Denise Welch has admitted cheating on her husband
Tim Healy in 2004.
The
Loose Women host embarked on a steamy affair with carpenter
Steve Murray after they met on BBC show
Down To Earth.
'
Steve was a fit 36-year-old and the sex was fantastic,'
Denise, now 51, says in her autobiography
Pulling Myself Together. 'End of story.
'I'm not going to lie about it. He worshiped me and was great in bed; we were incredibly compatible in that department.
'With my marriage being in the state that it was, obviously that had been something that had gone way off the boil.
'Sex is often the first thing to go, especially when you're with someone who you are not finding attractive at the time.'
Denise, who played barmaid
Natalie Barnes in
Coronation Street, ended her affair with
Steve when she realized she didn't want to settle down with him.
'I knew that I didn't love
Steve enough for him to be my life partner,' she says.
'I was incredibly fond of him, but I knew that he would probably want children and I couldn't give him children.
Denise and
Tim are parents to sons
Matthew, 20, and
Louis, 8.