The wife of Jeff Brazier has broken her social media silence after he announced on Monday that they have split up after nine years together.
Taking to Instagram Stories that evening, PR director Kate Dwyer, 32, re-shared an emotional post about “first Christmas without husband”.
It read: “Someone you know is preparing for their first Christmas without their husband, wife, mother, father, brother, sister, daughter or son.”
It concluded: “Be kind, be generous, give love, give help; if nothing else. Just don’t give people a hard time.”
She also posted a black-and-white picture of her relaxing on a sofa with her dog, which she captioned: “We are going to bed at 8.30 – as far as we are concerned, this day is done,” followed by a waving hand emoji.
TV personality Brazier, 43, also used social media to confirm that he and Dwyer – who met in 2013 and wed five years later – had quietly called time on their relationship earlier this year.
Alongside a picture of him smiling, he wrote: “A moment to practice what I preach and start the new week with honesty. One for the smilers and eternally positive individuals who don’t often afford themselves the right to share their own vulnerabilities.
“I have so much to be grateful for and I appreciate facing the lessons I need to grow but this year has been challenging to say the least.
“My 9-year relationship ended earlier in the year and I’ve been working through that on top of supporting someone close to me who is going through something difficult.”
He went on to admit that he was feeling lonely as in addition to his relationship status change, he and his sons Bobby, 19, and Freddie, 18, have recently moved house to a new area.
The boys are from his previous relationship with Big Brother’s Jade Goody and he has raised them ever since she died from cervical cancer 13 years ago.
Brazier continued: “The boys and I have recently moved home to a new area and I spend most of the time alone as the boys obviously have their own things going on.
“It’s been constant change this year and I’m good with adapting but the combination of things have left me low at times and I’ve honestly never felt loneliness like it. Can we put Christmas back a few months?!
“I have lots of great friends and I know they’re a phone call away but sometimes I find it hard to admit I’m struggling with all of the change, preferring just to keep working through it myself. I’m a bit too good at that.”
Brazier concluded the candid post with: “There was always going to come a day when the boys didn’t want or need me so much and I thought I’d be more than OK with having all this time on my hands!”
