Carol Kirkwood is currently enjoying the trappings of being newly engaged, in a loving relationship but she has shared that it wasn't such a good time in the aftermath of her split from her husband.
The 60-year-old BBC Breakfast weather presenter showed off her engagement ring while she was live on TV from Chelsea Flower Show, in May.
While at a happy point of her life, she has shared that it was difficult to cope at work when she separated from first husband Jimmy Kirkwood.
Carol had married Jimmy, a former cricket player, in the 1990s just as her career at the BBC began.
They divorced in 2008 after being together for 18 years but Carol has never shared why their marriage came to an end.
Opening up about her split, Carol told The Sun: "I was married for a long time and I got married quite young so it’s nice doing things I have the freedom to do now."
Carol admitted that getting divorced was "all shocking to me" and that she broke down in tears behind the scenes of BBC Breakfast, when writing in her 2021 book, Under The Greek Moon.
She wrote: "In a funny way though, that helped with the healing process. I put my grief into a compartment which I kept separate from my work, otherwise I’d have ended up in a puddle of tears. Work kept me going."
Carol is seemingly in a happier place now and has shared how she is looking forward to tying the knot for a second time.
Speaking to Prima magazine last year, Carol said about her now fiance: "I don't want to say too much about my boyfriend, but I will say that he is very kind and very funny – he's always making me laugh.
“And extremely handsome, as well. "He always makes me a cup of tea before I go to work in the morning, which is very romantic – it's 2.45am and he often leaves me a little love note for when I come home from work.
“That, to me, is worth a million red roses."
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