Did lack of kids doom Anthea’s marriage?
ANTHEA Turner has revealed her unfaithful ex-husband might have stayed with her if they had been able to have children together.
The TV presenter, 57, and Grant Bovey, 56, split in 2013 after he cheated on her with 24year-old interior designer Zoe de Mallet Morgan. Bovey and Miss Turner first got together in 1998 while married to other people – and she says she now regrets ‘the pain we caused’.
They wed in 2000 but, despite Miss Turner going through several rounds of IVF, never managed to have children together.
Bovey has three daughters from his first marriage. Miss Turner told Hello! magazine: ‘I did once ask Grant if he would have stayed if we’d had our own children, to which he replied, “Possibly”. I shall never know, of course, but I can’t pretend that wasn’t painful to hear. It was a double blow, I guess.’
Having left her first husband, DJ Peter Powell, for Bovey, she admitted: ‘I can understand why some people think I got my comeuppance when my relationship then went on to deteriorate in the way it did. But I loved Grant and I can’t regret the 15 years we had together. There were some very happy times.’
But after celebrating her 57th birthday last month, Miss Turner said she is in a ‘happy place for the first time in a while’ and joked that she is ‘auditioning’ for a new man.
‘I don’t need anybody, but if someone nice were to come along I’d be open to loving again,’ she added.