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Kirsten Farage【 Nigel Farage Wife 】Wiki, Age, Bio, Wikipedia, Job

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Name Kirsten Farage

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB As of 2024, she is around 57 years old.

Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Fiance / Partner Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.

Biography Information / Profile Background

Introduction :

  • Kirsten Farage is a political correspondent who works for political figure and leader of the UKIP party, Nigel Farage.
  • Quiet and reserved, she has always preferred to keep a low profile away from the limelight quite opposite to her husband, Nigel.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

  • Given her desire to stay away from the public glare, little is known about Kirsten’s early life or upbringing. She was born in Hamburg, Germany & spent most of her life living there until she moved to England to be with her husband.
  • Farage met her husband, Nigel in 1996 in Frankfurt, Germany and after three years of dating, the two tied the knot. Nigel was previously married to a woman named Grainne Hayes and had two children with her.
  • Together, Nigel and Kirsten have two daughters, Victoria and Isabelle. After tying the knot, Kirsten moved to England and focused on raising their children while Farage was pursuing his political career.
  • The couple was rarely spotted out together and when attending any political events, she preferred to remain in the crowd and away from the cameras.

Marriage Troubles :

  • Unfortunately for Kirsten, her marriage has been anything but blissful with Nigel being accused multiple times of having extra-marital affairs.
  • In one particularly embarrassing incident, he was accused of engaging in 7 times in one night romp with a woman from Latvia.
  • He has also been accused of giving one of his mistresses a job in the Ukip party in addition to having several inappropriate interactions with multiple women.
  • For his part, Nigel has always denied the claims but in 2017, Kirsten admitted to having lived separately from him for a while and reinforced that she no longer cared about him or his personal affairs.
  • Despite their ongoing marital troubles, Nigel and Kirsten have yet to file for an official separation or divorce.

Education, Career and Net Worth :

  • Prior to meeting her husband, Kirsten worked for a bank in Germany as an Interpreter.
  • After marrying Nigel, she quit her job and began to work as his personal correspondent. Her job entailed reading and answering emails on his behalf because he is not a fan of computers and briefing him on upcoming political events, appearances and meetings.
  • Kirsten has never officially worked at the Ukip Headquarters but receives a salary of more than 25 000 pounds that is paid to her by the European Parliament.
  • Nigel received a lot of criticism for hiring his wife to do the job and for awarding her a salary, which comes directly from the money of taxpayers.

Interesting Facts and Trivia :

  • Kirsten is believed to be responsible for having a former member of UKIP and personal friend to Nigel, Godfrey Bloom, fired from the party.
  • Bloom was reported to have labelled Ukip Conference guests as sl*ts which Kirsten took offence to. It has never been officially confirmed but many people both in and out of the UKIP party are convinced that Kirsten was also tired of Mr Bloom’s remarks about Nigel’s affairs which was causing a lot of media frenzy and unnecessary attention.

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