Kaye Adams was so determined to hide her real age that she lied to her own daughter about how old she was.
The TV host, 59, insisted she was 10 years younger than Charley, 20, and only revealed the truth when Charley was 12 years old.
Kaye told the Mirror“It’s pathetic, but I spent 10 years pruning and gleefully lying, including a false date of birth that I misunderstood.
Hide the truth: Kaye Adams, 59, was so determined to hide her real age that she lied to her own daughter about how old she was (June photo)
“In general, I’m an honest person, but I’ve always been a good liar and parents lie to little kids all the time.
“By the time she was about 12 years old, I started to feel uneasy.
“So I broke the truth to her in a coffee shop, which was a lot more traumatic than I thought it would be.”
Keeping Schtum: The TV host insisted she was 10 years younger than Charley, 20 (right), and didn’t reveal the truth until Charley was 12 years old (pictured with fellow Loose Women star Nadia Sawalha (2nd left) ) with her daughter Maddie (L) ))
Loose Women star Kaye went on to say that Charley initially laughed off the situation but was actually “really disappointed” with her.
“I’ll never forget her little face,” she said. “I feel terrible, she was so shocked.”
The broadcaster said she also tried to hide her real age from her Loose Women colleagues, adding that Nadia Sawalha thought she was “pathetic” for not telling the truth.
Refusal: Kaye told the Mirror: ‘It’s pathetic, but I threw away 10 years and happily lied, including a fake birthdate I misunderstood’ (photo on Loose Women with Stacey Solomon in June)
Kaye insists she inherited her fear of telling people her real age from her mother, who also refused to let people know her real date of birth.
She remembered the time her parents were stopped by the police, but she wouldn’t say how old she was. She simply said she was over 21, which led to her father having to come to the police station to meet them so he could explain the situation. .
It comes after Kaye insisted there is “no one” who refuses to work with anyone else on Loose Women.
The TV star was an original host of the lunch chat show between 1999 and 2006, returning regularly in 2013 to anchor the show, but admitted – despite recent rumors of a spat between several stars – that although there have been ‘tensions’ over the years everything is ‘solvable’.
She said, ‘Have there been times of tension between individuals? Yes, they have. I’m not going to deny that there are occasions when people might have a little fight with someone else, but it’s nothing that can’t be fixed.
“There’s no one who walks out the door when someone else comes in. Nobody refuses to work with anyone else.’
Meanwhile, the BBC Radio presenter – who is also mum to Bonnie, 15, with partner Ian Campbell – is gearing up to celebrate her 60th birthday in December and has started a podcast called How to Be 60 as she approaches the milestone which so far saw her talk to the likes of Loose Women co-star Jane Moore, 60, and talk show host Jonathan Ross, 61, about their aging experiences.
She said Subway The newspaper’s SixtySeconds column: ‘I wanted to do something that really meant something to me. I was pottering around in the garden and different ideas went through my head and my age popped up.
“It’s something my knickers have been twisting about my whole life, so it was a eureka moment. My partner lan was about to turn 60 and was very relaxed about it. I wondered how he could be so cool about it when I hated it. So How To Be 60 was born.’
No Facts: Kaye even refused to tell her Loose Women colleagues her real name (LR Kaye Sunetra Sarker, Max George, Maisie Smith, Linda Robson, Judi Love on Loose Women in June)