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Holly Willoughby recalls moment she fell in love with husband Dan Baldwin after ‘intense’ friendship-Alicia Adejobi-Entertainment – Metro
The couple have been married since 2007.
Holly Willoughby and Dan Baldwin are still going strong after 16 years of marriage (Picture: WireImage)
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Holly Willoughby is in a reflective mood and has revealed the exact moment she realised she was falling in love with her husband Dan Baldwin.
The This Morning presenter has been married to the TV producer since 2007 after meeting through work, and now share three children; Harry, 13, Belle, 11, and Chester, eight.
However, it wasn’t necessarily love at first sight for Holly, 41, and Dan, 48, who initially struck up a close friendship when they met working on children’s TV in the mid-noughties.
‘I’d already been there around eight months I think, and then he came in as our new producer and we started this real intense friendship – it was mad actually,’ the TV presenter told fans on her Wylde Moon Instagram page.
She continued: ‘There was sort of two other guys that started at the same time, and we just became inseparable.
‘We’d rehearse, and then we’d go out afterwards, and then we’d end up … We were filming down in Maidstone Studios and we used to stay in a hotel there.
‘And you know everybody would go to the bar and then everybody would come back into either my room or their room and we’d all sit round just talking and laughing, and I just remember it just being such a fun time. I always describe that time as sort of my university years, really.’
Holly was taken by complete surprise by her feelings and revealed the one night where she finally realised they weren’t just platonic.
The couple still know how to have fun together (Picture: GC Images)
Holly and Dan are blissfully happily married (Picture: GC Images)
‘And this must have been six months of real intense friendship and I remember this one night we were in the bar,’ she recalled.
‘I cheersed Dan, and I remember my eye just caught him for a little bit longer than it should have done, and I looked at him, and thought, “Oh my god, I fancy Dan Baldwin”. And it took me by complete surprise, and then the rest is history.’
Holly added: ‘Looking back on it now I think what I was thinking was an intense friendship was probably me falling in love.
‘I think that’s a really good basis for romance because we have that friendship still now and we have three beautiful children, and we’re very happy and I’m very blessed every day for having him in my life.’
Holly and Dan still make time for date nights together occasionally, and were most recently seen enjoying a night out at the boxing.
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