Christine McGuinness says she is “devastated” about selling her family home following her divorce from Paddy.
The beauty queen still shares the house with her former husband, from whom she split in 2022, but confessed it feels impossible for her to move out of the seven-bedroom property. Paddy, who used to present Take Me Out, put the home in Prestbury, Cheshire, on the market in March, around one year after their divorce.
Christine, 37, said: “I’m devastated about the sale. We don’t know how long it’s going to take… I can’t (move out). It’s not an option for me. We both own the house.” The model, who was a cast member on The Real Housewives of Cheshire, said earlier this month she is struggling to pay the £300,000 divorce bill she now faces.
The star, who shares three children with 51-year-old Paddy, had said: “I think people assume that if you’re going through a divorce with someone who earns a hell of a lot of money, your legal fees will be covered, or they will cover the costs or something, but it doesn’t work like that.”
And the stresses of the house sale have added to Christine’s strain, Mail Online reports. Their marital home, which has seven bedrooms, is in Prestbury, around 11 miles south of Stockport. Last year, a court ruled that the former couple could keep their home following their divorce if they remained at the property together.
But now Christine reportedly hopes “a good offer” will soon be made on the family home, which is on the market for £6.5million. The reality TV star told Mail Online: “I want to continue being myself and be on my own as a single divorced mum. It just feels like I’m finally falling into a place that I’m supposed to be in.”
Reflecting on the split, Christine admitted both she and comedian Paddy would handle things differently if given another chance. Christine, who is originally from Blackpool, Lancashire, had said: “I think both of us now, if we could sit down and do it again, yeah, we’d do it completely differently, because we both spent a hell of a lot of money on divorce lawyers.”
Speaking on The Shizzio Show podcast, the mum continued: “I’ve never spoken about the reasons for our divorce, and I don’t know if I ever will. It was a difficult time. It wasn’t something that, you know, I just decided to do overnight, or that we chose to do. We tried, and, yeah, there just, unfortunately, there was no repairing it, you know?”
Christine and Paddy married on June 4, 2011 and since had their children, twins Leo and Penelope, 11, and daughter Felicity, eight. However, it was announced in 2022 the couple had separated after 11 years of marriage.
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