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launched himself into plays and
musicals. There are two shows which
stand out for him, one was White
Christmas, in London’s West End.
“Who wouldn’t want to do a musical
where it snows in the auditorium?”,
he says. The show was also a
complete sell-out and a success.
The second and earlier show in his
career, was Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolour Dreamcoat. Aled was
playing Joseph in Blackpool in 1995,
when he met his future wife, Claire
Fossett who is a member of the
famous Fossett Circus family. They
were married shortly after and have
two children, Lucas, now 16, and
daughter Emilia, 19. The youngsters
have not followed their father’s
singing career so far, although
Emilia acts and has been in Doctor
Who and the Netflix series, Locke &
Key. What do they think when they
see old pictures of their dad dressed
as a nine-year-old chorister and
singing his heart out?
“They think it’s hilarious but I am
just Dad to them, they don’t care
about my work really,” he says.I ask what his biggest challenge
has been, and Aled admits one or
two albums haven’t always hit the
mark. But having made over 30, he
is phlegmatic. “You can’t always be
on top,” he says. Another challenging
time was in 2017 when an allegation
of inappropriate behaviour was made
against him at the BBC. His career
was temporarily put on hold while
it was investigated. He denied any
inappropriate contact, apologisedINTERVIEW: ALED JONES
Aled Jones,
Rachel Stanley,
Louise Bowden
and Tom
Chambers from
White
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