My brother had the 45 of 'Secret Love'. He had a crush on her for years.

I've not been able to get it out of my head since I heard the news. How gay am I?

She was managed for most of her career by her bandleader and lover Bert Ambrose, who discovered her when she was 16. He was 64 at the time. Allegedly, he sabotaged her later career (including turning down offers from Hollywood) out of spite and jealousy following a brief affair she had with Bruce Forsyth (this despite the fact that Ambrose himself was married to someone else). He also gambled away about £5 million pounds of her money.

One of her nieces married Mark Thatcher. Another one married the present Lord Rothermere. That didn't prevent her spending her later years living on her own in straitened circumstances in her flat in Kensington (which was about the only thing of hers that Ambrose didn't manage to lose).

No business like show business.