Bake Off winner Candice Brown has split from husband Liam Macauley after two years of marriage

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Bake Off star Candice Brown has split from her husband Liam Macauley after two years.

The 35 year old star, who won the seventh series of the popular baking show, married tree surgeon Liam in 2018, but it has now been confirmed that the pair have gone their separate ways.

Her agent told the Mirror: “I can confirm Candice and Liam separated earlier this year."

Candice first met Liam in 2012, in the bar he was working in while studying for a degree.

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They then announced their engagement in October 2017 after five years of dating, with Liam proposing at the Black Horse restaurant in Bedfordshire where they’d had their first date.

Their wedding took place at Château de Varennes in Burgundy, France, and Candice gushed on Twitter at the time: “Got married, didn't we?

“The congratulations & love we have received is incredible! Thank you so much for all your kind words!

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“I keep bursting into tears (of complete overwhelming happiness & joy) – to anyone posting negative comments – I hope one day you experience the love and happiness we have #wife.”

Liam has now reportedly moved out of the pub – The Green Man in Eversholt, Milton Keynes – where they lived together, and has gone back to live in Bedfordshire.

Candice opened The Green Man pub in 2019, following her Great British Bake Off win.

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The chic establishment serves up seasonal and local produce and food is headed up by head chef Andrew Finlayson with desserts designed by Candice.

The TV star’s split from her husband comes just months after she opened up on her battle with depression in which she sought group therapy.

The star told The Sun: “I suffer with clinical depression, chronic phobia and PTSD.

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“It’s hard and people don’t realise, it’s a real battle. People might be like ‘Oh she’s jumping on the bandwagon’ but they’ve got no idea what has been going on in my brain for the past five or six years."

“It’s been s***, sometimes I get angry and it’s probably going to be with me forever. When it got really bad, baking was what I would do.”

Candice spoke to her friend, former The Saturday’s singer Frankie Bridge about her condition on her Open Mind podcast, revealing she’d tried several kinds of medication to help.

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She said: “I’m on medication, I have been for five years, various different ones.

"At its worst I was being dragged out of bed by my feet and the duvet being shut in the bathroom, so there was nothing on the bed, so I had to get up."

“Go to work, you have to get up. Those were the really bad days. I had not very nice thoughts of how I could get out of it.”

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