Sarah Beeny revealed she has had days where she considers divorcing her husband, artist Graham Swift.
The former Property Ladder host, 54, married Swift in 2002 after meeting him on a blind date and they have four sons together.
Reflecting on their 23-year marriage, she previously said they were “hanging on by our fingernails” while she was battling breast cancer in 2022.
Now, Beeny has explained that the comment was a “joke” - but admitted there are times when she “doesn’t fancy” Swift and thinks divorce “seems like a good idea”.
“There have been bumps in the road in 34 years, it would have been so boring otherwise. It’s not been perfect all along, but what relationship is?” she told OK! magazine.
“That’s the truth of it. I’ve learned in life that if you don’t have the bad times, then you don’t appreciate the good times.”
Beeny added: “My children sometimes say, ‘You and Dad argue a lot,’ and there are days when I don’t fancy him and divorce seems like a good idea. But the next minute they see us in the garden holding hands and they know we love each other. It’s healthy for them to see that.”
The TV property expert met Swift when she was 19.
She previously said their marriage was tested when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2022 and underwent chemotherapy, as well as a double mastectomy. She was given the all-clear a year later.
She told Gaby Roslin on The Mid.Point podcast: “We're hanging on in there by our fingernails. I mean, it's not easy, is it?
“Graham always said, 'The day we have to work at our marriage, I'm going to leave'. And I was like, 'Really?' But I think he has had to work at it to be honest.”
Reflecting on the past few years, Beeny admitted: “I was being particularly horrible, because I have been a bit horrible in the last couple of years to be honest at times.
“I was being particularly horrible and he said, 'you know the thing is Sarah, you're not prepared to leave and have your children half the time, and neither am I, so we're going to stay together.
“And we're going to stay together happily or unhappily, so which would you like it to be?' And I was like, oh that is quite dark, isn't it?
“He said, 'You want to be happy or unhappy, because either way we're still going to live together', so I was like, 'OK we'll do happy then, shall we?' he was like, 'what a good idea. Maybe you should be a bit nicer?'
“I was like, 'yeah alright I will.' So logical, isn't it?”
After their conversation, Beeny explained that she spoke to her older brother Diccon about her marital issues and he gave her some firm advice.
She recalled: “I rang my brother … and said, 'right that's it, Graham's being so annoying, I think we're going to split up,' and he listened to me for ages…
“He said, 'I get it Sarah, it must be horrendous being married to him. The only thing I think that could be worse is being married to you. So I suggest you go and make up!’ So all is well.”
In June 2024, she released her documentary Sarah Beeny vs. Cancer, which detailed her cancer journey, including her double mastectomy.
The mother-of-four has become a prominent advocate for breast cancer awareness, having also lost her mother to the same disease at 10-years-old.
Beeny previously called Swift her best friend and said that they have never officially said “I love you” to each other.
“I'm married to my best friend. I don't know what our secret is, but I think having a spark of the child in you helps,” she told Prima magazine.
“I met Graham when I was 19 and he was 18. We used to laugh at friends who would say 'I love you' after one date and then dump them the next day, so not saying it became an inside joke.
“To this day, we've never officially said it.”
Beeny is best known for appearing on shows such as Sarah Beeny’s New Life In The Country, Four Rooms and Help! My House Is Falling Down.
She also hosted podcast Seriously?! With Sarah Beeny and is currently focused on her upcoming Channel 4 show, which is said to follow buyers as they transform properties bought at auction into their dream homes.
