Date: 31st December 2000

Guy Ritchie's Secret Brother


Movie director GUY RITCHIE has a secret brother who he never knew - and refused to allow him to his wedding to MADONNA.

KEVIN BAYNTON was given up for adoption as a baby by 32-year-old Guy's mother, AMBER LEIGHTON, when she was an unmarried 17-year- old.

But although he and Guy have met Kevin watched his brother's wedding coverage on TV with his wife Geraldine and four-year-old son Nicholas at their semi-detached home in Gloucester.

Kevin says, "You tend to be a bit overawed when your brother starts going out with a superstar like Madonna. But Guy is totally relaxed, he is really laid back about it. "Guy might just have got married to Madonna but he is a really down-to-earth, 100-per-cent good bloke. "One day we were just having a drink in a pub garden with my wife Geraldine and Guy. He told us, "It's all right Ged, you can call her Madge'."

Guy has always been very relaxed about his girlfriends."
He has no hard feelings about not being invited to the Scottish wedding at Skibo Castle. "We haven't even met Madonna yet," he said. "They both lead hugely busy lives and it will happen, when it happens. There is no rush."

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Source: WENN