Emma Willis shares surprising secret to happy marriage with husband Matt, and sweet stories from their early dates

Emma Willis has been married to husband Matt for 18 years, tying the knot after four years of dating.

The couple share children Isabelle, 17, Ace, 14 and Trixie, 10. With their marriage still going strong after nearly two decades, and three children added to the mix, fans might want to know what their secret is.

There is one, and it's very simple - spending as much time together as possible. As Love is Blind season 3 approaches its release date on August 19, a show the couple host together, Emma has some thoughts.

"You'd think if you lived and worked together, you'd be like, 'Christ, I need a break,'" the presenter tells Closer.

She continues, "But we don't. We just absolutely love being with each other all the time."

Matt is in total agreement with his wife. "Of all the things I do, Love is Blind is my favourite, and it's mainly because I'm working with Emma," Matt shares.

He continues, "We get to do this really cool job together, and I'm with my best mate every day."

Filming the series also takes the couple to their "happy place," Ibiza. The retreat segment is filmed on the island, and it also happens to be somewhere Matt and Emma visit every year and is very special to them.

"We've been going there on and off for 20 years," Matt explains, with Emma continuing, "The island is like a second home."

She shares, "We go every year, so even when we're only there for a few days for work, we know exactly where we want to go and how to get there."

However, things weren't always plain sailing for the couple, who share sweet stories of their early dates together.

Matt reveals that he once tried to pick a really "posh restaurant" to impress Emma on one of their first dates. "I knew her as this glamorous woman who was a model and on MTV," Matt explains of why he chose an expensive place to eat.

But things went awry when Emma "couldn't eat anything on the menu because she didn't like any of it." Humorously, Matt adds, "I could've chosen somewhere cheaper!"

Revealing why she didn't like the restaurant, Emma says, "He didn't realise he was going out with someone from Birmingham who didn't care!"

The couple also had more serious problems to overcome when Emma supported Matt through issues with addiction. Once speaking to Rylan Clark on his How To Be In Love podcast, Matt says his relationship with Emma was the "anchor" in his recovery process.

“I always knew I had to [get clean] and I wanted to because I wanted her," he says, adding, "I wanted it for myself as well. I didn’t want to live that miserable, horrible, agonising life [of addiction] anymore."

Emma says, "I knew he was unwell but didn’t want to be unwell… I knew I would never leave him," sharing that therapy changed their relationship.

"People think if you go to couples’ therapy you must be [in trouble]," she says. Emma adds, "Actually, I’m glad we went when we went because it absolutely had a positive effect on our relationship… It’s about knowing how to communicate."