Rylan Clark made a sad confession about his marriage to ex-husband Dan Neal.
The former couple tied the knot in 2015 in a lavish ceremony, before announcing their separation in 2021.
The Big Brother star previously described his divorce as ‘traumatic’ and has been open about the toll it took on his mental health as well as his physical health after suffering two heart failures.
Rylan spoke about his marriage while on This Morning, admitting that he had pre-emptively booked a venue to celebrate his tenth wedding anniversary that he had forgotten about.
As Gyles Brandreth suggested that people don’t go into a marriage with debt and instead save for a party for their 10th or 15th wedding anniversary, Rylan said: ‘I actually did book a venue for my tenth wedding anniversary.
‘I got an email a couple of months back saying “do you still want this venue?” and I was like, “no”.
‘I forgot. Lost my deposit and all,’ he jokingly added.
He said that he went to Scott Mills’ wedding to his husband Sam Vaughan, and gushed about how wonderful the intimate ceremony was.
‘It was just so beautiful. Just 70 odd, not a big big number. Just all one place with everyone they loved. And I was like “that’s how to do it.”
‘I feel like my wedding that I had was just so big.’
Rylan added that if he were ever to marry again, ‘no one would know’ and he would keep the celebrations lowkey.
Fellow host Josie Gibson agreed, with the pair joking that they were, in fact, secretly married after Josie quipped she ‘could be married now.’
Rylan revealed in his 2022 memoir that his infidelity was the reason behind the couple’s split, saying he confessed in 2021 to cheating on his partner years prior.
He wrote: ‘I have no excuses for what I did way back then, but I had my reasons. I think for many years I had felt a bit like an imposter. That nothing I was doing was right or not quite good enough.’
The split saw Rylan’s physical health suffering, which led to two heart failures.
During his An Evening With Rylan Clark at London’s Royal Festival Hall in 2022, he shared: ‘It was like my body had shut down. Twice last year I ended up back in an ambulance because my heart had failed and it was really strange because I just remember for a couple of weeks going, ‘My heart hurts’.”‘
In 2023, he spoke to Matt Willis on his On The Mend podcast and revealed the extent to which the split had affected him.
‘I can’t remember what made me disappear basically from the person I knew. But the next thing I knew I could not see, hear, eat, breathe, sleep I couldn’t do anything,’ Rylan said.
‘There was no signs of me having a breakdown, there was no signs of like if you’re having a heart attack, you’ll get the pains in your arm, you’ll get this… you know something’s about to happen even if it’s seconds before. I didn’t have the seconds, I just had the impact basically. The baseball bat round the face I call it. And yeah, I got very ill.’
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