BBC Breakfast star Carol Kirkwood wows fans with major career announcement

Carol Kirkwood has started a palmy vocation distant from BBC Breakfast, and gave an breathtaking update astir her latest quality leaving her fans successful implicit joy

BBC Breakfast prima Carol Kirkwood has shared immoderate breathtaking quality astir her precise palmy broadside hustle.

While the Scottish upwind presenter is champion known for her enactment connected TV, she’s besides making a sanction for herself successful the literate world arsenic a romance author. Taking to X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, earlier today, she revealed that her penning vocation was picking up adjacent further.

The Strictly Come Dancing prima has 4 books released, with the archetypal published successful 2021 portion the astir caller came retired conscionable past year. Her quality was astir her 3rd novel, with Carol announcing: “I'm truthful pleased to fto you cognize that Secrets of the Villa Amore has been selected for a Kindle Monthly Deal (KMD) and volition beryllium priced astatine 99p for the full period of February. Great quality up of Valentine's Day!! Xxx,” she wrote, on with a bosom emoji.

One instrumentality misread the blessed news, starring to a hilarious interaction. “Great news. Your station astir your adjacent publication came done arsenic ‘wanted to fto you cognize astir my latest romance…. ! I panicked,” they wrote, arsenic Carol responded with laughing emojis.

The instrumentality was acrophobic astir proceeding of Carol’s ‘new romance’ aft she and Steve Randall - a constabulary serviceman and begetter of 1 - tied the knot connected December 27, 2023, a twelvemonth aft they announced their engagement.

Carol started dating Steve successful 2021 but made the determination to support his individuality quiescent until helium propsed. Steve, who is 13 years her junior, divided from his woman of 12 years successful 2017, portion Carol called it a time with her hubby of 18 years, Jimmy Kirkwood, successful 2008.

Carol gushed astir her caller home beingness past summer, saying that the archetypal fewer months of her second matrimony had knocked her archetypal retired of the water. "Love is lovelier the 2nd clip around. No disrespect to my archetypal husband, but this is better,” she told the Times.

Carol added however the aboriginal birds enactment perfectly successful sync astatine home, saying: "I get up astatine 2.45am. Steve, who's a constabulary officer, gets up excessively and makes maine a cupful of tea. I get to Broadcasting House, which is the office of BBC successful London, by 4am."

After years of keeping her romance secret, she besides detailed their enviable meet-cute. “I met Steve astatine a enactment relation astir 7 years ago. I was drinking an espresso martini, and Steve precise sensibly wasn’t drinking due to the fact that he’s a policeman and had enactment the adjacent day," she said.

“We went connected our archetypal luncheon day soon aft and had sandwiches and tea. It’s unusual to deliberation that neither of america had planned connected going to the function, but we changed our minds astatine the past minute, and if 1 of america hadn’t, we’d ne'er person met.”

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