‘Perfect’ Anthea is on the shelf again
FORMER National Lottery presenter Anthea Turner has yet to hit the jackpot in her love life, as yet another relationship ends in tears.
The twice-divorced TV personality tried to move on after finalising her split from love rat Grant Bovey at the end of last year by embarking on a romance with rugged wildlife photographer David Yarrow.
Only a few months ago, Anthea, 56, spoke of her happiness at dating the multimillionaire former hedge fund boss, after going through ‘the worst of relationships with divorce’.
But, in fresh heartache for the bubbly Turner, Yarrow, 50, has parted from the Perfect Housewife presenter because she’s too suburban.
A friend of Anthea’s tells me: ‘David is a wild-man who gets bored easily and Anthea is a neat freak, more of a suburban type. So perhaps she’s not in his league.’
Playboy Yarrow had a fling with model Liz Hurley after divorcing his glamorous wife, Jane, and his snaps of lions and polar bears, which sell for up to £40,000, have been praised by Prince William.
By contrast, Anthea’s career has never recovered from ‘Flakegate’, when she and Bovey posed with Cadbury chocolate bars at their 2000 wedding for a society magazine.
Anthea left her first husband, DJ Peter Powell, for Bovey after eight years of marriage in 1998. But Bovey hardly proved an ideal second husband. His buy-to-let property business collapsed with £50million worth of debt in 2009, and he cheated on Anthea with 27-yearold socialite Zoe de Mallett Morgan, whom Bovey recently ditched, too.
Earlier this year, Anthea announced that her marital woes had inspired her to write a divorce self-help guide. ‘I have a few tricks up my sleeve that I thought might be worth sharing, especially having gone through it twice.’