![]() MORE : Lucy Spraggan directly addresses Simon Cowell about welfare of X Factor contestants Il Divo play the SSE Wembley Arena tonight, tickets available from It was terrible! Simon picked up a glass of wine, threw it in Carlos’s face and we said, ‘That’s it’ and ripped his shirt and walked out. In his mind it was three albums so when we went for the fourth, fifth, sixth… we started having our own ideas about who we wanted to work with and he was still dominated by his TV shows so we said, ‘Would you be OK if we struck out on our own on this?’ and his team were like, ‘No problem.’ No hissy fits or fights? Iconic 90s band get into vicious brawl on stage after calling fans 'cancer' If she’s not working, we’ll find a way for her to come out, like during the Spanish leg when we had some time off so we spent a few days in Ibiza. ![]() We try to not let it go beyond five or six weeks. She’s an opera singer so she understands the nature of it. How does your wife feel about you going off for so long? Urs is happily married and his wife Leticia, who was one of the dancers in the Amor y Pasión tour, she’s basically with him on tour, so they’re seeing the world and experiencing their young love together. How do you cope being on tour for a year? A lover in every port? Now we start the show with I’ll Be There, which is a poignant moment what with Carlos having passed. But I was wrong and I’m very proud of it. I was worried about that, I thought it was a crazy idea. This is the first leg where there’s nothing crazy: Covid’s under control, not too many shows, decent travel… You changed things up with your last album, a collection of Motown songs… It was only when we got to Japan… I do all the speaking in Japanese – because I’ve been learning for the last 16 years, just little bits here and there – trying to express all these emotions in Japanese that it started to feel different. The first three weeks we couldn’t get through a performance without at least one of us in at least one song completely falling apart. That was the beginning of starting our healing. Those first rehearsals, we just weren’t letting ourselves feel the pain and when we got to the opening night, standing there behind the curtain, the three of us, and the overture is happening, all of a sudden the tears just started falling. Now we’re coming up to the year mark, we’ve been mourning for a year, we could turn it into a proper audition process. There’s the possibility that we go forward as a trio. So you’re not writing off the idea that you might get a new baritone in the future? It would feel like some sort of Britain’s Got Talent thing and that would have taken away from the fact we lost a family member so we knew we had to go on tour immediately. When Carlos passed away in December 2021 it was at the height of Omicron and everyone was just barely coming out of lockdown after two years and if we’d waited two years, this tour would never have happened, this healing process would have been put on hold. We thought about it but Simon took two years to find the four of us. Il Divo are made up of Sebastien Izambard, Urs Buhler, David Miller and special guest vocalist Steven LaBrie (left) (Picture: Johnny Louis/Getty)
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