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===Personal life, illness and death=== Rodgers was married twice. Firstly she married John Morris in 1968, in London; he later became her manager.The marriage, which produced one son, ended in divorce in 1979.<ref name=DT>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=19 April 2025 |title=Clodagh Rodgers, Northern Irish pop star who took Jack in the Box to the 1971 Dublin Eurovision |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2025/04/19/clodagh-rodgers-northern-ireland-pop-eurovision-jack-box/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 April 2025 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Her second husband, guitarist Ian Sorbie, whom she married in 1987 and with whom she had had a son in 1984, died of a brain tumour in 1995, not long after their [[Paignton]]-based restaurant business collapsed, leaving them bankrupt.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/bristoltimes/Larry-Ronnie-provided-laughsarticle-624150-details/article.html|title=The Bristol Post|website=Thisisbristol.co.uk|access-date=28 June 2014}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="DT" /> Rodgers' sister Lavinia was also a singer.{{cn|date=April 2025}} Rodgers, who had been ill for around three years, died at her home in [[Cobham, Surrey]], where she had lived for many years, on 18 April 2025, at the age of 78.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Abigail |date=19 April 2025 |title=Clodagh Rodgers: UK Eurovision singer dies aged 78 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3x8mpznlgo |access-date=19 April 2025 |website=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Marshall |first=Michelle |date=19 April 2025 |title=British Eurovision legend dies as heartbroken son says 'life's not the same' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/clodagh-rodgers-eurovision-death-b2736082.html|access-date=20 April 2025 |website=independent.co.uk}}</ref>
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