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so if there is something niggling you, just talk about it because these little, it’s the little things that grow into big things. Without love, that is so hard.”

Aside from matters of the heart, Davina has suffered great sadness this year after two pals took their own lives.

She exercises regularly to cope – sometimes to extremes, as her famous fitness selfies have shown.

Davina added: “I work out a lot for the way it makes me feel mentally. You would think in your fifties you would have it sussed. I’ve had two suicides this year, friends of mine. I feel like sometimes those people... that is an illness where it is an imbalance and it’s asking for help.

“I’m really lucky that I don’t think I’ve ever felt depressed, I’ve always felt that there is hope.

“I’ve felt enormously sad. I feel often that I’m grieving loss of something, moving into a different phase of my life that often means saying goodbye to something else and that is sad. But I don’t get depressed.”

The last time Davina wept was when her grandma, 98, died in June.

Wiping away tears, she said: “I really let rip when we laid my granny – oh God I’m going to start again – when we laid my granny to rest.

“Grandad was there and there was a space for her next to him and I was with my dad, who is my other

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