Cat Deeley wows in white bikini on New Year’s beach break with friends after branding 2025 ‘a lot of fun’ despite Patrick Kielty split

Cat Deeley enjoyed a swim in a white bikini during a New Year’s beach break with friends as she shared a clip to Instagram on Sunday.

The This Morning host, 49, looked incredible as she took a dip in the ocean wearing a white bikini.

She kept a low profile as she enjoyed her wild swim with a pair of large, black-tinted sunglasses.

Before her refreshing sea swim, Cat enjoyed a drink on the beach as she soaked up the sun with her pals before revealing she was busy studying her This Morning script on her flight home, ready for her return to screens on Monday.

To welcome the new year, Cat shared a highlights reel of her 2025 as she admitted her year has been ‘a lot of fun’ following her split from her husband Patrick Kielty, 54.

Cat and Patrick announced their plans to divorce in a joint statement in July, confirming they had decided to end their 13-year marriage and would remain united as parents.

The couple first sparked speculation they had split when Cat was absent from Patrick’s mother’s funeral in Ireland in March 2025.

Despite the sad news of her split, Cat seemingly made the best of the year as she moved on with the support of friends and family.

Patrick and Cat stressed that ‘no other party’ was involved in the disintegration of their relationship, which is believed to have been privately finalised at the start of the year, before going public months later.

In a joint statement, the couple said: ‘We have taken the decision to end our marriage and are now separated. There is no other party involved.

‘We will continue to be united as loving parents to our children and would therefore kindly ask for our family privacy to be respected. There will be no further comment.’

The Daily Mail previously revealed how Patrick’s family were seething over Cat’s failure to attend his beloved mother’s funeral – and say they knew at that moment their marriage was over for good.

Her ‘no show’ back in March 2025 has left deep emotional scars within the Kielty family, who say it confirmed for them that there was little chance of a reconciliation between the two.

Clearly upset, one relative told the Daily Mail: ‘Whatever rockiness was going on in the marriage, something as momentous as his mother’s funeral, you would make up even temporarily and just put your ‘best face’ on as we say in Northern Ireland.

‘Cat obviously knew how close Patrick was to Mary, and she should have come to be by his side, a hand on his shoulder as he buried his mother.

‘The fact that she stayed in London and presented This Morning on the day, it’s not been forgotten.’

The source added: ‘In a very tight-knit community in Northern Ireland, people always turn out. It’s the done thing. His family remain very upset by this.

‘They still can’t believe it. It was the point when we all realised that the marriage had ended.’

A spokesperson for Cat told the Daily Mail at the time: ‘Cat remained at home to be there for her two young children before and after school on this very sad day.’

Cat and Patrick first met in 2002 while they hosted BBC talent show Fame Academy, but they did not become an item until ten years later.

Previously, Cat told how Patrick turned their friendship into a romance by flying all the way from Belfast to Los Angeles, where the Birmingham-born star hosted US show So You Can Dance for a celebratory brunch.

The pair first went public with their relationship in May 2012, and in September the same year, they married during an intimate ceremony in Rome.

The former couple lived in California for a decade before moving back to the UK due to Cat’s keenness to be closer to her family.