Fearne Cotton opens up on ‘shame’ faced over paedophile ex-boyfriend Ian Watkins

Warning: This article contains discussion of child abuse which some readers may find distressing.

Fearne Cotton has opened up on feeling ‘shamed’ and ‘ignored’ by her colleagues at Radio 1 following the arrest of her former boyfriend, convicted peadophile Ian Watkins.

The TV presenter, 44, dated the Lostprophets singer for about a year in 2005, years before his horrific crimes became public in 2012.

Watkins, who was serving time for child sex crimes, was killed in a knife attack at HMP Wakefield last October.

Although Cotton doesn’t mention Watkins by name in her new book Likeable, she reflected on being live on air after ‘a horrible news story that doesn’t involve me yet has a…

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