Kirsty Gallacher, 49, opened up about discovering love once more and turning into a ‘stepmum’ after divorce and whether or not she plans to stroll down the aisle once more along with her ‘good’ boyfriend

Telly star Kirsty Gallacher says she has lastly discovered her ‘protected area’ in new boyfriend Darren Clayton and “would like to be engaged” to the ex-rugby ace. The ex-Sky Sports activities Information host, 49, has been courting Darren, 39, since 2023.

And Kirsty — already mum to Oscar, 18, and Jude, 15, from her marriage to ex-husband Paul Sampson — mentioned her blended household with dad-of-one Darren is “chaotic, however very, very joyful”.

She instructed OK! Journal: “I do know it sounds tacky, however he is simply my protected area. He helps me with every little thing, he is my sounding board and he makes me chortle quite a bit. I’ve by no means been myself with anyone greater than I’m with him.

“I believe we might like to be engaged, however married? It is such a tough one, as a result of we’re so joyful proper now. Why would we modify that? However can we each assume it could be good? Sure, in fact – and we’re each on the identical web page with that.”

Gold Radio presenter Kirsty — who beforehand mentioned she felt “horrendously lonely” after her break up from ex-hubby Paul in 2015 — met Darren by way of mutual friends Gabby and Kenny Logan.

However as she approaches her milestone fiftieth birthday, she seems and feels higher than ever and says she has “made her peace” with turning the massive 5-0, including: “By this level, I could not give a monkey’s.

“My geese are in a row, as a lot as they are often, I’ve acquired a beautiful accomplice and a beautiful household. I am wholesome. I really feel higher than ever.”

And of the age hole with Darren, she joked: “He’ll flip 40 in December, then a month later I am turning 50, so we have laughed about having a ninetieth party. Nobody would know we’re 10 years aside and it would not trouble both of us.”

Kirsty, who first discovered fame within the late 90s as a Sky Sports activities presenter, earlier than occurring to entrance TV sequence together with Kirsty’s Residence Movies, The Video games and BBC actuality present Solely Fools On Horses, was co-hosting GB Information’ breakfast present she suffered a well being scare in 2021.

She was recognized with an acoustic neuroma, a benign tumour in her interior ear which precipitated “extreme tinnitus” and meant she could not hear correctly.

She plans to have radiotherapy remedy to handle the tumour later this yr and added: “It makes me emotional speaking about it truly. I went just about deaf, went to my GP and requested if it could possibly be a mind tumour.

“It was a horrible, horrible second, however I need to discuss it so all of us really feel much less alone. I really feel for anybody else going by way of that. It is so worrying and it isn’t simple navigating it day-to-day.”

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