Gardeners' World star Monty Don admits wife 'never' calls him by his real name

The look of Gardeners' World has opened up astir his beingness astatine location with his woman Sarah, admitting that she has ever referred to him by his existent name

Monty Don, the beloved look of Gardeners' World, has opened up astir his beingness astatine location with his woman Sarah, admitting that she ne'er calls him Monty.

The horticulturalist offered a uncommon glimpse of his beingness distant from the cameras connected Virtually Parkinson, a podcast hosted by an AI-generated mentation of the precocious TV large Sir Michael Parkinson.

Monty told listeners: "When I'm astatine home, I'm Montagu. And my wife, for example, has ne'er called maine Monty, my parent ne'er called maine Monty. I'm ever Montagu."

He went connected to explicate however helium maintains a wide bound betwixt his nationalist and backstage lives, adding: "It's a wholly abstracted life, my location beingness has nary transportation with my nationalist beingness astatine each successful truthful overmuch that, you know, there's nary request for them to transverse over."

Despite this separation, Monty acknowledges the unthinkable experiences his vocation successful the limelight has afforded him, reports the Liverpool ECHO.

He said: "But the enrichment is there. The information that I've had the privilege to spell each implicit the world, and speech to truthful galore people, and spot truthful galore astonishing gardens, it's thing that I ne'er would person had the accidental to bash and that feeds into my location life."

Fans of Gardeners' World were precocious thrilled to perceive that Monty committed to the amusement for an further 2 years from January 2025, arsenic helium revealed to the Radio Times.

"I ne'er marque plans beyond 2 years, but I've agreed to bash different 2 (from January 2025)," helium said.

"Every clip I think, 'Am I truly going to bash this?' But the information is that I bash bask it. I'm fortunate due to the fact that it's successful my ain garden. If the programme is made well, I'll continue."

The beloved green-fingered presenter Monty has established himself arsenic a gardening icon implicit the years, having been a regular diagnostic connected ITV's This Morning with his precise ain gardening conception since 1989. However, it was successful 2003 erstwhile helium genuinely blossomed into fame by taking implicit from Alan Titchmarsh connected BBC's Gardeners' World.

Monty Don's British Gardens broadcasts contiguous (Friday, February 7) astatine 8pm connected BBC Two.