Vernon Kay upsets Tess with online bikini photo

Vernon Kay upsets Tess with online bikini photo
Vernon Kay upsets Tess with online bikini photo

Vernon Kay has upset his wife Tess Daly - by posting a photo of her wearing a bikini online. The TV presenter showed fans on Twitter the picture of Tess (copyright Vernon Kay/Twitter) having a waterfight in their garden to show off her post baby weight loss. He told Closer: "We were larking around in the garden having a water fight and I thought, 'Oh she looks great', so I posted the picture online - I told her two hours later and she wasn't best pleased, she said to me: 'You what?!' "And then the newspapers published the picture and there was nothing she could really do. But I said: 'You look absolutely brilliant and that's why I put it up there!'" Vernon revealed the secret to Tess’ weight loss, just weeks after giving birth to their second daughter Amber, wasn’t going to the gym or dieting. "Tess isn't the sort of person who only eats the chicken without the skin,” he explained. “She allows herself what she feels like. "I love cooking Jamie Oliver pasta dishes for her. And she absolutely hates the gym. She's just got a high metabolism and is always on the go."

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.