Steven Bartlett

I've been married since 1992.

I'm still married to the person who it was announced that I was marrying.

A Polish, he was then a journalist.

And now he's the Polish foreign minister.

We got married in Washington, but he was born in Poland.

It's a long story, but anyway.

That was a long time ago.

I mean, it would be hard to deny that, yeah.

Yes.

I mean, actually it became more stressful in more recent years.

I mean, social media made it more stressful than it used to be.

The stressful part is living a part of your life in public.

We try to...

not live all of our lives in public.

This has been very useful to me as a journalist, actually.

You begin to understand the difference between what you look like in public and what your reality is.

So people react to you in all kinds of ways, depending on where they've seen you on TV or what stories they've read about you, some of which might not be true.

And there's often a kind of, you know that the way you're perceived is not necessarily the way you are.

And so I try to keep that in mind when I meet public figures.

You know, that I have a set of perceptions of them based on what I've read about them, which I wouldn't have if I met, I don't know, somebody introduces me to the next door neighbor.