Jane Moore has revealed she is still living with her husband of 20 years despite announcing their split live on Loose Women on Wednesday.
The presenter labelled her now ex-hubby Gary Farrow her "best friend' during the show, but confirmed they're no longer a couple.
Jane, 60, and Gary married in 2002, three years after first getting together. They share daughters Ellie and Grace, while Jane is step-mum to Gary's elder daughter Lauren.
And now she's admitted that their relationship actually broke down a year ago, leaving the pair to continue to share their family home as pals rather than lovers.
Writing in The Sun, she confessed the pair had "quietly agreed to separate" last year. However, they will still spend another festive period together before going their separate way in the new year.
She said: "In the New Year we plan to sell up and find our own places. Not quite John Alderton and Hannah Gordon in the Seventies sitcom My Wife Next Door, but hopefully near enough that we can keep our strong friendship going."
Her news initially stunned the Loose Women viewers and she admitted it had felt "weird" that she had now made the announcement after processing it for a year.
"We're both quite private people," she told her fellow panellists. "We had discussed it last year... it was going to happen last year.
"And then he fell and broke his leg and, no, I didn't push him," Jane joked.
"Just want to put that out there," she added. "He fell and broke his leg. And obviously, then all bets are off. So we were sort of we're still in the same house together. We're still going to do Christmas together."
She continued to say their family was already aware of the situation and are happy the split has been amicable.
"I have been sort of caring for him in that sense of the word. It's enabled us to sort of segue to process it first of all, and to sort of segue nicely into a really good friendship.
"I mean, I would always say, he is my best friend. I hope if he was sitting here he would say, I'm his best friend, and I'm just very, very keen that we don't lose that element of it, you know, so, yeah, so we're still living together."
