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Verity Sulway

Tess Daly suffering sleepless nights over fears for I’m a Celeb star husband Vernon Kay

Tess Daly revealed to Lorraine Kelly that she is suffering from sleepless nights as her husband Vernon Kay stars on I'm a Celebrity.

"Oh my goodness, it feels like he has been away forever," said Tess.

"I think about him every moment of every day and I watch him every night, he is doing brilliantly and it’s lovely watching him but it’s nerve-wracking, it really is.

"I worry about him being cold, about him not eating…"

Tess said Vernon has not seen his daughters in four weeks as he was in isolation before the show (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Tess also revealed she has been having sleepless nights, adding: "Honestly, I have barely slept.

"I don’t think I have slept more than five or six hours since he has been in there.

"The other day I woke up dreaming I was doing a challenge with Claudia [Winkleman].

Vernon pulls on his ear when he's missing wife Tess and their daughters (ITV)

"It involved snakes and being underground and it was terrifying…

"I am living and breathing it every step of the way but loving it. I have laughed with them and cried with them."

Tess revealed she watched the show every night with their daughter Phoebe, 16, and with their other daughter Amber, 11, on Friday nights, as her bedtime is a little later.

(Dave Benett/Getty Images)

"When he said 'hello', I looked at their faces and they just lit up," she said.

"They miss him, they haven’t seen him for four and a half weeks now because they were isolating for two weeks before going in.”

Tess has been hosting Strictly Come Dancing, and said it has been difficult keeping to the new social distancing restrictions.

Tess said it's tough not to be able to hug Strictly pairs when they are booted off the show (PA)

"I miss standing next to Claudia, she is normally glued to my hip," she said.

"When the couples go out and they are emotional, your physical instinct is to reach for them and give them a hug and you can’t.

"That is challenging, you have to remind yourself not to do that… but it feels like a privilege that we are actually on air because there was a point we thought we might not make it."

* Lorraine airs weekdays on ITV at 9am

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