Countryfile’s Matt Baker celebrates 20 years of marriage with wife Nicola on new show – after speaking out on debilitating health condition

Matt Baker and his wife Nicola Money celebrated 20 years of marriage as they appeared on Lorraine on Friday.

The TV presenter, 46, and his partner, who tied the knot in 2004, spoke with guest host Christine Lampard about their new Channel 4 show Our Farm Dream.

Matt said: ‘We don’t get to work together a lot we did the lockdown show in the dales but this is our first live TV interview together.’

The Countryfile star, who described their years together as a ‘fun adventure’ told the story of how the couple met. 

He said: ‘When we met I was a gymnast in a 1970’s re-enactment group, disco inferno it was called, I used to wear wigs so you would never know it was me. Nicola was working up in a club in Cleethorpes where we played so that’s how we met.’ 

Nicola added: ‘When I met Matt as a teenager was when I fell in love with the farm and the countrysie and that way of life. Before that I had no experience of it.’ 

It comes after Matt recently spoke out on a debilitating health condition which is affecting his life.

The television host is no longer ‘able to bend forward’ after a back injury which he sustained during his pantomime run.

Matt spoke to Gabby Logan on the Mid Point podcast about he health problem that has been bothering him.

He said he sustained a painful ‘slipped disc’ which rehearsing for his pantomime.

When Gabby asked Matt – who was once a gymnast – if he was still able to do backflips, he said: ‘No, I can’t now. I’ve injured my back. 

‘I can’t tell you how upsetting it is as an ex-gymnast, not to be able to bend forward.’

He went on to explain how the injury came about, saying he had a mishap during rehearsals. 

Matt explained: ‘I did my back in. I was doing a panto. I was doing Goldilocks and the Three Bears and we were practising with the stunt chairs, and the chair wasn’t set correctly and bang! 

‘I went down on my coccyx and it turns out I slipped a disc in my back.’

Matt attempted to recover through training and rehab but now has injections to manage the pain.

Referring to his wife Nicola Baker, Gabby pointed out that he lives with a physiotherapist.

He responded: ‘I know, exactly – so we tried all that. Went for the nerve block [injection]..’