Ricki-Lee Wants You To Stop Calling Her Manager Husband A Personal Trainer

It was God himself (or the remains of a satellite that collided with God) who once said, 'If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all' — and if those words are true, then Ricki-Lee Coulter's new husband Richard Harrison must be doing things very, very right indeed.

So right, in fact, that the former Young Diva felt the need to hit up social media with a detailed, heartfelt, slightly annoyed-sounding missive ensuring that anyone who read it came away with total understanding that Harrison is not her personal trainer — as he has apparently routinely been labelled in media since the pair took up together in 2009 — he's her manager. And, well, now that they're a newly married couple, Coulter is done standing by while everyone completely mislabels or totally overlooks Harrison's contributions to the Ricki-Lee show, thank you very much.

"I apologise in advance for the long post but I hope you read it all and understand," Coulter began her post on Facebook.

"There has been a common misconception for 6 years now… and I feel like if I don't say something, it will continue forever. My husband Rich is not a Personal Trainer — he is my manager.

"In almost every article I have seen written about me… Rich is referred to as a Personal Trainer, which he isn't. And that we met as his personal training studio. Which we didn't. He sold his personal training business 10 years ago and in the 6 years we have been together he has never trained me once. We met in 2009 in a bar in Melbourne at 1am and I was standing on a table skulling a jug of beer… cos that's the kind of classy girl I am!"

Coulter went on to explain that, having noticed Harrison's ability "to think big and make shit happen", when he moved to Sydney to be with her in 2010, she made him her manager, and "everything I have done in my career since then — we have done together and he is largely responsible for".

Coulter then complemented her defense of Harrison's actual role in her life with a bizarrely detailed explanation of (an actually pretty specific and context-sensitive pop-world version of) a manager's job description, which seems to indicate that the universal experience of making music involves writers and producers from around the world, and highlights concepts like "motivation" and "inspiration" and "lazy journalism". Actually, that last part is actually probably unassailable. 

"I can't even begin to explain how much he motivates and inspires me creatively every single day," Coulter concluded her post. "So when I see him referred to as a personal trainer — it's SO wrong it's not even funny. It's lazy journalism and it's incorrect. And I feel like it discredits everything he has been a part of creating — and everything he does on a daily basis.

"So please — to the people who keep writing it, stop with the Personal Trainer tag. Rich is my manager. And a great manager at that with a great reputation in this business. I'd like him to get the credit he deserves … It's been 5 years now; it had to be said."

Read her full plea for accuracy, replete with wedding photo straight out of the concept poster art for every Nicholas Sparks movie ever, below.