Loose Women panellist Jane Moore has announced that she's splitting up from her husband Gary, confirming the news on the ITV show.

The journalist and record label executive were married for decades before deciding to go their separate ways, although they're planning to remain close friends.

Speaking on today's (December 7) episode, Jane explained that an accident actually postponed their decision.

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"So Gary and I are separating," she said. "It's weird that it's out there because we've been processing it for about a year, we're both quite private people and we had discussed it last year and it was gonna happen last year, and then he fell and broke his leg.

"I didn't push him, just wanna put that out there," she then joked. "He fell and broke his leg and then all bets are off.

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"We're still in the same house together, we're still going to do Christmas together... Then in the new year, we'll sell up. We'll buy our own houses, hopefully, you know, near each other."

The TV star continued that she'd been caring for him in the wake of his injury. "It's enabled us to sort of segue to process it first of all, and to sort of segue nicely into a really good friendship," she continued.

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"I mean, I would always say, he is my best friend. I hope if he was sitting here he would say, I'm his best friend, and I'm just very, very keen that we don't lose that element of it, you know, so, yeah, so we're still living together."

Loose Women airs weekdays on ITV.

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