Patrick Kielty says he didn’t feel like an equal partner in his marriage to This Morning presenter Cat Deeley, as he opened up about their 13-year romance
10:48, 31 Jul 2025Updated 17:38, 31 Jul 2025
Patrick Kielty and Cat Deeley split earlier this week(Image: Getty Images)
Patrick Kielty has admitted he didn’t feel like an equal partner in his relationship with Cat Deeley. The pair announced earlier this week that they had split after a decade of marriage.
In a joint statement, the pair had said: “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. There will be no further comment.”
Now, an interview from back in 2023 has emerged where Patrick admitted he didn’t feel like an equal in their marriage. Speaking on The Mid-Point podcast back in July 2023, he was asked how he and Cat made the decisions in their relationship. He said: “For a long time I genuinely thought I was in a 50/50 partnership.
“Then you realise you’re actually a junior shareholder in a 50/50 partnership. You go, ‘I thought we were 50/50? Why do you seem to have more shares?’ I think with big decisions you kind of have to float stuff and see how that’s going to go.” It comes after Cat Deeley found one move ‘really hard’ before split from Patrick Kielty.
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Patrick and Cat were married for over a decade
Meanwhile, in the resurfaced podcast admission, Pat – who shares two sons, Milo, seven, and James, five, with Cat – continued of their move from the US to the UK: “What was weird about it was it was Cat who more wanted to do that. It was more so her decision.
“I think being a new mum and not having the family around and not having the network of cousins and brothers.
“I think, for me, London is not home. It will never really be home for me. In my head, I still live in a little village in County Down, even though I haven’t lived there full time for 30 years. These are the tricks you play on yourself.”
He added: “Living in London, my family was always a flight away anyway, so that idea of being a longer flight away from LA wasn’t as much of a problem for me as someone who had to get a flight to go to see them anyway.
“I also think because Cat was the one with a successful career out there, she was the one who chose to leave that at the right time, and that’s a decision that she made and only she can make.”
Patrick was also asked in the same podcast if the pair were the happiest they had been. He said things were good but marriage was always something to be worked at and added that the “idea of how you work together whenever the rough and the smooth and all those things” was the most important part.
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