5 Loose Women stars' heartbreaking marriage splits: Denise Welch, Jane Moore and more

Jane Moore is the latest Loose Women star to announce she has split from her husband of 20 years, Garry Farrow, but she's not alone.

Many of her fellow panellists have also suffered their fair share of heartbreak, and have even been brave enough to open up about their marriage breakdowns to the press. From Denise Welch discussing infidelities to Jane McDonald prioritising her career, see what all of the Loose Women have said about their former relationships.

Jane Moore

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Jane married Gary in 2002, but she made the announcement that their relationship had ended live on Loose Women in December. She explained that she will continue to live with her "best friend" Gary and their kids Ellie, Grace and Lauren for the rest of 2022, but they plan to sell the family home and purchase separate properties "near each other" in 2023.

The separation did not come out of the blue, Jane explained. "We've been processing it for about a year. So we're both quite private people. We had discussed it last year," she said. Lightening the mood, Jane joked: "And then he fell and broke his leg and, no, I didn't push him. Just want to put that out there. He fell and broke his leg. And obviously, then all bets are off."

On a more serious note, she added: "I would hope he would say I'm his best friend. And I'm keen we don't lose that element."

Denise Welch

Denise and her ex-husband Tim Healy

Denise Welch has been married to her third husband Lincoln Townley since 2013, but she previously wed David Easter in 1983 before their split in 1988, and actor Tim Healy later that year, before they divorced in 2012.

She announced the end of her marriage with Tim on the TV show, telling the panel: "Tim and I separated some time ago. I'm not having an affair – we've been living our own lives for some time now. Tim and I feel a sense of relief that we don't have to hide this anymore. We've actually become better friends since we made the decision."

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She later confessed they were both unfaithful, stating: "My husband and I both agree we held on far too long and we were making each other miserable and thankfully we’ve now got a great friendship. I genuinely used to think that being unfaithful wasn’t the worst thing you could do in a relationship. There were infidelities on both sides… which you girls know about."

Jane McDonald

Jane and Henrik were married from 1998 to 2003

Following two divorces, Jane McDonald found love with her late fiancé Ed Rothe, who sadly passed from lung cancer in 2021.

She was first married to a man named Paul for one year in 1987, before exchanging vows with her second husband, Henrik Brixen, while filming BBC show The Cruise.

However, her relationship with plumber Henrik came to an end due to her career. "Henrik tried his very, very best and he was brilliant at what he did, but he didn’t know the industry," Jane revealed to The Mirror back in 2018.

"We'd come to a point where Henrik had made quite a few enemies and he said, 'If I don’t leave you, you are never going to have a career.' And that is why I never talk about Henrik in a bad light at all because he was the one that walked out of the marriage to save my career."

Coleen Nolan

Coleen discussed infidelity in her relationship with Shane

Coleen Nolan has been married twice: first to Shane Richie from 1990 to 1999, and secondly to Ray Fensome from 2007 to 2018.

She opened up about her ex-husband Shane being unfaithful during a chat on Loose Women and revealed she wished she had listened to her intuition.

"I kept making excuses, I kept thinking it was me. I was just turning into this person that I've never been before. I was checking receipts, checking phone bills, going to shops and going, 'What was actually bought with this receipt?'.

"I turned into this detective that I've never been and it was all true and I should have listened to my instincts at the beginning but your heart doesn't want to," the presenter said.

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Coleen and Ray split in 2018

Following her split from her second husband, Coleen described the end of their relationship as "hellish" and admitted her marriage was "truly dead."

"Me and my husband Ray are divorcing. I wanted to tell you first as I can hardly sit here and keep dishing out advice if I'm not being totally straight about what is going on in my own life. I've got tears pouring down my face as I write this. It's hard to imagine that so much could have changed from that day when we married," she wrote in her agony aunt column for The Mirror.

She continued: "There is too much dividing me and Ray. We can't go back. And my future is going to be very different to the one I'd imagined back then. And I guess that's what makes me sad. But, slowly, as I come to terms with the reality of it all, it's making me excited too.

"As I've written a million times before – women who've tried everything to fix a marriage but still feel desperately unhappy, have to get out. We owe it to ourselves. And we also owe it to our kids to show them that everyone has a right to be happy."

Nadia Sawalha

Nadia and her husband Mark have been married since 2002

Before tying the knot with her husband Mark Adderley, Nadia was married to record producer Justin Mildwater from 1992 until 1997. Just months after they separated, Justin, who was just 31 at the time, took his own life on Christmas day.

"My husband committed suicide after I’d left him and it’s been hard. I loved Justin very much. I just wasn’t in love with him anymore," she said in 2000. "My real agony is his family, who haven’t spoken to me since. They were very angry with me. It causes me terrible grief and it always will."

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