Chris Evans' ex-wife admits 'I didn't like him' as she opens up on marriage regret
Chris Evans, host of TFI Friday Unplugged, has been married three times - first to former Loose Women panellist Carol McGiffin, followed by actress Billie Piper and his current wife Natasha Shishmanian
Carol McGiffin has opened up about her former marriage to Chris Evans and she didn't hold back on her true thoughts. The former couple, who were wed from 1991 to 1998, have both since remarried.
Though while reflecting on their time together on the Suddenly Single podcast by Best Magazine, the former Loose Women panellist said she now believes they should never have married.
"I don't really know why we got married," she said. "We shouldn't have. For quite a lot of the time, I didn't like him."
On a previous episode of Loose Women, the 66-year-old also claimed she had been "swept along" by the relationship and had convinced herself she "couldn’t live without him".
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Carol additionally suggested it was Chris' idea for them to marry, while dismissing suggestions that money played any part in the decision.
Two decades after their split, Carol went on to marry Mark Cassidy, whom she met at a Loose Women wrap party in 2008 when he was 26 and she was 48.
The couple later eloped, marrying in a private ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand, without telling family or friends.
Recalling the wedding, she said on the podcast: "It was a bit tragic really. I was injured so it was impossible to dress up. Mark wore shorts and I had long trousers as I had a bandage on my knee. There is one picture."
She added that the secrecy surrounding the wedding caused some upset. "Quite a few people were a bit upset that we had done it without telling them. We didn't even tell Mark’s mum and dad for six months.
"But we knew people would make a fuss and it really wasn't a big deal. We'd been together for 10 years by then."
As for Chris, 60, who has rebooted his show TFI Friday, he has been married three times in total.
After his marriage to Carol, he wed singer and actress Billie Piper in 2001, but they divorced three years later citing "irreconcilable differences and pressures of demanding careers".
He later married Natasha Shishmanian in 2007, with whom he shares four children. Chris also has an older daughter, Jade, from a previous relationship.
The broadcaster often references family life on his Virgin Radio breakfast show, including revealing that he and his spouse once slept in separate rooms after the birth of their twins, Boo and Walt.
"My wife sleeps on a different floor in a different bedroom with the twins," he told listeners at the time.
"It works perfectly, she's so clever." He later clarified that the arrangement was temporary and would change as their family adjusted to life with four children.
