Rick Edwards has revealed that he’s sleeping alone, because his wife can’t stand how early he has to get up.
On the days that the Radio Five Live DJ sets his alarm for 3.30am, his wife, former EastEnders star Emer Kenny, doesn’t get as much rest as she’d like.
Speaking on the radio, Rick admitted: “My wife said, ‘It is unacceptable for you to be getting up at that time and then crashing around like a big lummox, because then I’m not sleeping’.”
Emer, 31, told him: “You need to sleep somewhere else.”
But Rick says he’s not too bothered as he’s come to enjoy being in the spare room. “We got a spare bed, it’s a single but I really like it.”
The 6ft-4inch DJ said: "I don’t fit in it, I am massive.
"I find it quite exciting being in this little room on my own, my feet poking out the end."
He added: "It must be that it takes me back to my childhood somehow, I am in a fetal position in a small single bed … it makes me feel very reassured.”
Rick, 42, who also presents the BBC quiz show Impossible, married actress Emer in 2016.
Emer played Zsa Zsa Carter in the long-running BBC soap in 2010 and has since appeared in Father Brown. She become a script writer for EastEnders, too.
Echoing the bedroom disagreements of so many couples, Rick also confessed that his missus was a little more territorial about how much room she needed when sharing a double bed.
He joked: "The space I occupy is a single bed size anyway.
"If I come over onto Emer’s side, do I know about it? Yes I do.
"There is such a clear, dividing line."
Rick joked that he’d become so fond of his little single bed that it would be hard to go back into the marital bedroom. "Objectively, you should much prefer sleeping in a big bed with your wife.
"If I don’t have the radio there is literally no reason for me to justify it.
"I could become a milkman, there are ways of me engineering it so I am always in a single bed."
