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Elton John and his partner David Furnish are planning a low-profile wedding in May, following a change in British law allowing gay marriages.
The singer told NBC’s Today show that he wants to celebrate “very quietly,” and added: “It will be a joyous occasion and we will have our children.”
The two men, who have been in a civil partnership since 2005, have two children.
In quotes released on NBC’s website Monday, the singer said: “We shouldn’t just say ‘Oh, well, we have a civil partnership, we’re not going to bother to get married’. We will get married.”
Same-sex marriages were allowed for the first time in Britain Saturday, when a new marriage law came into effect.
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Hockey great Gordie Howe has a book deal.
G.P. Putnam’s Sons announced Monday that Howe’s memoir, “Mr. Hockey,” will come out Oct. 14. The publisher says the book will be “the definitive account” of Howe’s life, starting with his birth in a farmhouse in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and delving into his extraordinary five-decade career.
The 85-year-old Howe was a six-time winner of the Hart Trophy for the league’s most valuable player and played on four championship teams with the Detroit Red Wings. Putnam is an imprint of Penguin Random House. Last year it released Bobby Orr’s memoir.
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