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Tess Daley and Vernon Kay have split

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 08/05/2026 18:40

Sad isnt it - they were a power couple

Tess Daley and Vernon Kay have split
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Boobtasticmumma · 08/05/2026 21:26

Delatron · 08/05/2026 21:14

I think she waited until the kids were
old enough. Phoebe went to my son’s school. Obviously she was head girl, very popular and confident.

I do think Amber is older than everyone is saying. I think she’s 16 but about to turn 17. She was born May 2009. So did GCSEs last year..timing makes perfect sense..

Correct, left to go to an all-girls school.

Hopi the girls are ok in this.

NippyNinjaCrab · 08/05/2026 21:27

Hopefully now she is off the TV and heading for an adult gap year she will drop Tess and use her own name. It doesn't suit her!

LuluWearsATutu · 08/05/2026 21:28

Quelle surprise said no one ever.

LizzieSiddal · 08/05/2026 21:28

I thought she looked ill on the last series of Strictly, I image getting rid of her twat if a H will make her feel much better.

Go Tess, you deserve so much better.

RainbowZebraWarrior · 08/05/2026 21:32

MyAutumnCrow · 08/05/2026 19:42

Oh god, the way she said ‘cupples’ on SCD.

Criticising Northern accents is exactly why the North / South divide still exists. It comes across as assuming you are superior because you don't have a Northern accent. That's pretty shitty, tbh.

nomas · 08/05/2026 21:35

mumofoneAloneandwell · 08/05/2026 18:46

Was he?!

Details please!! 👀👀

Although less hot men have behaved appallingly so its not inconceivable

Is he hot?! Confused

He’s more like a Vernon Dursley.

Tess Daley and Vernon Kay have split
Housewife2010 · 08/05/2026 21:35

Itsahardknocklifeforus · 08/05/2026 20:08

Cheryl Cole/Tweedy or whatever name she now goes by...is/was on one of Simon's Cowel's programmes isn't she and speaks the same way?

Hardly. Cheryl is a Geordie and Tess is from Lancashire. Very different accents.

SaraOnSaturday · 08/05/2026 21:36

Whilst I don't support staying in a relationship that isn't working, I do think Tess has stayed with Vernon until their Daughters are grown up.

Just throwing it out there, are Vernon, Paddy McGuiness and Patrick Kielty having a mid-life foray?

Fraudornot · 08/05/2026 21:36

Dont think it is a coincidence it is happening as she’s left strictly. She wouldn’t want the bad publicity before but probably doesn’t care now . I’ve a sense she is retiring.

Zov · 08/05/2026 21:36

nomas · 08/05/2026 21:35

Is he hot?! Confused

He’s more like a Vernon Dursley.

Yep, I don't think he is physically attractive at all. He was 100% punching with Tess Daly.

BrownBookshelf · 08/05/2026 21:37

I had it in my head they'd broken up already, but on reflection it must've just been one of the myriad of cheating stories.

Overworkedandknackered · 08/05/2026 21:37

She definitely not a natural presenter, but actually that’s what we liked about her on strictly, the sort of slightly robotic delivery and stunned look when something went wrong, we always joked that she had the same script every year and just changed the names, and I suppose it makes it all the more impressive that she kept the biggest presenting gig on TV for so long.

She seems like a lovely woman, and she’s very beautiful and really doesn’t look her age at all, I hope she goes on to have a very happy future.

I never could stand Vernon, annoying voice and annoying hair.

likeafishneedsabike · 08/05/2026 21:37

RainbowZebraWarrior · 08/05/2026 21:32

Criticising Northern accents is exactly why the North / South divide still exists. It comes across as assuming you are superior because you don't have a Northern accent. That's pretty shitty, tbh.

Most of us who don’t have a northern accent really do wish that we did. In fact southerners regularly have long conversations in simulated Yorkshire accents. Just for the hell of it.
Pure jealousy is what it is!

caloriesincaloriesout · 08/05/2026 21:37

mumofoneAloneandwell · 08/05/2026 21:20

😄 omg lighten up!

This is someone’s life? Is there even a vanishingly slim chance you don’t know anyone who has got divorced? Probably not.
No matter what the circumstances, divorce is always painful and awful for everyone involved. As you well know.
The fact that this is Friday evening “fun” for you says more about you than it does about anyone else involved.

Zov · 08/05/2026 21:37

Housewife2010 · 08/05/2026 21:35

Hardly. Cheryl is a Geordie and Tess is from Lancashire. Very different accents.

Probably all sound the same to Southerners! 😆

Frenchtipple · 08/05/2026 21:39

I read recently that more women approaching their 60s are seeking divorces! Wanting independence etc

Good on her 🥂💐

Zov · 08/05/2026 21:40

likeafishneedsabike · 08/05/2026 21:37

Most of us who don’t have a northern accent really do wish that we did. In fact southerners regularly have long conversations in simulated Yorkshire accents. Just for the hell of it.
Pure jealousy is what it is!

😂

mumofoneAloneandwell · 08/05/2026 21:41

nomas · 08/05/2026 21:35

Is he hot?! Confused

He’s more like a Vernon Dursley.

😄😄😄😄 omg

He had a hot aura - tall, successful (although now i feel that he owes it to his wife, and is actually quite useless)

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Zov · 08/05/2026 21:42

Blimey @caloriesincaloriesout no need to take everything so seriously. It's just an internet message board full of random people who don't know each other commenting on a news story about 2 celebrities. No-one is forcing you to read this thread, so stop telling people off like they're naughty toddlers.

Millymollymandy4 · 08/05/2026 21:43

BambooLampshade · 08/05/2026 18:41

He was a sleaze. I'm amazed she stayed with him at all.

Me too

getting past the text sexting - jus no! Gross

Millymollymandy4 · 08/05/2026 21:45

WhenTheDustSettles · 08/05/2026 18:47

Yes, I think this is Tess's decision.

Na joint - he showed his lack of interest or commitment before they even had kids didn’t he

Millymollymandy4 · 08/05/2026 21:46

mumofoneAloneandwell · 08/05/2026 18:47

How does everyone know this

Had no idea about his cheating ways 🤢🤢

He made a public apology!

caloriesincaloriesout · 08/05/2026 21:48

Zov · 08/05/2026 21:42

Blimey @caloriesincaloriesout no need to take everything so seriously. It's just an internet message board full of random people who don't know each other commenting on a news story about 2 celebrities. No-one is forcing you to read this thread, so stop telling people off like they're naughty toddlers.

This is obviously hugely entertaining to a certain type of person. I am hugely glad that I’m not in the public eye. And, that I’m not the type of person who’d find this entertaining.

Millymollymandy4 · 08/05/2026 21:50

Georgiapeach21 · 08/05/2026 19:21

Power couple 🤣

Exactly

on the one show - real power 😂😂

nomas · 08/05/2026 21:50

caloriesincaloriesout · 08/05/2026 21:48

This is obviously hugely entertaining to a certain type of person. I am hugely glad that I’m not in the public eye. And, that I’m not the type of person who’d find this entertaining.

Why would you click on the thread which explains what it’s about?!

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