Fern Britton’s ex husband Phil Vickery has confused fans after sharing a cryptic post seemingly referring to his spit from Fern.
The former This Morning presenter, 66, split from the chef in 2020 after 22 years of marriage, and was devastated when he was pictured kissing her best friend Lorraine Stanton in 2022.
And now Phil, 62, has confused fans as he took to Instagram with a message about ‘messing up something good’.
The post read: ‘A lot of people mess up something good, by looking for something better, to end up with something worse.’
It comes after Fern reached the Celebrity Big Brother final earlier this month.
Fern announced she was ending her 20-year marriage to celebrity chef Phil, back in January 2020 but said that they will ‘always share a great friendship’.
And during her appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, she confessed she has no intention of falling in love again.
Speaking to Louis Walsh she said: ‘I’m ready to slow down, like you, I’ve been working solidly since I was 20.’
Louis agrees, saying: ‘you realise what life is, and realise why haven’t I done this before, why didn’t I go there, why didn’t I do that?’
‘Fern, if you pick the right person you’ll have great fun, you might fall in love’
Fern replied: ‘I don’t want to fall in love again…’
Before entering the CBB house, Ferne said she had no interest in finding love again.
She told Weekend Magazine: ‘I’m not dating. There’s an awful lot I’d like to know about myself first and to know that I am ready to be looking, otherwise you might turn up as another kind of hysterical mess, saying, ”He left me and it was awful!”
‘Not that Phil did leave me. You don’t want that kind of conversation with a date who is just looking for someone nice to have dinner with. But I never want to live with anybody again. I like my own space.’
An insider said of the split at the time: ‘Phil and Lorraine kissing on the street like this will be heartbreaking for poor Fern. They look like teenagers in love and that will be just so hurtful for her.’
‘They are two of the most important people in her life and them behaving this way in public will feel like a betrayal.’
Fern previously spoke about how she wished she could’ve ‘persevered’ at their marriage, during a new interview with Prima Magazine.
Fern said she ‘doesn’t want to be the poster girl for separate’, and explained that many couples experience their relationship coming to a natural end.
Reflecting on her tough but amicable split, she said: ‘This new chapter has come at the right time for me. I don’t want to be the poster girl for separation, though, because a lot of people go through the same thing.
‘Often, the children leave home and you look at each other and go, ‘Ah, where do we go from here?’ I only wish I was the sort of person who could have persevered through that, but I couldn’t,’ she explained.
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