Richard Madeley has revealed he and his wife Judy Finnigan sleep in separate beds because of his work.
The TV star, 68, is a regular on Good Morning Britain and said when he is down to work on the ITV breakfast show he sleeps in a different room to Judy because he doesn’t want her to end up waking up super early when his alarm clock goes off.
The topic came up on the White Wine Question Time podcast, when host Kate Thornton mentioned how she'd heard that presenter Amol Rajan slept better when his wife was next to him, but his early morning alarm would then wake her too. “When I'm doing Good Morning Britain I sleep in the spare room,” Richard said.
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“I do probably sleep a little bit better in bed with Judy but it’s OK on my own,” he went on. He said of possibly disturbing Judy’s sleep in the early hours: “I wouldn't think of doing that to Judy. Apart from anything else, Judy and her sleep, you do not mess with.”
Talking about his early starts, Richard said when he started on GMB he’d assumed that people got used to it but that he’d discovered that wasn’t actually the case. “Everybody hates it,” he said. “It doesn’t matter how long they have been doing the job for, nobody gets used to it. Everybody finds it horrible.
“There is just no way you can recondition your humanity to make it alright to get up in the middle of the night. It’s not. It doesn’t matter what time you go to bed, it doesn’t matter if you have a nap in the afternoon… it’s still s*** when the alarm goes off and it’s still dark.”
Richard and Judy, 76, tied the knot in 1986 and they share son Jack and daughter Chloe. The TV stars presented This Morning together from the late 80s to 2001 and then fronted their own programme, Richard & Judy, for another eight years.
But while Richard is a GMB staple, Judy is less in the spotlight these days and her hubby has previously suggested that she is enjoying her life off the telly.
Speaking on ITV's Loose Women a couple of years ago, he said that while Judy was “probably the best female TV presenter of her generation”, she had “never really enjoyed it that much”. Richard then went on to clarify: "She enjoyed the job, the process, but all the rubbish that comes along with it, being in the papers… She never enjoyed that.”
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