Personal Life
Walsh was described by Philippe Naughton in The Times as "tall, paunchy, balding and thickset... a burly confidence that exudes from every pore...a bluff Mancunian whose blokeish humour masks a fiercely competitive nature". Walsh claims to lead a "relatively modest" life that is dominated by work. At Diageo, he spent around half of his time in various foreign countries, totalling over 5 million air miles.
Walsh met Manchester-born Nicolette (Nikki) in London in 1978 when she was a Laker Airways flight attendant. They married in 1980 and have a son, Dean Paul Walsh (born 27 April 1981). Due to Paul's work, in 1987 they moved to the United States, first New York, followed by Orono, Minnesota from 1990. The couple returned to the United Kingdom in 1999. They separated in 2006, and she received a divorce settlement of around £15 million, which ranks among the largest payouts in British history. In October 2012 it was reported that Walsh was engaged to marry his longterm girlfriend Julie Lewis, a public relations executive, and they married in May 2013.
Walsh is one of the highest-paid businessmen in Britain, earning £11.2 million between June 2011 and June 2012 from his work at Diageo. He lives in a farmhouse with 20-acre (8.1 ha) grounds at Billingshurst, near Horsham in West Sussex, and also maintains a penthouse apartment near Chelsea Bridge in London where he lives on weekdays. He holds a minority stake in a 2,400-acre (970 ha) game ranch in South Africa, where he enjoys big game hunting.
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