Tess Daly: I'm not moving to the US to join Vernon

Tess Daly: I'm not moving to the US to join Vernon
Tess Daly: I'm not moving to the US to join Vernon (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Tess Daly has brushed off rumours that she will be moving to the US to join husband Vernon Kay. Vernon is currently presenting Skating With The Stars, the American version of Dancing On Ice, and there had been speculation that Tess and their two daughters - six-year-old Phoebe and 18-month-old Amber - plan to head there, too. But Tess told Grazia: "It's just a rumour, our kids are in school here and this is home." The Strictly Come Dancing host, whose marriage was rocked by stories of Vernon's 'sexting' earlier this year, insisted she is contented with her lot. "I feel better than I ever have before. I'm really comfortable in my work, in my life, with my family," she added. While Vernon has expressed his desire to have another baby, she said: "Vernon would just keep going - he'd like a busload. Never say never, but I had two great pregnancies and I don't want to push my luck."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.