Both my parents have always been really supportive but they’ve never pushed us in any direction.’ Although Leah liked playing and singing privately she was ‘too shy to sing in front of people I didn’t know’, so turned to modelling, after she was spotted by an agent in a nightclub when she was 15. ‘I begged him for it as I wanted to learn. ‘So we had the structure of a two-parent home with them.’įor her 12th birthday, Paul gave Leah a heart-shaped guitar. Any time he could be there, he was.’ She and her elder brother Natt also spent a lot of time with Paul’s parents – in his home town of Woking, Berkshire. We’d spend pretty much every other weekend with him and when he wasn’t touring he’d pick us up from school. ‘Mum and Dad always kept it civil in front of us and Dad was in our lives a lot. Leah is the daughter of Paul and ex Wham! and Style Council singer Dee C Lee. But he’s getting old so I just don’t know how much more running around he can do,’ she continues, jokingly.

When he can be, he’s a very hands-on dad, although a lot of people might assume he wouldn’t be. ‘I don’t think you can ever be that relaxed in those circumstances. ‘We tried to go to a restaurant once and I thought, “Please! I’m nothing to do with these kids running around and things being smashed.”’ĭid Paul, 63, the Modfather icon of cool, keep calm during his offspring’s outbursts? ‘Erm,’ says Leah, 29, making a face that indicates not. ‘It’s hard to get us all together, but when we do it’s just chaotic,’ she says.

Leah Weller laughs as she describes family gatherings with her seven siblings –aged between 33 and three – and all children of The Jam and Style Council legend Paul Weller.

He wasn’t afraid to give constructive criticism, but he did it nicely’

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