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<\/p>\n20 October 2026\n <\/p>\n
Gyles Brandreth has taken up boxing with his wife and says it “beats going to couples’ counselling”.<\/p>\n
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Gyles Brandreth and his wife Michele Brown<\/p>\n
The 78-year-old broadcaster said the sessions with writer Michele Brown help to keep them fit and their relationship healthy.<\/p>\n
Gyles told the new issue of Best magazine: “We box together twice a week, with a personal trainer. She’s very good!<\/p>\n
“It beats going to couples’ counselling.”<\/p>\n
The former Conservative Party politician also revealed the secret behind his 53-year marriage.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: “Marry somebody with very low expectations!”<\/p>\n
\nGyles feels lucky that his soulmate is always by his side, adding: “My wife is incredibly supportive.<\/p>\n
\n“When I’m doing a show, or we’re on tour, she’s always there. And never let the sun go down on a dispute, either.”<\/p>\n
\nHowever, Michele has a brutal response when he appears on ITV’s This Morning as a regular contributor.<\/p>\n
\nIn March, Gyles told Woman’s Weekly magazine: “My wife, Michele, definitely keeps me in my place. She doesn’t take all this too seriously.<\/p>\n
\n“She came with me to This Morning and sat in the green room reading the newspaper. I said, ‘I’m on television!’<\/p>\n
\n“She doesn’t watch me at home, and she didn’t watch me there. She said, ‘When I watch you at home, I have to watch you with the sound turned down.’ “<\/p>\n
\nAnd the writer admitted that despite her best efforts, Queen Camilla has not been able to convince King Charles to watch his programmes.<\/p>\n
\nHe added: “Once, Queen Camilla did tell me that she tried to persuade the King to watch me on the canal series I did with Dame Sheila Hancock.<\/p>\n
\n“Whether he did or not, though, I doubt it. He’s not a very keen TV viewer, but that doesn’t bother me. It’s OK!”<\/p>\n
\nGyles has also appeared on the likes of the Channel 4 game show Countdown, and BBC Radio 4’s Just a Minute, and is keen to keep taking on any opportunities that come his way.<\/p>\n
\nHe explained: “I will turn 80 in a few years’ time, and I’ve been very lucky in that I’ve really done everything that I’ve wanted to do.<\/p>\n
\n“You never know quite what’s coming along, and I think of something I want to do, I tend to just get on with it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20 October 2026 Gyles Brandreth has taken up boxing with his wife and says it “beats going to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,150068,2546,2544,501559,85],"class_list":["post-934817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-gyles-brandreth","tag-king-charles","tag-queen-camilla","tag-sheila-hancock","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}