Channel 4 Horse Racing Today

It is an account straight from the pages of a Jilly Cooper bonkbuster.

a winner jockey cheats on their stunning blond partner – a premier racing correspondent – with Britain’s most useful woman jockey, just who in addition is his education companion.

And, needless to say, he gets learned.

Emma Spencer, the glamorous face of level rushing on Channel 4, had been filming overseas whenever her spouse Jamie Spencer invited racing pin-up Hayley Turner to the six-bedroom household mansion in Newmarket.

The set – just who both caused the Queen’s trainer Michael Bell – were currently close, but this time Jamie broke the marriage vows he made 5 years earlier.

when you look at the horsey ready, which will be notoriously incestuous and riven with gossip, nothing stays key for long and Emma quickly learned associated with tryst.

Headstrong and utterly faithful, she was incandescent at her husband’s betrayal and demanded a divorce proceedings.

‘Trust is, and always has been, a really huge thing in my situation in my life, ’ she states, sadly, as we discuss the affair over meal at Newmarket. ‘If that's damaged it's very difficult for us to go-back.’

So that it had been naturally distressing when, into the sour aftermath for the event this year, she was expected to interview skip Turner go on air after a 40-1 victory; a demand that would hit many as insensitive if you don't downright astonishing.

But she point-blank rejected to talk with her rival and Channel 4 bosses drafted in an alternative at last second.

It ended up being some time before Emma conquered this easy to understand reluctance, but she has since interviewed Hayley on digital camera now states: ‘Post-race interviews are included in my work with Channel 4 and that's the thing I had to hold uppermost during my brain – individual emotions must be put aside.’

An individual who is instinctively discreet, it took Emma the best part of four years to constant herself when confronted with a very public embarrassment – and only now's she ready to explore it.

Emma, 36, acknowledges: ‘It’s true. Inside aftermath associated with the affair, I refused to place myself under the limelight by doing so. I’m a very personal individual rather than somebody who desires to air their particular personal difficulties as you're watching camera.

'I Needed in order to prevent any unnecessary tensions on screen and with my marriage break-up still raw, certainly one of my colleagues endured in for me personally.’

Emma Spencer (pictured) ended up being shooting away from home when husband Jamie Spencer welcomed rushing pin-up Hayley Turner to the few's six-bedroom family members mansion in Newmarket, Suffolk

Now the 3 people inside sad crisis are to be thrown right back together at Royal Ascot, with Jamie and Hayley riding in hope of someplace into the champions’ Enclosure and Emma waiting by the side of the track to interview whomever triumphs. It offers the possibility to be rather awkward, particularly offered Emma’s unguarded commentary.

‘It stays tough between Hayley and I’, she stated recently, incorporating: ‘we don’t have actually anything to do together with her. She does her cycling and I also do might work. We don’t talk and I have no problems with that.’