Sara Cox prefers reading to partying these days.
Sara Cox
The 45-year-old star has recently been working on her new TV show 'Between The Covers', a book club for celebrities, and Sara has admitted she now prefers to sit down with a good book than attending a wild party.
The mum-of-three shared: "I’m a huge fan of reading.
"In the days before I had kids I used to take six books with me for a fortnight’s holiday. My suitcase used to be full of big trashy novels, maybe a bikini and some flip-flops. It was all I needed."
Sara turned to literature amid the coronavirus lockdown as a means of escaping the negativity of the news.
She said: "During the pandemic I’ve felt the need to turn away from the rolling news and the headlines and just escape into a different world.
"So instead of sitting in bed and scrolling through Instagram or spending too long doing my Ocado, I’m reading again.
"It’s really important to make the time to curl up and not look at a screen at night. Just to escape into a good book. I think it’s really good for your mental health – especially at the moment."
Sara also denied rumours of a rift between herself and her long-time showbiz pal Zoe Ball.
The presenter insisted they retain a strong bond, though she conceded that their lives have taken them in different directions in recent years.
She told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I always have to be careful what I say about Zoe because it always sounds like we’ve drifted apart, big drama, high hell and it’s just not.
"We’ve always supported each other, we just live quite far away from each other.
"We were friends and were out partying and then, you know, kids and life kind of happened. But it’s true that we text each other quite a lot now."