Alan Titchmarsh's very personal insight into change in marriage as fans 'disappointed'

ITV Love Your Weekend presenter and gardening adept Alan Titchmarsh has been joined to his woman Alison for astir 50 years - but he's seldom spoken astir their relationship

Alan Titchmarsh has fixed fans a glimpse into his long-standing matrimony with woman Alison, revealing however their enslaved has evolved implicit time. Alan's confession was prompted by feedback from readers astir the deficiency of racy contented successful his 2022 novel, The Gift.

The ITV Love Your Weekend star, who doubles arsenic a best-selling author, was erstwhile known for peppering his novels with sizzling romanticist encounters. But erstwhile helium sat down for a unrecorded Q&A with The Telegraph, interviewer Bunny Guinness couldn't assistance but inquire wherefore his latest literate enactment seemed to dial down the heat.

In the 2022 speech that precocious came to light, Bunny Guinness asked Alan: "To commencement with, you did person a spot of enactment successful your books, situation we say. But person you astir been bullied retired of the enactment scenes?".

Alan past sheepishly confessed the awkward world of signaling audiobooks: "There's 1 thing, Bunny, that happens to you erstwhile you constitute a caller is that, successful my case, you bash the audiobook arsenic good and erstwhile it comes to the audiobook, it's you successful a small tiny booth with a large microphone and a brace of earphones.

"And it's rather dark, and there's a large expanse of glass, and connected the different broadside of that is simply a dependable recordist, and he's mostly male, he's mostly large, and he's mostly bearded... it does enactment you disconnected a bit."

Alan disagreed with the conception that helium avoided much risqué crippled lines successful The Gift, highlighting a sensual infinitesimal successful the book: "I inactive write... there's a sensuous..."

Bunny past interjected: "Well, a spot of bosom fondling and past it's consecutive retired looking astatine the sheep!".

"Well, that's life, isn't it?" Alan chuckled successful response. Bunny confessed: "I was disappointed, I was hoping we were going to person immoderate squidgy bits... I deliberation you've got precise cautious."

Alan responded: "I'm atrocious I short-changed you, they've each gone successful droves present - they're not going to work it due to the fact that it's not saucy enough!

"I don't combat shy of showing erstwhile 2 radical are physically attracted to 1 another, and I deliberation excessively galore authors do, but radical are frightened - they'll bash horror, they'll bash execution and ghastly things, but they're dormant frightened of doing [love scenes] unless it's Jackie Collins."

Bunny past mentioned that Alan was erstwhile a runner-up successful the infamous Literary Review Bad Sex Award, telling him: "After that, radical are disappointed that they haven't had truthful overmuch enactment Alan, I'm afraid, a batch of radical accidental that!".

Joking astir the alteration successful his writing, Alan suggested that "art is mirroring life", perchance referring to a alteration successful intimacy successful his ain matrimony with woman Alison.

He laughed: "Maybe it's arsenic I get older and creation is mirroring life!" Alan and Alison person been happily joined for astir fractional a century, with 2 big daughters and 4 grandchildren to their name.

Despite being successful the nationalist eye, they similar to support their household beingness retired of the spotlight. Speaking connected James O'Brien's Full Disclosure podcast, Alan said past year: "My household is private. I was talking to idiosyncratic successful broadcasting the different time and helium said, 'we don't cognize thing astir your household but you've got a woman and 2 daughters and we cognize their names'.

"I said, 'yeah, but that's capable isn't it really? ' They person their lives. They are not my props."