Phil Collins Personal life
 Collins was married to Andrea Bertorelli of Canada, whom he met at a drama class in London, in 1975. They had a son, Simon Collins, and Collins adopted Bertorelli's daughter Joely Collins, now a Canadian actress. They divorced in 1980.
Collins and his second wife, Jill Tavelman, were married from 1984 to 1996. They had one daughter, Lily, who now co-hosts the Nickelodeon program Slime Across America and is currently a fashion model signed to Next. Collins openly admits that some of their divorce-related correspondence was by fax (one, about access to their daughter, was reproduced in The Sun), but denies that this took her by surprise.
Collins married his third wife, Orianne Cevey, in 1999. The couple had two sons, Nicholas and Matthew. They lived in Switzerland (Begnins), overlooking Lake Geneva, before announcing their separation on March 16, 2006. Collins has said he will continue to reside in Switzerland to be near the children. He lives in F?chy.
Collins moved to Switzerland after promising to leave the UK if the Labour Party was elected in 1997. This led Noel Gallagher, who has at times engaged in a verbal slanging match with Collins, to state during the 2005 British general election: Vote Labour. If you don't and the Tories get in, Phil is threatening to come back from Switzerland and live here — and none of us want that.[citation needed]
Collins is the boyfriend of CBS news anchor Dana Tyler. The pair met when Tyler interviewed him about Tarzan opening on Broadway in May 2006.
Collins is a supporter of animal rights and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). In 2005, he donated autographed drumsticks in support of PETA's campaign against Kentucky Fried Chicken. Collins is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club although used to support QPR, before changing his mind when Spurs reached the 1991 FA Cup Final.
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