Phil Collins Retires
Music legend Phil Collins is turning in his drumsticks.
Music legend Phil Collins is turning in his drumsticks.

Taylor Lautner won the heart of actress Lily Collins after meeting the beauty, 21, on the set of his upcoming thriller Abduction four months ago.
Now the bulked-up young millionaire has turned his efforts to impressing his co-star-turned-galpal’s doting dad, Genesis legend Phil Collins.
Paging Dr. Phil, Dr. Drew, and Dr. Oz: We think its high-time someone staged an intervention for rock legend Phil Collins.
The “Another Day in Paradise” singer has sparked concern for his emotional well-being after sitting down for a cryptic chat with Rolling Stone, during which Collins admits to struggling with suicidal tendencies in recent years.
“I wouldn’t blow my head off,” says the single dad of two, who posed with a shotgun in the photograph accompanying the Rolling Stone piece. “I’d overdose or do something that didn’t hurt. But I wouldn’t do that to the children. A comedian who committed suicide in the Sixties left a note saying,’Too many things went wrong too often.’ I often think about that.”
Depressing much?

Well this doesn’t sound like a “Groovy Kind of Love.” Looks like third time wasn’t the charm for Phil Collins. The legendary Genesis rocker been ordered to pay his third estranged wife, Orianne Cevey, a staggering $50 million. The payout is believed to be the largest divorce settlement in the history of British showbusiness, topping the nearly $50 million Paul McCartney gave to his former wife Heather Mills and the $34 million Collins paid to second wife Jill Tavelman after dumping her for a 22-year-old Orianne in 1994.
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