Ranvir Singh says she left her role as Good Morning Britain’s political editor because she was exhausted.
She is now a regular main host of the ITV breakfast show and added she feels “very lucky” her bosses listened to her request to take a different path.
Ranvir, 45, who quit as political editor at the end of 2021, said: “It was such an intense time in politics.
“I was at the White House, in Brussels every week for Brexit, there was the Jeremy Corbyn thing with Momentum.
“Trump was tweeting every day, I was in Helsinki one day, I’d be in Austria the next day. I had a bit of a burnout.
“I loved every second of it, but I thought, ‘I don’t think I can do another winter of it’.”
She added: “I miss that buzz. But, sometimes, I am glad to be in a warm studio.”
Ranvir, who was political editor for five years, also said: “Success in broadcasting means people will want to say negative things.” She told Woman & Home magazine: “People have said ‘you look much thinner on telly’.
“I was in a public toilet and a woman said, ‘My husband hates you’.”
Ranvir also discussed finding romance with Strictly Come Dancing production secretary Louis Church, 28. They met on the BBC show in 2020.
She said: “I knew Louis was special the minute he walked in... I was doing three jobs and I’ve never been more tired. I was slumped in my chair at 7am.
“Louis asked, ‘Do you want a drink?’. I was so tired I couldn’t say anything.
“Fifteen minutes later, he came back with a green tea, a Berocca, Haribos and a KitKat. I thought, ‘That is exactly what I want’. From that moment he has instinctively known exactly what I need.”
She added they are “blissfully happy” and does not know why people are “so obsessed with the age gap”.
Ranvir, who danced with Giovanni Pernice on Strictly, hosts quiz show Riddiculous. She is divorced and has a son born in 2012.
* The May issue of Woman & Home is on sale on Thursday.
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