But Jesse has also moved on swiftly – he’s now dating Made in Chelsea’s Gemma Gregory. She, too, has a child from a former relationship, and had previously dated the King’s godson, Nicholas Knatchbull (great-grandson of the late Lord Mountbatten) and England polo captain, Henry Brett.
Gregory announced her relationship with Jesse in 2025 with a picture of them together on Instagram captioned, “Bloody love this one”. Earlier this month, she shared a photograph of Jesse sitting in the bath, writing, “Celebrating one year of love, a year of sobriety and a year of growth”. Gregory was notorious for her hard partying while on Made in Chelsea, but returned to the show sober after spending time at a spa retreat.
Cotton put a positive spin on her divorce when appearing on Lorraine Kelly’s show in 2025, saying, “It’s all very amicable, and the kids are doing great.” But she struck a rather different note this week on Instagram while promoting her new book, Likeable, saying in an emotional post that it explored “how I have shape-shifted, shrunk, diluted myself, remained silent and bent over backwards for approval”.
In 2019, Cotton confessed her marital woes in her column for Red magazine, writing, “This year, Jesse and I hit a rough patch – he was away, touring relentlessly, I was trying to keep my own career going while looking after our kids and we were both desperately clinging on to our marriage.”
She recalled one particularly devastating moment – when the pair got into a two-hour “screaming match” at their local park and broke down crying. Cotton wrote, “In the midst of this gargantuan row, I think we both wondered where the love had gone and worried it might not come back.”
It’s perhaps puzzling that one of the stresses on their marriage was Jesse’s busy touring schedule, given his distinctly moderate level of success. Jesse played with a few groups – including, naturally, The Ronnie Wood Band – before joining the rock band, Reef, in 2014.
But his confession in court this week suggests he’s not exactly making megabucks from his performing career. Like many a nepo baby before him, he also dabbled in modelling, appearing in a campaign for Liam Gallagher’s Pretty Green clothing label in 2013.
