EXCLUSIVE: TV chef Phil Vickery basks within the solar at flower Present with ex-wife Fern Britton’s pal who he was noticed kissing final September

When TV chef Phil Vickery was noticed kissing Lorraine Spanton, the most effective buddy of his second ex-wife, Fern Britton, in London final September, the act was deemed forbidden.

However that humiliation seemed to be a distant reminiscence yesterday because the This Morning star, 62, basked within the solar on the Southport Flower Present.

Sitting barely a spatula’s size away from him was Lorraine, 58, who saved her eyes hid behind sun shades.

‘They spent the day collectively,’ a customer to the present tells me, including that Lorraine watched admiringly as Phil cooked in entrance of an viewers.

‘When Phil had completed, they went for a espresso,’ says my green-fingered informant, ‘after which for a beer.’

TV chef Phil Vickery basked within the solar on the Southport Flower Present on Tuesday. Sitting barely a spatula’s size away from him was Lorraine Spanton, 58, who saved her eyes hid behind sun shades

Vickery was noticed kissing Spanton, the most effective buddy of his second ex-wife, Fern Britton, in London final September

Fern Britton and Phil Vickery are pictured collectively in April 2017

Vickery is seen smiling as he appears to be like at Stanton throughout their outing on the Southport Flower Present

However the pair shunned indulging in any public show of affection which could have been open to misinterpretation — as was the case final yr once they had been compelled to disclaim hypothesis of a romance. 

On that event, Vickery, who parted firm from Britton, 66, three and a half years in the past, was adamant their assembly was harmless.

Requested a couple of potential new romance, he mentioned of Lorraine, who has labored in hospitality and has two kids with estranged husband Simon: ‘She’s only a buddy. We’re simply mates having lunch, for goodness’ sake.’

Lorraine final yr admitted she has moved out of her marital residence however insisted ‘it was nothing to do with the incident over the photographs’.

In the meantime Fern, who left her daytime TV function on This Morning in 2009, was removed from a girl scorned over the photographs. She dismissed any hypothesis of a relationship between the pair as ‘not true’. I ponder what she’ll say this time…

A consultant for Vickery was unavailable for remark.

Vickery and Stanton had been all smiles whereas they sat collectively on the flower present on Tuesday

Stanton is smiling as she gazes at Vickery throughout their outing

Stanton seems to be exhibiting Vickery, who’s carrying a field, a doc because the pair stroll collectively