Overview
- In new interviews, Kirkwood says she maintained a cheerful on-air persona while taking private moments to cry between broadcasts during a difficult period.
- She links those off-camera tears to the breakdown of her 18-year marriage to Scottish property developer Jimmy Kirkwood in 2008.
- Kirkwood says continuing to work and separating her grief from her job aided her healing during the divorce.
- She also discloses that she is childless after trying to conceive and says doctors never explained why it did not happen.
- Kirkwood later married serving police officer Steve Randall in 2023 in a private ceremony at Cliveden House that went ahead without guests despite Storm Gerrit.