Cat Deeley says she and Patrick Kielty are doing their best to co-parent their two sons 50-50 after ending their marriage in July 2025. She said the arrangement depends on staying organised and keeping the family routine moving, with help from an amazing nanny too.
July 2025 separation
Deeley and Kielty said, "We have taken the decision to end our marriage and are now separated. There is no other party involved." They also said they would remain united as loving parents to Milo and James, a line that now has a practical meaning: the marriage is over, but the parenting arrangement is still shared.
50-50 co-parenting
"It’s about being as organised as you can possibly be," Deeley said in an interview with The Sunday Times. "Everybody’s doing their best." That is the clearest description yet of how the pair are handling life after the split, and it suggests a schedule built around constant planning rather than a loose informal arrangement.
The 50-50 split also matters because Deeley is working early starts at This Morning alongside Ben Shephard, while Kielty presents The Late Late Show. Their jobs sit in different time zones and different production rhythms, so the household has to absorb two public-facing schedules without letting either parent drop out of day-to-day care.
Milo and James
The couple wed in September 2012 in Rome, after first working together on Fame Academy years earlier. They later lived in Los Angeles for more than a decade before moving to north London, and they have two sons who arrived in January 2016 and June 2018. That history is what gives the current arrangement its weight: this is not a brief patch-up, but a family recalibrating after more than a decade of marriage.
Deeley’s update closes the gap between the July announcement and real life at home. The useful takeaway is simple: she and Kielty are not treating the separation as a retreat from parenting, but as a shared schedule that depends on organisation, outside help and the two of them staying aligned for Milo and James.
