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The Hotel Inspector Alex Polizzi was married to her husband several years before their divorce, with Alex admitting she felt “bereft” following their split

The Hotel Inspector host Alex Polizzi has candidly opened up about the end of her marriage to her long-term partner.

The Channel 5 show returned to screens on Thursday evening (March 5) for another instalment and Alex was back at the helm to visit a struggling hotel to try and turn things around for the business.

In the latest instalment, she headed to The Navigator in Sussex, a seafront hotel now fighting for survival and with the owner Kathleen drowning in debt, battling constant leaks and crumbling rooms, things were not looking good.

During the episode though, Alex confided in Kathleen about the struggles of running a hotel, revealing the impact it even had on her marriage to ex-husband Marcus Miller.

“I opened a hotel four years ago. It signalled the end of my marriage, I almost lost my mind and it’s quite hard work” she candidly admitted. Alex went on: “And I’m a professional.”

Alex was previously married to Marcus Miller, a professional baker. The former couple got married in 2007 after a 12-year engagement. She and Marcus are parents to two children, teenagers Olga and Rocco.

In 2025 though Alex revealed she had gotten divorced a year prior, revealing she felt “bereft”.

Talking to Great British Life Alex said:”“I have a 16-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son and I got divorced last year and I felt so bereft, and that everything was on my shoulders, and yet their father is still alive.”

Meanwhile speaking to The Sun about why she decided to wait to marry Marcus, she confessed in 2017: “I still wanted to f*** around, if I’m honest! Who wants to get married at 22? I’m a much better wife than I was 10 years ago.

“Partly, you really realise that this is the person you’re with for the rest of your life, so there’s no point p****** them off.”

Alex has also spoke candidly over the years about her heartache after suffering several miscarriages. The TV star revealed that after welcoming her first child, Olga, she had three miscarriages, including one that came just over five months into her pregnancy.

“It is just so shocking to find out that one’s body lets them down in this way,” she told MailOnline in 2013. Alex went on: “Once you’ve had a child, it seems unusual that one couldn’t have another one. You’re not expecting it, and it comes as such a wallop.”

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The Hotel Inspector airs every Thursday at 9pm on Channel 5.

Former Death in Paradise star Ardal O’Hanlon has opened up about his time on the BBC crime drama

Ardal O’Hanlon has revealed how much he misses former co-star Don Warrington since his departure from Death in Paradise.

The comedian and actor, who portrayed DI Jack Mooney in the popular BBC crime drama, exited the show in 2020 after a three-year stint, reports the Express.

During an appearance on ITV’s Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh on Sunday (February 22), he reflected on his time on the series after Alan asked whether it had been “emotional” to leave the island and long-time co-star Don, who portrays Commissioner Selwyn Patterson.

“He’s just brilliant, he’s brilliant,” Ardal enthused. “I miss him more than anything, actually. I loved Don and we’re still very good friends, but yeah that was kind of a bromance actually.”

He continued: “It always starts off the new detective and you know very, very wary around the inspector but eventually the inspector softens by the end.”

Although the programme is set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, most of the filming takes place in Guadeloupe.

The star said he did “love it” but also acknowledged it was “a commitment”, as it involved being away for months of the year for filming.

“I’m kind of in one way glad I don’t have to do it now because it’s like, it’s gruelling, but I look back at it very fondly,” he shared. “It was just a great adventure apart from anything else, as well as being like a, you know, a challenging acting job.”

He also shared how he enjoyed having a variety of different actors join the cast every few weeks.

“All these great great people… these people I adored,” he said. “And then you’d also get the hot shots, the up-and-coming people who have gone on to Hollywood now. We got them raw.”

Ardal, who is also known for his portrayal of Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted, went on: “Because you take great pride in the island, because I’ve been there for a few years and you get to love it and you can’t wait to show it off to them.

“So on the rare days off you’d bring them to some waterfall that only you know about or some boiling hot part of the sea like, right where the volcano heats the water, you know, that side of it I really, really loved.”

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Death in Paradise broadcasts on the BBC and Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh is on ITV.