Newly single Millie Mackintosh broke cover on Thursday following her split from husband of seven years Hugo Taylor.
The former Made In Chelsea stars, who share daughters Sienna, five, and Aurelia, four, confirmed their separation in January following what has been described as a ‘difficult’ start to the year.
Venturing out in London, Millie, 36, looked downcast and concealed her wedding ring finger, after taking it off in previous days.
She stepped out of her home alone minutes before Hugo left with one of their children this morning.
Millie sheltered from the rain with an umbrella as she headed out in a white padded jacket, black leggings and Nike trainers.
It’s understood that the couple have shared a series of discussions about their future. It’s also been claimed that Hugo has struggled with the star’s admissions about her sexuality.
Newly single Millie Mackintosh broke cover on Thursday as she emerged following split from husband of seven years Hugo Taylor and concealed her wedding ring finger
Daily Mail revealed the Made In Chelsea couple, who share daughters Sienna, five, and Aurelia, four, have quietly separated following a difficult start to the year
Millie’s outing comes two days after the couple quietly separated following a difficult start to the year.
She has recently shared a number of cryptic Instagram posts focusing on herself and explaining how she was prioritising her boundaries.
The star also headed to India last week on a solo wellness retreat designed to ‘heal’ the nervous system.
At the beginning of the year Millie hopped on the ‘What are you leaving behind in 2025?’ trend.
Among a selection of snaps of herself she penned she would be leaving behind ‘relationships that cost me’ and ‘over-explaining my boundaries’.
In now what appears to be a cryptic message she also added ‘not trusting my intuition,’ ‘guilt for choosing myself’ and ‘letting fear hold me back’ to her list. She concluded that 2026 would be the year of ‘calm, clarity and self-trust’.
In another pointed post she wished her followers a happy new year as she gushed that she was ready to be ‘my own cheerleader’.
In a lengthy caption she penned: ‘Wishing you all a very Happy New Year, I wanted to share some of the intentions I’m hoping to bring into 2026:
Venturing out in London, Millie, 36, looked downcast and concealed her wedding ring finger, after taking it off in previous days
She stepped out alone minutes before Hugo left with one of their children this morning
Millie sheltered from the rain with an umbrella as she headed out in a white padded jacket, black leggings and Nike trainers
Millie has recently shared a number of cryptic Instagram posts focusing on herself and explaining how she was prioritising her boundaries
‘*Protecting my nervous system like it matters (because it does). *Saying no sooner. Saying yes more slowly. *Choosing consistency over intensity. *Building more of a connection with my audience . *Trusting myself without asking for permission. *Listening to my body, not overriding it.
Sadly, it seems like Millie and Hugo have been battling problems as a couple for a while.
The TV star revealed Hugo threatened to divorce her three years ago during her battle with alcohol after a public row at a wedding.
While appearing on This Morning to promote her book – Bad Drunk – in January 2025 she spoke about the moment she decided to quit drinking.
She said: ‘It was making me really unhappy, it was really affecting my life, affecting my relationships, especially with my husband.’
Host Ben Shephard read out a quote Millie had previously made about an argument she and Hugo had at a friend’s wedding: ‘If you don’t stop drinking it’s going to end our marriage.’
Millie added: ‘It had got to the point where I had taken it too far and I’d really humiliated him. I was so embarrassed, and it was a couple of days after that when I got to the point where I said “enough is enough,” and that was two and a half years ago.’
She also admitted she used to ‘drunkenly snog girls’ at the height of her battle with alcohol.
The TV star revealed Hugo threatened to divorce her three years ago during her battle with alcohol after a public row at a wedding
The star also headed to India last week on a solo wellness retreat designed to ‘heal’ the nervous system
Having made the decision to go sober in 2022, Milie is said to have found being fully open ‘a lot to deal with,’ and insiders are now claiming that realising her sexuality led to a widening ‘gap’ in her marriage.
They added to The Sun: ‘Part of her is always wondering if she missed out on a relationship with a woman and what that could have been like.’
Last year, in an interview on her pal Caggie Dunlop‘s Saturn Returns Podcast Millie spoke openly about her drinking problems before going sober in 2022, and has since released a book about her struggles, titled Bad Drunk.
The TV personality revealed that during her teenage years, she struggled to express her attraction to women, and would only find the courage to ‘kiss’ them when she was drunk.
She went onto admit that she had developed ‘intimacy issues’ with women after being bullied at an all-girls’ school, and would upset her male partners by brazenly kissing girls when she was drinking.
Millie said: ‘As a teen when I would drink, I would make out with women, but that’s not something I felt confident to do when I was sober…
‘I had crushes on girls at school and I just didn’t have the awareness to go “I like girls as well”. I’d just have crushes and get all weird about them. I remember having sleepovers and going “I wonder if they’re going to kiss me”.’
Millie added that a lot of her struggles have been unpacked in therapy, telling Caggie: ‘I’ve explored a lot of my relationship to women, I was bullied so I definitely have intimacy issues with women, but there’s this attraction as well.’
Sources close to the pair say they remain committed to co-parenting their young children, who continue to be their priority, and to maintaining a loving family life
She continued: ‘Obviously I’m married to a man, it’s not something that affects our relationship at all now, but looking back and realising that was one of the reasons I drank in a destructive way, because there was a part of myself I didn’t understand and I didn’t know how to express it and I felt scared to express it.
‘Every time I would drink I would just keep doing it, even if I was in a relationship.’
Sharing the moment she opened up to husband Hugo Taylor about her sexuality, she revealed that he was incredibly supportive.
Sources close to the pair say they remain committed to co-parenting their young children, who continue to be their priority, and to maintaining a loving family life.
Millie and Hugo, who met as teenagers and first dated during E4’s Made In Chelsea, had been married since June 2018.
A source revealed: ‘Millie and Hugo are currently going through a separation and have sadly decided to split.
‘They have known each other for many years, and in recent weeks, have had serious conversations about their future, ultimately deciding it’s better for them both to part ways. Their main priority remains their children and family life, and separating is not something they ever hoped would happen.
Hugo and Millie had fans hooked through the highs and lows of their relationship that started on Made In Chelsea
‘At present, they are considering what living apart might look like and how they plan to navigate co-parenting their young children. It’s been an incredibly difficult start to the year, and one they hope to continue managing in private.’
Millie first met Hugo as a teenager, and they began dating when she was 21, rising to fame together on the E4 reality series.
In 2013, the heiress married rapper Professor Green, 42, but the couple divorced in 2016, the same year she rekindled her relationship with Hugo.
The pair tied the knot two years later and welcomed their first daughter, Sienna, in 2020, followed by Aurelia in 2021.
In recent years, Millie has been open with her fans about her past struggles with alcohol, which led her to become teetotal and write the book Bad Drunk, as well as her journey in overcoming severe anxiety.
Millie has spoken candidly about how she began binge drinking at a young age while at boarding school, using alcohol to cope with being away from home, bullying and her own insecurities.
