Football pundit Richard Keys has been spotted holding hands with his secret lover on a romantic break in Qatar.
The father-of-two, 60, was seen strolling along the beach with Lucie Rose, a 30-year-old lawyer, who he has always denied having a relationship with.
Julia Keys is thought to be ‘devastated’ by the news the pair are back together just months after she saved her husband’s life.
Richard Keys has been seen back with his lover in news that is expected to ‘devastate’ his estranged wife. The married couple are pictured left at The Butterfly Ball in at Battersea Evolution in 2009. Mrs Keys is pictured right outside their Surrey home in 2011
The New Year break saw Keys and Ms Rose pass a morning at the pundits £800-per-night villa followed by dinner, Nick Pisa reported in The Sun.
A source told the newspaper: ‘Julia will be devastated by these pictures of Richard and Lucie back together.
‘It is only a few months ago she saved his life. He is rubbing her nose in it.’
Mrs Keys said that if she had not urged her husband to undergo an operation to fix a blocked artery he would have died within a month.
The mother-of-two said Mr Keys was diagnosed with a thoracic aortic aneurysm after visiting a GP in Doha.
He then returned to the UK to see a consultant last summer, accompanied by Mrs Keys.
The father-of-two, 60, was seen strolling along the beach with Lucie Rose, a 30-year-old lawyer, who he has always denied having a relationship with. Ms Rose is pictured left with Mr Keys last January
Mr Keys was told that he could undergo surgery but that it was not required immediately.
‘Richard was saying he’d rather wait but I said, ‘Absolutely not. You’re going to get this done now because I don’t think it should be left”, added Mrs Keys.
‘When they opened him up, they said he would have dropped down dead within a month.’
It comes as the former Sky Sports presenter penned an emotional social media post in which he thanked medics for saving his life.
The football pundit took to Twitter to share an image of himself lying in a hospital bed and hooked up to a drip.
Mr Keys, 60, can also be seen wearing an oxygen mask in the picture after undergoing surgery at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
The football pundit took to Twitter to welcome the new year and share a photograph of himself in a bed at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London
He wrote: ‘Emotional now & I’ll regret this tomorrow. Not a great year, mostly my fault – but this wasn’t. Thank you to everybody for saving my life & letting me see 2018. Let’s all have a happy & healthy New Year.’
He told his 267,000 followers: ‘Emotional now & I’ll regret this tomorrow. Not a great year, mostly my fault – but this wasn’t.
‘Thank you to everybody for saving my life & letting me see 2018. Let’s all have a happy & healthy New Year.’
The London-based hospital is a specialist heart and lung centre.
The pundit, who previously admitted behaving in a ‘prehistoric way’ towards women, moved to the Middle East after leaving his job at Sky Sports in disgrace after making sexist remarks
Keys (pictured left in 2008 and right in 2011) presented Sky Sports’ coverage of Premier League football for 19 years, before resigning from his £500,000-a-year job in disgrace in 2011
Keys, who works for beIN SPORTS in Qatar, presented Sky Sports’ coverage of Premier League football for 19 years, before resigning from his £500,000-a-year job in disgrace in 2011.
He and co-presenter Andy Gray had made disparaging off-air remarks about female match official Sian Massey, claiming she did not know the offside law.
In another studio conversation, which was filmed but not transmitted, Keys asked pundit Jamie Redknapp about a former girlfriend. The presenter asked him: ‘Did you smash it?’ – slang for: ‘Did you have sex with her?’
At the time, Sky Sports insiders revealed that Keys and Gray had been dubbed the ‘Axis of Evil’ by colleagues because of their abrasive style.
Keys then presented a Saturday football show on TalkSport radio, before being lured to Qatar.