met her husband Karl Beattie filming a show when he was expecting “a vet” to turn up. The pair were making the City Hospital documentary series with a segment about canines helping people cope with illness. Yvette, 55, explained: "On one show in 1998, I was presenting an item about how dogs can help people with illness and disabilities - it was this that led to me meeting Karl properly for the first time.
"'They’ve got a patient leaving today and they’re being given a dog to help them cope', the director told Karl, who was the cameraman. 'You’ll be doing this item with Yvette'. "What Karl heard was: 'You’ll be doing this item with a vet.
' So he was waiting for a professional vet to arrive when I went to him and asked, 'Right, where shall I stand?' 'Don’t we have to wait for the vet to come?’ he asked. 'No. I’m Yvette.
' And that was our first introduction. "He knew who I was because he’d watched me on Blue Peter and had worked on What’s Up Doc? He just hadn’t put two-and-two together that I would be presenting." The couple quickly fell in love and would go on to create their ghost-hunting series Most Haunted Together.
In her new memoir Scream Queen, she added: "I remember looking at him and thinking, 'That is the most handsome, sexiest man I have ever seen in my life.' I’d fallen in love immediately. If I could have had a poster of him on my bedroom wall, I would.
" "I approached the production team to ask if they could always make sure Karl Beattie wa.
