Kirsty Gallacher is embracing a whole new chapter in life. As well as juggling a successful radio career, life as a single mum to her boys Oscar, 17, and Jude, 14, and a surprise new career move, the long-standing TV presenter has also found love again. Her evolution comes from a lifetime of different experiences, as the Smooth Radio host, 48, tells us.
“I feel like I’ve had three different lives: one in my twenties – the early time in my career, without kids, then my thirties was all career and kids, and then this new life, navigating my forties in a different place, with a slightly different career path and older kids. Now I’m not married, and making different decisions. It’s a funny thing.
" But it’s not just work and family that has been keeping the radio presenter – who last year was briefly linked to Paddy McGuinness – busy lately. She’s also embraced change by embarking on a new romance. “Darren is great,” she beams, as she opens up about her partner of a year, the ex-rugby player Darren Clayton.
The couple were introduced through Kirsty’s good friends Gabby Logan and her husband Kenny, and met as the result of a shared commitment to charity. Kirsty was doing a charity walk and bike ride for motor neurone disease, a cause very close to her heart – and the fundraiser had been organised by Darren, 38, who is also a single parent. “I joined Kenny and Gabby on this challenge, to raise awareness and funds in memory of the great Scottish rugby play.