This Morning presenter Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty have announced their separation after more than a decade of marriage.
The TV stars met while presenting Fame Academy together on the BBC in 2003, at which time Cat was married to her ex-husband Mark Whelan.
Their professional relationship quickly evolved into a personal one, and they got married in September 2012 at an intimate ceremony in Rome.
They also welcomed their son Milo in January 2016 and James in June 2018.
However, in a joint statement the couple have said: ‘We have taken the decision to end our marriage and are now separated. There is no other party involved.
‘We will continue to be united as loving parents to our children and would therefore kindly ask for our family privacy to be respected. There will be no further comment.’
In 2023, Patrick took over from Ryan Tubridy as the host of The Late Late Show on Ireland’s RTE One channel in 2023
Cat was then unveiled as the new host of This Morning, alongside Ben Shepard, in February 2024.
Earlier this year, it was revealed why Cat did not attend the funeral of Patrick’s mother in County Down, Northern Ireland.
The presenter said she wanted to be there for her sons Milo, nine, and James, seven, before and after they finished school as they grieved the loss of their grandmother.
Her representative confirmed to MailOnline: ‘Cat remained at home to be there for her two young children before and after school on this very sad day.’
Previously Cat told how her Patrick ‘knocked my socks off’ when he flew all the way from Belfast to Los Angeles for a brunch.
Speaking in 2020 on the Made By Mammas podcast, the presenter said: ‘It was my birthday and he’d rung me, he was at a pub in Ireland and he’d rung me from the pub.
‘Bear in mind it was probably about 2 o’clock in the morning because they’d had a lock-in.’
After telling him that she was having a birthday brunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel Patrick told her: ‘”I’ll see you there!” I was like, there’s no way!
‘He went home, set his alarm for five, got up, went to the airport, flew from Belfast to London, then jumped on the first plane from London to LA, got in a cab, told the cabbie on his way from the airport what he was doing, and the driver was literally like “do you want me to wait for you?!”‘
‘He walked in, dropped his bags at the concierge, walked in and came and sat down for lunch! It knocked my socks off a little bit!’
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