Frank Lampard Dishes the Dirt on Wife Christine | Loose Women

I don't know where to start. I'll let you three start. No, you've been joking about it. You have been nervous this morning. I just feel it's been really odd saying your name all day. I know it sounds stupid, but anyway. I'm nervous too, actually. What is it like, now Christine's on the show, when you're sitting at home and you're watching her reveal personal stuff about how rubbish you are around the house, you don't have to go to the dishwasher? Well, obviously, I had my side of that, and I have been watching. Actually, she's been quite soft on it, I think. There could be a lot worse things you could say. Is it still time? Well, the flip side of what you just saw Christine say about me is that she is very fussy around the house. She's quite bored and uncompulsive, quite fussy, and God forbid I leave a plate in the sink for more than five seconds without putting it away. I think it's held off. I just don't get why you can't just... Anyway, we've gone through this. Oh, domestic! I'm going to ask you about retiring, because I've decided not to retire, to carry on working. I think for footballers, you're so young, one big chunk of your life to come to an end. Mentally, that must be really difficult to think, oh, now I haven't got that routine, I don't know what I'm doing every single Saturday. Definitely, yeah. First of all, I kept getting congratulated on retirement, which is not really that great at 38. It's not really something to congratulate on. But I think with football, where I'm at, I'm at a very good time to do it. I felt the end of my career coming, and I prefer to see it as the start of something else. And I think the problem for a lot of football players, particularly that have retired, is that they're so caught up in the dressing room world, and it's a real bubble that we live in, that it's quite scary to go, well, what do I do next? If you take the finances out of it... Frank, did you think... Before you stopped playing, before you officially announced your retirement, did you plan stuff? Yes, yeah, and that's probably where I'm lucky. I've always had a good upbringing, where my parents were always saying to me, football was a small career, a short career, and there's more to do. Having Christine and seeing this other world and having different ideas of what I wanted to do. So I started, probably from about 30 onwards, I understood the end would come and I started to think, what's next? Well, I've heard rumours of, sorry, the old Hollywood acting. Yeah, there's certainly rumours, yeah. I mean, you've seen my... Well, there was an acting, obviously. LAUGHTER Sorry, no, acting's not for me. No, they are just rumours. Well, they are, and you know what, I would love to get involved. I'm keeping options open, but maybe documentary stuff and some grittier sort of, maybe sport-lifey stuff, but in terms of the next, you know, James Bond or that, nowhere near, no. It was your fault, wasn't it, that that got out? I know, someone asked me and I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's going to be a big movie and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, there will be. It'll be really boring, imagine just filming us at home. Christine, what's it been like for you? Because it's also a big change for you that Frank's now retired. You've got him at home more. Messing up your kitchen sink! There's much more of that going on. But, yeah, no, that's exactly it, because he, with football, particularly with, say, England World Cups and things, he'd be away for six, seven weeks. And it's big chunks of the year, almost, and then not even just the chunks, like every weekend. We haven't really had a weekend in the almost eight years we've been together because of football, and that's just... We're loving it. We're not for one second complaining. It has. It's kind of almost like, well, let's enjoy this until something else takes over your time. So we've done a fairly good job of it so far. Oh, yeah. I actually feel like I'm coming between you here. It's really weird me sitting in the middle. But it's no danger. If you have prolonged periods apart, then the more you are together... ..she might go off you. LAUGHTER Yeah, you might, but you can see too much of each other, too. Well, maybe. We'll find that one out. But what I will say is that when I was away for six weeks at a time, we were actually a bit worse in that period. We were good being together, actually. When we're not together, we feel like we're not in each other's lives so much and we question each other a bit more. Yeah, I think we're probably better, which is obviously a good thing. But, yeah, I think so, because suddenly we are both busy, we've got our separate lives as well, and they can take over really quickly. So, actually, we did find we're much better when we're just... Well, Andy, what about the fitness? Because you will... I mean, you... Cos, in a way, you've had to do it. Now you've got to drive yourself. Will that be something that you will be quite... Fortunately, I love running and I like keeping fit. So it will definitely be a challenge to not have to do it every day, to sort of check what I'm eating and what I'm doing, cos I don't want to bloom. And I just want to kind of stay on top of myself. That's how I am, generally, anyway. So I'm going to try and do that. Discipline. I'm going to live a slightly different life, you know, and I'm going to be more relaxed, cos otherwise I'm quite intense on myself in my training. Yeah, he's very deeply professional, even after all these years. Like, it just... Everything's about training and football. Always has been, really. Yeah. But I'll enjoy it, Elaine, and I'll enjoy certain things at different times. It's a different life and I'll enjoy that. That's how I live.