Julian
is very quite (understandably) about his relationships. Julian's
lost two relationships to the stress of being a rock star.
Debbie Boyland, his girlfriend of two years at the time of Valotte's
release, and Julian broke up in 1986 due to rumors circulated
by the press about Julian and other women. Olivia D'Abo (Wonder
Years) and Julian broke up after a four year relationship due to
the stress of promoting "Help Yourself".
Julian has recently stated he will never again let his career interfere
with love and is very quite about his current relationship with
Lucy Bayliss.
Julian started wearing the ring some time between the 18th (David
Letterman) and the 24/25th of February (Philly After Midnight - the photo to the right was taken by
Diane Randall at the show) during the show the interviewer, Wally
Kennedy, point blank asked Julian if he was married... Julian's
response was "No, not as such... I believe in a love and
a bond between 2 people but I don't necessarily believe in certain
religions in the way they are set out."
The 4 June 1999 Evening
Standard ran and article entitled "Lennon
Looks set to give Marriage a Chance" states that Julian
is poised to tie the knot with Lucy Bayliss quoting Julian as saying
"To be honest, Lucy and I feel married already" as
well as "I am certainly not ruling out marriage to Lucy.
We've been together for a year and a half and we are incredibly
happy. She works for my management company on Internet projects
and other things."
Later in the August 1999 issue of Playgirl magazine Julian
discussed the ring he gave to Lucy - an antique setting filled with
brilliant colored stones shaped as a flower.. (I have seen it and
it is very nice!) - stating "More so than the idea of marriage
per se, the ring is much more a representation of my commitment.
We'd talked about the fact that we wanted to spend the rest of our
time together, so the ring was a gesture of that commitment. I thought
it was important to find something unique and different."
So to answer the question.. the best I know is Julian is currently
engaged - though he doesn't like using that term either, he seems
to prefer the term 'partner' - to Lucy Bayliss. She is English but
raised in Spain. She is very beautiful and very sweet. (I meet her
in NYC.) ~ CJ
