Davina McCall has been courting her hairdresser Michael Douglas for 3 years, however the couple have been mates for nearly 20 years earlier than they received collectively
Within the BBC’s latest actuality programme, Stranded on Honeymoon Island, Davina McCall observes as full strangers are paired collectively on a tropical paradise in hopes they may uncover romance.
Nevertheless, the previous Huge Brother presenter’s personal romantic journey has been influenced not by an sudden encounter, however by an virtually lifelong companionship.
Hairstylist Michael Douglas had been tending to Davina’s tresses for practically 20 years earlier than they finally turned a pair, with each having been wed for almost all of that interval.
She revealed to The Guardian: “Michael and I have been actually good mates as a result of we have been hairdresser and shopper. I instructed him all of my secrets and techniques, about how I used to be feeling, and he was an excellent sounding board.
“He would share his experiences, I’d share my experiences,” she continued. “We might assist one another navigate issues. And he was in love together with his spouse and I used to be in love with my husband.”
Davina parted methods together with her second partner, Matthew Robertson, host of Pet Rescue, in 2018 following 18 years of marriage and three youngsters collectively.
It was two years following her breakup with Matthew that Davina and Michael started their courtship.
She maintains that she wished to be fully sure she had moved on from her former companion earlier than starting a recent relationship: “If I am with any person, I am with them,” she emphasised. “I do not have a look at different folks. I like being monogamous.”
The pair made their romance official in 2019 and disclosed on their joint podcast Making the Minimize that they’d begun cohabiting in January 2023.
She stated on the time: “I’m fairly having fun with being a brand new couple doing new issues, as a result of we’re newly residing collectively. It is fairly good making new traditions as a result of we did that earlier than Christmas. We sat down collectively and talked about it: ‘OK, clean house—what lets make a practice to any extent further?'”
Nevertheless, regardless of the common podcast updates on their romance, Davina reveals that sure facets stay behind closed doorways, telling the Mirror: “Privateness retains our relationship particular to us. There’s one thing beautiful about it and that is all it’s. It retains it actually magical and I like that.
“I’d by no means speak about how our relationship works, about arguments, and even issues like what we eat for breakfast and who drives the opposite loopy. I need to hold that for me. I offers you guys all the pieces. However there are one or two issues that I simply need to hold to myself, and he is one among them.”
Regardless of being utterly besotted with Michael, Davina reveals there is not any dialogue of marriage at current. The twice-divorced presenter instructed Whats up!: “It is so humorous – it’s kind of like being in your 30s once more, when all people asks you an identical query about whether or not you are getting married.
“We’re ensconced, nevertheless it’s not a part of our world in the meanwhile. We do not actually need it.
“It is a very completely different factor, courting in your 50s in comparison with your 30s. We’re in a very good place and have a lot enjoyable collectively. I feel we’re actually fortunate to have one another.”
