Denise Welch has mocked her son Matt Healy after The 1975 frontman shared a story of his life as a struggling musician – with the TV star branding his account “absolute b******s”
Denise Welch, the Loose Women star, has bluntly dismissed her rock star son Matt Healy’s account of his past. She labelled his stories as “absolute b******s” during a recent podcast.
She laughed at how Matty, frontman of The 1975, downplayed his privileged upbringing, saying: “He told this story about how he slaved away laboriously working at Caffé Nero so that he could buy his first guitar. Absolute b******s!”
Denise had told Matty that she was happy to support him as he pursued his rock and roll dream, but insisted that he got himself a job as well. He managed to do just that, getting himself a job at the popular national coffee chain.
Denise says Matty’s childhood was quite comfortable, no matter what he says nowadays (
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Speaking on the My Favourite Takeaway podcast, Denise recalled: “He came back after a week and told me that he was going to get a certificate as the best trainee barista they’d ever had. I was as proud as if he’d said ‘barrister.’
“I was incredibly proud. It turned out – and I didn’t know until a significant amount of time later – that he had actually been fired after a week for being the worst trainee barista they’d ever had.”
She revealed that the gifted songwriter continued to leave their home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, for nearly a month, donning his Caffé Nero T-shirt to keep his parents in the dark. .
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Matty’s version of his past is a little more ‘rock and roll’ than the reality, Denise says (
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Matty Healy and his songwriting partner George Daniel, the drummer for the 1975, took on a part-time job delivering takeaways for their local Chinese restaurant to make ends meet.
Denise jokingly recalled that whenever she and Matty’s dad, the actor Tim Healy, ordered food, it would take ages to arrive – unless Matty was at home, in which case it would arrive promptly, reports the Manchester Evening News.
Denise teased that Matty and George would always receive generous tips from his parents.
She playfully mocked Matty’s portrayal of his struggling musician days, saying: “It was almost like he was kicking a tin can down the back roads in some kind of, really dark, depressing place when he actually lived in a lovely house with his parents, who were tipping him all the time and buying food for him and his friends.
“But nevertheless this is obviously the ‘Liam Gallagher version’ of life that he’s chosen to project.”
