful his 2010 chat with the work that connection is cardinal erstwhile it comes to their palmy marriage. “Every Saturday for 16 years, we’ve sent each different a card, nary substance wherever we are successful the world, to accidental however overmuch we emotion each other,” helium revealed. He besides noted that they are comfy talking astir each topics together. “We’ve ne'er been jealous. We speech astir the intersexual broadside of things, things that usually would person frightened maine before,” helium said.