‘I know that’s going to be challenging’: Susanna Reid admits she ‘s apprehensive about the day sons Sam, 20, Finn, 18, and Jack, 17, finally leave home because she’s used to having ‘a close-knit family’

Susanna Reid admits she worries about the prospect of living in an empty house when her three sons finally leave home.

The Good Morning Britain presenter, 52, shares sons Sam, 20, Finn, 18, and Jack, 17, with her former partner, sports journalist Dominic Cotton, 55.

The couple ended their 16-year relationship in 2014, and Susanna – who was last known to be in a relationship with Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish, 57 – admits she’s apprehensive about her boys flying the roost.

While detailing her daily routine, Susanna wrote in The Sunday Times Magazine: ‘My mornings are intense with the adrenaline of live news, so switching off is hard.

‘I’m perfectly happy with my own company – I talk to people all day, I have a terrific team and I love my close-knit family. When the boys leave home, I know that’s going to be challenging.

The couple were wed on the Theros in 2016, according to Ms Packwood’s personal blog, a year after meeting at a bus stop in London. Mr Clibbery has been described as an experienced sailor and mechanic.

Ms Packwood, from Long Itchington, Warwickshire, was in the process of donating a kidney to her sister, Glory, the Vancouver Sun reported.

They later held a ‘handfasting’ Celtic ceremony at Stonehenge in April 2017, posting a video of the encounter on their YouTube channel.

Their trip to the Azores was meant to be the first fully ‘green’ journey on Theros after removing its diesel engine in favour of wind and solar power.

Posting a tribute on social media, Mr Clibbery’s son James said his father and his wife were ‘amazing people’.

He said: ‘The past few days have been very hard. My father James Brett Clibbery, and his wife, Sarah Justine Packwood have regrettably passed away.

‘I am so very sorry to the people who were friends of them.

‘They were amazing people, and there isn’t anything that will fill the hole that has been left by their, so far unexplained passing.

‘Living will not be the same without your wisdom, and your wife was quickly becoming a beacon of knowledge, and kindness.

‘I miss your smiles. I miss your voices. You will be forever missed.’

Tim O’Connor and John Dolman, friends of the couple, told the Times Colonist the pair ‘loved to travel and meet new people’.

Mr Dolman said: ‘She called him “captain” and called herself the “carpenter’s apprentice”.

‘They were in love. They passed away doing the thing that they loved. Their adventure continues on the other side.’