Editing Jonathan Meades (section)

==Personal life==
Meades has been married three times and has four daughters from his first two marriages. In 1980 he married Sally Brown, director of the [[British Theatre Association]], and the couple had twins. His second wife was Frances Bentley, managing editor of ''[[Vogue (British magazine)|Vogue]]'', whom he married in 1988. They had two daughters and divorced in 1997. In 2003 he married his girlfriend Colette Forder, a colleague from ''The Times''.<ref name="Evening Standard 2002"/><ref name="Who's Who"/> In around 2007, the couple sold their penthouse flat on Tyers Gate, off [[Bermondsey|Bermondsey Street]], [[London Borough of Southwark|Southwark]], where they had lived for 10 years, and moved to a converted mill near [[Bordeaux]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4727296/Dandy-filth-hound.html|first=Lewis|last=Jones|work=The Daily Telegraph|title=Dandy filth-hound|date=24 January 2002|access-date=29 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1G1-188460207/who-s-moving-jonathan-pryce-and-kate-fahy-boris|first=Compton|last=Miller|title=Who's Moving|work=Evening Standard|location=London|date=5 November 2008|access-date=9 March 2018}}</ref> Discovering that they found country life boring, they then moved to [[Marseille]] in around 2011, where they live in [[Le Corbusier]]'s {{lang|fr|[[Unité d'habitation]]}} apartment block.<ref name="The Guardian 2"/><ref name="The Telegraph Interview"/><ref name="An interview with Jonathan Meades"/>

During his time at RADA, he became friends with the painter [[Duggie Fields]], whose flatmate was the former [[Pink Floyd]] singer, songwriter and guitarist [[Syd Barrett]]. He was also friendly with [[Aubrey Powell (designer)|Aubrey "Po" Powell]], co-founder of the graphic design company [[Hipgnosis]], most famous for its Pink Floyd album covers. He has described himself as "a hanger-on to the hangers-on" around the band and has admitted to taking [[LSD]] three times, describing it as "the only remotely interesting drug".<ref name="Quietus"/>

Meades was called "the best amateur chef in the world" by [[Marco Pierre White]].<ref name="unbound plagiarist"/><ref name="talking of food"/> He taught himself to cook as a young man using ''[[Mastering the Art of French Cooking]]'' (1961, 1970), by [[Simone Beck]], [[Louisette Bertholle]] and [[Julia Child]].<ref name="talking of food"/>

He is a football fan and supports [[Southampton F.C.]]<ref name="Quietus 3"/>

He has been a member of Soho's [[Groucho Club|Groucho]] and Academy clubs.<ref name="Who's Who"/>

He won the first ever episode of the BBC's ''[[Celebrity Mastermind]]'', broadcast in December 2002. His specialist subject was English Architecture, 1850–2002.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/4758195/Portrait-of-a-driver-Jonathan-Meades.html|first=Harry|last=Mount|title=Portrait of a driver: Jonathan Meades|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=22 February 2003|access-date=12 March 2018}}</ref>

In the autumn of 2016, he was rushed to hospital and underwent five hours of cardiac surgery. Earlier in the year he had suffered from [[pleurisy]] and an [[embolism]].<ref name="The Guardian 2"/>