David Furnish

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  • filmmaker
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David James Furnish (born 25 October 1962) is a Canadian CEO, artist manager, filmmaker and former advertising executive. He is the husband of British singer, songwriter, and pianist Elton John.[2]

Early life and education

David Furnish was born in Toronto at Women's College Hospital, the son of Gladys and Jack Furnish, a director at Bristol-Myers Company, a pharmaceutical company.[3] He has an older brother, John, and a younger brother, Peter. He graduated from the Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute in 1981 and received an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration (HBA) from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, in 1985.[4]

Career

After graduation, David Furnish was recruited by the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather Canada in Toronto. At 27, he asked his firm to transfer him to their British principal offices in London. Furnish flourished there, becoming the firm's youngest director of account services.[4]

Furnish is co-chief of Rocket Pictures with his husband Elton John. Furnish serves on the board of the Elton John AIDS Foundation as chairman,[5] attending fund-raising events and other events in support of the foundation.[citation needed] Furnish is a contributing editor for Tatler, a magazine, and also is a regular columnist for Interview and GQ.[citation needed] In 2015, he was named one of GQTemplate:'s 50 best dressed men in Britain.[6]

In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Queerty named him along with Elton John, as one of the Pride50 "trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance and dignity for all queer people".[7] In 2021, Furnish and Elton John received the Artist and Manager Partnership Award from the Music Managers Forum (MMF) in 2021. The award recognizes their work in music and charity.[8]

Furnish won the Manager of the Year award at the 2022 Music Week Awards.[9] In 2024, Furnish co-directed the documentary Elton John: Never Too Late alongside RJ Cutler.[10]

Personal life

Furnish began a relationship with Elton John in 1993. Elton John proposed to Furnish in May 2005 at a dinner party with friends and family at one of their homes in Old Windsor. They entered into a civil partnership on 21 December 2005, the first day that civil partnerships were able to be performed in England, in the town of Windsor, Berkshire.[11] Their first child was born on 25 December 2010 in California via surrogacy.[11]

On 11 January 2013, the couple's second son was born through the same surrogate as their first.[12] After same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales in March 2014, they retroactively converted their civil partnership into a marriage and held a ceremony in Windsor on 21 December 2014, the ninth anniversary of their civil partnership.[13]

In 2016, Furnish sought an anonymised privacy injunction in the case PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd.[14]

Filmography

Television

Theatre

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Talk Talk. "David Furnish bio at TalkTalk.co.uk". Retrieved 9 December 2011.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Photos: Sir Elton John and David Furnish marry · PinkNews". Pinknews.co.uk. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - David Furnish". andrejkoymasky.com. Retrieved 3 April 2023.[dead link]
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Pride grand marshal David Furnish reflects on growing up gay in a very different Toronto". Toronto Star. 26 June 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Boffey, Daniel (9 June 2023). "David Furnish on wiping out HIV/Aids, the 'weaponisation' of LGBTQ+ rights … and the day Putin called". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."50 Best Dressed Men in Britain 2015". GQ. 5 January 2015. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Queerty Pride50 2019 Honorees". Queerty. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Elton John and David Furnish to be honoured at Artist & Manager Awards".
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Exclusive: Elton John speaks out on the charts, Brexit & why women are making the best music in 2022".
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."David Furnish Admits Making Film About Husband Elton John Got "Too Emotionally Upsetting" At Times". Hollywood Reporter. 16 October 2024.
  11. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Elton John and David Furnish are dads". CNN. 28 December 2010. Archived from the original on 19 March 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Special Announcement". 16 January 2013. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sir Elton John and David Furnish marry". BBC. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."British papers can report Furnish's infidelity". The Straits Times. 20 April 2016.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras, retrieved 10 June 2019
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Elley, Derek (11 October 1999). "Women Talking Dirty". Variety. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."In my view: Sex and Fashion: Inside Gucci". Manchester Evening News. 13 January 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Inside Versace Fame and Fashion (2002)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.French, Philip (31 December 2006). "It's a Boy Girl Thing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Child, Ben (17 February 2009). "Pride and Predator to give Jane Austen an extreme makeover". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gnomeo and Juliet: Exclusive interview with Elton John and David". The Independent. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."David Furnish". Billy Elliot Tour. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wagmeister, Elizabeth (27 January 2015). "HBO Orders Musical Period Drama Pilot From Elton John & 'True Blood' Creator". Variety. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  24. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."British Council Film: Sherlock Gnomes". film.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  25. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."David Furnish says Elton John biopic Rocketman is giving him 'sleepless nights'". Irish Independent. 22 February 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  26. ^ Stephen Daw, "Elton John’s New Documentary ‘Never Too Late’ to Debut at Toronto International Film Festival". Billboard, June 18, 2024.

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