What IS Louise looking for?

Louise Redknapp (right) admits she had the perfect life — a handsome husband, beautiful children, no money worries.

Yet the 42-year-old mother-of-two says she has lost herself during her 20-year marriage and now wants time on her own. Her husband, ex-footballer Jamie Redknapp, is left struggling to understand and wondering what he did wrong.

The spark of singer Louise’s unhappiness was kindled into a firestorm when she appeared on strictly Come dancing last year. The influence of her fellow contestant and new best friend, daisy Lowe, is said to be a significant factor. daisy is free, single and 14 years younger than Louise.

What is it that this ultimate yummy-mummy wants? she doesn’t know, but i do — she wants to be young again. and that is the one thing she cannot have.

some might say Mrs Redknapp is being brave. others that she is being selfish, because so many other lives are involved in her decisions.

if every husband or wife acted upon such inchoate feelings of dissatisfaction and missed opportunity, there would be no marriages left.

i hope Louise locates whatever it is she is looking for, but i suspect she won’t find it hanging out with larky daisy.

tourist information centres are on the endangered list. No wonder! i have hardly ever been in one where the staff haven’t been rude, dozy, on the phone to friends or keen to press a sheaf of useless leaflets into my hands to get rid of me before closing for a three-hour lunch. And no, sorry, they can’t recommend a hotel or restaurant — it’s against the rules. Gah. No wonder we all take our chances online instead.