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Steph McGovern has provided followers a rare glimpse into her personal life with an uplifting Instagram post.

The former BBC Breakfast and Channel 4 presenter was met with assist from her followers as she shared a sequence of photographs from her vacation.

She penned: “Half term part 1……the relaxing bit. After a crazy couple of months of non stop work and hardly seeing my family……this hol was much needed.

“Hanging out together on the seaside and in the pool, studying great books by fab authors, consuming/eating my fave hol drinks and snacks, barely wanting at my cellphone (!) and most importantly of all: crafting/exploring/enjoying with my little woman….who will soon be 6 years previous!!!

“Time goes sooooo fast. This holiday was a great reminder about the need to slow down every so often, which I am rubbish at.”

She then added: “Part 2 of the break was slightly wilder…..will post about that next,” stories Belfast Live.

Celebrity Bear Hunt star Steph, who retains her daughter away from the public eye, welcomed her first youngster in 2019.

She not often shares particulars about her personal life, including her accomplice, having beforehand said: “I would just get too mad if I started reading negative things about them.

“My daughter has no selection and my accomplice’s not in the public eye, so I would not need to subject them to the opinion of others.”

Steph received support from her followers, with one person commenting: “What an superb battery recharge for you.”

“You look so relaxed!” another wrote, while a third echoed: “Well earned.”

Others praised Steph for her book, Deadline, with one writing: “Your e-book is superb Steph. Please keep writing.”

“Absolutely loving your e-book Steph,” someone else said.

Steph presented BBC Breakfast from 2011 before moving to join Channel 4 for her own programme in 2019.

However, Steph’s Packed Lunch came to an end in December 2023 when Channel 4 announced it was axed. She said at the time: “I’m not going to waffle on because I am unable to say something emotional without doing that ugly crying.

“But thank you for watching, thank you for everyone who’s been on the show. I’ve loved it, and I am glad you have to. That is all from us here in Leeds. Look after yourselves, and goodbye!”

She added on social media: “This time last week – the final @packedlunchc4 team pic (not everyone is in it, but it’s a good chunk of us). It’s been nearly 5 years since the show idea was pitched to me (I was battling pregnancy sickness and 3am starts on BBC Breakfast at the time).

“The dealbreaker for me (after money [sic]) was that the show had to be genuine and mirror the real lives of our viewers AND our office had to make everybody really feel welcome….whether or not you had been with us for an hour or 4 years. I’m so proud of what our superb crew achieved so please permit me a second to blow their trumpet……

“In 4 years – we turned a pub in Leeds Dock into a cracking TV studio (after starting the show in my house in lockdown), we employed loads of people from the local area (with many having never worked in telly before), we promoted talented people quickly, we provided work experience to countless people of all ages in all parts of the show (many of them getting jobs from this too) and we gave lots of people their first break presenting on the telly too.

“We constructed a Northern powerhouse. And on top of that we put out 675 episodes, obtained a BAFTA nomination, gave a voice to people/topics that other programmes did not and had a correct chortle along the way in which. Thank you to everybody who made that occur and of course to all of our fabulous viewers who had been a essential half of our dysfunctional family too. The messages we have had from you have got been unimaginable. Thank you.”