Christine Lampard opens up on married life - from chores to picking up Frank's socks

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Christine Lampard makes no apologies for stepping back from her full-time telly career to focus on her family – although two kids, she says, is quite enough. “I’m too old,” laughs the 43-year-old Loose Women panellist, as she ponders the prospect of adding to her brood. “I think if I was younger I would have thought about it, but I feel very blessed with the two of them – and I’m knackered! "I rarely find time for myself.

If I have them both asleep by 9pm I watch TV for an hour and go to bed. I stepped away because I decided to have children – I say decided, but I was slightly blessed with it much later. "So I spent all my twenties and thirties doing anything I wanted.

When they came along I thought, ‘This is the new chapter.’ Although, weirdly I feel like I’m busier than ever!” With her Northern Irish charm and refreshing lack of ego, Christine has been an indispensable asset to daytime telly, working on a part-time shift schedule that allows her to prioritise her husband Frank, 44, and their three-year-old daughter Patricia and 17-month-old son Freddie.

However, this summer, her workload has revved up a gear as she has returned to stand in for Lorraine Kelly with co-host Ranvir Singh on ITV’s Lorraine.