NEWS
Following her split from husband Paddy McGuinness, pals say Christine McGuinness is getting ‘mixed messages’ from her ex, but she’s determined to move on
Christine McGuinness seems like she’s finally in a better place following her split from husband Paddy last year, with sources saying she’s feeling ready to start over again.
The model was spotted holidaying in Ibiza with pals last week, posting snaps looking incredible in a bikini and grinning from ear to ear as she enjoyed cocktails by the beach.
SELF LOVE
The Real Housewives Of Cheshire star 36, who shares three children with Take Me Out presenter Paddy, 50, escaped the grey skies of the UK for the sunny Spanish island, and declared on social media that Ibiza owned “a piece of my heart”. “Mummy is feeling fresh, glass full”, she also wrote. “This ‘self love’ thing is a whole new chapter”.
And an insider now says that the holiday has been a chance for Christine to not only party and relax, but to get a break from her former husband, who she still lives with nearly two years after their split.
“Christine is desperate for a fresh start,” the source says. “She’s been working hard on her own career so the last thing she wants is for anything to overshadow that. She feels like it’s mixed messages from Paddy – they’re in the middle of divorce proceedings but he’s been saying that they’re still close and living like a couple.
“She needs some space and is trying to spend as much time with her close-knit circle as possible. She has so much on with balancing the kids with her busy career –she’s struggling with this on top of everything else.”
Christine and Paddy met in 2007 at the Liverpool Tennis Tournament and married four years later at Thornton Manor in Cheshire. In 2022, however, the pair announced that they were splitting after 11 years of marriage. The couple share twins Leo and Penelope, 10, and daughter Felicity, seven. All three children are autistic, while Christine was also diagnosed as autistic at the age of 33.
SEPARATE ROOMS
For the sake of the children, Christine and Paddy have continued to live together after their split. “It’s the one thing that we completely agree on –the children’s needs come first,” she previously said. “We don’t want them to be affected by anything. Patrick’s diary is busy, as it always is, so he very much dips in and out of the home, because he’s working away a lot.”
But speaking in March, Paddy said that there was still deep affection between the pair, even though they slept separately. “T
