EXCLUSIVE: Channel 5 and LBC Radio presenter Vanessa Feltz has opened up about her love life and search for romance after her split from Ben Ofoedu
Bright and bubbly TV legend Vanessa Feltz has admitted that despite her busy life she struggles with being single.
The 64-year-old presenter’s last relationship, with partner of 16 years Ben Ofoedu, ended in 2023, when he admitted cheating. And in a new chat on Katherine Ryan’s podcast What’s My Age Again?, candid Vanessa said she still hasn’t managed to adjust to her new solo life.
“You know, I seek him here. I seek him there,” she said of finding a partner. “Single but reluctantly. I don’t like it.”
She continued, “I come home and it’s an empty, dark, rather cold house and there’s no one there to say, ‘Was it all right?’… There’s just no one… And it’s so boring. It’s so quiet. It’s so tedious. Your own thoughts roam and get bigger and bigger.”
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After these heart-wrenching comments, a source has told n ew that Vanessa would love to find The One. “Vanessa really wants a bloke,” they claim.
“She’s been on dates and had men after her, but it’s not worked out. You get to an age where you’re a bit fussy and you know what you like and don’t like.”
Vanessa’s split from Phats & Small singer Ben after 16 years together was heartbreaking for her. At the time of their break-up she said it was a “terrible shock” and she felt “humiliated” when she discovered his cheating – that he had been messaging another woman for a year.
“I suppose you could say my entire love life has been a complete abomination, a catastrophe, an absolute car crash,” she told The Mirror. “People might think I’m an absolute fool. And if they do, they would not be wrong.”
Vanessa was so shell-shocked when he admitted his betrayal, she jumped out of a moving taxi. “I couldn’t stand another second,” she said. “I couldn’t bear it.
“I opened the door of the moving taxi and jumped. My coat was torn. Blood was seeping from a cut on my arm. I assumed he would stop the cab and follow to see if I’d survived the leap. He didn’t.”
Talking to Katherine Ryan last week, Vanessa said she stayed in the doomed relationship for so many years because she couldn’t be alone. “I just couldn’t bear to come out the other end and just be alone. And now I have to just get on with, don’t I?”
Trying to piece her life back together after their sudden split, later that year Vanessa embarked on a quest to find a partner on E4 dating show Celebs Go Dating.
Despite her efforts, and the help of the show’s experts Paul C Brunson and Anna Williamson, she hasn’t yet found lasting love and three years after her last relationship, she still finds herself single.
“After Ben, who really let her down, she finds it really hard to trust anyone,” our source claims. “She will find someone, but it’s taking its time.”
Fortunately, Vanessa, who is currently fronting her own chat show on Channel 5 as well as presenting on LBC Radio, is surrounded by her supportive family – two daughters Allegra, 40, and Saskia, 37, from her marriage to surgeon Michael Kurer and four grandchildren Zeke, Neroli, AJ and Cecily.
“We are a very close family and they definitely do form a network around me,” she said. “I do the same for them and it means you don’t have to be alone, which is very lucky because I wouldn’t like that very much. It means you’ve got the family on your side helping you and supporting you through.”
Our source added, “She’s throwing everything into work – she works seven days a week, with her Vanessa show and presenting on LBC radio, and she’s got her grandkids.”
So, what kind of man is she looking for? She’s admitted her ultimate celebrity crush is Hollywood actor Jeff Goldblum.
“I hope one day Cupid will pierce me with his arrow and I will find true love again,” she previously said. “However, I’m not prepared to settle. My last relationship has put me off dating a wannabe. I’ve had enough of being somebody’s access-all-areas lanyard.”
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