Fern: ‘The smilier I am, THE UNHAPPIER I FEEL INSIDE'

After Fern Britton announced her split from Phil Vickery after 20 years of marriage, the break-up could bring back ghosts she thought she’d finally laid to rest

A break-up after a short relationship is hard at the best of times, so to decide to separate after 20 happy years together must be far from easy. But Fern Britton appears to be adapting well to her split, after telling the world via Twitter that she and her chef husband Phil Vickery, 58, had ‘decided to go our separate ways’, adding, ‘We will always share a great friendship and our lovely children.’ But we can reveal Fern, 62, has previously suffered after heartbreak…

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