Richard Madeley says he's sleeping in separate room from wife Judy Finnigan

Richard Madeley has moved to explain he sleeps in a separate room from wife Judy Finnigan in a frank marriage admission. The ITV Good Morning Britain star and his other half Judy, 76, have enjoyed a 38-year marriage in front of the nation.

But they get their seven hours apart from one another, Richard - who hosts ITV Good Morning Britain with Susanna Reid, Kate Garraway, Charlotte Hawkins, and Ranvir Singh - said. Speaking to Kate Thornton on her White Wine Question Time podcast, he said: "When I'm doing Good Morning Britain I sleep in the spare room.

"I do probably sleep a little bit better in bed with Judy but I'm okay on my own. I wouldn't think of doing that to Judy. Apart from anything else, Judy and her sleep, you do not mess with." Fellow morning presenter Amol Rajan was mentioned by Kate as someone who claims to "sleep better" with his spouse, despite being parents to four children under seven.

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Richard joked: "Amol Rajan's wife must be a saint." Richard said: "We did This Morning, but the difference between me and Amol there is that Judy and I would get up at the same time. The alarm would go off, we'd both get up and roll into our jeans, get in the car, and drive to Liverpool to do the show, and then when we were in London, drive down to the Southbank.

"So we went to bed at the same time and woke up at the same time." Before tying the knot with Judy, Richard was married to Lynda Hooley – who he admitted to cheating on around 10 times. He told The Mirror : “Oh lots, numerous, probably in the space of about five years, about 10.

"Although the marriage had some very happy moments, there was a lot of negativity in it. I'm not using that as an excuse. It's wrong to have affairs, but I was a very young man."