Celebrity Bake Off's Leigh Francis' life off-screen with beauty ...
Leigh Francis is set to get his hands dirty in the Celebrity Bake Off Stand Up To Cancer tent tonight.
He's known for portraying character Keith Lemon on Celebrity Juice and has been in the spotlight for more than 20 years - and all this time, he's had the support of his wife, who he has been married to for 21 years.
The Leeds funny man married beauty therapist Jill Carter back in 2002 in North Yorkshire and the couple share two daughters, Matilda and Dolly.
However, unlike her famous husband, Jill prefers to stay out of they limelight, but the couple will occasionally appear together at events.
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Jill prefers to be out with her husband when he is Leigh and not playing his alter-ego so that they can be a 'normal' couple, writes The Mirror.
After Leigh and Jill attended the TRIC Awards in 2016, Leigh told with The Sun: "I promised her Keith wouldn't be there so we could just have a bit of time on our own being normal. You can tell it's me instead of Keith because I've got my hair tied back into a tiny bun like a fashion nonce."
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Leigh was 19 when he met Jill, who was 16 at the time, and has said there was 'nothing wrong with them dating' as Jill was 'old enough'. In an interview withMailOnline, he said that his partner is a 'brilliant mum'.
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"Everyone thinks that we wake up and the comedy starts but it's not like that. She sees the real me, the grumpy me," he said. "She holds it together for in the family, Jill is an amazing woman."
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