Carol Kirkwood has admitted she only spends around 90 minutes a day with her husband Steve Randall due to the pair’s busy schedules.
The TV star, 63, has to be at the BBC studio in Salford Quays for 4am each day while her husband Steve is a police officer and also works antisocial hours.
Speaking candidly in an interview with OK Magazine, she explained: ‘We don’t see a lot of each other during the week.
‘We worked out that Monday to Thursday we only see each other for an hour-and-a-half a day, so we treasure the time that we have together. It’s really precious.’
She joked it will be a shock when the pair retire and will be able to spend limitless time together.
After meeting at a work function in 2021, the couple became friends before their relationship blossomed into a romance.
Carol Kirkwood, 63, has admitted she only spends 90 minutes a day with new husband Steve, 49, and opened up about the ‘heartbreak’ of not having children (pictured 2023)
She confessed: ‘We worked out that Monday to Thursday we only see each other for an hour-and-a-half a day, so we treasure the time that we have together. It’s really precious’
The pair tied the knot in December 2023 – nine years after her divorce from property developer Jimmy Kirkwood, who she had been married to for 25 years.
And Carol also opened up about making peace with not having children, despite admitting it was once her ‘dream’ and she explored fertility treatments.
‘I always wanted to have children. That was my dream. It was a source of heartbreak, but we tried and failed.’
Last month Carol confessed there is ‘no such thing as a perfect romance’ after revealing she plans to retire in two years and her and travel Europe with her husband.
Opening up about her divorce to the Daily Mirror she said: ‘I feel sad when relationships break down. I was married before, and we got divorced, and it’s always sad when that happens.
‘But, of course, there isn’t such a thing, I don’t think, as the perfect romance – where you’re never going to fall out or have cross words. Of course you are, that’s life.’
The TV star has been a fixture at the BBC for 27 years but has said she is planning a change of scene for her and Steve when she turns 65.
Discussing her retirement hopes, Carol, who is also a published author, said: ‘We fell in love with Majorca, which is where we went so I could research my fifth novel, Meet Me at Sunset, about a woman running away from a shattered love affair.
And Carol also opened up about making peace with not having children, despite admitting it was once her ‘dream’ and she explored fertility treatments
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Carol Kirkwood, 63, confesses there is 'no such thing as a perfect romance'
‘Steve and I plan to escape and travel for some time when we retire, perhaps in a year or two.
‘We’ll travel in a camper van or get in the car, cross over to France and then just drive.’
Carol, from Morar, Lochaber, was married to property developer Jimmy but the pair split in 2008 after 18 years of marriage, with the divorce finalised in 2012.
She recently made a cheeky comment when asked about her second marriage, telling one newspaper: ‘Love is lovelier the second time around. No disrespect to my first husband, but this is better.’
The TV star also spoke about the age gap in her relationship, stating it makes no difference to her.
She told Saga Magazine: ‘Steve is 50 this year. Other people’s opinions about an age gap don’t matter – I don’t feel he is younger than me.’
She also said she believes that meeting him was fate.
She said: ‘We were at a function neither of us wanted to go to. It was a Sliding Doors moment – if I hadn’t gone, we would never have met.’