"I am ok to talk about it now."
Ranvir Singh revealed she has actually been a single mother since she was seven months pregnant.
It was assumed that Ranvir split from her husband Ranjeet Singh Dehal shortly before she appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2020.
The Good Morning Britain presenter told viewers at the time she would be appearing on the dance show “single”.
But on Kate Thornton’s White Wine Question Time podcast, Ranvir admitted:
“I have actually been a single mum since I was seven months pregnant. I’ve kept that so quiet but I am ok to talk about it now.
“Now I’m at a point in my life where I think that I’m learning to embrace my whole life and to not compartmentalise it as much, to keep everything separate.
“I’m happy to correct it today. Obviously my friends and family have known. It shows you can keep private whatever you choose to!”
Explaining why she is only making the admission now, Ranvir said:
“I feel like I am beginning to mesh my life together and part of that is being able to say, ‘Yes I was single since I was seven months pregnant’.
“I need to own it. I need to say, ‘It’s not shameful, it’s not something to hide, this is me’.”
Ranvir, who has been dating Louis Church for four years, said she is proud of the person her son Tushaan is becoming.
She continued: “When I see my son growing up to be and grow into the kind of young man that I was afraid I couldn’t achieve on my own – my heart just goes boom. I feel a massive sense of achievement.”
Ranvir admitted it has been difficult juggling her TV career with motherhood.
On the podcast, Ranvir said: “I realise that you forge forwards so hard in a single-minded bl**dy desire to make this work and to keep everything going…
“But I literally say I’m on a unicycle blindfolded juggling fire, that’s how it has felt this whole time!”
Ranvir Singh also revealed that her mother went into cardiac arrest in 2023. Fortunately, she made a full recovery.
She told Kate:
“My mum had a cardiac arrest in front of me last year. We said goodbye. I was the only one there.”
“We were actually in A&E, she had a heart attack during the day, like a slow fade heart attack, and the paramedics took her to A&E. I went at half nine at night, and I was still with her.
“Then at 6:30 the next morning, we had been awake all night and all of a sudden, she started to deteriorate in ten minutes in front of my eyes.
“She went into the resuscitation room. The NHS is incredible when it’s an emergency to save your life.
“All of a sudden, she had this cardiac arrest, that was it. It got to the point she was going grey and she was looking at me, there was all these people around me.
“I was looking at her and thinking, ‘Holy s**t, this is it. Holy s**t, she’s dying’.
“She was still conscious but she was looking at me. I went over to her and put my hand on her forehead and went, ‘I love you, I really do love you’.
“Two hours later she had a stent put in and she was upstairs in the ward, she was home in three days!”
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