Edith Bowman has addressed the ‘lazy’ rumours that she as soon as dated shut good friend Cat Deeley.
The Scottish radio DJ and TV presenter is finest recognized for internet hosting Colin and Edith, weekday afternoons, weekend breakfast, and The Radio 1 Review on BBC Radio 1 till 2014.
Over the years she’s additionally labored with Cat a number of instances, together with on Hitlist UK within the Nineties earlier than they went on to host Hit Music Sunday for a 12 months from 2001.
However, within the 90s additionally they discovered themselves at the centre of speculation they have been additionally relationship after pictures have been taken of them stumbling out of the Met bar holding onto one another whereas tipsy.
Edith, now 50, has spoken about the rumours that prompt she and Cat, now 48, have been romantically concerned.
‘We did get a bit of attention, Cat and I. There’re a couple of dodgy photos,’ she laughed whereas chatting with The Sun.
‘We have been – and nonetheless are – actually good mates. And we appreciated going out.
‘But suddenly [the story] was Cat and I are a lesbian couple and stuff. It’s so lazy.’
She added: ‘I had a great time when I was at MTV and Radio 1. We did get papped every now and then, we would rock up at the Met Bar, but it wasn’t like we have been there each night time.’
Edith had beforehand spoken about the ‘intrusive’ rumours, saying in 2022 that ‘we are in love, but as friends’.
‘Cat Deeley and I, who are still really good mates, we started MTV at the same time and we’d spent a lot time simply hanging out and going out,’ she stated on Angela Scanlon’s Thanks a Million podcast.
‘We have been actually good mates, and we’re actually good mates nonetheless. And it was like, “Oh, Cat and Edith are in a lesbian relationship”.
‘Photographs of us kind of holding each other up, coming out of the Met bar or whatever was because we were p****d, it wasn’t as a result of we have been like, licking one another’s faces off. We are in love, however as mates sort of factor, it’s so weird.’
In the interview with The Sun Edith additionally spoke about how the choice to show down gives to seem in lads’ magazine shoots was ‘the best decision I ever made’.
‘In hindsight, it’s the very best factor I’ve ever did, as a result of I feel it’s one of many issues that enables me that degree of anonymity that I nonetheless have in my non-public life. I really feel like if I’d finished extra of them, I’d have been way more tabloid fodder,’ she stated.
In 2005 Edith started relationship Editors frontman Tom Smith, with the couple happening to marry in 2013. They share sons Rudy and Spike.
Meanwhile Cat has been married to comic and TV presenter Patrick Kielty since 2012, with the couple additionally having two sons – Milo and James.
In the years since their radio present, Edith has gone on to entrance the BBC Radio 1 afternoon slot, host Weekend Breakfast and is presently the host of Cinematic Soundtracks on BBC Radio 3 Unwind because the station’s launch in November final 12 months.
Meanwhile Cat has offered Fame Academy, Stars in Their Eyes, So You Think You Can Dance within the United States and final 12 months took over internet hosting This Morning with Ben Shephard.
Metro has contacted representatives for Cat Deeley for remark.
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