Lisa Wilkinson reveals her mother took 25 YEARS to approve of her marriage to Peter FitzSimons

She has been married to journalist and broadcaster Peter FitzSimons for almost three decades.

But Lisa Wilkinson revealed on Thursday it had taken her late mother, Beryl, 25 years to approve of the relationship.

‘My mum was not a believer in Pete. It took many years. She thought we got married too quickly,’ the Project host, 60, told The Australian Women’s Weekly.

‘She’s always acknowledged Pete’s extraordinary generosity towards her but a few times she told him she was unconvinced we were right for each other.’

Peter, 58, added dryly: ‘I think by the time of our 25th wedding anniversary she had really come to the conclusion that I was a stayer.’

Beryl died of cancer in 2018, at the age of 89.

Lisa and Peter, a former rugby union player-turned-journalist, married in 1992 after nine months of dating.

They share three adult children together, Jake, 25, Louis, 23 and Billi, 21.

In 2017, Lisa told 9Honey that the key to her successful marriage was focusing on the things they liked about each other.

But the former Cleo editor admitted to losing her cool on occasion when one of Peter’s signature red bandannas ruined her clothes in the wash.

‘You just work out the things you love about someone and you work out the things that absolutely give you the s**ts about someone… and you ignore those. You just have to,’ she said.

The couple now have an empty home after their grown-up children moved out, but the kids still visit Lisa and Peter regularly.