Christine Lampard has revealed her husband Frank would cancel their dates when Chelsea didn’t win their games.
The TV presenter and the former footballer, both 46, have been together since October 2009 and got married in 2015.
But the early days of their relationship weren’t all plain sailing as Frank would get down in the dumps over his performance on the pitch.
Speaking on the Loose Women podcast with Nadia Sawalha, she said: ‘He used to cancel nights out when Chelsea didn’t win, when he was playing with them.
‘We would maybe have plans to go for dinner or drinks or something and he’d go ‘I’m not going. I just don’t want to go. I don’t want to go,’ and there’d be anger and he just doesn’t want to talk to anybody about it.
‘It was like he needed to kind-of decompress, and then he was ready to go again Monday morning.
Christine Lampard has revealed her husband Frank would cancel their dates when Chelsea didn’t win their games
The TV presenter and the former footballer, both 46, have been together since October 2009 and got married in 2015 (pictured in 2023)
‘But there were loads of those moments where he thought, ‘No, no, no,’ and he’d be so angry with himself if something didn’t go according to plan.’
Christine told how she supported Frank during these moments, adding: ‘I mean those sorts of things, and it’s interesting recently with Gareth Southgate talking about groups of men coming together and being supportive of one another and everything else.
‘It really resonated with me because Frank had been through the football thing and the need for feeling like you’ve got a team, a tribe, a group of people around you that will support you when you’re you’re kind of having moments of feeling, ‘Oh, I should be strong, but I’m just not feeling it today.
‘But how do I really tell everybody because they’ll never understand?’ So yeah, that was something I would always have been very aware of with him.’
The broadcaster also told how she thinks the secret to her marriage with Frank is that they are still each other’s best friend.
She said: ‘We’re still absolute best mates. He’ll be the first person I’ll pick the phone up to sort anything out with. And the biggest thing for me going back to my love of comedy, is he makes me laugh.
‘And that is such a powerful thing to me – I have to be able to have a giggle… We just have proper laughs. We have the same points of view on things.
‘We don’t argue over parenting or how things run in the house. We sort of sing off the same page and that sort of makes everything flow…
Christine said: ‘He used to cancel nights out when Chelsea didn’t win, when he was playing with them’ (Frank is pictured playing for Chelsea in 2012)
Nadia Sawalha also discussed her marriage to husband Mark Adderley and supporting him when he went to rehab for alcoholism as well as his bipolar diagnosis in 2021
‘The basis is, there’s love, we’ve got each other’s backs and we’re supportive. And if he suggests that some job is happening and he wants to do it, we’ll make it work.’
Nadia also discussed her marriage to husband Mark Adderley and supporting him when he went to rehab for alcoholism as well as his bipolar diagnosis in 2021.
She said: ‘Meeting Mark and falling in love with him, and then the terribly difficult point of discovering that he wasn’t just a heavy drinker, he was an alcoholic, and then rehab.
‘You know, you go into rehab and they say, ‘Let’s take everything away so we can find out what you’re self-prescribing for’, and then there’s the realisation of bipolar and all of that.
‘So it wasn’t like, ‘Oh wow, we’re just these people that are just so great about mental health’, it’s been a long journey, a long journey.
‘Every week we are learning something new about it, and still learning that still many, many people will judge. So it is still incredibly brave for my husband to talk about it the way he does.’
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