Andrea McLean is looking to live it up in the Florida sun after growing tired with life in the UK.
The former Loose Women panellist is relocating to the Sunshine State ‘for at least a month to try it out’ as she has spent months reassessing what she wants following a life-changing experience on Channel 4 reality show Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins in 2019.
Andrea is making the move with her third husband Nick Feeney and her two children, Finlay, 20, and Amy, 15.
The 52-year-old presenter told the Sunday Post: ‘When you get to your 50s you really take a long, hard look and think, “I am at the crest of the hill and looking down, is this where I want to be?”
‘I am 52, I may only have 30 winters left. Do I want to spend them in Britain? No, I don’t. I want to be somewhere warm and feel the sun on my skin.
‘One of the good things about the pandemic is that it has made us realise we can literally be anywhere. We are booked to go to Florida for at least a month to try it out.’
Andrea – who has sold her Surrey home and is currently living in a rented house before heading to the States – knew Celebrity SAS would ‘be challenging’ but she didn’t know how much of an impact it would have on her.
On the show, McLean took part in an exercise where she was ‘abducted and interrogated’ by ex-SAS soldier Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham and the experience opened a Pandora’s Box of issues she had been burying.
She said: ‘I knew it was going to be challenging – the physicality of it – but it never occurred to me that mentally it would change my life forever.
‘It was like a lid opened on the box and all the bats came out and I couldn’t get them back in again. When I got home I didn’t tell anyone and I tried to carry on like before.’
Andrea has revealed she was ‘burnt out’ and ended up ‘throwing up’ before work, before she eventually had a candid conversation with her husband Nick and admitted she needed therapy.
Twice divorced Andrea underwent professional counselling but she also credits her spouse Nick – who has two daughters aged 19 and 17 from a previous relationship – for helping her through this difficult period of her life.
She said: ‘Subconsciously I knew I could fall backwards because I was with someone who would catch me. He was the person who would find a way to understand and find a way to let me just be. I don’t think I’d ever had that before.
‘Weirdly, having a breakdown was the best thing that could have happened to me because it made me stop. It was like hitting a wall. It made me re-evaluate everything.
‘Breakdown is such an emotive, dramatic and scary word. But for me it was just caused by a series of papercuts, thousands of different things that had happened bit by bit and I hadn’t dealt with any of them.’
Credit: Original article published here.You can read this post on My Celebrity Life.
Andrea McLean is looking to live it up in the Florida sun after growing tired with life in the UK.
The former Loose Women panellist is relocating to the Sunshine State ‘for at least a month to try it out’ as she has spent months reassessing what she wants following a life-changing experience on Channel 4 reality show Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins in 2019.
Andrea is making the move with her third husband Nick Feeney and her two children, Finlay, 20, and Amy, 15.
The 52-year-old presenter told the Sunday Post: ‘When you get to your 50s you really take a long, hard look and think, “I am at the crest of the hill and looking down, is this where I want to be?”
‘I am 52, I may only have 30 winters left. Do I want to spend them in Britain? No, I don’t. I want to be somewhere warm and feel the sun on my skin.
‘One of the good things about the pandemic is that it has made us realise we can literally be anywhere. We are booked to go to Florida for at least a month to try it out.’
Andrea – who has sold her Surrey home and is currently living in a rented house before heading to the States – knew Celebrity SAS would ‘be challenging’ but she didn’t know how much of an impact it would have on her.
On the show, McLean took part in an exercise where she was ‘abducted and interrogated’ by ex-SAS soldier Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham and the experience opened a Pandora’s Box of issues she had been burying.
She said: ‘I knew it was going to be challenging – the physicality of it – but it never occurred to me that mentally it would change my life forever.
‘It was like a lid opened on the box and all the bats came out and I couldn’t get them back in again. When I got home I didn’t tell anyone and I tried to carry on like before.’
Andrea has revealed she was ‘burnt out’ and ended up ‘throwing up’ before work, before she eventually had a candid conversation with her husband Nick and admitted she needed therapy.
Twice divorced Andrea underwent professional counselling but she also credits her spouse Nick – who has two daughters aged 19 and 17 from a previous relationship – for helping her through this difficult period of her life.
She said: ‘Subconsciously I knew I could fall backwards because I was with someone who would catch me. He was the person who would find a way to understand and find a way to let me just be. I don’t think I’d ever had that before.
‘Weirdly, having a breakdown was the best thing that could have happened to me because it made me stop. It was like hitting a wall. It made me re-evaluate everything.
‘Breakdown is such an emotive, dramatic and scary word. But for me it was just caused by a series of papercuts, thousands of different things that had happened bit by bit and I hadn’t dealt with any of them.’
Credit: Original article published here.You can read this post on My Celebrity Life.