Free Ladies star Kaye Adams has admitted she has been mendacity about one private reality for many years, and even deceived her personal youngsters earlier than they discovered via Google

Free Ladies star Kaye Adams, 62, has confessed that she lied about her age for many years, even fooling her personal youngsters.

The presenter, recognised for her BBC Radio Scotland programme and her function on ITV’s Free Ladies, revealed within the Every day Mail that she had been telling fibs about how outdated she is for years, although to not her husband Ian.

She defined: “Since my 30s I had dodged, deflected or outright lied when the topic got here up – even to my very own youngsters, Charly, now 23, and Bonnie, 18. In truth, for years they believed I used to be a complete decade youthful than I truly was.

“I might by no means given Charly a selected date of delivery, however I had claimed her dad – my accomplice Ian – was ten years my senior, when truly we have been each born in 1962.

“Happily, Ian, who knew full properly how outdated I’m, is extremely laid again and simply shrugged off what may simply quantity to an insult in some males’s eyes.”

Whereas Kaye believed her actions have been harmless, her deception was uncovered when her daughter Charly found the truth via Google.

At that second, Kaye acknowledged she had overstepped the mark, and has since utilised her confession as a platform to deal with ageism in society.

She revealed: “It felt like I might crossed a line….I owed it to her and to myself to begin being sincere.

“I might at all times considered myself as robust and forthright, but I might fallen prey to society’s adverse messages round older girls. And, worse, I might perpetuated them to my very own daughter.”

Kaye’s disclosure follows her earlier considerations about her wellbeing in later life, having witnessed the consequences of ageing on her dad and mom.

Throughout an look on the How To Be 60 podcast, Kaye and co-host Karen MacKenzie explored their emotions surrounding mortality.

Kaye mirrored: “The precise expiring, I do not take into consideration that. Yeah, I haven’t got a concern of that, however I’m such as you. I do have a concern of extended ailing well being in outdated, outdated age as a result of I’ve seen it with each my ma and pa, and it’s no enjoyable.”

Kaye heartbreakingly misplaced her father to dementia in 2017 and her mom 17 months afterwards.