TEN: The decade that changed my future

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He smiles, flashing his teeth – not the blindingly white, oversized veneers he got in 2013, and had chiselled out last year, which we’ll get to later, but a pretty dazzling set nonetheless. This is Rylan as you've never seen him before - an intimate, fascinating and joyful insight into an extraordinary ten years on the telly and in our hearts.

Rylan Clark has opened up about the reasons for his marriage split for the first time. The BBC Radio 2 host split from husband Dan Neal last year after six years in 2021, with the news coming out amid a four-month break from the spotlight.But now if there’s something I really don’t want to do, I’m going to say no. I’ve learned to be more in control. I’ve not had control for so long, I feel like Britney!’ But sometimes those lives cross over. If you go out for dinner, people are going to come up to you. I just became a massive recluse. I wouldn’t go out. I felt like I couldn’t walk up the street. I felt like I couldn’t go to the pub. But what I’ve learned over the last year is, ‘So what if people come and say hello? Let it happen. Then you can enjoy yourself.’ I’ve learned, actually, the blur between the two ain’t that far off.” Rylan said he then went into "self blame" mode and felt his life was over and spent time hiding at his mum's house. He writes: "And for the first time in thirty two years I felt I couldn't carry on no more. What's the point I thought. I'd lost what I thought was everything, the one thing I always wanted. A man I loved. A family of my own. And now it was gone. And so I tried to end it." The TV star has now put pen to paper in a new book, Ten: The Decade That Changed My Future, which chronicles his life from finding fame on The X Factor in 2012 up until now. And for the first time he details the reasons for the end of his marriage, admitting he had cheated "years ago" but only told Dan last year.

I felt I couldn’t carry on no more,” the 33-year-old writes in the book. “‘What’s the point?’ I thought. I’d lost what I thought was everything, the one thing I always wanted. A man I loved. A family of my own. And now it was gone. And so I tried to end it.”Funny and outspoken, Rylan is one of the UK's most-loved presenters and a true household name. Rylan first emerged on our screens in September 2012 and in the ten years since then has become a one-of-a-kind national treasure. The book is honest to a fault about Clark’s own shortcomings, but skirts around the details of his ex’s behaviour, dropping hints – “It still keeps playing on my mind why he didn’t want to work to fix what we had. Well, unfortunately/fortunately, I found my answers” – without ever going into detail. Was that to protect Neal? “All I’ve ever done is protect everyone else apart from myself,” says Clark. “And do you know what? For the first time, I could easily not protect anyone. But I’ve actually got a bit of class.” Speaking to The Guardian, he said: ‘I was having thoughts and doing things that made me… f**ked up, for want of a better word.