The former Made In Chelsea stars, who married in 2018 and have two young daughters, reportedly split in February and filed for divorce in March
Hugo Taylor has spoken out for the first time since his split from wife Millie Mackintosh as he expressed his “considerable sadness” over the past year.
The former Made In Chelsea stars, who married in 2018 and have two young daughters, reportedly split in February and filed for divorce in March.
Hugo, 40, finally confirmed the split as he broke his silence with a lengthy statement shared to his Instagram Story today.
He wrote: “I have refrained from making any personal public comment on the end of my marriage out of respect for our family’s privacy and the importance of maintaining stability for our daughters during a period of significant change.
“While the past year has brought considerable sadness, I remain grateful for what matters most in my life.
“We share two wonderful young daughters and my responsibility is to be the best father I can be, continuing to give them the love, security and consistency they deserve.
“I have been deeply moved by the kindness and support I have received from friends and family, and look forward to the future with faith and optimism.”
Hugo and Millie first started dating in 2011 when they appeared on the E4 reality show together, but split the following year after he cheated on her.
Millie later started dating rapper Professor Green, real name Stephen Manderson, and they wed in 2013.
After their split in 2016, she rekindled her romance with Taylor, whom she married two years later during a lavish ceremony in Sussex.
They welcomed their first daughter Sienna in 2020, and their youngest Aurelia was born the following year.
Meanwhile, Professor Green and Millie have reconnected as friends, with them sharing photos of their children. Speaking on Brogan Garrit-Smith’s podcast Getting There, Millie said she is in a “nice place” with her ex, explaining: “We both moved on and started families. We’ve sent each other pictures of our kids. It feels like there’s no bad blood.”
But the end of their marriage left her in a “bad place”, with Millie revealing: “I think we [Professor Green] both were in our own struggles, and I think we maybe both thought we could fix each other. But we couldn’t.
“And ultimately, we both had our own struggles, and it just magnified it. And it was actually quite toxic.”
Last year, Millie spoke on podcast Saturn Returns about her drinking and how she had used it as an excuse to kiss other women. She said: “I had crushes on girls at school and I just didn’t have the awareness to go, ‘I like girls as well.’ I’ve explored a lot of my relationship to women. I was bullied so I definitely have intimacy issues with women, but there’s this attraction as well.
“Obviously I’m married to a man. It’s not something that affects our relationship at all now but looking back I realise that was one of the reasons I drank in a destructive way, because there was a part of myself I didn’t understand. I didn’t know how to express it and I felt scared to express it. Every time I would drink I would just keep doing it [kissing women], even if I was in a relationship.”
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