A MUCH-LOVED Good Morning Britain presenter has opened up about her shock split from the father of her child while still pregnant and solo parenting for over a decade. The ITV star has surprised fans by revealing for the first time that she has been a single mum since she was seven months pregnant. Up until now, it has widely been assumed that Lorraine host Ranvir Singh has only been single since revealing she was just before she starred on Strictly Come Dancing in 2020 alongside Giovanni Pernice .
The proud mum-of-one has son Tushaan from her marriage to ex Ranjeet Singh Dehal . Opening up on the White Wine Question Time with Kate Thornton podcast - which can be downloaded today - the ITV anchor said: “I have actually been a single mum since I was 7 months pregnant. I’ve kept that so quiet but I am okay to talk about it now.
"Now I’m at a point in my life where I think that I’m learning to embrace my whole life and to not compartmentalise it as much, to keep everything separate. And that’s a me thing. Read more in Showbiz "I’m happy to correct it today.
Obviously my friends and family have known. It shows you can keep private whatever you choose to!" The star has decided to speak out about her private life now she is ready. She shared: “I feel like I am beginning to mesh my life together and part of that is being able to say ‘yes, I was single since I was seven months pregnant.
"I need to own it. I need to say, it’s not shameful, it’s not something to hide, this is me." Most read in News TV The busy TV star, 47, has always found a way to juggle her career and being a single working mum.
She admitted: “I realise that you forge forwards so hard in a single-minded bloody desire to make this work and to keep everything going...
"But I literally say I’m on a unicycle blindfolded juggling fire, that’s how it has felt this whole time!” The proud mum said about her 12-year-old son's admirable character: “When I see my son growing up to be and grow into the kind of young man that I was afraid I couldn’t achieve on my own...
there is still a long way to go and I’m very mindful of that. "But when I see him being polite with other people’s parents when he goes to their house and I go ‘how was he?’ and they go ‘perfect, lovely boy, loved having him over’, my heart just goes boom. "I feel a massive sense of achievement he is a good boy when he goes to other people’s houses, he knows how to behave.
” In April 2019, Ranvir shocked GMB viewers when she hinted that she had split from her husband after finding something incriminating on his phone . She was discussing with co-host Ben Shephard about whether you should check your partner’s phone. Ranvir admitted: “I have looked at it, once.
" Ben quizzed her: “Is that why you are no longer together?” Ranvir added: "I can’t answer that question but I have always thought that if you ever feel you need to do that then the relationship is over because you obviously don’t trust that person." She continued: “I found something that needed addressing. So I would say you think you don’t need to do it until you do.
” READ MORE SUN STORIES In 2022, the GMB star appeared in public with her son Tushaan and toyboy-boyfriend TV runner Louis Church - the son of TV titan Lucas Church, who ran Big Brother and Pointless giant Endemol. The pair met when he worked behind the scenes of her series of Strictly Come Dancing ..
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