Andrea McLean ‘Is everything all right?’ Loose Women star in surprising marriage admission
ANDREA MCLEAN, who fronts ITV’s Loose Women, spoke candidly about the state of her marriage to Nick Feeney as she revealed during today’s show that people often assume there is a problem in their relationship.
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Andrea McLean, 50, revealed she has been attending marriage guidance counselling sessions with her husband Nick Feeney, 46. The Loose Women panellist opened up about the couple’s “bumpy year” and admitted the therapy has benefitted their relationship.
The ITV favourite has been married to the businessman for two years, after tying the knot in an intimate wedding ceremony, in 2017.
During an appearance on Loose Women, Andrea praised their counselling sessions helped them with their “communication” and admitted their relationship is “great”.
"A lot of people think going to counselling means there is a problem in your relationship, but if you go before there is a problem and learn to communicate – because 99 percent of all problems are communication," she said.
She added: "So you learn, ‘Why does someone react in that way?’
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The presenter revealed the couple had been going to sessions for the past five months.
Andrea explained: "Nick and I have been going to counselling for five months or so, and when I tell friends they go 'Oh, is everything all right?'
"Everything is great! But we want to make sure - as we work together as well - how can we communicate so we see each other as husband and wife and not just business partners?"
The Loose Women star did not go into too much detail on the couple's issues but revealed it was like a weight being lifted.
She added: “You realise what you’re lugging around. You don’t realise you’re lugging everything with you.”
The ITV host married Nick around four years after the couple first began dating, and is Andrea’s third marriage.
The couple exchanged nuptials in front of a host of her Loose Women co-stars including Nadia Sawalha, Linda Robson, Saira Khan and Stacey Solomon.
Andrea was previously married to Nick Green in 2000 but the pair divorced five years later.
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The former couple has Finlay, 17.
Andrea was then married to Steve Toms in 2009 but subsequently divorced in 2012 – he is the father of her second child, daughter Amy, 12.
Nick has two teenage daughters from a previous relationship.
Speaking to Hello! about her marriage to Nick, Andrea divulged: "I never thought I'd feel like this again, that I'd fall in love and get the chance to start a new life.
"It's been a revelation to him too. And because we make each other so happy, it's changed our lives.
"So many people have commented on how much more positive I've become since I met him.”
She added: “Thanks to Nick, I'm no longer looking backwards, I'm looking forward."