A musician with DNA proof he is Maurice Gibb’s love child has hit back at Lulu’s claims that her late husband fathered a son with another woman while they were together
Nick Endacott-Gibb, 57, who confirmed Maurice Gibb was his father after an online DNA test in 2019(Image: Tim Merry)
Speaking on the Louis Theroux podcast earlier this week, Shout singer Lulu, 77, said of Maurice Gibb: “I think he’s got a son. It might have happened when we were married. I just found out. He impregnated this girl after a one night stand and he has a son who has had his genes taken. He’s a hundred per cent Maurice’s”
But Nick Endacott-Gibb, 57, who confirmed Maurice Gibb was his father after an online DNA test in 2019, says he was conceived before Lulu and his dad were an item. She famously started dating Maurice in 1969 after they met on Top of the Pops and married on February 18 the same year after a whirlwind romance – divorcing in 1973.
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Nick, of Hove, East Sussex, says: “I was born in April 1968, conceived in August 1967. Lulu and Maurice weren’t married until 1969, after what has been described for decades as a ‘whirlwind’ romance. Were you together with him, Lulu? Two years does not a whirlwind make. I’m as curious as she is about whether Maurice was with her at the time I was conceived. It was the summer of love, after all!”
Nick, who lives with his partner, Jacqui, manager of a chiropractic clinic, was born in Woolwich, south London, and adopted from a children’s home at 18 months – enjoying a happy childhood in East Sussex with three siblings, mum Peggy, a secretary, and dad David, a chartered quantity surveyor.
Told he was adopted as a child, Nick says Peggy and David, who are now dead, supported his search for his birth parents, which he began in his 20s, before giving up and resuming in 2001. He says: “I was getting older and starting to wonder about my medical history.”
Uploading his details onto a database called Missing You, in 2003 he was reunited with his biological mum, Patti Nolder, a former music studio manager. She told him his father was Chris Andrews, of the band The Fleur de Lys, who he contacted, saying they “became close.” When a DNA test proved negative, Nick says: “My identity was a mystery once again.”
Then Patti’s sister revealed that his father was actually Maurice Gibb, who died of a cardiac arrest in 2003. “I couldn’t believe what I was hearing,” says Nick, who contacted the remaining Gibb brothers, to no avail. Then, in 2019, when Nick uploaded his DNA profile onto an ancestry website, so had Maurice’s son Adam Gibb – one of two children (the other being Samantha) with his second wife Yvonne..
Nick says: “I don’t know why it was on there, but the DNA proved that I was 100% his half brother.” After matching with several other Gibb cousins, Nick was contacted by Lesley Evans (nee Gibb) the Bee Gee brothers’ older sister. He says: “She connected me with her daughter Debbie, also a singer.”
Together, he and Debbie formed a project called Cousins Gibb and recorded their own version of Tragedy. And Nick – who is yet to speak to the remaining Bee Gee, Barry Gibb – spent last Christmas with Lesley and Debbie, who are based in New South Wales, Australia. He says: “It’s so wonderful to have finally found my family.”
Of Maurice, he adds: “I’m sad he died before I got the chance to meet him, but his memory lives on in the songs.” This autumn, Nick will be reunited with Debbie for the Best of the Bee Gees’ tribute act’s UK tour. He says: “We’re the new generation of the Bee Gees.”
He’s also releasing an album in May, as part of music partnership Mojosonic, with writing partner Carl Wright. Lesley says: “I said to Barry [Gibb] if he’s Maurice’s son, he’s Maurice’s son. There is no doubt Nick is a Gibb, with his musical genius.” Debbie, who sang at the STAR Casino in Queensland with Nick, as The Best of the Bee Gees, adds: “It was a beautiful experience.”
* Lulu was contacted for comment.
* Nick’s band’s Mojosonic’s new album ‘Karma’s Clock’ is released early May and for details about The Best of the Bee Gees UK Tour visit bestofthebeegees.com.au
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