Dean & Danielle
When TV presenter Danielle Nicholls and professional footballer Dean Holden married, their life felt like a fairytale. They soon welcomed three beautiful children, but tragedy stru...
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Who are you?
I am Danielle Nicholls. I'm a television presenter, broadcaster, and I'm married to this guy. I'm Dean Holden. I'm 44 years old. I'm lucky enough to be father to five beautiful children. Obviously married to Danielle, and I'm a ex-professional footballer, currently assistant manager in Saudi Arabia. Al Etak.
What are your backgrounds?
I was very famous back in the year 2000 for working alongside Steven Mulhern on Children's ITV, which I did for a long time. Kind of stopped my work to become a stay home mum and have our five children. I was a young footballer, left school at 16, joined Bolton Wanders and got a professional contract, made me first team debut and things were going fantastic. Met this beautiful girl who was my childhood sweetheart. We went to school together. Danielle's school year older than me, so I'm a toy boy, and things were going great until I broke me leg playing for Bolton back in 1999, and then suffered multiple broken legs, but still had a pretty successful playing career before getting into coaching.
How long have you been together for?
Why do you want me to answer? Okay. Come on. I'll give you a call. How long have we been together for? Right. Let me play this game. So we've been together 24, 25 years. 24, 25 years. We've been married for 18 years. Yeah. Are we? Yeah, We grew up two streets apart back in the eighties. In Swindling. In Sulford. If anyone knows it, it's really cool. Now's where Media City is in BBC, but it's pretty rough back then, so it's still Rough now that we got together when we was about 13, 14 playing rounders and football and all the rest of it, and then properly got together when we were 19, didn't we? Back in 2000? Yeah. You were 19. I was 20 I think.