I'm A Celeb's Declan Donnelly's forgotten famous ex now after he left her heartbroken

TV presenter Declan Donnelly, 49, is simply a happily joined father-of-two. We instrumentality a look backmost astatine his astir superior erstwhile narration - and find retired wherever his past emotion is now

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here is backmost and the amusement wouldn't beryllium implicit without Declan Donnelly and his presenting spouse Ant McPartlin.

Dec has been joined to Ali Astall since 2015, a endowment manager who had managed him for much than a decennary earlier they got together.

"We ever hung out," the prima told the Daily Express of their moving narration turning into a romance successful 2014. "When she was azygous and I was azygous we'd spell retired for meal connected Valentine's Day together. Last twelvemonth we went retired arsenic a couple. It was a small unusual due to the fact that we've had a moving narration for truthful long."

Ali and Dec are parents to six-year-old girl Isla and lad Jack, 2 and unrecorded unneurotic successful a mansion successful Chiswick, West London. Before they got together, the Saturday Night Takeaway prima was with a good known histrion for much than a decade.

Dec's archetypal high-profile narration was with histrion Clare Buckfield, who changeable to fame successful children's amusement Grange Hill and sitcom Two Point Four Children. The brace got unneurotic arsenic teenagers successful 1993 and they were unneurotic for a decade, surviving successful the star's plush location successful southbound westbound London.

But successful 2002 Dec deed the headlines erstwhile helium was said to person cheated connected his woman with thigh dancer Tina Benson, past 23, aft gathering her successful a club. Devastated Clare work astir her spouse of a decade's alleged matter successful a newspaper.

"Nobody tin beryllium prepared for thing similar that," she aboriginal said. "It was horrible, achy and unbelievably difficult.

"It was arsenic atrocious arsenic anyone would deliberation it could be. We were unneurotic a precise agelong time. I did deliberation it would extremity up successful marriage."

Clare, who appeared successful Doctors and Holby City, arsenic good arsenic a pb portion successful ITV fire-fighting play Steel River Blues, went onto vie connected Dancing connected Ice successful 2007. Paired with pro spouse Andrei Lipanov, she finished runner-up down rugby ace Kyran Bracken.

Now 48, Clare became mum to a lad called Johnny successful 2013. Thought to unrecorded successful Cambridgeshire, she mostly keeps retired of the limelight.

In 2014 she appeared successful a theatre accumulation of All Creatures Great And Small and told the Bucks Free Press astir her fond memories of her Two Point Four Children castmates Gary Olsen, who played the dada successful the amusement and Belinda Lang, who played the mum. "We conscionable utilized to beryllium truthful silly," she said. "Gary was a kid and Belinda was perpetually telling Gary off. It was truly fun."

Two years agone Lisa Armstrong, the ex-wife of Dec's presenting spouse Ant, shared a saccharine throwback drawback of her with Clare to observe their decades of friendship. "TBT 25 years of Friendship!!!" wrote Lisa arsenic she posted the photograph dating backmost to the '90s. "Love you doll @clarebuckfield #foreverfriends #oldskool."