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Melanie Sykes Breaks Her Silence On 7-Month Marriage To Jack Cockings: ‘I Married The Wrong Person’

Melanie Sykes has spoken candidly about her divorce from Jack Cockings, admitting that she married the “wrong person.”

The 45-year-old TV presenter met the 26-year-old roof contractor on Twitter, and after 12 months of dating, the couple married at Sherborne Castle in Dorset in 2013.

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Matrimonial harmony lasted for seven months before they split in December 2013, finalising their divorce just last month.

Reflecting on her failed second marriage, the mother-of-two told The Sun’s Fabulous magazine: “The divorce was the easy bit.

“Being married to the wrong person (was the hard part). It’s funny, because the divorce came two-and-a-half years after realizing that, so I’ve been fine for quite a few years. The divorce was good and final.”

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“It’s always difficult to break up with somebody, but it’s been for the best and I knew it at the time and that’s why we’re not together.”

It appears that Mel’s most recent relationship – and subsequent break up – has been a bit of a learning curve as she admitted that she is keen to keep future romances out of the limelight.

She added: “Anything that’s going on with me now and in the last few years is mine and mine alone. And that’s it.”

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Despite divorcing twice - with two children from her first marriage to actor Daniel Caltagirone (above) – Mel revealed that she wouldn’t rule out a third marriage.

She confessed: “I never say never any more, because every time I do, I end up doing the opposite thing.

“It’s just not realistic. The fact is I don’t really see the point of it. So I don’t know.”

Third time lucky, eh?