What we know as Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty split after 12 years of marriage

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The exes have two children and were married for more than 10 years
This Morning presenter Cat Deeley and her husband Patrick Kielty have broken up after more than a decade of marriage and two children together.
They said in a joint statement to PA news agency: "We have taken the decision to end our marriage and are now separated. There is no other party involved.
"We will continue to be united as loving parents to our children and would therefore kindly ask for our family privacy to be respected. There will be no further comment."
Deeley and Kielty were just months away from their 13th wedding anniversary, having got married in September 2012 at a ceremony in Rome. The exes said they would put on a united front to co-parent their two sons, Milo, nine, and James, seven.
Cat Deeley missed her husband's mum's funeral
Earlier this year, This Morning presenter Deely didn't attend Kielty's mother's funeral in March in Dundrum, Ireland.
It was reported that she was staying home to support their two children.
An ITV spokesperson told The Daily Mail at the time: "Cat remained at home to be there for her two young children before and after school on this very sad day."
Move to the UK
Recently, Deeley has become the face of British TV walking in the footsteps of Holly Willoughby after replacing her on ITV's show This Morning. She has been presenting the daytime chat show alongside Ben Shephard.
In 2024, Deeley shared her struggles of juggling being a mum while being a presenter on This Morning.
"I drop the ball all the time. I'm exactly the same as everybody else," she told HELLO! magazine. "I do the juggle – the juggle is real, the struggle is real... You know, we know, we're all just trying to make everything work. It's all a juggle; it's juggling the things that make you feel good."
The couple had made the big decision to move their family to the UK in 2020.
They totally changed their lives, leaving behind their $5m family home in Beverly Hills. Instead, they settled into a £4.9m five-bedroom home in Hampsted, London.
Meanwhile, her husband and northern Irish presenter Kielty is the host of the RTE talk show The Late Late Show.
Before the move back to London, Deeley and Kielty had lived in Los Angeles for more than 10 years. It was there that she hosted the US series So You Think you Can Dance.
The family made the decision to relocate after one terrifying incident in 2019 where Kielty and their son, Milo, got caught up in a gun incident in a shopping centre.
Deeley said in 2020: "Everyone was told to lie behind the counter or pushed into the loos. People were screaming and crying. Then, as they were all hiding, the FBI turned up with guns. Paddy kept Milo calm — he didn't really know what was going on."
She added: "As I was driving, I began to see helicopters, news vans, firemen and armed police response squads. It makes me go funny now. It was terrifying. Paddy was shaken by it, more than Milo, who didn't properly understand. The gun laws in America are crazy."
Meeting on reality TV and falling in love
Love blossomed later for Deeley and Kielty.
They first met on the set of reality TV show Fame Academy in 2002. But the couple were both in relationships with other people. There was a spark and they stayed in touch as friends, reaching out on each other's birthdays.
It wasn't until 10 years later that the romantic spark was ignited. Kielty went to great lengths to fly to Los Angeles from Belfast to have a birthday brunch with Deeley at short notice.
He previously told The Daily Mail: "Well there had always been a spark between us, but either she was with someone or I was, and then she moved to LA, so opportunities for something to develop were limited. Unless someone was stupid enough to get on a plane, nothing would have happened."
Deeley was clearly impressed with the move. Kielty remembered: "I was at the Beverly Hills Hotel by 2.15pm. When I walked in, Cat looked at me and said: "Oh, you're good!""
After nine months, the couple walked down the aisle in Italy. Deeley had a relaxed approach to their wedding. She previously told Closer magazine: "Patrick went and tried the food and did all that, I never even saw the place where I got married before I got married, that's how uninvolved I was."