Amanda Louise Smith (born 17 July 1970) is an English former pop singer and model. She became known in the mid-1980s for her underage relationship with, and subsequent marriage to, the Rolling Stones' bassist Bill Wyman, who was 33 years her senior.
Personal life
Mandy Smith lived in Tottenham as a child. She met Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman when she attended the BPI Awards with her older sister Nicola in 1984 when she was 13 years old. Wyman was 47, and wrote in his 1990 autobiography: "She took my breath away... she was a woman at thirteen." The relationship only became public two-and-a-half years later, when she reached the age of 16 (the legal age of consent in the United Kingdom), and resulted in a firestorm of publicity.
In 1986, Smith was scheduled to be interviewed on the Irish television show Saturday Live, but cancelled when broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) said she would be interviewed from a seat in the audience rather than on the set. RTÉ said she was "not important enough" and that she might "give a bad example to young teenage girls".
Smith and Wyman married on 2 June 1989 in a civil ceremony on his Suffolk estate; she was 18 and he 52. Smith had by this time developed health issues which she blamed on being on birth control pills since the age of 14, when she said her relationship with Wyman was illegally consummated; not long after the wedding, she weighed only . Wyman reportedly grew impatient with her health problems and she moved out several weeks after the wedding, the marriage officially ended in divorce after 23 months. Smith won a settlement then worth a reported US$880,000.
On 19 June 1993, Smith married footballer Pat Van Den Hauwe, but this marriage also lasted only two years. She published a best-selling autobiography, It's All Over Now, in 1993. In 2001, she was briefly engaged to fashion model Ian Mosby with whom she had a son, Max Harrison Mosby. She stated in 2010 that she was celibate at the age of 40 and had begun working with and counselling troubled teenagers.
In 2010, Smith publicly called for the age of consent in the United Kingdom to be raised from 16 to 18, saying "People will find that odd coming from me. But I think I do know what I'm talking about here. You are still a child even at 16. You can never get that part of your life, your childhood, back. I never could." Smith was the first artist signed to Waterman's PWL Records which later became the UK home of Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan after the producer's hopes for a £500,000 deal with a major label failed to materialise. a result the producers blamed on the hostility of the British media, While Mandy Smith is credited as the lead vocalist, Rhatigan's vocals were layered over hers to strengthen the recordings. An album, Mandy, was released in 1988 and spawned more hits in European countries with songs like "Positive Reaction" and "Boys and Girls". Success at home in the UK, however, continued to elude Smith.
Discography
Studio albums
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! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" | <small>AUS<br></small>
! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" | <small>SWI<br>
!width="20"|<small>AUS</small><br />
!width="20"|<small>GER</small><br />
!width="20"|<small>IRE</small><br />
!width="20"|<small>ITA</small><br />
!width="20"|<small>NOR</small><br />
!width="20"|<small>NZ</small><br />
!width="20"|<small>SA</small><br />
!width="20"|<small>SWI</small><br />
!width="20"|<small>US<br />Dance</small><br />
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|align="center" rowspan="2"|1987
|"I Just Can't Wait"
|align="center"|91
|align="center"|91
|align="center"|14
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|align="center"|6
|align="center"|9
|align="center"|37
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|align="center"|16
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|align="center" rowspan="4"|Mandy
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|"Positive Reaction"
|align="center"|116
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|align="center"|39
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|align="center"|9
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|align="center"|11
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|align="left"|UK Indie Chart #48
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|align="center" rowspan="3"|1988
|"Boys and Girls"
|align="center"|108
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|align="center"|23
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|align="center"|12
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|align="center"|7
|align="center"|4
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|"Victim of Pleasure"
|align="center"|93
|align="center"|78
|align="center"|49
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|align="center"|11
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|align="center"|28
|align="center"|22
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|The Mandy EP
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|Released in Hong Kong only
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|align="center"|1989
|"Don't You Want Me Baby"
|align="center"|59
|align="center"|90
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|align="center"|30
|align="center"|11
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|align="center"|1992
|"I Just Can't Wait" (1992 remix)
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|Promo 12″ only
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|align="center"|1995
|"I Just Can't Wait" (1995 remix)
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|Promo 12″ only
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| colspan="17" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in those countries.
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