The previous showbiz couple shared a shock assertion saying their separation on-line.
Vernon Kay offers Tess Daly a makeover for charity in 2015
Tess Daly and Vernon Kay have introduced their separation after 22 years of marriage in a shock assertion. On Friday night time (Could 8), the previous Strictly Come Dancing host took to Instagram to interrupt the information to her loyal legion of followers. She wrote: “After a lot consideration, and with a deep sense of care and respect for each other, we’ve got made the choice to separate amicably.
“This has not been a straightforward selection, nevertheless it comes from a spot of mutual understanding and a shared need for what’s greatest for each of us. We stay nice associates and, most significantly, totally dedicated to our roles as loving and supportive mother and father, which is able to at all times be our precedence. There aren’t any different events concerned on this choice. We won’t be making any additional public feedback.”
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Tess Daly and Vernon Kay have separated after 23 years of marriage (Picture: Getty Pictures for the NTA’s)
Tess Daly with Vernon Kay and their daughter Phoebe Kay (left) after she was made a Member of the Or (Picture: PA)
The TV couple met in 2001 whereas working as rising TV presenters for rival channels, and crossed paths at a BBC Christmas social gathering. They organized a primary date at Zilli Fish on Brewer Road within the coronary heart of Soho, though their romance nearly ended earlier than it started when Vernon’s bank card declined, leaving Tess to foot the invoice.
However their relationship blossomed behind the scenes, with Vernon popping the query on Christmas Day 2002 at Tess’ mother and father’ dwelling. In September 2003, the 57-year-old presenter and the BBC Radio 2 DJ, 51, walked down the aisle collectively in Vernon’s hometown at St Mary’s Catholic Church in Horwich, close to Bolton.
One 12 months later, Tess lastly broke into the primetime TV business when she landed a presenting gig on Strictly Come Dancing with the late TV icon, Bruce Forsyth. Tess obtained pregnant with their first daughter, Phoebe, 21, throughout the present’s first collection and later welcomed their daughter Amber, 16, in 2009.
Their separation comes lower than six months after Tess and her former co-host Claudia Winkleman left the BBC dance competitors final December.
She hosted the truth present for 21 years alongside the late Bruce Forsyth and the Traitors star earlier than bidding farewell to the long-running present. The company is but to announce who will exchange the dynamic duo forward of this 12 months’s new collection.
The golden couple’s closing put up collectively was 12 weeks in the past because the pair beamed outdoors the BBC tv centre moments earlier than they hosted The One Present collectively.
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