{"id":99767,"date":"2023-10-07T23:03:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T23:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=99767"},"modified":"2023-10-07T23:03:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T23:03:54","slug":"michael-aspel-reveals-he-is-remorseful-over-failure-of-his-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/michael-aspel-reveals-he-is-remorseful-over-failure-of-his-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Aspel reveals he is remorseful over failure of his marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8216;When I look back at my life it is mostly with disappointment&#8217;: This Is Your Life presenter and TV legend Michael Aspel, 90, reveals he is racked with remorse over the failure of his three marriages<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The broadcaster said he was \u2018full of regrets\u2019 after leaving his three wives<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Smooth-talking TV legend Michael Aspel has revealed he is racked with remorse over the failure of his three marriages.<\/p>\n<p>The 90-year-old broadcaster, who presented the celebrity biography programme This Is Your Life and chat show Aspel &amp; Company, said he was \u2018full of regrets\u2019 after leaving wives Dian Sessions, TV scriptwriter Ann Reed and actress Elizabeth Power.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When I look back at my life it is mostly with disappointment,\u2019 he said in an interview this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Not about my working life, although I do wish I had remained an actor, but my regret is that I left three wives. Sometimes I wake up in the night and sit bolt upright and think, \u201cIt was utter madness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I can\u2019t find excuses. I just felt this awful need to wriggle out of my marriages. To have done it three times must be a flaw in my personality.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/07\/23\/76288847-12606287-image-a-71_1696717494112.jpg\" height=\"812\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Smooth-talking TV legend Michael Aspel (pictured with his current partner Irene Clark) has revealed he is racked with remorse over the failure of his three marriages <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/07\/23\/76288849-12606287-image-m-81_1696717581603.jpg\" height=\"796\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Michael Aspel with his first wife Dian Sessions whom he was married to for five years<\/p>\n<p>Aspel said he believed his behaviour might stem from his childhood as a wartime evacuee in Somerset.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018Those formative years made me feel like a loner. So, I felt claustrophobic when I was bound by things I had volunteered for.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The presenter, whose laid-back interviewing style attracted A-list guests such as Margaret Thatcher, Elizabeth Taylor and former Beatle Ringo Starr, recalled the drawn-out publicity that dogged the end of his 18-year marriage to EastEnders star Ms Power.<\/p>\n<p>He had begun an affair with his current partner Irene Clarke, a production assistant on This Is Your Life, but in 1994 their relationship leaked to newspapers and he was staked out by photographers at a Manchester hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I had to go home and tell Lizzie after Manchester,\u2019 he said. \u2018I should have just given an interview [after the press found out]. But it just went on and on.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Aspel has remained married to Ms Power \u2013 \u2018never divorced, Lizzie\u2019s a Catholic\u2019 \u2013 and insists he gets on \u2018extremely well\u2019 with his ex-wives and children, to whom he says he was a good father.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He had two sons with his first wife, Ms Sessions, one of whom, Greg, died from cancer aged just 29.<\/p>\n<p>Of his son\u2019s death, he said: \u2018The grief is all mixed up in one huge kind of regret. It\u2019s all part of the loss. Some of it is self-inflicted and some of it is just terrible.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/07\/23\/76288855-12606287-image-a-77_1696717548756.jpg\" height=\"686\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Michael Aspel with his second wife Ann Reed and their two children, twins Jane and Edward, at the City of London Hospital<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/07\/23\/76288853-12606287-image-a-80_1696717569687.jpg\" height=\"541\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Michael Aspell with his third wife Lizzie Power pictured together in 1977<\/p>\n<p>Aspel and Ms Reed had twins before divorcing in 1967, and he and his third wife, Ms Power, had a further two sons.\u00a0A third died at just three days old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The presenter will be recalling his days as a wartime evacuee in a charity gala, Stars In Salute!, tomorrow at the Royal Air Force Club in London\u2019s Mayfair.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust, will also feature stars such as Sir Ben Kingsley, Downton Abbey\u2019s Hugh Bonneville and EastEnders stalwart Pam St Clement.<\/p>\n<p>Aspel, who is patron of the Evacuees Association, said in the interview with The Daily Telegraph: \u2018It was four-and-a-half years of one\u2019s childhood. I think about it a lot.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12606287\/TV-presenter-Michael-Aspel-remorse-failure-marriages.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;When I look back at my life it is mostly with disappointment&#8217;: This Is Your Life presenter and TV legend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Aspel reveals he is remorseful over failure of his marriages - Celebrity Cover News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/michael-aspel-reveals-he-is-remorseful-over-failure-of-his-marriages\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael Aspel reveals he is remorseful over failure of his marriages - 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