Bob Geldof Explains Why He Proposed To His Wife The Day After He Buried Peaches Geldof

Bob Geldof has revealed that it was his grief for Peaches Geldof that prompted his decision to propose to his wife Jeanne Marine the day after her funeral.

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Speaking to Ireland’s RTE Radio One, the 64-year-old explained how his daughter’s passing was such an unbearable time for the family that he felt he needed to inject some ‘love’ into the situation.

Explaining why he chose not to wait until more time had passed he said: “We could either let time do its thing but time doesn’t heal, it just accommodates.

"You just push the grief to the side until it forces its way to your fore conscious again, and then you have to move it and place it back to this deep dark dungeon.

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"I thought, ‘I have to do something’.

"I had already planned to ask her to marry me on her birthday. And then, because of Peaches, I thought it would be entirely inappropriate. And then we buried her - and the next day - I decided to let some air into the room.

"We were suffocating with grief, and we needed air in the room and we needed light in that air. I’m getting Bono-ish here, but love is all you need.”

Bob and Jean married the following April in an intimate ceremony in her native France.

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Peaches Geldof was found dead in her home following a heroin overdose aged just 25.

She left behind two sons who were eleven months and two at the time she died.