Sarah Greene’s new love is friend of late husband Mike
TV STAR Sarah Greene believes late husband Mike Smith is watching over her and guiding her love life.
The former Blue Peter and Saturday Superstore host says the ex-Radio One DJ even set her up with his long time friend.
Sarah, 64, married Mike – who presented The Radio One Breakfast Show and Top Of The Pops – in 1989. He died in 2014, aged 59, from complications after major heart surgery.
Sarah has revealed she is now dating one of his oldest friends – named Robb. And she claims Smith enabled their relationship.
The presenter and businesswoman said: “I sort of know that Mike is pulling so many strings in my life.
“He has mostly undoubtedly been responsible for me meeting my beloved who was one of his oldest friends.
“[Robb] waited a certain amount of time but did keep leaving messages on the answering machine, and I thought he was just being kind.
Then I got a message almost saying ‘for God’s sake, Greeno, Robb is trying to make contact with you because he wants to take you out, not because he’s kind.
“So will you just get off your a*** and go and answer the phone next time it rings!’ And lo and behold, yes, a whole new conversation started.”
Worried
Sarah’s new man is thought to be ex-touring car champ Robb Gravett with whom Mike ran the Trakstar racing team that won the 1990 British Touring Car Championship.
Sarah and Gravett, 65, are now joint directors of land transportation firm Z Charge Ltd.
On the My Time Capsule podcast, she added: “I’m sure, and Robb is sure too, because it’s a very strange situation to find yourself in. I remember being terribly worried and saying to this dear man...‘isn’t it strange coming into the house and seeing all these pictures everywhere of Mike?’
“He said, ‘No, no, it’s not strange. It’d be strange if they weren’t there. And remember, I love him too.’”
Sarah is also involved with Mike’s firm Flying TV, which provides aerial filming services to broadcasters.
Convinced her husband guides her with that too, she says: “Taking on his company, there was no doubt in my mind that’s what he would have wanted me to do.
“It was strange because there’d be mornings I’d wake up almost with a tap on the shoulder saying, ‘Right have you checked the….and the…’. It was very strange but wonderful.”
Mike and Sarah wed a year after surviving a helicopter crash in 1988. The chopper, which Smith was piloting, came down in Gloucestershire. He broke his back, while Sarah’s legs and an arm were fractured.