After years of feuding, the Gallagher brothers have finally made up with each other to embark on a tour – and one woman has been credited with orchestrating the reunion, Liam’s fiancée Debbie Gwyther.
Debbie, 40, has been in a relationship with the frontman for 10 years, after they met in 2013 when she worked as his personal assistant after taking a job with his then management company Quest, run by Paul McCartney‘s manager Scott Rodger.
After Liam divorced All Saints singer Nicole Appleton in 2014, the two began a relationship, going on to get engaged in 2019, when Liam proposed during a trip to the Amalfi coast in Italy.
The couple – who have an 11-year age gap – were due to marry in Lake Como last year – but the nuptials were postponed when Liam needed hip surgery.
She has been credited with transforming the rockstar’s reputation and leading him to a healthy lifestyle – and even orchestrating the Oasis reunion.
Liam Gallagher has been with his fiancee Debbie Gwyther for 10 years – and she is credited with inspiring a dramatic transformation in the Oasis star (pictured in 2018)
The couple – who have an 11-year age gap – were due to marry in Lake Como last year
The engagement follows Liam’s previous marriages, first to Patsy Kensit, then to Nicole.
But according to a friend of the Oasis singer, this relationship is different to his previous marriages.
The friend told the Mail’s Katie Hind: ‘Debbie knows what’s best for Liam. She is strict with him. Not only is she his girlfriend but she is his manager so she knows exactly what needs to be done.
‘Unlike his previous girlfriends and wives, he listens to Debbie, he adores her and trusts she knows what she’s doing.’
Meanwhile, another friend of the singer added: ‘You need to be a hell of a strong character to have any sort of hold over him.
‘Loads of people have tried and failed, but he loves her and knows how much of a positive difference she has made to his life.’ Put simply: ‘She doesn’t take any s***.’
Debbie, who comes from a working class background, grew up in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, with a postman father and stay-at-home mother.
She didn’t go to university but instead moved to Dalston, East London, in her late teens to find a job in the music industry.
Liam Gallagher kisses girlfriend Debbie Gwyther as he receives the first-ever ‘Rock Icon’ award on stage during the MTV EMAs 2019
Liam and Debbie don’t share any children together but Liam has four from his previous relationships (pictured in 2015)
Debbie has been credited with transforming the rockstar’s reputation and leading him to a healthy lifestyle – and even orchestrating the Oasis reunion
Molly Gallagher and Debbie Gwyther watch as Liam Gallagher performs on the Pyramid stage during day four of Glastonbury Festival, 2019
Debbie, who ran a public relations company, Fear PR, with her sister Katie – who also works in the music business and helps manage Liam’s career – had a reputation as somewhat of a party girl when she emerged on London’s rock ‘n’ roll scene.
An insider revealed that the sisters, who were regulars at gigs, often had late-night drinking sessions in grungy venues – and few could keep up with them.
‘They were a pretty wild pair when they wanted to be,’ the insider said. ‘But they have calmed down now.’
Indeed, not only has she calmed down, Debbie is credited with bringing calm to Liam’s life too.
And the musician himself has credited his fiancée with ‘saving’ him, telling Q: ‘Debbie swooped me up as I was falling. She just said, ‘Stop being a d***head.’
‘She got me out of the house, introduced me to all kinds of people outside my world, got me doing new things. I’ve lived in London a long time, but I only really knew Hampstead.’
He added: ‘She was a breath of fresh air, man. She sorted me right out. Me and her like to do the same things. We like having a laugh. I’ve met my match, I’ve met my soulmate. It’s good because the kids love her, the lads love her.’
Debbie is even said to have achieved the impossible task of negotiating a truce between the Gallagher brothers.
‘Debbie came into the scene after the band had split up, and was a fresh pair of eyes and a cooler head without all the baggage,’ says a source.
‘Debbie blew everyone away. Let’s just say if it wasn’t for her, things would not have gone anywhere near as smoothly as they did in the end. She was determined to get Liam back on stage with his brother.
‘She’s said for years she thinks they should try to patch things up – and she loves Liam’s family, especially his mum, Peggy, and wanted them to smooth things over for her, too. It’s hard to imagine this ever having happened without her. She should work for the UN with those skills.’
The couple, who own a £4million mansion in London’s Highgate, are understood to be staying at a manor house near Stroud in the Cotswolds, reportedly renting the property for £17,000-a-month.
Liam Gallagher’s children Gene and Molly are pictured in February at an event in Harrods
Liam and Noel Gallagher have buried their 15-year feud to reunite Britpop band Oasis
Liam’s gothic manor house is Grade II-listed and stretches over a whopping 16,000 sq ft. As well as the meditation room, the property’s 11 rooms include a gym, a sauna… and a ballroom.
This move has been credited to the ‘New Liam’, who, friends say, is spending far less time than he used to drinking in his London local The Flask.
Instead, he is said to set his alarm for 5am, to go on early morning runs – a time at which he would, in the past, still be up partying. In addition, the couple have been spotted walking their dog Buttons on a nearby common.
The couple also own a lavish villa in Cannes, purchasing the £4million property from Noel Edmonds.
Debbie previously called Liam the ‘gift that keeps on giving’ in a sweet birthday message, also referring to him as her ‘partner in crime’.
Liam and Debbie don’t share any children together but Liam has four from his previous relationships.
Liam and Nicole were married from 2008 to 2014 but called it quits after his affair with journalist Liza Ghorbani came to light.
Before that, he was married to Patsy Kensit from 1997 until 2000, during which he cheated on her with Lisa Moorish, who gave birth to their daughter Molly in 1998.
This meant Liam didn’t meet Molly until 2018, when she was 20. Before their meeting in 2018, the rocker confessed to The Mirror he knew he had a daughter but ‘just never got around to meeting her’.
Molly, who is now a model, used only her mother’s surname until she met her father and now goes by Molly Morrish-Gallagher on social media.
Rocker Gene is the son Liam shares with Nicole, while Lennon Francis Gallagher is from his first marriage to Patsy. The artist also has daughter Gemma from his romance with Liza.
Lennon was named after Beatles singer John Lennon and bears a striking resemblance to his dad.
Just like his half-sister, he is also a model having walked runways and appeared in campaigns for high fashion houses like Lanvin and Yves Saint Laurent.
The Oasis frontman’s second son Gene followed in his dad’s footsteps and is the frontman of his band Villanelle.
Weeks before the Oasis reunion was announced, Gene alluded to its possibly telling The Times he felt his dad ‘want(ed) it’ to happen.
Debbie is close with all Liam’s children, often posting sweet photos with them on Instagram.
