Children in Need Vernon Kay's Strictly wife, sexting scandal and bizarre Hollywood feud

Ahead of tonight's Children In Need programme connected BBC One, the Mirror takes a look astatine the eventful beingness of presenter Vernon Kay, including the sexting ungraded that near him scrambling to prevention his marriage

TV's Vernon Kay has antecedently carried retired immoderate pugnacious challenges successful the sanction of Children In Need - which airs contiguous astatine 7pm connected BBC One. And he's besides had to flooded immoderate tricky obstacles successful his idiosyncratic life.

The broadcaster, who volition contiguous beryllium presenting the 2024 Children In Need show, past twelvemonth raised much than £6 cardinal for the foundation entreaty aft completing an bonzer three-day Ultramarathon Challenge, spanning immoderate 115-miles from Leicester to his hometown of Bolton.

This week, Vernon, 50, has been offering encouragement to his chap Boltonian Paddy McGuinness, who has finished up his epic motorcycle travel from Wrexham to Glasgow for the charity. Encouraging his BBC Radio 2 listeners to enactment the Max and Paddy legend, Vernon recalled the last time of his ain backbreaking adventure.

Vernon remembered: "It's the toughest day, truthful I'm gonna personally subordinate to this from acquisition arsenic Paddy's Kinder day... Kinder Scout, wherever we went implicit Kinder Scout, which was horrendous. Absolutely hated it." He added: "I can't deliberation astir that time now, personally, due to the fact that we were... I deliberation each of america arsenic a corporate - arsenic a squad - were the lowest of the low. We were conscionable truthful deadbeat, we were benignant of broken, arsenic well, physically."

The presenter has besides had to navigate a fewer rocky roads successful his idiosyncratic life, including wrong his matrimony to his woman of 20 years - Strictly Come Dancing prima Tess Daly,

The mates met arsenic they were some up-and-coming stars successful television, erstwhile Vernon was a big connected Channel 4's T4 and Tess, 55, was presenting SMTV connected ITV. The mates tied the knot successful 2003 astatine a religion successful Bolton and they stock 2 daughters - Phoebe Elizabeth Kay, 20, and Amber Isabella Kay, 15. While the brace often gush implicit each different connected their societal media, their national hasn't ever been an casual road.

Some years aft they married, the mates were rocked by claims that Vernon had been sending saucy messages to 4 different women arsenic good arsenic glamour exemplary Rhian Sugden. He and Tess had been joined for 7 years astatine the clip and had their 2 young girls astatine home.

Tess was evidently heartbroken by the shocking quality and what followed were respective grovelling apologies from her hubby arsenic helium desperately tried to prevention his marriage. In an interrogation with The Sun astatine the time, helium confessed: "Tess is highly upset astir this and we're moving done it... I've been anserine and daft but I'm not a enactment pest. I've lone done this with 4 oregon 5 girls and I've known them each good – they've been friends oregon enactment colleagues.

"I cognize a azygous feline tin get distant with things similar that but I'm joined and I recognize this is disconnected limits." Following the explosive 2010 revelations, the mates were capable to yet enactment the play down them and determination connected with their romance.

However, 5 years aboriginal it was claimed that Vernon and Rhian had been exchanging messages erstwhile again. Vernon was forced to publically code the claims and denied that determination had been thing "inappropriate" astir their messages. He insisted the brace were simply discussing accusation astir the 2010 incident.

The dada of 2 addressed the play by putting retired a connection revealing he'd told Tess everything. In a station connected Facebook, helium wrote: "Regarding today's story: I was contacted by Rhian retired of the bluish backmost successful December regarding the communicative successful 2010 claiming she had accusation she wanted to walk on.

"I recognise however it whitethorn look erstwhile messages are pulled retired of discourse but determination was ne'er inappropriate intent to our communication." Rhian aboriginal apologised for being successful interaction with a joined antheral and expressed her regret astir the situation.

While Tess didn't publically code the reports astatine the time, successful 2017 she admitted that marriages are a 'work successful progress'. In an interrogation with The Times, she explained: "All marriages person their moments. Marriage is simply a enactment successful progress.

She added: "Vernon and I are conscionable people, astatine the extremity of the day." Despite their rocky patch, successful caller years the mates appears to person been going beardown successful their enduring romance.Their narration and adjacent enslaved were further revealed erstwhile Vernon headed to Wales to look successful I'm A Celeb successful 2020. Tess' devotion to her hubby was evident successful a postulation of touching posts connected societal media arsenic she supported her husband.

"We're soulmates, maine and Vernon," she said to Women's Health pursuing his clip connected the ITV show. "It's been a ride. And I emotion him much than ever."

Having been successful the manufacture for much than 20 years, the broadcaster has interviewed a big of celebrities during his clip connected screen. However, immoderate chats person been amended than other, with 1 awkward brushwood with a Hollywood movie prima lasting retired successful particular. When School of Rock landed connected the large surface successful 2003, pb histrion Jack Black won implicit a legion of fans for his loveable quality Dewey Finn.

Although Vernon was little than impressed erstwhile helium met the prima for an interview, and an improbable feud ensued. The brace initially crossed paths erstwhile the erstwhile Family Fortunes big was moving arsenic a TV presenter connected Channel 4's T4.

Jack was already established arsenic a large sanction but Bolton-born Vernon was inactive making his people arsenic a celeb interviewer and was 'nervous' up of the chat. Speaking to The Sun successful 2020, Vernon admitted: "I don't cognize whether he'd had a hangover oregon whether it was due to the fact that I was either the archetypal oregon past interrogation of the day, but helium was horrible.

"He was an implicit d**k, an a******e." Vernon bitterly continued: "When you're truthful rude, arrogant and pig-faced to a young TV presenter, who's truthful tense and trying to hone his skills, and you're truthful arrogant to disregard that, it's conscionable not on." He went connected to statement the histrion a "c**k", adding: "I anticipation helium reads it, and fto this beryllium a acquisition to Jack Black."

Vernon went connected to interrogation the movie prima astir a fewer of his films portion acting arsenic a big for T4, including the 2010 flick Gulliver's Travels, 2003 Hollywood deed School of Rock, and 2001's Shallow Hal. Allegedly, his cognition was "just the aforesaid each time".

Children In Need airs this evening (Friday, November 15) astatine 7pm connected BBC One.

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