CHRISTINE MCGUINESS admits living with my ex-husband Paddy 'wasn't the plan' as she opens up dating while STILL under the same roof
Christine's ex-husband Paddy McGuinness is the presenter of Top Gear, Question Of Sport and . He is 14 years her senior and a fellow Lancastrian – he was born in Bolton, she in Blackpool. The couple, who met through friends in 2007, have three children – twins Penelope and Leo, 12, and Felicity, eight – who are all autistic. The couple split in 2022 and divorced last year, yet still share their seven-bedroom Cheshire home, more on which later. During their decade of marriage, there were times when Christine, a former Miss Liverpool, model and podium dancer, seemed little more than a smiley, blonde appendage to her gregarious husband. She had no friends and rarely left home. 'I would stay in and say no to every invitation. I felt invisible.'
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