Personal Life
Blunkett divorced his wife, by whom he had three sons, in 1990. In 2004 the News of the World revealed a three-year affair with publisher Kimberly Quinn and the disputed parentage of their two-year-old child. After prolonged press speculation DNA tests showed that Blunkett was the father and the subsequent rulings of the Family Court gave him Contact and Responsibility.
In 2005 there was more speculation about Blunkett's private life, this time regarding a young woman he met at an exclusive London nightclub, Annabel's. The matter with the young woman was cleared up following a full apology from the newspaper which printed the original story in which the paper accepted that the story was entirely false, and he resigned his membership at the nightclub.
On 27 January 2009, Blunkett announced that he was engaged to be married to Dr Margaret Williams, a doctor in the city of Sheffield. On 3 October 2009 they were married at Victoria Hall Methodist Church, Sheffield. On 6 June 2009, he was walking in Derbyshire and was injured by a "charging cow", suffering from a broken rib and "painful bruising".
He once owned a budgerigar called "Bimbo". This was also his secret unlock code for the information on his I.D card
He is a lifelong Sheffield Wednesday supporter. His interests include poetry, walking and music, and he has written about wine and travel.
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