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Sky: After 20 years of living in sin, notorious Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan is finally getting married – to an angel.

Journalist Victoria Mary Clarke has stuck by MacGowan’s side for over two decades.

But before she ties the knot with the singer, she’s releasing a tell-all book about their tempestuous relationship.

Sky News’ John Kelly went to meet the couple in a Dublin boozer to get the low down:

He shambles in, stooped, limping and relying heavily on the blackthorn stick clutched in his right hand to stay upright.

Ordinarily, such an entrance would have caught the eye for no more than a nanosecond. It is only when the flashbulbs start popping that you realise the shambling figure in the long coat and cap is none other than Shane MacGowan.

His down-at-heel appearance is contrasted by Victoria, who is wearing a black PVC mini-dress, vertigo-inducing high heels and wings. Yes, wings. Of the sort that a child in a nativity play might wear if they were cast in the role of an angel.

Despite the fact that her new book is called Angel In Disguise? Victoria is quick to dismiss the notion that she is MacGowan’s guardian angel.

“No, he’s my guardian angel, aren’t you Shane?”

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