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<\/p>\nThe presenter said she had a \u201clovely summer\u201d with \u201clots of beach action, family, friends, kids\u201d and \u201cice creams as big as your head\u201d during the break from ITV\u2019s This Morning.<\/p>\n
She told co-host Ben Shephard she was \u201creally excited to come back to work\u201d after the summer break.<\/p>\n
Deeley and Kielty released a joint statement in July, revealing they had separated after more than a decade of marriage. They got married in September 2012 at a ceremony in Rome and have two children together, Milo (9) and James (7).<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have taken the decision to end our marriage and are now separated. There is no other party involved,\u201d they said in the statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Patrick Kielty and Cat Deeley announced their separation in July. Photo: GC Images<\/p>\n
Kielty, from Dundrum, Co Down, took over as host of The Late Late Show from Ryan Tubridy in 2023.<\/p>\n
Deeley has presented ITV\u2019s This Morning alongside Ben Shephard since early last year.<\/p>\n
She hosted the US series So You Think You Can Dance, also appearing on SMTV Live with TV duo Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly from 1998 to 2002.<\/p>\n
She also previously co-hosted the BBC singing contest Fame Academy and it was while presenting the show, back in 2002, that she met and struck up a friendship with comedian Kielty.<\/p>\n
The comedian and presenter began his stand-up career as host of Northern Ireland\u2019s first comedy club, The Empire Laughs Back, in Belfast.<\/p>\n
He went on to host programmes such as Channel 4\u2019s Last Chance Lottery and BBC One chat show Patrick Kielty Almost Live.<\/p>\n
He also presented the documentary My Dad, The Peace Deal And Me, about his father\u2019s death at the hands of paramilitary gunmen.<\/p>\n
Kielty made his feature film debut in 2022 when he starred as a budding comedian going through a marriage break-up in Ballywalter, a movie that takes its title from the town in Co Down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The presenter said she had a \u201clovely summer\u201d with \u201clots of beach action, family, friends, kids\u201d and \u201cice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,12770,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-107555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}