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Helen Skelton warned women not to date sports stars in unearthed column before split

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Helen Skelton was married to rugby star Richie Myler, 32, for eight years, but she let loose about the frustrations of having a relationship with a famous sports star in an unearthed and very candid blog post.

In 2017, the Countryfile star, 38, claimed that her husband's "tantrums" were worse than that of toddlers if he lost a rugby match as she admitted she found it difficult to organise their lives around the rugby player's sporting career.Helen candidly opened up on some of the stresses and uncertainties of life as a wife of a sportsman."I am married to a man who comes home in a mood because his team hasn’t done what he hoped or he didn’t play as well as he would have liked," she wrote.Referring to one of her children's age at the time, she said of her husband: "His tantrums over his sport are worse than the toddler's."She added that it was impossible to plan a future as he was constantly moving around or facing the prospect of changing teams.In her post, "Wannabe wags beware.Sport will make you grey not glamorous" (sic), she added: "I have no idea where my children will go to school, when I will be able to put a picture on the wall or if my husband will have a job in a couple of years," she wrote on her Helen Etc blog.At the time she and her husband had relocated to France, where he had been playing with the Catalan Dragons in the Super League.Prior to that, Richie had played for Warrington and Salford and Helen had expressed concern that it was impossible to know where his career would end up taking him."That's the joy of professional sport," she continued.She added: "You may be brilliant, but if the boardroom or the fans don't like you, or your body doesn't do what it's meant to, you won't have a job."Helen was.

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