Jenny Powell, 52, says she gets mistaken for 19-year-old daughter’s twin

Jenny Powell has informed how she will get consistently mistaken for her 19-year-old daughter’s twin – regardless of their 33 12 months age hole.

The 52-year-old TV star additionally stated that individuals name her ‘Benjamin Button’ as a result of she appears to look youthful as she ages.

However her youthful appears include a draw back, as Jenny admits she worries about going out together with her teenage daughter Connie as a result of she does not prefer to embarrass her with the eye.

“Being referred to as your daughter’s sister may be very flattering. We as soon as checked right into a resort on vacation and the man behind the reception desk stated, ‘Oh, have a look at you two sisters. You look so alike’. Connie stated, ‘She’s my mum’.

“I believe she loves it however hates it as nicely. When she was within the sixth kind it was going around the boys that ‘Jenny Powell is a sizzling mum’,” she informed The Solar.

Jenny turned a family title within the 90s because the ‘glamorous assistant’ on Wheel of Fortune.

She starred on the favored quiz alongside host Nicky Campbell and later John Leslie.

Her first TV gig got here within the late Eighties presenting children’ TV present Gimme 5 earlier than she went on to host High of The Pops and the Nationwide Lottery draw present.

In addition to teenage daughter Connie, Jenny can be mum to 12-year-old daughter Pollyanna.

When she was seven months pregnant together with her youngest, Jenny found that her husband of 13 years Toby Baxendale was having an affair with a lady 15 years his junior.

Her hubby determined to maneuver in along with his new associate whereas Jenny needed to come to phrases with being a single mum in her 40s.

Opening up concerning the traumatic time, she beforehand informed how she spiralled into melancholy and anxiousness and have become to weak she could not face getting away from bed.

‘It felt as if I had been bereaved. I felt like a failure and all the things crumbled round me. I used to be hysterical. I screamed and cried till I had no extra tears left.

“However I knew I needed to stick with it for the sake of our kids. They saved me going and now I can actually say that I’m pleased once more. I really feel liberated, impartial and youthful and I’m trying ahead to the long run once more,” she informed the Mail.

Jenny, who hosts the Scorching Mess Mums podcast, is now engaged engaged to be married once more after assembly her associate Martin whereas they each grabbed a espresso at a practice station.

Recalling their unlikely introduction to Kate Thorton on the White Wine Query Time podcast, Jenny stated: “I used to be in Pret a Manger at Euston ready to get the practice again as much as Manchester and this Adonis walks in, I assumed ‘Bloody hell, he’s alright’.

“And I simply put my head down as a result of I used to be ogle-ing him, and this shadow loomed over me and it was him asking if he might sit down.”

Martin then requested her to take his quantity, slightly than the opposite method round, saying he favoured a contemporary method to relationship.

“He was chatting away and he stated, ‘Would you like my quantity?’ And I stated ‘What for?’ I imply, what woman says that to a match bloke?” laughed Jenny.