Carol Kirkwood is always a ray of sunshine whenever she's presenting the weather on BBC Breakfast , but in a new interview, the star has revealed the toll that her bubbly persona took on her when she was going through a rough patch in her life. In 2008, the former Strictly Come Dancing contestant split from her husband, Jimmy , but she still had to put on a brave face whenever she did her weather links, despite wanting to cry on the inside.

Speaking to Candis magazine , she explained: "I'd still have to be smiling Carol on-screen. I'd come off air – we broadcast from the Blue Peter gardens in those days – go to the ladies, have a good cry, and then reapply my eye make-up before stepping in front of the cameras again . In a funny way, though, it helped with the healing p

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