Mick Hucknall previously hit back at Martine McCutcheon’s claims she was once sick in his dreadlocks, telling her to “stop dining out on a lie” in a string of scathing tweets.
The Simply Red frontman, whose catalogue of music is celebrated by the BBC tonight (May 9), spoke out after Martine told her version of events on Loose Women back in 2016.
However, with Mick’s take appearing to be backed up by actual picture evidence that supports his side of the story, we know who we’re backing…
Mick Hucknall famously wore his hair in dreadlocks in the 1990s (Credit: Dave Hogan/Shutterstock)
Martine McCutcheon on being sick in Mick Hucknall’s hair
Speaking about the incident, which she said happened in the 1990s, Martine – who split from her husband back in 2024 – told the Loose Women: “I’ve dined out on this story. Went to Knebworth, watched Oasis, feeling really nervous with all the rock stars there – pretending I own it, I belong there.
“I’m on a date with Mick Hucknall, we’d met at a premiere. And I can’t eat, drinking champagne, got in the car, engine goes over and I go… like something out of The Exorcist and he goes: ‘What did you say babe?’, and I’ve gone [vomiting noise].
“I [vomited on him]. He had dreadlocks. The dreadlocks flicked [into the vomit]. Not long after that, he had to cut his dreadlocks off!” she quipped.
When asked what contributed to her sickness, she clarified: “Nerves and alcohol and I couldn’t eat. And the fact that I was pretending that I felt like belonged there when I didn’t. I was so nervous.
“He took me home, made me a bacon sandwich and made me ring my mum to say I was safe. I was still flirting with him, then I looked in the mirror and I had Alice Cooper black make-up all down my eyes.”
She then added that a romance between them wasn’t to be, saying: “We’re basically friends. He was heartbroken over somebody else, so was I. And we were really great friends in the end that just had this chemistry and we still speak now.”
Mick and Martine at a party in 1998 (Credit: Alan Davidson/Shutterstock)
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