Newspapers quickly became the couple’s forum for mud-slinging, with Ingrid disparaging Chris’s sexual prowess and his side implying the affair was her fault because she didn’t want sex enough.
But only a fool would bet against Fia Tarrant making it big.
‘That’s nice to give me a get-out but it wasn’t that,’ she laughs. Tarrant is the youngest son of broadcaster Chris Tarrant who previously presented the breakfast show on Capital FM for 17 years, and his former wife Ingrid. So far the signs for Fia are promising, with stints as a roving reporter on Channel 5’s The Big Celebrity Clean-Up and as an interviewer for Sky Sports and the Disney Channel. Fish is a staple of her new diet, and she sticks to the ‘80/20 rule’, meaning 80 per cent of the week she’s strict, the rest she allows herself the occasional treat.
Speaking to the PA news agency, Ms Tarrant said Sheen was “bloody good” in the role.
“It’s so pure, they just say what they think, also Michael Sheen is bloody good.”, Best review I’ve ever had. One of Toby’s sisters, Fia, is a fellow radio broadcaster who works for Heart.
I messed up big time.’Ingrid received a divorce settlement of £12.5 million, half of Chris’s fortune.
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Speaking to the PA news agency, Ms Tarrant said Sheen was “bloody good” in the role. I think religion is a very important thing to have in a family unit and if we ever have children it would be nice for them to be brought up having two parents who believed the same thing.’ She adds that it wasn’t a necessity for Adam, 27: ‘It was something I wanted to do.’. Yes, it ended badly, but they’re still our parents.’ Looking back at comments made at the time by her sister Sammy, however, the Tarrant children may have been more devastated by their father’s betrayal than Fia is willing to let on. But only a fool would bet against Fia Tarrant making it big. That would be fun’, It was only a year later, when she began boarding at Belmont Preparatory School near Dorking, that Fia received the help she needed.
‘It might get your foot through the door to use your famous surname but if you’re not good enough you won’t get the job,’ she says. Fia wasn’t always the slim size 10-12 she is today. We stuck together,’ she says. Although the only prosthetic used in the makeover was a small mole on Sheen’s chin, the actor’s eyebrows were bleached and a wig was used for the role.
In fact, when she applied for her first radio job at 16 with Holiday FM (a London station broadcasting to sunshine destinations such as Tenerife and Ibiza) she wasn’t a Tarrant. I’ve always said that if anyone cheated on me, that’s it,’ she says.
But as the up-and-coming presenter tells Michelle Davies, that’s all behind them as her dad prepares to give her away at her wedding later this month, Fia, pictured with her dog Prince, says that having a famous dad doesn't necessarily mean that success with follow. Monster has never seen his grandpa on TV before so I thought Iâd see what his reaction would be seeing @michaelsheen .... pic.twitter.com/edxRDPUy7s. Fia anchors the late slot (10pm-1am), nationwide on the Heart Network, Monday to Thursday as well as the highly sought-after Saturday Heart breakfast show (6am – 9am). Half-brother Sammy Tarrant. ‘Dad [Chris] is the one who brought me up and I’m lucky to have a father who I absolutely adore.’.
“Monster has never seen his grandpa on TV before so I thought I’d see what his reaction would be seeing Michael Sheen,” Ms Tarrant wrote as she tweeted the video. She lost six stone in a year, not on any special diet, but simply by cutting out meat. To enable Verizon Media and our partners to process your personal data select 'I agree', or select 'Manage settings' for more information and to manage your choices. ‘My parents don’t ask about it,’ says Fia. Before, my mum would take me to plus-size shops.’, The next few months will be hectic for Fia as her TV career takes off and she marries property developer Adam Ali Khan, her boyfriend of three years, on 15 September (Sammy recently organised her hen do in Marrakech). ‘That could be fun.’ If that happened, it would certainly be an interesting new twist in a father-daughter relationship that’s been sorely tested in the past. In a recent interview he regretted not being around more when the children were growing up: ‘I’m not a great dad because in the early years I worked too hard and didn’t see the kids enough,’ he said. or debate this issue live on our message boards.
Although she’s never had it confirmed medically, Fia believes her body cannot sufficiently digest meat because the minute she gave up eating it, the weight shifted.
She compared her to Andie Macdowell's character …
‘Both my parents worked hard but when they had time off they focused entirely on us.’, That’s not to say Fia’s childhood was always idyllic. Chris Tarrant's daughter Fia revealed her son had never seen his grandfather on TV before, and was convinced Michael Sheen was him. The composition is a familiar feature of my positioning during civil ceremonies; slightly to the left of the registrar, back by two steps so as to avoid their peripheral conscience.
Fia quite literally grew up in radio.