If you have a Radio Times magazine subscription then you should definitely know exactly who Paul Hollywood is. The baker judges the hugely successful cookery programme, The Great British Bake-Off, alongside Mary Berry.
Hollywood has been in the press a lot recently due to the breakdown of his marriage to wife of 15 years Alexandra, which rumours have said is down to an affair with his fellow judge on the US edition of the show, Marcela Valladolid.
Speaking about the break-up, he thinks that his career and fame may have contributed to the failure of his marriage.
“I thought I’d spend my life making baguettes, muffins, croissants. I might have been happier if I had,” he tells Radio Times.
However, he tells the magazine he won’t divulge any further details on his break-up. “I won’t comment on my marriage for my son’s [Joshua, aged 11] sake. He became quite ill,” he says. “I live about a mile from where I used to and love him to pieces. He was asked to do a show at school about someone famous and phoned me, saying, ‘I want to pick you’. I nearly cried. I said, ‘Josh, I’m not famous’, and he replied, ‘Daddy, you are’. I broke down. I’m upset and sad about the whole separation. I’ve been totally honest with those in the know. Everyone else? That’s their problem, I don’t care.”
Read the full interview in this week’s issue of Radio Times magazine.
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Posted by Amy Power.
