Sir Elton John says his husband David Furnish is so unpopular, he calls him 'Yoko'.

Sir Elton John says his husband David Furnish is so unpopular, he calls him 'Yoko'.

The couple married in 2014, exactly nine years after they tied the knot in a civil partnership ceremony.

The singer said he planned to discuss gay rights with Russian president Vladimir Putin over a cup of tea, he told The Sun.

Furnish recently took over the management of Sir Elton's business affairs and the pair have "changed some assistants".
 

Yoko Ono had a difficult relationship with John Lennon's fellow Beatles

Alluding to the fraught relationship between John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono and his fellow Beatles bandmates, he said of Furnish: "I call him Yoko now because a lot of people don't like what he's doing."
But Sir Elton insisted that Furnish's decision-making was not unpopular with everyone and that record company Universal had never been happier.

Sir Elton performed on the Graham Norton Show on Friday

He said he planned to take up the offer to meet the real Putin after he was fooled by prank callers into thinking he was talking to the Russian president.
In the interview, Sir Elton paid tribute to the couple's two sons and said they were behind his happiness.

The couple have two sons, Zachary and Elijah

He also said that he loved England's sense of humour, preferring his home country to America.
"I love it over there but there's not enough irony there and it's not England. This country is absolutely lethal!," he said.

"Hence I don't go on Twitter. Things you say in jest, when you look at them in print, oh my God."