Ant McPartlin's ex Lisa Armstrong's secret turmoil after baby announcement 'broke her'

I'm A Celeb big Ant McPartlin's babe quality was said to person rocked his ex-wife Lisa Armstrong, erstwhile helium announced the accomplishment of his lad Wilder successful May of this year

Lisa Armstrong hinted astatine her 'silent battles' aft her ex-husband Ant McPartlin welcomed his archetypal child.

The erstwhile couple, who were unneurotic for 23 years, had a bitter break-up successful 2018 aft they struggled to conceive and Ant's vocation was rocked by a cause addiction scandal. The I'm A Celebrity big announced the accomplishment of his lad successful May, whom helium welcomed with his wife, Anne-Marie Corbett.

Ant was seen for the archetypal clip with his babe son Wilder successful Australia contiguous arsenic helium celebrates his 49th birthday. The TV presenter, who has hosted the long-running ITV amusement since 2002, enjoyed immoderate clip distant from filming aft admitting that helium was bittersweet to permission his household for the jungle.

Back successful June, Ant introduced his lad Wilder Patrick McPartlin to the world with an Instagram post. He shared a achromatic and achromatic photograph of the small 1 with the words: "Baby is beautiful, Mummy's a legend, Sisters are implicit the moon. Dad's a mess." The drawback showed a antecedently unseen tattoo of a household histrion connected his arm.

The names Daisy, Poppy and Amzie - his stepdaughters and his wife's nickname - could beryllium seen inked connected his arm, which insiders said truly affected Ant's ex Lisa. It was nary concealed the erstwhile mates wanted children of their own, with Ant antecedently admitting: "Lisa and I would emotion to person kids. We're trying. It's tougher than you deliberation erstwhile you get a spot older. We've been trying for a small portion truthful fingers crossed."

Lisa, a constitution creator connected Strictly Come Dancing, is thought to person recovered retired astir her ex-husband's babe quality by speechmaking the news, and wasn't told up of time. It was reported that Ant's announcement, including the tattoo of Anne-Marie's kids, chopped her deep.

A person told Mail Online astatine the time: "It is simply a tragedy. She missed her accidental to person a babe and present she has to spot Ant flaunting that tattoo connected societal media. He truly didn't request to bash that. It feels similar helium was rubbing her look successful it. You person to retrieve we are talking astir a communicative of large sadness here, she gave Ant everything and astatine the extremity of it all, ended up with an bare crib."

Around the quality of his babe announcement, Lisa took to societal media to stock immoderate cryptic quotes, hinting astatine 'silent battles'. One read: "Be arrogant of however you person been handling these past fewer months. The soundless battles you've fought, the moments you've had to humble yourself, the times you've wiped your ain tears. Celebrate your strength."

Another punctuation read: "I nary longer perceive to what radical say, I conscionable ticker what they do. Behaviour ne'er lies." Social behaviour and relationships adept Judi James told The Mirror astatine the clip that Lisa was 'torn between' staying soundless and pouring retired her emotions. She explained: "Lisa's posts dependable cryptic, a precise tiny question to the fans to hint astatine her feelings.

"Her archetypal 'big hint' came pursuing the commencement and it reads similar a motivational pep speech idiosyncratic had sent her. Her hint is presumably that it was close astir the 'humbling yourself' and 'wiping your ain tears'. Without penning a idiosyncratic statement of her feelings and emotions, this station seems to suggest that is what Lisa has been going through."