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\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n‘I gave her a card and it said congratulations on your second wedding day and I said we’re going to renew our vows. We went to the reception and her Mum, my parents, the kids and my brother were waiting and she was like \u2018oh my god\u2019 \u2013 we had such a lovely day.’<\/p>\n
However, despite this, two years later Tess suggested that things weren\u2019t always rosy within their relationship, confessing, ‘Marriage is a work in progress. Vernon and I are just people, at the end of the day.’<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, the pair have continued to support one another publicly in recent years, with Vernon gushing that his wife was a ‘huge inspiration’ when she was awarded an MBE at Buckingham Palace in November last year.<\/p>\n
And, just last month they enjoyed a family holiday to the Caribbean together.<\/p>\n
Prior to their split Tess previously credited their shared backgrounds for the success of their marriage. ‘There’s an unspoken understanding between us, because we come from similar stock. We come from similar families. We’ve been brought up in a very similar way, really. I guess that’s one of the reasons I always felt so comfortable with him,’ she said.<\/p>\n
In the statement, which former Family Fortunes<\/em> host Vernon later shared to his own social media, Tess said that it had ‘not been an easy choice’ but ‘comes from a place of mutual understanding and a shared desire for what is best for both of us.’<\/p>\nShe concluded, ‘We remain great friends and most importantly, fully committed to our roles as loving and supportive parents, which will always be our priority.There are no other parties involved in this decision.’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.womanandhome.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tess Daly left fans shocked today (8 May) when she announced that she and husband Vernon Kay have split after 22 years of marriage. Sharing a statement to her social media the star, who stepped down from Strictly Come Dancing duties in December, wrote: ‘After much consideration, and with a deep sense of care and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2408161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tess-and-Vernon-shock-split-after-two-decades.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408162,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408160\/revisions\/2408162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}