ern Britton has stated that she didn't count on to really feel “really relaxed” following her marriage ending after 20 years.

The 65-year-old former This Morning presenter has mirrored on being single after she cut up from celeb chef Phil Vickery.

Britton introduced the break-up of her marriage to Vickery in January 2020, shortly after the dying of her father, actor Tony Britton in December 2019.

Speaking to Good Housekeeping, Britton stated: “My children are grown-up and I’m no longer married, and it’s as if this whole other world has opened up.

“I never thought this would happen; I didn’t expect to be 65 and single and really relaxed.”

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Her and Vickery had appeared on the present Ready Steady Cook and tied the knot in 2000.

Announcing their break-up on Twitter she stated the couple had determined to go their “separate ways.”

Talking about her well being, Britton stated {that a} change had been flipped a 12 months in the past when she grew a need to get fitter and more healthy.

“About a year or so ago, I realised that I wasn’t looking after myself – physically or mentally,” she stated.

“I wasn’t doing exercise, I was eating too much and suddenly, it was like I flipped a switch and I thought, ‘No, you’ve got to look after yourself’.

“So I started doing that, and it’s given me a new sort of energy.

“I do a bit of yoga and I’ve started doing the couch to 5k running app.

“I’m very slow, I’ve got arthritis in one of my knees and I’m about to have a shoulder replacement, but I just thought, ‘it’s only three miles, come on!’

“I’m not intending to run a long marathon or beat anybody, but I do enjoy the fitness side of it.”

Britton can also be recognized for presenting the ITV breakfast programme This Morning, which she left in 2009.

Discussing the opportunity of making a return, she stated: “I don’t think I’d be able to turn the clock back; it wouldn’t work that way.

“My time at This Morning was marvellous and I adored the 10 years I was there, but I feel you should never look back.”

Phillip Schofield, who co-presented This Morning with Britton from 2002 to 2009 and later with Holly Willoughby, left the present in May earlier than admitting to an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a youthful colleague and stepping down from ITV.

Read the total interview with Fern Britton within the August 2023 problem of Good Housekeeping, on sale now and out there in all supermarkets and on-line at MagsDirect.