Richard Keys’s wife begs him to stop ‘constant lies’ over affair
THE estranged wife of cheating Richard Keys begged him last night to stop the “constant lies” over his affair with a lawyer half his age.
Heartbroken Julia Keys spoke out as it emerged the ex-Sky Sports host, 60, asked for a reconciliation just days before being snapped on a beach with lover Lucie Rose, 30.
He texted Julia, 57, from the Middle East, where he presents a football show, on December 20: “I do love you. I want to be with you Julia.
“No one will be here in the New Year — or at Xmas. I wish you would be. Please come. We can fix things.”
Yesterday The Sun revealed Lucie had joined him for New Year.
Yet only the day before, Keys wrote to Julia: “Be assured please that I love you.”
Julia told The Sun on Sunday: “I’m absolutely sick and tired of the constant lies.
“This has been going on for nearly two years now and it’s got to stop. Why can’t he just admit the truth. What is stopping him from coming clean?
“He can’t carry on this game that’s so cruel to his family.”
Keys left his £½m-a-year Sky job in 2011 over sexist comments and now works for Qatar TV.
His pleas to Julia kicked off on December 6, a day after a financial hearing ahead of a divorce.
He wrote: “I realised again when I saw you yesterday how much I love you and need you.
“If you’re ready to take me back, I’m happy to come back. I’ll put the love back. I’ll make the money back.”
A week later he messaged: “Just tell me the door isn’t closed and I can try to win your heart again.”
On December 18, Keys promised: “I’ll finish it and come back and make it right. I can’t spell it out any more clearly. Just tell me we’ll give it a go.”
On New Year’s Eve — after Lucie had joined him at his luxury villa in capital Doha — he texted Julia: “Whatever else you do to me you can’t stop me loving you. And I do. I always have. I always will.”
Later that evening he tweeted a photo of himself in hospital recovering from a life-saving heart op he had secretly in June after nurse Julia had pestered him to see someone about his blood pressure.
On Thursday he was spotted holding hands with Lucie on a romantic stroll.
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Julia, of Ascot, Berks, said she was making his texts public as she hoped “to bring closure to this whole thing”.
She added: “It’s time for him to drop the facade. I want him to be happy too, so just come clean and let’s move on.”
Keys has always denied cheating on Julia, who has also been fighting thyroid cancer.