Instagram post sparks speculation Trinny Woodall has split with Charles Saatchi
Trinny Woodall prompted speculation that she has split from Charles Saatchi after announcing that she had moved house and begun “a new life”.
The beauty entrepreneur and former presenter of What Not To Wear shared the news with her 1.2 million Instagram followers.
She gave her audience a glimpse of her new home last week in a post with the Nina Simone-inspired caption: “It’s a new day, it’s a new dawn, it’s a new life…”
In a subsequent post over the weekend, Woodall, 59, said that she and her teenage daughter, Lyla, were enjoying a holiday at the French ski resort where she has holidayed for decades.
She shared an image of the view over the mountains and said: “I have looked out at this view for the last 30 years of my life. It’s the one consistent view I have ever had.
“Recently, with the big life change and moving house, it was important for me to come back here with Lyla and family just to have that moment, listen to the birds, be at one with nature. Very healing.”
Woodall began dating Saatchi in 2013 following his divorce from Nigella Lawson.
Her publicist did not return a request for comment. A spokesman for Saatchi, 79, said he did not wish to comment.
Woodall regularly posts on social media to promote her beauty brand, Trinny London, but rarely discusses her relationship with Saatchi.
However, in an interview with The Telegraph in 2021, she spoke of her frustration at suggestions that the multi-millionaire businessman and art collector bankrolled her activities.
“It’s the furthest from the truth,” she said. “Any friend who’s known me for years will know I’m the most self-sufficient person they’ve ever met.
“I know how hard I work. I know I pay for every single thing in my life, apart from the roof over my head because I live with Charles.
“Every single thing I pay for and every element of what I put against business expenses I’m careful of.”
At that time, Woodall said she was “very content” with Saatchi.
The relationship attracted comment because Saatchi’s divorce from Lawson followed an incident outside a Mayfair restaurant in which he was photographed with his hand around his wife’s throat.
Saatchi described it as a “playful tiff” and denied that he was “gripping, strangling or throttling her”.
Lawson, giving evidence in court during the fraud trial of her two former personal assistants, claimed that Saatchi had grabbed her by the throat after she remarked that she would love to have grandchildren one day, telling her: “I am the only person you should be concerned with.”
