BBC newsman finds love with Dynasty star

KNOWN for his sarcastic quips when required to report on the love lives of the Royal Family, waggish BBC news anchor Simon McCoy has a cheerful personal bulletin of his own.

McCoy has found love with Eighties pin-up Emma Samms — and friends say he will soon become her fourth husband.

‘We are very happy together,’ he tells me.

The couple are already living together at the actress’s home in the Cotswolds and an engagement is on the cards.

‘They will get married as soon as his divorce is through,’ claims one of his BBC colleagues.

Last year, I disclosed that McCoy, 58, had separated from his wife, the television presenter Victoria Graham, 45. ‘It is very sad,’ he told me at the time.

Emma, 59, was one of the biggest television stars of the Eighties, playing fiery heiress Fallon Carrington Colby in Dynasty after making her name in General Hospital. The London-born actress twice declined offers to appear in Playboy.

She divorced her third husband, the psychiatrist John Holloway, in 2003. Her previous husbands, Bansi Nagji and Tim Dillon, were both lawyers. She was previously engaged to the late American composer Marvin Hamlisch.

Former royal reporter McCoy has a grown-up son from his first marriage, while Emma has two children with Holloway. After becoming estranged from McCoy, his wife embarked on a relationship with her BBC colleague Jon Gripton, who was her editor at the Spotlight news programme for South-West England, where she is a presenter. Former weather girl Victoria told me: ‘It’s been an incredibly sad time. After years of living apart, failed fertility treatment and the death of my father, life changes.’ She added: ‘Every time I see Simon on the TV I feel tremendously proud — his career goes from strength to strength.

‘We remain very good friends and still have two beautiful border terriers to love between us.’

Romance: Simon with Emma, right. Inset, the actress in Dynasty