Kirsty Gallacher reveals she bonded with her partner Darren Clayton over being a single parent and shares a famous TV couple brought them together

Kirsty Gallacher has revealed she fell for her partner Darren Clayton after they bonded over being single parents.

The Smooth Radio host, 48, confessed to The Sun that the pair met through their two mutual friends - Gabby and Kenny Logan.

Kirsty revealed she is 'really happy' with her new beau - who is a former rugby player and businessman, after they met while attending a fundraising event.

The daughter of Scots golfing legend Bernard ­Gallacher met Darren, 38, last year and has revealed he often looks after her when she works too much.

Kirsty is a mother of two boys, Oscar and Jude, who she shares with her ex-husband Paul Sampson - they split in 2015.

She told the publication: 'We're very happy, we both had similar stories — we are single parents and love playing golf.

'He looks after me and tells me to have time off as I can be a workaholic.'

'I'm usually running around like mad with the children at their sport, but my boyfriend encourages me to take a day off as I work on Saturdays doing my radio show', she added.

The duo met in Edinburgh last year for a fundraising event in memory of rugby player Doddie Weir - who passed away in 2022 from Motor Neurone Disease.

Kirsty revealed that her two sons 'love him' and the pair had been together for nearly a year, with Darren also a father to a daughter from a previous relationship.

The pair have enjoyed many romantic getaways to Devon, where Darren's parents live.

Kirsty's father was the captain of the European Ryder Cup team in the 1990s.

Previously, the media star spoke about the emotional toll her divorce had on her in 2015 after she left Paul Sampson.

The turmoil of the split led to a deep depression and her physical collapse at Sky Sports in 2016. 

Kirsty revealed that in the months prior to that, she struggled to juggle her broadcasting duties, her training schedule -she was a competitor on Strictly Come Dancing in the autumn of 2015 - and being a single mum to her two boys.   

The couple met in 1999 shortly after Paul had won his first cap for England and Kirsty was made the new face of Sky Sports News.

They married in 2010 in a £50,000 ceremony in Spain but their relationship started to wobble the following year after Paul's retirement from rugby due to injury.

He went into a depression and did not know what to do with himself, a situation worsened by the fact he had failed to come to terms with his father's death in 2004.

Kirsty then called an end to their four-year marriage in 2014.

She then endured a number of high-profile relationships with Danny Cipriani, Laurence Fox and Jack Whitehall.