Bev Turner’s red carpet debut with new man

SHE admitted to being left ‘exhausted’ during the end of her marriage with Olympics rowing legend James Cracknell, but Beverley Turner says she’s now happier than she’s been in a very long time.

And that’s in no small part down to her blossoming relationship with property developer James Pritchett, 34, who’s 15 years her junior.

‘I’ve had a challenging few years,’ the TV presenter tells me. ‘I got divorced and chose to prioritise my children over my career for a while.’

The mother of three, who has just launched a GB News show, Bev Turner Today, says: ‘ James and I cemented our relationship during lockdown in a house with three home-schooling children.

‘If we can survive that, we can survive anything.’

Turner, who separated from Cracknell in 2017, will make her redcarpet debut with Pritchett at tonight’s Royal Television Society Awards in Manchester.

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