I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! star Beverley Callard admitted she thought “all men were b******s” before she was sent on a blind date with her now-husband Jon McEwan.
The Coronation Street icon had been married three times before meeting Jon, first to Paul Atkinson, then Steve Callard and finally David Sowden.
And before meeting Jon on a blind date she admitted she’d given up on men but was persuaded to go and see him by her old fitness class pupils.
Beverley, 63, met Jon, 55, while she was living in Spain on a break from Corrie and working as a fitness instructor.
Beverley Callard married Jon McEwan in 2010 after meeting on a blind date (Image: Manchester Evening News)
She told The Mirror in 2017: “I had decided all men are b******s by that point. I just wasn’t interested in meeting someone.
“A few of my pupils set is up on a blind date but I didn’t turn up. The second time, a group of us met up for drinks.
“When I saw Jon with his shaved head and gold tooth I wasn’t impressed but within minutes we were chatting away.
Beverley was married three times before meeting Jon (Image: ITV)
“We went on to sit together at dinner and we got on like a house on fire.”
They got married in 2010 after a number of years together and have been living in wedded bliss ever since.
In fact, she credits her recording studio owner hubby Jon for “saving her life” after she suffered a nervous breakdown back in 2009.
Beverley had a son, Joshua, with her third husband Steve (Image: Sunday Mirror)
Back then, Beverley was dealing with her mum’s Alzheimer’s disease battle, while she was also in debt after her and Jon’s failed business venture.
The actress went through treatment at the Priory Clinic, with Jon standing by her side the entire time.
She said: “It wasn’t just the fact that Jon rumbled me to the nurses that saved me from ending it all.
Beverley credits her husband Jon for ‘saving her from ending it all’ (Image: Manchester Evening News)
“It was much more than that. He stood by me, through everything. He never gave up trying to understand my torment.
“Even though after visiting me he’d go to his car and cry his heart out. Even though he’d see me curled into a ball with matted hair, unable to speak or move and no one was sure if I’d get better.
“By being there, by staying right by my side, he proved he loved me no matter what.”
Jon is Bev’s fourth husband (Image: Manchester Evening News)
Beverley married first-husband Paul Atkinson in 1974 when she was pregnant and aged just 16.
She sadly lost the baby, however they welcomed their first child together, Rebecca, a year later in 1975.
Rebecca is now an actress herself and has appeared in a number of television roles, including Coronation Street as Ruth Walsh in 2011.
Beverley and Paul divorced in 1978, with Beverley later recalling: “We were too young.”
In 1980, she married David Sowden, who was an economics teacher.
They split up amicably in 1988.
A year later, Beverley fell pregnant with Steve Callard and they got married the same year, in 1989.
They welcomed a son, Joshua, in 1990 but split up as Steve had cheated on her, once while she was recovering from cervical cancer.
Their divorce was finalised in 2001.
I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! continues tonight at 9pm on ITV
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
