Vanessa Feltz has split from fiancé Ben Ofoedu, the TV and radio icon has confirmed.
The TalkTV host, 60, was said to be shocked when she discovered 50-year-old Ben’s “double life”.
The Sun have reported that the Phats & Small singer has moved out of the couple’s multi-million-pound home in North London following Vanessa uncovering infidelities, with her confirming the split to the paper.
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Confirming the break up, Vanessa told the paper that she thought it “might take a bit longer before this came out”, adding that “it’s a lot to deal with”.
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Daily Star gone to both Vanessa and Ben’s representatives for comment.
She went on to say that the shock she has endured will take some time to adjust to before admitting her sadness that her relationship with the singer is over.
“I am extremely sad and disappointed that my 16-year relationship with Ben is over,” she told the paper candidly.
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The sudden and shocking split comes after Vanessa, who recently joined the TalkTV network from the BBC, discovered a trail of emails and social media messages that led to her uncovering “several infidelities”.
Speaking to the paper about the split she seemed upbeat and positive as she declared “onwards and upwards”.
Vanessa met her now-ex Ben in 2005, after her divorce five years earlier in 2000 from surgeon Michael Kurer.
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The agony aunt split from Michael, who she married in 1983, after allegations of cheating.
Vanessa has two daughters from her marriage to Michael, and four grandchildren.
Her eldest daughter, Allegra Benitah, is a former tax lawyer who is now a television baker and chef.
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