‘It is time to open up that closet door’
Tarrant’s girl Fia makes declaration about love life
SHE’S never feared going where others might dare not tread, either in her private or professional life, embracing Islam before marriage and opting for a career in radio despite the inevitable comparisons with her legendary father that it was bound to bring.
But I can disclose that Fia Tarrant, 37, daughter of ursine broadcaster Chris Tarrant, original host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, has taken her most diverting step yet. She’s announced that, four years after splitting up with her husband, property developer Adam Ali Khan, 37, she has found love again — but, this time, with a woman.
‘Time to open up that closet door!’ Fia declares on social media, alongside a snap showing the tip of her middle finger resting tenderly in her new love’s palm.
But even Fia, a presenter on Heart, is not quite ready to name her beloved, still less to say whether wedding bells may soon be sounding — even if only proverbially.
Early in 2011, a year before she married Adam, Fia converted to Islam, explaining that, though she believed in God, her conversion was ‘more symbolic’ because she ‘ wanted to make Adam’s parents happy’.
‘The good thing,’ added Fia, ‘was that when you convert you get a completely clean slate — all your misbehaviour in the past is wiped clean.’
She and Adam have an eight-year-old son, Haris.
Her father is known for his colourful love life. Fia’s mother, Ingrid, discovered in 2006, via a private investigator she’d hired, that Tarrant had been enjoying a seven-year affair with schoolteacher Fiona McKechnie. The ensuing divorce battle was bitter.
When it comes to the latest development in Fia’s life, Ingrid tells me: ‘ The main thing is that people are happy.’