I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here is back on our screens, and the show wouldn’t be the same without presenter duo Declan Donnelly and Ant McPartlin.
Dec has been married to his wife Ali Astall since 2015, a talent manager who managed Dec for more than 10 years before they started dating.
“We always hung out,” the TV personality told the Daily Express of their working relationship turning into a romance in 2014.
“When she was single, and I was single we’d go out for dinner on Valentine’s Day together. Last year we went out as a couple. It was a little strange because we’ve had a working relationship for so long.”
Ali and Dec share two children together, a six-year-old daughter Isla and a two-year-old son Jack, reports the Mirror. But before they got together, the presenter was with a well-known actress for more than a decade.
Dec’s first high-profile relationship was with actress Clare Buckfield, who rose to fame in the children’s show Grange Hill and sitcom Two Point Four Children.
The pair got together in 1993, when they were still teenagers, staying together for over a decade and living together in the star’s plush home in Southwest London.
Although in 2002, Dec took the media by storm when he was said to have cheated on Clare with a lap dancer Tina Benson after meeting her in a club. Devastated Clare read about her partner of a decade’s alleged affair in a newspaper.
“Nobody can be prepared for something like that,” she later said. “It was horrible, painful and unbelievably difficult.
“It was as bad as anyone would think it could be. We were together a very long time. I did think it would end up in marriage.”
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Clare had appeared in Doctors and Holby City as well as having a lead role in fire-fighting drama Steel River Blues. She took part in Dancing on Ice in 2007, and came second place on the show.
Now Clare, stays out the limelight completely living in Cambridgeshire with her son called Johnny, who was born in 2013.
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