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BBC Saturday Kitchen: Rick Edward's EastEnders wife and why they sleep in separate rooms

Rick Edwards has been a staple of Channel 4 presenting since his E4 Music days in 2005.

The 6ft4 43-year-old went on to host T4, Tool Academy, and the Made In Chelsea end of season parties.

But you may know of him more recently for his BBC commitments, having presented quiz show Impossible since 2017 and other appearances, including today's Saturday Kitchen.

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His latest gig is hosting the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show, after replacing Nicky Campbell in November.

It's because of his eye-watering early morning starts that he has been banished to the spare room of his London home that he shares with wife Emer Kenny.

He was quoted in The Sun last year: "My wife said 'you just can’t ... it is unacceptable for you to be getting up at that time and then crashing around like a big lummox because then I'm not sleeping'

"'You need to sleep somewhere else.'"

Rick admitted he actually prefers sleeping in a single bed, and joked that if he wasn't a radio presenter, he would have to take up another early-start profession.

Impossible host Rick Edwards (BBC)

He continued: "We didn’t have a spare bed, but we got a spare bed and it’s a single bed and I really like it.

"I just love sleeping in this single bed.

"I don’t fit in it, I am massive, yet I still take an enormous amount of pleasure.

"I find it quite exciting being in this little room on my own my feet poking out the end.

"It must be that it takes me back to my childhood somehow, I am in a fetal position in a small signal bed … it makes me feel very reassured.

Emer Kenny at the TV Choice Awards (scu)

"Objectively, you should much prefer sleeping in a big bed with your wife.

"If I don’t have the radio there is literally no reason for me to justify it.

"I could become a milkman, there are ways of me engineering it so I am always in a single bed."

His wife Emer, who he married in 2016, is familiar with the world of TV and showbiz as she is an actress.

The 32-year-old had a stint in EastEnders in 2010 where she played rebellious teenager Zsa Zsa Carter.

She's also been involved in writing for the soap, and was selected as the youngest ever writer for the BBC Writers Academy.

Her first EastEnders episode as a writer was broadcast on May 8, 2012.

Since then she joined the cast of E4 Bever Falls and BBC Three dramedy Pramface.

Most recently, Emer has played Penelope 'Bunty' Windermere in Father Brown from 2017.

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