Inside BBC Gardeners' World Adam Frost's life from illness to private wife

The BBC presenter has been on Gardeners' World for several years but has had some struggles outside of TV career

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Morning Live: Adam Frost talks about his illness

Gardeners' World star Adam Frost has been a friendly face on our screens for many years. Adam has become a firm favourite on the popular BBC show alongside Monty Don and is loved by fans for his gardening skills and award-winning work on the Chelsea Flower Show.

The 55-year-old TV presenter has loved the outdoors since he was a child and would spend a lot of time with his grandparents in their greenhouse.

The beloved horticultural expert has also appeared on The Alan Titchmarsh Show and The One Show and he has also had a lot of success away from the cameras, winning seven gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Beyond his TV career, the horticultural expert has also been struggling with a long-term condition that causes pain all over the body and has offered tips for others with the same illness. But what else do we know about his life including his home life?

Adam Frost tearful as he opens up on 20-year battle with devastating illness

Adam Frost opened up about his illness on BBC's Morning Live (Image: BBC)

Adam Frost got emotional as he opened up about his life-long illness that he has had for 20 years. Adam suffers from Fibromyalgia - a chronic condition that causes widespread pain and tenderness in the muscles and soft tissues throughout the body.

Before speaking with other patients suffering from the same illness, Adam explained on BBC's Morning Live where it all started for him.

He said: "For most of my life, I've considered myself pretty fit and healthy, regularly playing sports and, of course, spending lots of time in the garden.

"But around 20 years ago, I started to experience some unusual symptoms. I started to experience these very odd pains. They started in my neck, back, and shoulders, like this throbbing, and that then just moved through the rest of my body.

"On top of that, I wasn't sleeping very well. I'd go to work and come home, exhausted. For almost two years, I was sent from pillar to post as doctors struggled to identify what was causing me to be so unwell."

Despite feeling relieved when he finally got a diagnosis, Adam said it took another 12 months of "going on this journey of understanding to eventually getting some sort of treatment."

He continued: "Fibromyalgia is an incurable chronic pain condition affecting around 2.5 million people in the UK.

"It's often characterized as widespread pain, fatigue, and brain fog, but symptoms are changeable and can sometimes be mistaken for other conditions, which makes it a challenge to diagnose."

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Adam Frost's life outside of Gardeners' World

Adam Frost has been a friendly face on BBC Gardeners' World for many years (Image: PA)

Adam Frost is a British garden designer who is best known for his successful work at the Chelsea Flower Show - he's won seven gold medals - and appearances co-presenting BBC's Gardener's World.

After his debut at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2007, he has gardened for the likes of Land’s End, QVC, Honda, Volkswagen and even designed the Homebase garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013.

Adam is also an author and has released several books - Gardener’s World: How I Garden - a book full of "easy ideas and inspiration for making beautiful gardens anywhere"; RHS How to Create your Garden: Ideas and Advice for Transforming your Outdoor Space; RHS The Creative Gardener: Inspiration and Advice to Create the Space You Want; Real Gardens: Seven Amazing Chelsea Gold Medal-Winning Designs.

The landscaper also has his own garden design company called Adam Frost Design, based near his home in Stamford, Lincolnshire.

Who is Adam Frost married to?

Adam Frost with his wife Sulina (Image: adamfrostdesign/Instagram)

Adam Frost is currently married to Sulina Frost. The couple first met in the 1990s when she worked as a manager at John Lewis and married soon after.

They have four children together, namely Abi-Jade, Jacob, Amber-Lily, and Oakley. Sulina shares Adam's love of gardening and enjoys spending time with him in the garden.

The couple has been through a lot in their personal life, including a terrifying health scare and a big house move after assessing their lifestyle in lockdown.

In 2022, Adam was suffering from COVID-19, and his wife Sulina was ill in the hospital, where she developed sepsis. And then, his 15-year-old daughter was diagnosed with an eating disorder. "Her mum was in hospital and she ended up really poorly.

She ended up with an eating disorder, like a lot of 15-year-olds, she had friends going through it at school. So that took its toll," he explained.

Adam Frost's reason for moving home

Adam previously lived in an 18th-century farmhouse in Lincolnshire. But the family sold up in 2022 due to their health struggles.

Adam had been seen tending to the beautiful garden at Villa Farm on television in the five years prior, and while "it was great with the house and the garden", he said: "Actually, what we realised was that it was great when everybody was well."

Confirming that he'd recently moved during an appearance on Gardener's World, he added: "Like so many of us over the last couple of years, I had time to just stop and think. Probably, in reality for the first time since I was about 16 years old - and realised that my life is slightly chaotic.

“So as a family, we’ve just decided to scale back, so I can spend more time with them - but it does mean I’ve got a smaller garden."

Gardeners' World airs every Friday at 8pm on BBC Two.

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