Quick Answer: Graham Quinn is Myleene Klass’s ex-husband, an Irish former bodyguard who later managed bands. He made that accusation of bullying and abuse against her in 2020. She’s accused him of cheating with a famous woman.
A marriage that lasted about six months. A row that’s still going more than a decade later. It’s an ugly, sad story, and both sides tell it completely differently.
- Quinn guarded Hear’Say in 2001. That’s how the pair met.
- They married at Norwich Cathedral in October 2011 with just 16 guests, then split months later.
- The divorce came through in April 2013 and was described as bitter.
- In 2020 he accused her of “abuse and bullying” and denied touching her money.
- He says he’s spent over £20,000 trying to see daughters Ava and Hero.
- She says she caught him half-undressing another celebrity at her birthday party.
Who is Graham Quinn?
Quinn is Dublin-born and spent most of his career in the background of the music business. He was security for Hear’Say, the band Klass joined after winning ITV’s Popstars in 2001. Later, he moved into management and ran tours for JLS, who finished second on The X Factor in 2008.
He also has showbiz family. The Daily Mail has reported he’s the brother of Lisa, married to Boyzone’s Keith Duffy.
He and Klass were together roughly ten years before the wedding. Daughter Ava arrived in August 2007 and Hero in March 2011, which is partly why the wedding kept getting pushed back. Ava’s now 19. Hero’s 15.
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The Bullying and Abuse Claim
For eight years Quinn said nothing publicly. Then, in 2020, an old interview from 2007 resurfaced in which Klass talked about his past drug offences. She’d said he was upfront with her before they got together, that he’d got caught up with the wrong crowd young, and that it still haunted him.
He didn’t take it well. He posted a long statement online.
“So after eight years now of being separated… I’ve reached the end of my limit of abuse and bullying by Myleene Klass,” he wrote.
As per The Sun, he accused her of turning their split into content. “For eight years you have spoken out quote after quote in all your interviews, making money from it and promoting your products and career, etc.” The breakup, he said, “should have never been in the public eye”.
He also seemed baffled that she was still talking about him while engaged to Simon Motson, asking whether it must be “very sad for your new partner”. He described himself as “an extremely private and loyal person” and hit back at the money claims directly: “I’ve never taken a penny of your money or anything for that matter. I gave you the easiest divorce.”
On the drugs, he said he was “extremely proud” of turning things round and had worked with a drugs charity since.
This wasn’t his first swipe either. Back in 2015 he’d written, “Please explain to me how I took your money? I lost so much money from our divorce and our house that we bought together.” Klass’s spokesperson told the Mirror at the time: “I personally think it’s very sad behaviour.”
Battle Over Ava and Hero
This chapter is the part that actually hurts to read.
Speaking to Fathers4Justice, Quinn said he hadn’t seen his daughters in years. One exception stuck with him.
“The only exception is when Myleene begrudgingly met me in a car park off the North Circular Road in 2014. She lowered the window about three inches and I could see the girls in the back. That was it.”
He reckons he’s burnt through more than £20,000 on legal attempts and got nowhere. “It’s like banging my head against a brick wall.” He’s missed birthdays, Christmases, the lot.
“It’s killing me and she knows it. I was deep in depression, dying inside,” he said. He’s been open about needing counselling daily just to function.
He claims he doesn’t know where they live, can’t ring them, and is blocked on Twitter and Instagram so he can’t even see photos. His parents send birthday and Christmas presents that go ignored. Even his autistic niece, he says, is blocked. One line he repeated stays with you: his eldest once asked him whether he’d taken all of Mummy’s pennies.
A social worker’s report later surfaced, backing parts of his case. It warned Klass’s conduct “could have long-term social and emotional consequences” for the girls, said she had “little to desire to continue efforts to restart contact”, and noted she has “a hectic professional life and is often out of the country”. F4J founder Matt O’Connor called denying children a father unacceptable. The group ran a “Come on Myleene” campaign in 2015. She threatened to sue.
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Money, Maintenance, and the Divorce
Quinn insists he walked away with nothing. No settlement, just what he’d put into the house, which sold at a loss anyway. His lawyer apparently told him he could have demanded far more.
He blames the jungle for the relationship ending. “She changed overnight after appearing in the jungle. It suddenly all became about money – she wanted a driver and a make-up artist. That killed our relationship.”
He also says she stopped accepting child maintenance once the CSA worked out a lower figure than she wanted, so he’s been putting the money into a separate account for the girls instead. Fighting for access cost him work too. He lost an 11-year contract, around £40,000, and had to let two staff go.
Klass tells it differently. She says she raised the children alone, emotionally and financially, for 12 years. She’s also said she’ll never marry again without a prenup.
Myleene Klass’s Cheating Allegation
The whole thing flared up again on Paul C. Brunson’s We Need To Talk podcast. Klass described walking in on Quinn with an unnamed famous woman on a balcony at her birthday party before the wedding.
“I’m in my house, it’s my party. They weren’t having sex, but they were unzipping each other,” she said. Both apparently jumped straight to “it’s not what you think”. Her response: it is what I think.
She threw everyone out, his parents included. They flew back to Ireland, and his dad’s parting line was that he doesn’t get it from him. She found that odd.
Quinn blamed the drink and apologised. She called it a big red flag and married him anyway. Later she surprised him with where he was working and said she knew someone had been in the room. When it ended, she says he slid a Post-it across the table with a figure on it.
She’s never named the woman, only that she’s built a brand on family values. On Loose Women, she revealed that one of the women he’d been involved with once asked her for a photo. She refused: “I do not agree with what you stand for.”
Where is Graham Quinn Now?
Ibiza, mostly and deliberately out of view. His Instagram appears deleted and his X account has sat dormant since 2020 with a bio reading “Living in Ibiza”.
He was engaged to dancer Sarah Robinson, proposing in Ibiza and celebrating at a Christmas party in 2015 with Keith Duffy there. By late 2017 she’d wiped him from her feed.
He’s still got friends in the industry. Rochelle and Marvin Humes holidayed in Ibiza with him days after Klass’s podcast claims went viral. Marvin’s known to him for years from the JLS days.
Friends of Quinn have called her a “vindictive bully” and said the timing of her comments, during the week of his birthday, was calculated. Klass’s rep declined to comment.
What Myleene Klass Said Afterwards
She didn’t retreat. Heart reported she posted a photo of her MBE and told followers she had “receipts” for anyone who feared the truth. She’s now 48, still engaged to Motson, and mum to Apollo as well as the girls. Her MBE came in the 2025 New Year Honours for her work on women’s health and miscarriage awareness.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Graham Quinn?
Ans: Myleene Klass’s ex-husband. A Dublin-born former bodyguard who guarded Hear’Say and later tour-managed JLS. He now lives quietly in Ibiza.
Did Graham Quinn accuse Myleene Klass of bullying?
Ans: Yes. In 2020, he said he had hit his limit of “abuse and bullying” by her, claiming she had profited from talking about their split for eight years.
Why did they split up?
Ans: They married in October 2011 and separated within months. Klass says he ended it. The divorce came through in April 2013.
How many children do they have?
Ans: Two daughters, Ava and Hero. Quinn says he’s been shut out of their lives for years and hasn’t seen them properly since 2014.
Who did he allegedly cheat with?
Ans: Klass has never named her. She’s only said the woman is famous and has since built a public brand around family values.
Is Myleene Klass married now?
Ans: No. She’s been engaged to PR man Simon Motson since September 2020 and jokes it might be the longest engagement ever. They share a son, Apollo.
Sources & References
- Mirror – Klass’s spokesperson told the Mirror at the time: “I personally think it’s very sad behaviour.”
