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Denise Van Outen talks about her split with Lee Mead

Denise Van Outen chats to You magazine about her split with husband Lee Mead and what that means for daughter Betsy.

Denise Van Outen broke up with husband Lee Mead last summer and has kept out of the limelight ever since. However, the TV presenter/actress caught up with The Daily Mail this weekend in You magazine to discuss the break-up, being a mum and her new show.

Van Outen usually has difficulty keeping in touch with her exes, but claims that her and Lee are now great friends. “Oh God, I get so hurt – I am very sensitive when it comes to affairs of the heart. It is very much all or nothing with me and I don’t keep in touch with my exes because normally when things end there are hurt feelings. Obviously my situation with Lee is very different – there would never be a cut-off thing with him and it’s not only because we have a child together, it’s just a very different relationship from any other I have had,’ she tells the magazine.

Despite her marriage not working out, she has no regrets about Mead being the father of her daughter Betsy. “Lee is brilliant – I can’t fault him. I have friends who are separated from their partners and they have all sorts of problems with them not turning up to collect the child when they have said they will and so on. Lee has never let me down like that. He does lovely things with Betsy and she adores him. I talk about him all the time to her and always say nice things – I would never badmouth him in front of her, or anybody. The reasons for it not working are not anybody else’s business but ours,” she says, before adding, “and Betsy loves us both and sees us being together, being nice to each other and laughing, and that makes for a happy family, doesn’t it?”

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Posted by Laurie Clifford.

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