Ellie Goulding reveals it's 'really great' living apart from husband Caspar Jopling: 'I also love myself'

'I can go for a run, I can eat messily'
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Megan C. Hills15 July 2020

Ellie Goulding and her husband Caspar Jopling are living apart currently, while Goulding works on her upcoming album and Jopling pursues his masters degree at Oxford University. Goulding talked about their arrangement in a recent interview, saying she loved her husband but also found it “really great” that she could be on her own sometimes.

In an interview with The Mirror, Goulding said, “No I love it! I love my husband – but I also love myself. I can read a book. I can go for a run, I can eat messily.”

“It’s really great that you can have a partner that you don’t have to be with 24/7 – even when you’re married,” she continued.

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Goulding isn't the only celebrity who has lived apart from their partner, as Gwyneth Paltrow revealed she and her husband Brad Falchuk regularly spent half of the week apart from one another early into their marriage. As per their arrangement, Falchuk spent three nights at his home with his children from a previous marriage and then four nights with Paltrow and her children with Chris Martin.

Paltrow said to the Sunday Times, "Oh, all my married friends say that the way we live sounds ideal and we shouldn’t change a thing."

Things changed last year however, as Paltrow explained to InStyle, "Married life has been really good. We took a year to let everybody [in the family] take it in and let the dust settle. And now we’re moving in together this month."

Jopling and Goulding were reunited earlier this week, as he came to town for a double date with their close friend Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank. (Jopling’s art dealer uncle Jay Jopling used to work with Princess Eugenie and it is believed he was introduced to Goulding through her.)

When they’re apart however, Goulding revealed that Jopling would make thoughtful and sometimes secret romantic gestures for the singer. “He built me a cover for my cat litter tray. And he always buys me flowers. I was driving down the motorway in my electric car and I found a little rose in the glovebox.”

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Goulding and Jopling are set to celebrate their one year wedding anniversary on August 31, after tying the knot in a grand church wedding at York Minster last year. Previously, she talked about what it was like spending lockdown together which was “not ideal straight after you get married” but proved they could “coexist really peacefully.”

“It’s been great, I can honestly say that we haven’t come to blows, we haven’t stormed out of the house or vice versa and I’m grateful for that,” she said to Glamour.

Goulding has teased that her upcoming album Brightest Blue is the “best album she’s ever made”, after a five year hiatus from music.