Carol McGiffin and her husband Mark Cassidy will soon be celebrating five years of their marriage, and sleeping in different beds might be the key to their success.

Loose Women’s Carol McGiffin will soon be celebrating her five-year anniversary with Mark Cassidy – and has said that the key to a successful marriage is sleeping alone.

The TV and radio presenter, 62, first met her husband Mark Cassidy, 40, back in 2008 when she was age 48 and he was age 26. The pair went on to wed in an intimate ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand in 2018.

Now, as she and her husband mark half a decade together since making their vows, she believes that many couples would prefer to ‘occasionally’ sleep separately.

Speaking to the Sun, Carol admitted: “Sometimes I snore a lot. I snore and Mark takes up too much room, so occasionally we would sleep in separate beds.

In a previous interview with OK! magazine , Carol said: “I don’t think I’d have made it through without him. Mark was my absolute rock.”

The Loose Women panellist said she knew she had cancer in early 2014 when the pair were holidaying in Thailand.

She said: “I knew straight away what it was. As soon as I got home I got it checked out, I wouldn’t let Mark come with me.

“I knew in my heart the diagnosis and I was fine hearing it.”

She said Mark was her ‘rock’ during her cancer battle ( 
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After the medical experts confirmed her suspicions, she and Mark headed to the pub and got ‘roaring drunk’.

Carol explained that she first had a mastectomy before undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

She also added that she tried a ‘cold cap’ – or scalp cooling, which can help to reduce hair loss on the head caused by some cancer treatment, according to MacMillan Cancer Support – but found it too uncomfortable.

Instead, Carol chose to welcome the process, aware that her hair would eventually ‘grow back’. She asked Mark to shave her hair once it started to fall out.