Carol Kirkwood fought again tears because the climate presenter introduced she was leaving BBC Breakfast after greater than 25 years on the programme. The meteorologist, 63, beforehand opened up concerning the second she was compelled to come back off air and have a “good cry” behind the scenes because the on-screen favorite made a candid admission.

Carol, who joined the BBC in 1998, was married to Jimmy Kirkwood – a Scottish businessman – for 25 years. Nevertheless, their union got here to an finish however it was not in a dramatic trend, their marriage had merely run its course.

Chatting with the Each day Categorical final 12 months, she defined, “I nonetheless needed to be smiling Carol on display screen. It was all so surprising to me and I discovered it an actual problem.

I’d come off-air – we used to broadcast from the Blue Peter backyard in these days – go to the Women, have an excellent cry after which should reapply my eye make-up earlier than stepping in entrance of the cameras once more.”

She continued: “In a humorous approach, although, all of that helped with the therapeutic course of. I put my grief right into a compartment which I saved separate from my work, in any other case, I’d have ended up in a puddle of tears. Work saved me going.

It was easy – I had a public face and a non-public face.”

The climate forecaster has since remarried having tied the knot together with her husband Steve Randall two years in the past.

Carol will go away Breakfast in April and stated it had been an “absolute privilege” to deliver viewers the climate.

After her common morning forecast, she broke the information of her departure sitting on the Breakfast couch, saying she was trying ahead to spending extra time together with her husband Steve and going travelling.

Carol advised presenters Jon Kay and Sally Nugent: “I did not need to get emotional, however you two are my pals, and I really like you dearly.”

“I need to spend extra time with my beautiful husband Steve. We’re ships that cross within the evening, so I am actually trying ahead to doing that. We need to journey as nicely.”

She added: “I’ve beloved my job, I’ve beloved working on the BBC, however I really like my husband greater than my job.”