Judy Finnigan once admitted marriage is “hard” and shared some of her arguments with hubby Richard Madeley.
The This Morning stars have been married for 38 years, tying the knot back in 1986 after both divorcing their respective spouses at the time. Richard was initially married to wife Lynda Hooley from 1977 until 1983, while Judy divorced her first husband David Henshaw in 1986.
Speaking in 2023 about their romance, Judy admitted to Woman’s Own magazine: “We’ve been married 37 years and marriage is hard, there is no doubt about it. We might sometimes be absolutely furious with each other and not speaking.”
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She sagely added: “But in the end that kind of thing doesn’t matter, especially as you get older.” She went on: “We have so many similar interests, and have always respected each other’s opinions, which is why we managed to work so well together.”
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Richard has also opened up on the “rows” the pair shared – and the perils of airing those grievances while presenting live on-air together. The GMB star was chatting to podcast hosts Peter Crouch and Abbey Clancy, when he confessed: “If you’ve had a row, you can’t hide it.
“I do remember this, when Judy and I were presenting together, you know, every day, a bit like on the podcast – if you’ve had a row, you can’t hide it. So we’d be sitting there, we’d had a massive row in the car on the way to Liverpool to do the show and not talking basically, then you do the show.
“Within 30 seconds of going on air, people would be ringing our phone saying, ‘They’ve had a row, haven’t they!’ and people can tell when you’re not getting on.”
Delving deeper into their romance in an interview on Kate Thornton’s White Wine Question Time podcast, Richard said the pair are close as ever – but described them as “semi-detached”. Judy said: “We are incredibly close, we always have been.
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“Obviously, I think working together for so long has bonded us more tightly than if we had two completely separate jobs. I think the thing is, when you’re a presenting a show like the kind that we presented, it’s very instinctive, you’re doing interviews all the time.”
Richard added: “I can see that from the outside, it looks as if… as you say, we were bonded in our professional lives together and now we’re not, but actually, here on the inside, we still are. So we’re not actually as detached, I suppose we’re a bit semi-detached, but we’re not detached in the way that it might seem to outsiders.”
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