Patrick Kielty ‘didn't feel like an equal partner' in failed marriage to Cat Deeley – admitting ‘rough patches'

The Irish Sun

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PATRICK Kielty has said he "didn't feel like an equal partner" in his failed marriage to Cat Deeley - and admitted they had "rough patches" they had to work through.
The couple, who wed in 2012, announced
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Patrick Kielty has said he "didn't feel like an equal partner" in his failed marriage to Cat Deeley - and admitted they had "rough patches" they had to work through
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Patrick explained that he realised he was just a junior shareholder in the partnership
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The couple, who wed in 2012, announced they had called it quits yesterday
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"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."
Speaking on The Mid-Point podcast in July 2023, Patrick explained that he thought he was in a 50/50 partnership for "a long time" before realising he was just a "junior shareholder"
Cat Deeley
"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. You know, drop that into conversation."
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Asked about their decision to move back to the UK from LA, he said: "What was weird about it was it was Cat who more wanted to do that.
"It was more so her decision.
Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty reveal split after 13 years of marriage
"I think being a new mum and not having the family around and not having the network of cousins and brothers, and so 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.
"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
Asked if it was the happiest he and Cat had ever been, he said: "Yeah, look, you know 10 years into
marriage
, it is something you work at.
"It's that idea that what attracts you is not going to keep you together.
"It's that idea of how you work together whenever the rough and the smooth and all those things … it's a journey.
"You put those kids into the mix and suddenly those priorities change, and all of those things.
"I think anybody who feels they can put their feet up and go, 'Yeah, that's
marriage
cracked,' you're kind of going, 'Really?!' "
Although their friendship developed over the years, they only began dating later, eventually tying the knot in a private ceremony in Rome.
Cat, who spent more than a decade hosting So You Think You Can Dance in the U.S., continued to juggle work across both sides of the Atlantic.
Speculation about their relationship emerged earlier this year when
The This Morning presenter was notably missing from the occasion in Dundrum, Ireland, where Patrick - host of RTE's Late Late Show - was pictured carrying his mother's coffin.
A spokesman for Cat told the
Cat and Patrick have two sons - Milo, eight, and James, five.
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Speculation about their relationship emerged earlier this year when Cat was absent from Patrick's mother Mary's funeral in February
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Cat and Patrick first met while filming Fame Academy in the early 2000s
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