Debbie McGee "chased" Paul Daniels for almost a decade before they got together.
Debbie McGee grafted her husband Paul Daniels for eight years
The 64-year-old ’ star married the late TV magician - who passed away in 2016 aged 77 after being diagnosed with a brain tumour - after they met on the set of his long-running series in the 70s but she spent years grafting her man.
She told the Daily Star newspaper: “Paul came to rehearsals and we just got on. We made each other laugh.
“But I was 20 years younger than him. For eight years he kept going, ‘Go find someone your own age.’ I was chasing him.
“When I was 28, he realised we really did like each other and that’s when we got together. Then we got married when I was 29.”
Debbie labelled her marriage “fantastic” after they finally tied the knot in 1988.
She said: “It was fantastic. We made each other laugh everyday.”
Debbie has now taken part in BBC Two series ‘B and B by the Sea' - which sees her explore the culture of Northern Ireland - and recently explained she wanted to she wanted to do the show because she was “concerned” she had never travelled alone.
Speaking on ITV's ‘Loose Women’, she said: "One of the things I was a little bit concerned about is I've never holidayed on my own. I've gotten used to being on my own but I don't choose it, it was thrust upon me.
"I'm so lucky I've got a close family, I've got lovely friends that invite me on holiday with them but I've never chosen to go on my own so I was a bit worried, although you're with a film crew, of waking up and it just being me.
"For all those years I always had my rock there, Paul, who woke me up with a joke most mornings so I wondered how I'd feel waking up in this place that was right out in the sticks really on my own."
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