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==Personal life== All four of Floyd's marriages ended in divorce; he had a son and daughter.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hourican|first1=Emily|title=The cook, his grief, his wives and his lovers... Keith Floyd β the original celebrity chef|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/the-cook-his-grief-his-wives-and-his-lovers-keith-floyd-the-original-celebrity-chef-35036169.html|access-date=24 October 2017|work=The Independent|date=12 September 2016}}</ref> Floyd spent many years in France. In 1974 he moved to [[Vaucluse]] [[Departments of France|department]], in the south-east of France, with Paddy Walker and her three young children. Together, they formed a company called Walker Floyd, buying wines in Vaucluse and then driving them back to Bristol to be sold to the city's bars and restaurants. They would then buy interesting, and carefully picked out, pieces of bric-a-brac to be driven back to Vaucluse for sale in the various markets. Paddy Walker and Floyd also ran a restaurant together in the village of [[L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue]] in the Vaucluse. In his autobiography, Floyd notes Walker's influence on him: "My approach to food, my style if you like, had developed as a result of my life in France with Paddy."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Floyd |first=Keith |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UjADfmkWuXUC |title=Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography |date=2010 |publisher=Pan Books |isbn=978-0-330-51158-2 |language=en}}</ref> In 1979, after five years together, Walker and Floyd's relationship broke down and they returned to Britain. In his last few years Floyd moved back to [[Avignon]] in the Vaucluse department.<ref name="IND"/> Floyd was a big fan of rock group [[the Stranglers]]: the tracks "Waltzinblack", an edited version of "[[Peaches (The Stranglers song)|Peaches]]", and an instrumental version of "Viva Vlad" were used as theme music for most of his TV programmes.<ref name=IND/>
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