{"id":477817,"date":"2026-05-10T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477817\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:07:14","slug":"vernon-kay-spoke-of-changing-relationship-weeks-before-split-from-tess-daly-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477817\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernon Kay spoke of \u2018changing relationship\u2019 weeks before split from Tess Daly announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vernon Kay and Tess Daly. Photo: Dominic Lipinski\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SN Vernon Kay and R1Tess D.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Vernon Kay and Tess Daly. Photo: Dominic Lipinski<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Vernon Kay may have hinted at his and Tess Daly\u2019s bombshell separation just two weeks before it was ann\u00adounced on the pair\u2019s respective Instagram pages on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Daly, the outgoing co-presenter of Strictly Come Dancing, and BBC Radio 2 presenter Kay, mutually shared a statement on social media stating that their 23-year marriage is over, declaring they have decided to \u201cseparate amicably\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vernon Kay and Tess Daly. Photo: Dominic Lipinski Vernon Kay may have hinted at his and Tess Daly\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,22129],"class_list":{"0":"post-477817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-the-independent"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116550674573988087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}