The shape I’m in: Dean Friedman, singer/songwriter

WHEN a rescue monkey came to live with singer/songwriter Dean Friedman and his family, she quickly settled into her new home at the foothills of the Catskills mountains, north of New York city.

“My wife Alison called me while I was on tour and said: ‘she is not doing well and I want her last days to be very peaceful’. But 33 years later she was still going strong. She was in her 40s when she finally did pass away but she had a very good, long monkey life,” says Dean, 60.

“Amelia was a beloved member of the family. She was like having a little hairy kid.