Woman Magazine 17th September 2018 Back Issue

TESS AND VERNON'S: MARRIAGE CRISIS
For Tess Daly, the start of Strictly Come Dancing is a joyful time as she returns to the job she loves – broadcasting to over fourteen million people.
But for her husband Vernon Kay, it marks the start of a much more testing period as Tess’ ‘gruelling’ schedule puts their previously rocky marriage under strain. With Tess, forty nine, working around the clock on the BBC
show, it’s over to Vernon, forty four, to hold down the fort at home and play mum and dad to their two daughters, Phoebe, thirteen, and Amber, nine.
And Woman understands that for Vernon – whose workload has all but
dried up since he was named in a ‘sexting’ scandal with glamour model Rhian Sugden – it’s a bitter pill to swallow. ‘No man finds it easy accepting their wife is now the main breadwinner,’ explains our well-placed source. ‘He’s gone from high-profile presenter to doing the dishes and school run – and biting his tongue puts a strain on their marriage.’