The former magician’s assistant, who was married to legendary entertainer Paul Daniels for nearly 30 years up until his death in 2016, appeared on Good Morning Britain today to talk about moving on and finding love after loss. Debbie McGee, 60, recalled feeling “really vulnerable” after he died, saying she couldn’t have started a new relationship in the months which followed. “You’re fragile when you lose a person and life’s changing so much,” she said. “I’ve realised, waiting, that I’m just really finding my feet of who I am as a person.
I’m so different now to how I was a month after Paul died
Debbie McGee
“I feel that I’m so different now to how I was a month after he died and I’m glad I didn’t rush into a relationship then.”
Debbie went on to say she thought she would fall in love again in the future.
“It has to be the right person,” she said, explaining how she felt it was important not to try to replace a partner who had died.
“It’s the wrong thing to do to try and replace that person,” she continued.
“I’ll come to a time that I’ll meet someone who’s probably very different to Paul.”
Although she said she believed she would fall in love again, Debbie emphasised that she wouldn’t mind if a new romance wasn’t on the cards for her.
Debbie also spoke out about discussing the future of her love life with Paul before he died.
“From the very beginning we discussed it,” she said, noting the 20-year age gap.
“He said, ‘Make sure you don’t go with someone who’s left handed because they won’t be able to use my golf clubs,’” she laughed.
Paul and Debbie married 10 years after they first met when she started performing with him in his shows.
Earlier this week, she marked what would have been their 31st wedding anniversary, sharing a picture from their wedding day with her 41,000 Twitter followers.
The snap showed them smiling together from being a bouquet of flowers, Paul in a grey suit and Debbie wearing more delicate blooms in a crown in her hair.
“31 years ago today I married this very special man,” she wrote.
Paul died just weeks after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.
On Good Morning Britain today, Debbie said, had she died before her husband, he would have been in a new relationship within a month.
She said they used to joke about who would wash his shirts and cook for him, giggling: “Because he couldn’t do that.”
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