TV Kelly: I’m so nervous about being single again
DALGLISH ON LIFE AFTER MARRIAGE SPLIT
BY STUART MacDONALD reporters@dailyrecord.co.uk
SKY Sports host Kelly Cates has revealed she is dating again after splitting from her husband.
The daughter of football legend Sir Kenny Dalglish has separated from TV producer Tom Cates and is now finalising her divorce.
They were married in 2007 and have two daughters – Gabriella, 12, and Milla, nine.
Glasgow-born Kelly, 45, said she is nervous about being single again as she doesn’t think people will find her attractive.
And she is reluctant to go on dates with strangers as she doesn’t want her time wasted.
Kelly said: “I don’t have a picture in my head of why a middle-aged, slightly overweight mother of two could possibly be attractive.
“I can’t get my head round that. It’s not that I’m putting myself down and it’s not a lack of confidence or a low self-esteem. It’s just I don’t know what that would look like.”
The presenter, who also works for BBC Radio 5 Live, said her dating options had been limited in recent months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
And she joked she may have to get someone else to write her profile on dating websites to avoid putting potential dates off.
Speaking to fellow TV sports presenter Gabby Logan on The Mid Point podcast, Kelly added she does not want to spend her precious free time with a random person.
She said: “The thought of going on a date, spending an evening with someone and at the end of it thinking, ‘Well, I don’t really like you’, I would be so resentful of them taking up my time.
“Obviously it’s vice versa, too, but I’m not really bothered about it from their perspective – bearing in mind I don’t get to see the people I do like very often.
“I’ve got no real kind of thoughts about long-term relationships or anything like that.
“Imagine going out with somebody and you sit there half way through and think, ‘God, this guy is an idiot’. You’ve just wasted a babysitter. I’m making myself sound completely unpickable.”