Sting once admitted that all that crap we heard about him being able to have tantric sex all day wasn’t accuratebut that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a healthy sex life with his longterm partner. The 59 year-old rocker told Harper’s Bazaar that he still has great sex with his wife of 18 years, Trudie Styler, 57, and that they enjoy dress up and “the theater of sex.” TMI, Sting:

Sting, 59, said: “I don’t think pedestrian sex is very interesting.

“I like the theatre of sex. I like to look good. I like her to dress up. I like to dress her up.” And asked about romantic things he had done, he replied: “Romantic? We like tawdry.”

Actress and film producer Trudie, 59 [sic], said: “We don’t get bored. Being apart juices the relationship.”

The couple, who have four children – Bridget, 26, Jake, 25, Coco, 20 and Giacomo, 15 – have been married for 18 years.

And the frontman for 1980s band The Police said: “We treat every day as it comes. Relationships aren’t easy, and I don’t think they’re particularly natural, but we’re lucky because we actually like each other. We love each other – that’s a given – but Trudie lights my world up when she comes into a room. I don’t take her for granted.”

They met in 1982 – shortly after he separated from his first wife Frances Tomelty, with whom he has a son Joe, 34, and daughter Kate, 28 – and married 10 years later.

[From Mirror.co.uk]

I’ve always assumed that Sting and Trudie’s sex life involved third and fourth parties, but it’s not like they’re going to admit to the press that they’re swingers. We heard a few years ago that Sting loved strip joints and was considering opening his own titty bar, but nothing came of that. Good for these two I guess for keeping it hot after nearly two decades. We don’t need to know details, but at least they were mercifully vague about it. There’s something inspiring about a couple who is still hot for each other after 18 years, but I could do without the visual.

Guess who shot these pictures? Terry Richardson. I wonder if he asked Sting to give him a hand job while Trudie watched.

Photos from Harper’s Bazaar, where there are more.

Update: Here are more photos of these two, from 9/2/10, 8/3/10, and 5/13/10. Credit: News Pictures/WENN.com

Last night after the Oscars and local news Jimmy Kimmel aired a funny skit called The Handsome Men’s Club featuring cameos by such attractive souls as Sting, Patrick Dempsey, a shirtless Gilles Marini (from Sex and The City), Rob Lowe, John Kraskinski, Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Josh Hartnett, Taye Diggs, Tony Romo, Keith Urban, Lenny Kravitz, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The bit went on way too long and was just an excuse to add cameos by countless celebrities. Every time you turned around it seemed a new celebrity was shown sitting around the ever-expanding table. The premise was that Kimmel was the head of the self-obsessed Handsome Men’s Club and was being voted out by the members for not being handsome enough. Matthew McConaughey challenged Kimmel’s presidency and then Rob Lowe pointed out that Kimmel was wearing Spanx. Kimmel countered that he looked just like Taye Diggs, to which Taye and the members objected.

The whole thing was ridiculous and was capped off in true Kimmel style with his buddies Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Affleck voted against Kimmel, shamefaced, and then Damon entered at the end and laughed maniacally, telling us we were out of time (a long running Kimmel gag). Next we saw Kimmel in bed spooning with his lover Affleck, realizing the whole thing was a bad dream. Affleck reassured Kimmel that he was attractive and was his “big daddy handsome,” at which point Ben’s wife, Jennifer Garner, popped out of bed and said “Ben, that’s enough, it’s getting weird.”

I didn’t think Kimmel could top his “f’ing Ben Affleck” response to then-girlfriend Sarah Silverman’s viral video, “I’m f’ing Matt Damon.” He did, though, sort of. It was more by sheer star power rather than hilarity, although I was pretty amused, particularly by Damon. He always manages to crack me up.

Rocker Sting isn’t mincing words when it comes to his opinion of “X Factor” – the British version of “American Idol.” He says that the singers are all bland and derivative and blasts the show for promoting such empty music. I’ve only seen snippets of “X Factor,” but I would absolutely agree with Sting if he were talking about “American Idol.” To the best of my understanding there’s no significant difference between the two shows other than their judges (though Simon Cowell is on both), so Sting might as well be talking about “Idol.”

He’s usually the one meting out the criticism, but this time it’s Simon Cowell who’s on the receiving end of some particularly harsh words about his talent – from Sting. The rock star heaped criticism on Cowell’s British version of American Idol – The X Factor – describing the show as “appalling” and promoting bland, soulless music in an interview with the London Evening Standard.

“It’s a preposterous show, and you have judges who have no recognizable talent apart from self-promotion,” Sting, 58, said. “Basically I was looking at televised karaoke where they conform to stereotypes. It is a soap opera which has nothing to do with music.” One of those judges, of course, is Cowell, 50, who offered a riposte to Sting’s stings on Saturday’s live X Factor show.

“Talking about these contestants being a bunch of karaoke no-hopers … I thought it was pompous,” he said, before inviting Sting to come on the show as a mentor. On Sunday, Cowell followed up again on The Xtra Factor. “Someone has got a little bit grumpy,” he joked with his co-judges. “We’d like a Sting week.” But he later admitted: “He hasn’t called yet. We’re waiting!

Don’t hold your breath, Simon. In his interview, Sting made it clear he had no interest in setting foot on the X Factor stage. “I wouldn’t get on The X Factor because I don’t sound like anyone they’re after,” he said. “I sound like myself. I think they are basically aping pre-existing stereotypes of what singers should do and they’re not being themselves.”

[From People]

I was nodding along to all of this like a bobblehead doll. I agree with every word Sting’s said. “American Idol” has churned out some of the most generic, bland, soulless pop music ever created. They make the boy bands and bubblegum pop of the late nineties look innovative. It’s only once the singers start doing more on their own (often leaving American Idol’s management team, 19 Entertainment, behind – which has caused some controversies) that they break out and have their own sound. Carrie Underwood would be an exception, since they let her go country and she was more hands-on and in control of her music from the beginning.

It sucks for the singers because a lot of them clearly have talent. Some of the best music has come from the second, third, and fourth place choices who have gotten music contracts outside of “Idol,” and thus done well from the beginning. They’re not massively famous, but Elliott Yamin and Chris Daughtry both come to mind.

Sting’s basically just slamming “X-Factor” – which I don’t blame him for – without offering a solution. And he’s totally right, there’s no point in his going on the show because he doesn’t have a sound or style the show would aspire to. I think a decent solution would be to let the singers take more control over their music from the get-go. Sure they’re not industry veterans, but neither are a lot of singers their age – and that’s who usually dominates the chart. Give them some encouragement and guidance, but push them to form their own sound and style.

Or just be Justin Guarini.

Here’s Sting in London on November 4th, and Simon Cowell with “celebrity hugger” Tania McIntosh on November 11th. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Back in the day – 1998, specifically – Sting was legendary for his sexual prowess. Specifically, his tantric skills. Maybe it was my age then, but I sure hadn’t heard of the concept of tantra back then, and I feel like Sting introduced a lot of the world to the concept. Certainly he popularized it. Well, it turns out the whole thing was a joke, according to Sting’s daughter Coco, 18. She said the whole thing was a joke by Bob Geldof, and it’s mortified her for the better part of her life.

If you’ve ever envied Sting’s sex life, you can stop right now. According to the singer’s daughter, her dad knows squat about Tantric sex! Coco Sumner says her father’s legendary prowess — which was said to include eight-hour marathon sessions with his wife, Trudie Styler — was actually a tongue-in-cheek story fabricated by his pal, rocker-activist Bob Geldof.

“Bob Geldof made up this thing and it stuck — and it’s an international joke!” the 18-year-old actress moans in the new issue of the U.K.’s Love magazine, out Monday. She adds that the fictitious story has haunted her for her entire young life. Says Coco: “It’s embarrassing when people bring it up. I don’t really have anything to do with my parents’ sex life. They love each other. So what?”

Tales of Sting’s seduction techniques were first revealed in the 1998 biography “Sting — Demolition Man.” However, the former Police front man eventually back-pedaled, saying that any discussion of Tantra with Geldof was the result of a “bitching” session. “We were chatting and talking about having hours of sex. It then became really a joke which went around the world like a forest fire,” Sting said.

“I’m definitely not going to deny it, or confirm it,” he then teased London’s Evening Standard. “Yes, I do a lot of yoga. I’m not an expert on Tantra, but it’s about trying to establish everyday normal things like walking, eating and making love with an element of the sacred.” And while Coco denies that her parents have loved each other for a very long time, Geldof is sticking to his story — but still can’t imagine why his friend would want to do anything that physical for an extended period of time.

Says Geldof: “I said to Sting, ‘Why would you want it for eight hours? It must be so boring. [Trudie] must have said, ‘Get on with it!’?”

[From the Daily News]

Considering Sting hasn’t directly denied it and seems to have at times relished his tantric reputation, I can’t help but think maybe he told Coco it was a joke when she first heard about it. You know, to keep her from throwing up. I mean parents are not meant to have sex. Or even know what that stuff is. So maybe he was trying to spare her the psychological trauma. Or maybe it really was a joke, since Geldof sure is sticking with it. Or maybe I just have some bizarre need for this to be true.

I do feel badly for Coco in terms of people asking her about it. Can you imagine if friends and even strangers were constantly questioning you about your father’s sexuality? And how long he can last? I mean holy… something. I would never leave the house. I would become a complete shut-in if that happened more than twice.

Here are Sting and his wife Trudie in Portofino, Italy on August 9th, along with Sting on a boat in Saint Tropez on August 6th with Trudie and Cindy Crawford and her husband. Later Sting and Trudie were caught making out. Aww. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

Late opera star Luciano Pavarotti had one unfulfilled career goal: he always wanted to perform in the city of Petra, Jordan. He passed away from complications due to pancreatic cancer last year and was unable to make this dream come true. But a collection of Pavarotti’s famous friends performed in the ancient city as a tribute to him over the weekend, to commemorate what would have been his 73rd birthday. The concert was co-organized and hosted by his good friend Sting, who collaborated with Pavarotti several times on various benefit concerts.

Sting and his wife Trudie Styler were among the stars who paid tribute to the late opera singer Luciano Pavarotti last night.

The Police frontman took the stage at the private memorial concert in the ancient red rock city of Petra in Jordan to commemorate the Italian tenor’s music and humanitarian work.

Speaking before the event, held on what would have been Pavarotti’s 73rd birthday, Sting said: ‘He had a big appetite this man, he had a big appetite for everything. He had an appetite for life but it was matched by a huge generosity with spirit.

‘Luciano was a big man, he had a big heart and that generosity was transformed to his voice – and when we heard his voice, all of us were richer.’

Opera stars Placido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli, Roberto Alagna and Jose Carreras, Italian rock singer Zucchero and hip-hop star Jovanotti also paid their respects to Pavarotti, who died from cancer aged 71 in September 2007, at Sunday’s concert.

Other events marking the first anniversary of the singer’s death have been staged in New York, Rome and Paris.

Jordan’s Princess Haya, a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and Pavarotti’s widow, Nicoletta Mantovani, helped organise the Petra concert.

[From The Daily Mail]

It’s still hard to believe Pavarotti has been gone for a year. If you recall, just weeks after the singer’s death last September, his daughters from his first marriage and his current wife were embroiled in a dispute over his estate. He left half of his estate to his new wife and daughter, and the other half to his three adult daughter. They weren’t happy with the division. Earlier this year, that dispute was finally settled “fairly” among the parties. Since then, anything associated with Pavarotti’s memory has been pretty peaceful. It sounds like this concert was an emotional celebration for his friends and his widow. His friends must have really loved him to put this concert together. It’s a testimonial to the kind of guy he was.

Luciano Pavarotti performing in France in 2003. Photo Credit: Bauergriffinonline
Sting performing with The Police in Manchester, England July 2008. Photo Credit: Bauergriffinonline

If I were a parent, I could think of few things I would find more terrifying than the prospect of Pete Doherty ever getting near any of my children. Or my pets. Or my houseplants. Really, the thought of Pete anywhere near anything living is just too much for me to handle.

Singer Sting has reportedly hit the roof over news that his 17-year-old daughter Coco has been hanging out with Pete. A lot. Some of it has been in the studio (Coco is working on her debut CD), but the two spent a good deal of time together in a tent at the Glastonbury music festival last weekend – much to Sting’s chagrin.

The Police frontman reportedly went through the roof when it emerged 17-year-old Coco was within spitting distance of the celebrated junkie. A fellow Glastonbury festival-goer spotted the Babyshambles singer, 29, lying down in Coco’s tent at the music festival.

Pete and Coco Sumner’s friendship is blossoming after they met at a Soho jazz bar in London, and Pete has been helping her develop her songwriting and guitar skills. But the news that they were together at Glastonbury, where Pete played a solo set, seems to have been a step too far for Sting.

The onlooker said: ‘I was standing next to Coco’s tent after Pete had played his set, and one of her friends went to check on her. She unzipped the door, and Pete was lying outstretched in her tent. He looked very comfortable and was smoking something – the tent was full of smoke but it was impossible to tell what it was. He seemed pretty out of it, though.

‘Coco’s father isn’t too happy about her hanging around Pete because of his reputation, and hit the roof when he heard he had stayed in her tent.’

The source added: ‘Coco has definitely inherited her dad’s vocal skills and Pete has been raving about her talent. It’s pretty clear he has the hots for her too, which will only worry her dad more.’ While 56-year-old Sting, real name Gordon, and mum Trudy Styler, 53, will be pleased she is getting musical input from someone-as talented as Pete, we bet they hope that’s the only input he’s having. Otherwise Pete might quickly learn what Sting was singing about in The Police’s 1983 hit King Of Pain.

[From the Daily Mail]

I’m glad Sting freaked out. Any parent that would be okay with their 17-year-old hanging out with Pete Doherty shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. Just looking at the guy, I’m afraid bugs would jump off of him. And really, that’s the kindest thing I can say. I really don’t think he should be allowed to come closer than 10 feet to anyone. I cannot even imagine how many communicable diseases that man is carrying.

I know Doherty supposedly has oodles of talent, but if I were Coco’s parents, that wouldn’t even come close to canceling out all the bad he can potentially do. I’d suggest they make Coco shower three times a day, just to be safe. I’ve heard soap is like kryptonite to Pete Doherty.

Here’s Coco Sumner, Pete Doherty and Sam Shaker playing at Jazz After Dark in London on May 29th. Photographer: ydimage.com. Images thanks to WENN.

Sting and his wife Trudie Styler have a charity they run, the Rainforest Foundation, where they raise money to plant trees. But it seems that in the way of charitable donations, they’re running a little below the average. Trudie doesn’t think much of the criticism.

Newspaper reports claimed only 41 per cent of the funds raised at a starstudded concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall were spent on saving trees.

The New York Post also claimed the Rainforest Foundation was rated one of the worst causes by watchdog Charity Navigator.

Charity co-founder, Belgian photographer Jean Pierre Dutilleux, recently joined the attack and is quoted on blog PerezHilton.com as saying, “I have kept quiet for almost 20 years, hoping for improvement. But enough is enough.

Everything is true or worse.” But Styler has hit back at the reports, claiming the figures are misleading.
She says, “The Rainforest Foundation is celebrating its 20th year. We wouldn’t still be in business or have given out millions of dollars over the years if we’d spent everything we made immediately after it came in.”

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Sure, you might have given millions of dollars to charity, but if you’ve raised over twice that, taken money from people that expect all of their donation to go to the cause, then all of it should go to the cause. 41% is not a great deal of money to make it into the fund, around 75% is the average for a charitable event.

Also, if members of your own organization are leaving after 20 years of loyal service to complain about the financial management of the charity, you know something fishy is going on.

Then again, any money that goes to helping protect and maintain the rainforest is going to help the rapidly warming globe.

The Rainforest Foundation concert takes place in New York this month, with Brian Wilson, Billy Joel and James Taylor headlining.

Sting and Trudie Styler are shown outside Scotts restaurant in London on 3/20/08, thanks to WENN.

I remember as a child the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson being embroiled in a toe sucking scandal, and thinking, “ew, gross, why would you want to suck on someone’s toe?” This is mostly because I myself have disgusting feet, and in Australia it is freakin’ hot so your feet are all sweaty, which is why it surprised me to see these pictures of Sting licking his wife’s feet during a Sydney summer.

Docked in Sydney harbour on a hired yacht costing £17,500 a day, Sting gently raised Trudie Styler’s left leg to his mouth – and sucked her toes.

The Police singer, whose personal life has been surrounded by rumours of tantric sex and swingers’ parties, also found time to massage her feet as she reclined on a sunlounger.

Daily Mail

Now the Tantric sex and swinging I can understand, but licking feet in the hot Aussie summer is gross. That’s probably why he stopped licking and started massaging her feet instead.

Nicollette Sheridan is also involved in a little toe love – sucking on fiance Michael Bolton’s toes. Check out the pictures if you can stomach it.

Why do we indulge in these public displays of affection? Do feet taste good after being in salty beach water? Do other people not find feet gross? Since I’m on living in the heat right now (it’s 43 degrees celsius, or 109 Fahrenheit today) my feet are pretty manky and sweaty. I asked my husband if he fancied a little toe sucking, but he declined.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Here are Nicollette Sheridan and Michael Bolton in St. Barts on 12/27 and 12/28, thanks to Splash News.

Oversexed singer Sting found a way to calm down the panicking passengers on a hotel elevator that broke down mid-ride, trapping eight people including him and three of his employees for 20 minutes. At first he was understandably freaked out when the elevator ground to a halt and kept saying he’d be late to his concert. He soon used his superhuman meditation skills to chill the f out and got everyone else to join him chanting cross-legged. I was hoping this story would end in a group orgasm, but maybe an intense calming experience and greater spiritual awareness is better and less skeevy than that:

Leaving Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Palace Hotel for a concert, [Sting] and three of his entorouage entered the lift, joining four guests already aboard – but seconds after the doors slid shut, the elevator jerked violently and stopped dead! Everyone got panicky, one guy yelled for help on the elevator phone and Sting, extremely agitated at first, kept looking at his watch and complaining he’d be late for the concert – but then he abruptly composed himself, dropped to the floor in a cross-legged yoga posture and began deep-breathing and meditation chants. In moments, everyone chilled like Swami Sting until their rescue 20 minutes later.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker's column, December 31, 2007]

I could see this happening, especially if there were three other people on the elevator that worked with Sting and would be quick to meditate with him. If half the people on the elevator including Sting were chanting I could see myself joining in. If it was just some random guy doing it alone I would probably remain standing with my arms crossed and try not to laugh. I need to be more mature about meditation, and I’ve done yoga but chanting in an elevator just seems odd to me.

Instead of meditating, Sting could have told the other trapped passengers riveting stories about his past exploits, or even broke out singing. A little entertainment would have made the time pass much quicker.

Sting and his wife Trudie Styler are shown out to dinner in Buenos Aires on 12/4/07, thanks to Splash News.

I thought we should start today off with a list of celebrities that aren’t pregnant. Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, and Angela Lansbury are not pregnant. All other Hollywood wombs have most likely been fertilized at this point. So instead of talking more about babies (believe me, that’ll happen in the next few hours) Sting and wife Trudie Styler are talking about how babies get made. They do that a lot. The couple has infamously shared (and sometimes overshared) all the details of their sexual romps. They enjoy legendary, epic, tantric sex. They like swingers’ parties, swapping partners, and strip clubs. I’m pretty sure they once did immoral things with a goat. Okay that’s not true, I’m just trying to start a rumor. But they’re open, non-judgmental people when it comes to sexuality, so in terms of goat-loving, I’m putting my money on the Stings.

Trudie and Sting recently opened their Manhattan home to a newspaper, which focused on their tantric “love nest” (their words, NOT mine).

The centerpiece of the 18-room apartment overlooking Central Park is an extraordinary scarlet bedroom embroidered in gold and dominated by two explicit Helmut Newton prints. In one, an unidentified woman lays virtually naked, with her legs spread in the back of a vintage Mercedes as a man leans over from the front seat to unzip one of her spike-heeled boots. The other image, above the bed head, shows the lower half of another female wearing just stockings, suspenders and high heels.

Miss Styler, 53, who once told a U.S. DJ that the couple enjoyed swingers’ parties, before apparently retracting the claim, said of the room: “I find it hot.” She also curiously went on to admit that her son Giacomo once wanted to know if the photo of the almost nude, sprawled-out woman was his mother or sister. She told him it was neither.

[From the Daily Mail]

Um, ew! Holy disgusting! Not the art [you can see the pictures here – I think it’s pretty tame] but that Trudie would share that story about her son. I guess embarrassing is a better word than ew. Giacomo is 12, and kids that age are still sorting sexuality out. Alright let’s be fair, people twice his age are still sorting sexuality out. But at 12 it makes sense that he could be confused by the image. What doesn’t make sense is that Trudie Styler would pass that on. Imagine that embarrassing photo of you naked in the bathtub at age 4. You know, the one your parents are always parading around for everyone to see. Now imagine you’re 12. And your mom shares it with the whole world. You’d be pretty mortified, right? I just hope that poor Giacomo can laugh it off in a few years. Or at least punish Trudie with years of uncomfortable silence.