Mel Coleman Wiki, Age, Net Worth, Annabel Croft Husband, Funeral, Obituary, Memorial, Yachtsman, Cancer, Nationality
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Mel Coleman Biography – Mel Coleman Wiki
Mel Coleman was a professional yachtsman and investment banker. He is the late husband of Annabel Croft, a British former professional tennis player and current radio and television presenter. Coleman participated in the America’s Cup and the Admiral’s Cup.
In 2009 Croft and her husband Mel Coleman launched the Annabel Croft Tennis Academy at the National Tennis Centre. After Covid lockdowns, the pair converted an old delivery van into a mobile home and took it around the country and into Europe on walking holidays together.
In August 2023, Croft was announced as a celebrity contestant on the twenty-first series of Strictly Come Dancing. The tennis star revealed her husband was a huge fan of Strictly. She said: “My husband absolutely loved it. He used to call me over if I was cooking, and he was crying watching it. So, I hope he’s watching.”
She added: “I just think, what an amazing time to try and find some joy, and just to be thrown into something to take your mind off things. I know it is a competition, but to me it’s like yoga, where you just think about what you’re doing on the mat, and just try to improve yourself. That’s my attitude anyway.”
On the Strictly launch show, as she burst into tears, Croft told her pro dance partner Johannes Radebe: “I just wish you had met my husband, because I have these flashbacks to our house and him watching you with tears running down his face. Honestly, it’s so special, it’s beyond anything I could put into words.”
Mel Coleman Age
Mel died on May 25, 2023. He was 60 years old.
Annabel Croft Husband – Mel Coleman Annabel Croft
Former tennis ace Annabel Croft married former America’s Cup yachtsman Mel Coleman at St. Martins Church in Kent in 1992. The pair met just before Croft quit the tennis tour and he was her first serious boyfriend. The former British number one recalled how she met her future husband by chance when she was at a crisis point.
At the age of 21, Croft was at the US Open having a pep talk from fellow player John Newcombe, who suggested that she should think about what she wanted to do with her life as she seemed unhappy. She had been on the tennis tour for nearly six years and was lonely, stressed and lost by the demands of incessantly competing.
“As we were having this chat, I got a text from my mother saying the BBC production office in Belfast were asking whether I’d be interested in filming a programme about yacht racing.
“I’d never been on a yacht before, but it ended up with me, Eamonn Holmes and Peter Skellern going off to Guernsey to shoot a programme where we learnt how to race a yacht.”Mel, who had just got back from Australia after the America’s Cup, was one of the yachtsmen and that is how we met.
“After a day’s filming we’d all go to the pub, have dinner – it sounds weird, but I’d never really done that. And I remember thinking, gosh this is really fun and normal, and I want a bit more of this rather than getting up and putting on a tracksuit and stressing about whether my backhand is working today.”
Mel Coleman Family
Broadcaster Annabel Croft and her husband Mel Coleman have three children: Amber Coleman, Charlie Coleman and Lily Coleman. The family lived in Coombe, Surrey, near Wimbledon.
Mel Coleman Death
Strictly Come Dancing star Annabel Croft’s husband Mel Coleman passed away on May 25, 2023, at the age of 60, after a short illness from cancer. The yachtsman died just eight weeks after complaining of stomach pain and being diagnosed with stage three cancer.
Croft said in a statement: “My beloved husband Mel passed away peacefully on Wednesday morning after a short battle with cancer. My family and I are completely heartbroken and ask for privacy at this very sad time.”
A friend told the Daily Mail at the time: “This has come as an extreme shock to everyone – the diagnosis was out of the blue and Mel did not seem unwell at the time. Sadly the cancer progressed brutally…. Everyone is devastated and horrified, and Annabel is absolutely shattered.”
Mel Coleman Cause of Death
Former international yachtsman Mel Coleman died of pancreatic cancer. He was diagnosed with stage three cancer after complaining of stomach pain for two months.
Mel Coleman Net Worth
Mel Coleman’s net worth was estimated to be £10million. He was a millionaire from his career as a professional yachtsman and investment banker working for firms such as Morgan Stanley.
In 2001, former tennis champion Annabel Croft and her investment banker husband Mel Coleman bought a 1960s-built four-bedroom house near Wimbledon for £1.6million. They then demolished the house and built a six-bedroom Georgian-style mansion in its place.
In 2022, Croft put the mansion up for sale with a guide price of £6.7million, netting a profit of more than £5 million.
The luxury six-bedroom Georgian-style home boasts a grand entrance hall, five bathrooms, two reception rooms, a large kitchen and breakfast room. It also has a family room, snug, study and utility room, and lies within an exclusive gated community in Kingston. The mansion also has an all-weather tennis court.
Mel Coleman Nationality
He was of British nationality.
