Editing Gilbert O'Sullivan (section)

==Personal life==
O'Sullivan purposely avoided dating at the peak of his career, as he feared that doing so would inhibit his songwriting abilities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gilbertosullivan.net/in_print/rolling_stone_02.htm |title=Gilbert O'Sullivan &#124; In Print |website=Gilbertosullivan.net |date=1973-08-02 |access-date=8 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306022106/http://www.gilbertosullivan.net/in_print/rolling_stone_02.htm |archive-date=6 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In January 1980, he married his [[Norwegians|Norwegian]] girlfriend Aase Brekke. Later that year, the first of their two daughters, Helen-Marie, was born. Tara was born two years later.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.sundayworld.com/showbiz/irish-showbiz/gilbert-osullivan-admits-his-pudding-bowl-haircut-didnt-impress-the-ladies/40558733.html |title=GILLER LOOK - Gilbert O'Sullivan admits his pudding bowl haircut didn't impress the ladies |first=Eddie |last=Rowley |publisher=[[Sunday World]] |website=sundayworld.com |date=21 Jun 2021 |access-date=25 October 2023 }}</ref>

He currently lives in [[Jersey]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/fame-fortune/gilbert-osullivan-success-was-the-postman-walking-up-the-garden/|title=Gilbert O'Sullivan: 'Success was the postman walking up the garden whistling my song'|first=Caroline|last=Rees|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=14 August 2016|access-date=28 December 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref>