Cat Deeley said 'poor Paddy' in intimate bedroom admission months before split

Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty have announced that they are separating after 12 years of marriage. Cat, 48, and Patrick, 54, shared: “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.”

In an interview last year, Cat jokingly highlighted an issue in the bedroom between the pair. She described the complex skincare regime that she uses to maintain her youthful look. She told The Telegraph: “I go to bed like a greasy potato chip, you’ve never seen anything like it. It’s all over the pillows. Poor Paddy!”

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It has recently emerged that Cat and Patrick had been living apart for the better part of a year. A source has told the Daily Mail that the two presenters had been driven apart by their busy workloads. “It is such sad news,” the insider revealed. “They were so happy after they moved back to London, and would talk about their grand plans to renovate the house for the family.

“But sadly, as so often happens with relationships, work got in the way and it put a huge strain on the marriage.”

Patrick has been commuting between Dublin, where he presents The Late Late Show, and London, for his weekly Radio 5 Live show. He’s also been dealing with family issues – both his mum and aunt have died in the past year.

Observers noted at the time that Cat was not among the mourners when Patrick carried his mother Mary's coffin through his home village in March.

A spokesman said at the time: “Cat remained at home to be there for her two young children before and after school on this very sad day.”

Meanwhile, since February 2024, Cat’s schedule has been dominated by her commitment to ITV’s This Morning – leaving the couple passing each other “like ships in the night.”

Speaking on the show, Cat had revealed that she and Patrick regularly slept in separate bedrooms. She said: “It's one of those things – because of our schedule here [on This Morning], from Monday to Thursday I sleep in the guest bedroom and the rest of the time I'm back. Because otherwise I get up at 5am and I want to fall asleep earlier.”

Before eventually accepting the This Morning job, after lengthy negotiations at the end of 2023, Cat had been fronting So You Think You Can Dance for US TV, adding to the physical distance between the couple.

Work had brought them together – Patrick and Cat first met in 2002 when they worked on BBC talent show Fame Academy – it had eventually forced them apart.

Before the split was announced, Patrick had insisted that their conflicting schedules hadn’t been a problem, although he admitted that they “probably could have timed it better in terms of the juggle.”

Describing his Irish TV chat show as his “dream job,” he said for the two of us to be doing two big shows like that is kind of mad.' He told RSVP Magazine: “I've had my house in Dundrum [County Down] for 25 years now and I've always been back and forth. The kids are in school in London and Cat works in London, she's there four days a week.”

Adding that he and his wife had no plans to move permanently to Ireland, he said: “I can just about come to Dublin to do what I do, but she's in ITV four days a week.”