Caroline Quentin is ready to embark on one of the biggest challenges of her career: participating in Strictly Come Dancing And No One Will Cheer Her Like Her Loving Family The Men star Behaving Badly, 60 years old, proud mother of two with husband Sam Farmer, but what do we know about her marriage and family life? HI! take a look
Caroline was famously married to comedian Paul Merton from 1990 until their divorce in 1998 The former couple first met on a train on their way to the Edinburgh Festival, with Paul throwing the book that Caroline was reading through a window
“I was sitting across from him, reading Alec Guinness’s autobiography, I believe,” she once told The Independent. “I said I thought it was ‘was terrible He said he read it and accepted it I said I didn’t think I would be able to finish it He took it from me and threw it out the window’ This will get you out of trouble ‘ ‘, he said «
Caroline later admitted she was completely blinded by their breakup « I didn’t know my marriage was going bad until the end, really, » she told The Guardian
Paul later found love with Sarah Parkinson, who had served as Caroline’s understudy during the couple’s three-month London part of The Live Bed Show Tragically, Sarah died of breast cancer in September 2003 , barely 12 weeks after her official marriage to Paul
It was while Caroline was working on Men Behaving Badly in 1998 that she laid eyes on showrunner Sam Farmer She described their meeting as « an almighty fluke »
« There is no mathematical reason for that, nothing smart I did except when I met him I immediately thought, ‘Ah, there you are, and luckily he was thinking the same thing Every year, it seems to us, our relationship grows stronger « The couple got married in 2006
Caroline and Sam – who is 11 years younger than Caroline – share two children: Emily, 21, and William, 17
Sam has decided to be a stay-at-home parent, Caroline having previously told MailOnline: « We switched roles in the sense that Sam stays home and runs the house – that’s just the way it works. for us «
Sam added: « Being a stay-at-home dad is liberating I have a good relationship with Emily and William, and they have a male perspective »
The family live together in Tiverton, Devon, where they own a farm and 35 acres of land Growing up in the suburbs of Surrey, Caroline feels privileged to have been able to raise her children with so much space around her. ‘them
They also have a menagerie of pets, including dogs, cats and a turtle, grow most of their own fruits and vegetables, and have even raised their own animals for meat
Caroline told Devon Life in an interview in 2011: “My connection, my heart and my family are with this part of the world We moved on an absolute whim
« I was living in Suffolk at the time and my husband turned to me and said, ‘If I don’t see a hill soon I’m going to absolutely lose my mind’ I said, ‘OK we better get moving’ We’re now in our eighth year and I’m not going anywhere else
« I found it to be a very non-intrusive and welcoming place I made so many friends People are very easy going and non-judgmental which I find extraordinary »
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