Chris Tarrant - Personal Life

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"Well, I was a naughty boy "

After working through the "suppression" of boarding school, Tarrant admitted to a high interest in his early 20's to women, drink and horseracing. At University he had a system under which he took half his grant and used it as betting money. According to Tarrant, in all but one term, he came out on top.

Tarrant married his first wife Sheila, a secretary, when he was 25. The couple had two daughters, Helen and Jennifer. The marriage collapsed soon after he got the job on Tiswas. After the marriage collapsed, Tarrant admits to a period of heavy drinking - 20 pints of beer quite often, or half a bottle a day of whiskey.

He cut back through will power, as well as abandoning his 60 a day cigarette habit, in favour of the opulent cigars he now smokes in moderation.

Tarrant met his second wife Ingrid Dupre-Walsh when they both worked for TV-am.

The couple married in 1991, but are currently separated after Tarrant had an encounter with a blonde lady in a Surrey nightclub, and then admitted a "close" relationship with Fiona McKechnie, a schoolteacher and co-patron for Headway.

After a series of tabloid stories, on 18 September 2006 the couple announced that they were separating. The couple previously lived with their two children, daughter Sammy and son Toby, plus two children each from their previous marriages. On 30 November 2006 Chris and Ingrid were interviewed separately on the Biography Channel and clips of it were shown on GMTV to talk about the downfall of their relationship. Chris did not seem sorry about the break up; he quoted "Well, I was a naughty boy" and said about Ingrid "She wouldn't trust me with a pint of milk".

In June 2000, Tarrant's River Thames launch boat the "Ben Gunn" was vandalised and burnt at its mooring in East Molesey.

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Charity Work
Tarrant's charity work, for which he received an OBE in 2004 includes: being an ambassador for the homeless charity, Centrepoint; Trustee/Patron of The New School at West Heath for disadvantaged children (the school...

2007 Arrest
After working through the "suppression" of boarding school, Tarrant admitted to a high interest in his early 20's to women, drink and horseracing. At University he had a system under which he took half his grant...