Josie Gibson has admitted she is still in love with her ex Terry after he moved in with her during the coronavirus lockdown.
The former Big Brother winner, 35, who shares son Reggie, 21 months, with Terry, told how the pair moved back in together after facing a dilemma with how to split parenting duties amid the pandemic.
Speaking to new! magazine, Josie admitted: ‘Even though I do find it hard to live with him, I’ve realised I can’t live without him. I do really love him, he’s just hard work.’
Feelings: Josie Gibson, 35, has admitted she is still in love with her ex Terry after he moved in with her during the coronavirus lockdown
Terry has asthma so he first isolated separately from Josie and Reggie but the TV host asked him to move in after he went a month in lockdown with no symptoms.
Josie and Terry, who has never shown his face in public, decided to call it quits last January after a series of arguments but the TV presenter now feels that many of them were petty.
She said: ‘We had a great big falling out because he’s got OCD and I had too many shoes in the hallway. But now when people are struggling to breath, you just think “what a stupid thing to argue about!”‘
Although they are now getting on well, Josie isn’t sure whether she wants to start up her romance with her ex again but has not ruled it out.
Reunited: Josie, 35, who shares son Reggie, 21 months, with Terry, told how the pair moved back in together after facing a dilemma with how to split parenting duties
She said: ‘We’re still in separate rooms and taking things one step at a time… I need him to realise where it all went wrong and where we’ve got to put things right.’
Josie added that she is not the ‘innocent one’, insisting that both of them have things they need to work on.
Josie admitted that she initially felt unsupported by Terry when their son was born, saying he was not good with Reggie when he was a baby.
The Bristol native joked she now feels left out by the pair’s growing bond, saying Reggie now prefers his father to her.
Josie admitted: ‘Even though I do find it hard to live with him, I’ve realised I can’t live without him. I do really love him, he’s just hard work’
During a previous appearance on This Morning, Josie broke down in tears when discussing the struggles of being in lockdown as a single mother.
But with an end to lockdown on the horizon, the TV star is looking ahead to the future, saying she wants Reggie to be raised with both a mother and a father.
It comes after Josie spoke about Terry moving back in on a recent episode of Loose Women.
Josie told panellists Andrea McLean, Judi Love, Denise Welch and Jane Moore: ‘He is one of those people you can’t live with you can’t live without.
Breakup: Josie and Terry decided to call it quits last January after a series of arguments but the TV presenter now feels that many of them were petty
‘Terry is asthmatic, so we waited for three weeks. I couldn’t take Reggie to the supermarket anymore so he moved in.’
On how they’re coping with residing under the same roof, the reality star said: ‘We have never got on so well.’
When asked whether she believes there’s a chance they could rekindle their romance, the blonde beauty confessed: ‘We still stay in separate rooms but yeah, I love him to bits.
‘When there is a pandemic you realise the little things are so trivial. The big things are important. What we used to argue about seems so trivial, so unimportant.’
Future: Although they are now getting on well, Josie isn’t sure whether she wants to start up her romance with her ex again but has not ruled it out
‘Who knows, I hope so’, the media personality said on whether the pair will continue to live with each other once the current restrictions are lifted.
‘I really hope so. Seeing him and Reggie together is golden. It is so lovely. To see a man and his son is so special.
‘They are obsessed with each-other. I have been shut up! I was the golden girl, now I am shut out.’
She said: ‘We’re still in separate rooms and taking things one step at a time… I need him to realise where it all went wrong and where we’ve got to put things right’