Personal Life
He married his childhood sweetheart, Rachel, on 25 September 1993. He missed the band's appearance on Top of the Pops to promote Roses in the Hospital because of the honeymoon and was replaced on the day by a Manics roadie wearing a Minnie Mouse mask. The couple live in the Newport suburb of Allt-yr-yn with daughter, Clara Enola (born 2002), and son Stanley McCarthey (2007).
The family previously lived in a terrace house in the village of Wattsville, near Blackwood. Although he was annoyed when a British tabloid revealed that he lived there, printing a picture of his house with the number clearly visible, he later paid public tribute to his home in the title of the track "Wattsville Blues," on the Manics' Know Your Enemy album.
Wire follows the Welsh rugby union team and Newport Gwent Dragons. He is also a fan of Warrington Wolves rugby league team, who are nicknamed Wire, as well as being a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur in football, for whom he turned down an offer for a trial with as a teenager.
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