Yvette Fielding's life now from 'sexy' co-star husband to horror health scare

08 February 2024 , 10:39

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Yvette Fielding's life now from 'sexy' co-star husband to horror health scare

Known for her spidey senses, it was no different when Yvette Fielding first locked eyes with her husband.

It was love at first sight for the Most Haunted host, 55, when she first cameraman Karl Beattie on the set of BBC One's City Hospital. After finding fame as the youngest-ever presenter on Blue Peter, the Stockport star and her husband Karl Beattie set up their own production company, and the hit ghost-hunting show was born.

But what do we know about the presenter's life away from her often terrifying job on-screen? Here, we take a look at how she met her beloved and the time Yvette thought she was almost set to join her subjects on the other side amid a horror health scare.

Yvette Fielding joined Blue Peter as their youngest presenter (Rex)

Mark Curry, Yvette Fielding and Caron Keating with Blue Peter dog Bonnie (BBC)

Gushing over her husband in an exclusive chat with Love Sunday Magazine, she told of their fateful first meeting: "I love him to bits. And he's gorgeous!"

"I stalked him when we worked on City Hospital. I was like, 'Oh my God, that is just a VISION! I'm going to have him." Yvette explained, admitting she kept requesting to book him as their cameraman.

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"He's the sexiest thing ever." The pair, who have been married for more than 20 years, live in a 17th-century 'Harry Potter house' in Cheshire, complete with a mummified cat hanging in the bathroom. Needless to say, she believes their home is haunted.

"I came downstairs one morning and all the kitchen chairs were in a pyramid on top of the table," Yvette claimed. "My mum refuses to stay, the duvet covers come off if you sleep in the green bedroom. It's nothing malevolent, though. We've found out we have two ghost children there and they like to play."

Yvette and Karl are parents to two grown-up children, William, 29, and Mary, 23. While Yvette is happily coupled up, the telly star has a string of admirers - and some a cruder than others.

"One on Twitter said, 'You've given me a bulge in my trousers!' My God! I'm thinking, 'Which programme are you looking at, love?' Clearly not mine!" Yvette divulged in the interview. "I've normally got white eyes and a camera pointing up my nose, I'm the least sexy thing on TV. But it takes all sorts."

Speaking of her other family members, the paranormal expert believes that she is closer to her father's ghost than she was with him when he was alive.

In a separate interview with the Mirror in 2020, the mum-of-two claimed she regularly exchanges messages with her dad, who once told her she was a "skinny cow" after dieting too much. "This may seem strange, but I have more of a relationship, and a better relationship, with my father since he passed over than when he was alive. Try and figure that out," she said.

The telly star with her husband Karl

She says the pair communicate by using taps to represent letters of the alphabet and spell out words. In 2015, the TV star was convinced she was on a fast-track to join him on the other side after a health scare.

"I didn't know what was wrong at first," she recalled. "I was getting palpitations and pains in my chest. It was so bad I went to hospital thinking I was having a heart attack. And I would be shaking, feeling like I was on a ship, wanting to be sick.

"There was this awful feeling of anxiety too. It was like butterflies in my tummy, combined with the feeling of being dropped from a great height. It would wake me up in the night, I’d be covered in sweat, panicking about everything."

"Then the depression hit, which was SO bad," she continued. "Karl or our kids would only have to say the slightest thing, and I'd just grab my car keys and drive anywhere, park up and sit for an hour crying like somebody had died."

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Eventually, blood tests revealed Yvette had crashed into an early menopause. "It was like hitting a brick wall, with every symptom at once," explained Yvette.

Despite barely being able to get out of bed, she was too frightened to take HRT - hormone replacement therapy. "I couldn't take the risk," she admitted. "My mum's had breast cancer and, because we both have vitiligo and we're very similar healthwise, I need regular checks for anything remotely abnormal.

"I constantly think, 'Is this it, is this cancer?' So I tried every natural menopause remedy instead. Even magnets in my knickers!" she revealed. "Nothing worked. I still couldn't stand up without feeling like I was about to fall over."

Then Yvette read an article which said it had been proven that HRT was indeed safe to take. "So I just thought, 'stuff this, I've got to live my life', and I got it prescribed. It was as if somebody had lifted a black veil."

A few months on from the treatment, Yvette said she felt like a woman reborn. She enthused: "I'm feeling fabulous, amazing, positive about everything and so adventurous."

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