Ricki-Lee Dawn Coulter is a New Zealand-born Australian singer, songwriter, television, and radio presenter.
Coulter shot to fame in 2004 on the second season of Australian Idol and placed seventh in the competition.
Jamie Babbington, Ricki-Lee Coulter’s ex-husband
Jamie Babbington was the first husband of singer-songwriter Ricki-Lee Coulter.
Coulter met Jamie Babbington, a builder from the Gold Coast when he was 23 and she was 15.
The pair began an intimate relationship after about a year.
Coulter and Babbington married at a secret location in Canungra, Queensland on September 7, 2007.
She took her husband’s last name and became Ricki-Lee Babbington. The couple had their honeymoon in the Maldives for five weeks.
Subsequently, they divorced on 18 October 2008, a year after tying the knot.
In an interview with Herald Sun’s Jonathan Moran, three years after the marriage ended, Coulter revealed that she had experienced depression amid her relationship with Babbington.
“I was living my dream but behind closed doors my personal life was a mess. I felt alone, I bottled it all up and it made things worse. I wanted to give up everything. I wouldn’t leave the house for days at a time. I’d sit in the house all day and do nothing”.
In 2016, David Babbington, 48, was given a two-year prison sentence, suspended for three years, in the Southport District Court.
He was also placed on probation for three years after pleading guilty to two counts of possessing tools used in the production of a dangerous drug.