Ambition, children and why Katherine Jenkins fell out of tune with her fiancé

By PAUL SCOTT


Determined: Friends of Katherine Jenkins said the singer's goal is become a star in America and 'something had to give'

The rigours of her hectic schedule being what they are, there will be precious little time over the coming days for Katherine Jenkins to sit around moping.
This is probably just as well, though few would blame the blonde mezzo-soprano if she set aside time for feeling sorry for herself given her announcement at the weekend that she and her fiancé Gethin Jones have broken off their ten-month engagement.

Happier times: The couple had achieved the almost impossible, a scandal free celebrity relationship but friends said cracks started to show when Katherine wouldn't set a date for their wedding

As those who know her best will verify, however, the driven Katherine is not one to dwell on thoughts of what might have been.
Besides, there is much to distract her from her heartache, not least her latest album and a tour that starts this week in Oxford, before she ventures yet again further afield to Japan, America and Australia next month.

It's over: Katherine Jenkins and Gethin Jones, pictured at Royal Ascot in June, have split up after four years together

Indeed, her return to these shores for the festive season came hard on the heels of a dash to New York to perform at the Christmas tree lighting in Rockefeller Plaza and a four-day promotional trip to Tokyo.
This must make her all-too-brief return to her family home in Neath a welcome antidote. She joined family and a few friends for their annual Christmas Eve drink at the Cross Keys pub, close to the working-class estate where she grew up with her younger sister Laura.

The difference this year was that for the first time since they started dating four years ago, Welsh-born TV presenter Gethin was not at her side.
Instead, the couple went on Twitter last Friday to announce that their relationship, which had seemed on course for a 2012 wedding, was over.
Former Blue Peter presenter Gethin, 33, tweeted: 'Hi everybody. I'm deeply sad to tell you that Kath and I have ended our relationship as a couple. We are both heartbroken.'

Tennis fans: The couple together at Wimbledon in July

Just three minutes later, Katherine, 31, wrote: 'Sorry for being quiet of late, it's just that I have some very sad news. Geth & I have decided to go our separate ways. We are both beyond broken-hearted.'
It has all come as something of a bolt from the blue, particularly for Gethin's parents, retired headmaster Goronwy and his wife Sylvia.
Family friends say they had no idea there were problems until their son told them Katherine would not be celebrating New Year's Eve with them.

Publicly taunted: Gethin laughed at comedian Rob Brydon's joke that he was in his girlfriend's shadow when the couple made their last public appearance together in the audience on Michael McIntyre's Christmas Comedy Roadshow. But the jibe was close to home

However, despite them excitedly posting news of their engagement on Twitter ten months ago, the assertive Katherine had recently taken to quietly instructing her PRs to warn interviewers off asking about their wedding plans.
Increasingly, her reasons for why they were delaying tying the knot became all the more head-scratching. She used the Olympics, the Queen's Jubilee and even her sister's forthcoming 30th birthday as excuses for why they could not fit in getting hitched in 2012.
'I think, in the end, Gethin just got tired of asking her,' says a close friend.
'Katherine is upset — they both are — but she's throwing herself into work as usual.'
Which, it seems, is the fiercely ambitious singer's remedy for her broken heart.

source: dailymail