TV presenters Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty have announced that they are getting divorced after 12 years of marriage.
The This Morning host and BBC 5 Live presenter, who share two children together, released a joint statement to break the news. ‘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,’ they continued. ‘There will be no further comment.’
Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty at the wedding of Ant McPartlin and Anne-Marie Corbett in 2021. (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)
The former couple first met while co-hosting Fame Academy on BBC in 2002 and were friends before things turned romantic a decade later. They got married in Rome in September 2012 and have two sons who are nine and seven years old.
As well as presenting a show on BBC 5 Live, Kielty hosts The Late Late Show on the Irish TV channel RTE. He took over the role from Ryan Tubridy in 2023. While Deeley started presenting This Morning alongside Ben Shepherd last year following Holly Willoughby’s departure.
Why are Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty getting divorced?
As for why the couple have split, Deeley and Kielty have chosen not to go into detail, but it could be a result of their conflicting schedules. Their careers have seen them both take on new roles in the past few years, with Kielty working late nights in Dublin and Deeley starting early on the ITV breakfast show.
Nikki Peach is a writer at Grazia UK, working across entertainment, TV and news. She has also written for the i, i-D and the New Statesman Media Group and covers all things pop culture for Grazia (treating high and lowbrow with equal respect).
