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And that is the biggest part of the regret for me. I questioned myself. You know, this guy is lovely and brilliant and a great dad and a great husband — and it still wasn't working out. So I learnt to respect that person as an individual and go, 'It isn't working between us' and move on.

Any bitter words between each other really are only words and they are only how you are feeling at that moment. She remembers one day — "I was kind of upset about things and emotional and he is quite practical" — Mark saying to her: "'You have to try not to attach so much emotion and try to separate the emotions from the practicalities of it.

I know that Mark thinks I'm a good mother and I think he's a great father," she adds. We are both going to be in each other's lives forever. We were both raised with our parents around, so we just want to do the best for Ben and Katie, and give them the most solid upbringing we can, because we don't know what they're experiencing.

She adds that both herself and Mark are modern parents, very open with their kids. That said, she admits that there are times when she doesn't want to say too much and burden them with problems inappropriate to those so tender of years. Mark' s girlfriend is not trying to be their mother and my boyfriend is not trying to be their father. And never will.

When she met John Norton last May, Vivienne says her main concern was her children. Vivienne adds, even though John has been introduced and is great with kids — he has a six-year-old son James in Dublin and a year-old daughter Ceara in America from two previous relationships — she does worry sometimes that the relationship may not work out down the road. It wouldn't be healthy for anyone.

John is a child at heart himself. They knew each other to say hello, but didn't know each other that well. I went to Krystle nightclub in Harcourt Street afterwards with some friends and left John in the Shelbourne.

Over the course of the next year, he sent her messages on Facebook and Twitter in relation to whether she'd know anyone who would be interested in Dublin Wives. John's production company, Straywaves, produced the reality show for TV3. Eventually, almost 12 months later, John sent Vivienne a 5am tweet asking her out on a date.

Before she would give him an answer, Vivienne did her research on John, asking her circle of friends about him. I wasn't in the headspace. I wasn't interested in jumping from one relationship to another. I was just trying to clear my own head and focus on the kids.

For the record, the general consensus about John was that he was a lovely fella but he had a reputation as a bit of a partyboy. And an hour and a half in, he gave me a kiss and that was pretty much that. When I contacted John separately, to ask him his first impressions of Vivienne, he said he was nervous. I knew that we had some chemistry from meeting her at the VIP Awards and she immediately made me feel comfortable by making a couple of witty jokes about the manner in which I had asked her out.

I think we laughed consistently for the first two hours and I was obviously smitten because I actually leant across the table and kissed her at one point, which is something I would never have imagined doing on a first date. She is smart, witty and engaging, she is beautiful inside and out, and she is the most devoted mother that I have ever met, and I feel genuinely lucky to be with her.

Vivienne addressed her concerns about his bon vivant reputation around town. He told her that that came from the fact that, once upon a time, he was a single guy working on TV3's Celeb Salon and he would be out because of that "but actually, he has a young son, the same age as Katie, and he has him every second weekend. So he stays at home with him," Vivienne says, adding with a big smile: "My kids and James love each other. Could she see herself getting married again.

Vivienne is more sure about whether she would have more kids at her age. Vivienne loves babysitting Elaine's two babies, "but I have a bit more freedom with Ben being at school and activities now; and I am not so tied down and I am enjoying that.

So, if it happened, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Ideally, I suppose, no to having more kids. And then it is going back to nappies and bottles. Do you know the way? I am kind of enjoying working again. The breathtakingly beautiful blonde — who did a show-stopping rendition of Phil Lynott's Old Town in on Charity You're A Star — was always one with no shortage of ambition. She, of course, once turned to her parents when she was a young child and said: "I can't believe I'm nine years old and I haven't been out of this country yet.

She also trained with David Scott and Emmett Scanlan. Brigie invited Vivienne to audition. She got a part as Machiavellian man-eater Ingrid Gleeson. Aisling O'Neill is a star," she says of the actress who plays Carol Foley. It just didn't work. It wasn't like he went off with somebody or I went off with somebody. Anything like that. It is a very personal question, but I ask it anyway.

Why does she think her marriage didn't work out? It just didn't. It was just one of those things. We were, I suppose, for the last year, kind of like two ships that pass in the night. We just weren't connecting properly. That was really it. There was nobody else. We just started to go like that," she explains.

To lighten the mood, I ask her to name her five favourite books. Memoirs Of A Geisha. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Vivienne Connolly: Life after my marriage break-up. Expand Expand Expand Expand Expand. Vivienne Connolly and ex-husband Mark Dunne. Photo: Frank Mc Grath. Vivienne has been dating TV producer John Norton, since last summer. Facebook Twitter Email Whatsapp. Barry Egan March 17 AM.

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