Charlie Dimmock's shock affair with co-star and harrowing family tragedy

Former Ground Force presenter Charlie Dimmock had an matter with a workfellow that caused her narration to interruption down earlier suffering a harrowing household tragedy

While Charlie Dimmock has said she arsenic "no regrets" astir her daze matter with a co-star during her clip connected Ground Force, she has besides opened up astir a household calamity that shook her to her core.

The gardening adept and tv presenter burst onto our screens connected Ground Force, alongside Alan Titchmarsh and Tommy Walsh which ran betwixt 1997 and 2005.

At the tallness of its popularity it drew successful 12 cardinal viewers, but the amusement was deed with a shocking ungraded erstwhile Charlie divided from her semipermanent partner, John Mushet, successful 2001 aft having an matter with microphone operator, Andy Simmons.

Charlie antecedently opened up astir the matter successful 2002 and admitted she "doesn't spot Andy anymore". "But I don't regret what happened. You wouldn't bash thing if you kept worrying astir what mightiness spell wrong," she said. "John and I had been unneurotic for a agelong clip truthful erstwhile we divided up, I relied heavy connected household and adjacent friends. I've discovered that the astir hard after-effect of the break-up is getting into different relationship."

Charlie went connected to day different subordinate of the programme's crew, dependable technician Barry Smith. A fewer years aft the split, Charlie experienced heartbreak erstwhile her parent and stepfather died successful the Boxing Day Tsunami successful 2004. They were connected vacation successful Phuket, Thailand, erstwhile the tsunami hit. Charlie did not talk astir the calamity astatine the clip but her cause said successful a statement: "It is precise upsetting for her. It has been excessively soon for her to travel to presumption with it. She is coping time by time astatine the moment. We person promised her that we volition support her."

According to The Daily Mail, Charlie turned down immoderate enactment for 2 years aft the calamity struck. Charlie's vocation has since branched disconnected successful much directions than gardening, including an acting stint erstwhile she took connected a abbreviated relation successful the 2010 touring accumulation of Calendar Girls. She has since returned to our screens connected the BBC makeover amusement Garden Rescue, alongside plot designers The Rich Brothers with whom she competes to make stunning outdoor spaces for homeowners astir the country.

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