Breakfast TV’s divorce expert, Vanessa Lloyd Platt of GMTV fame was arrested on Friday by police over supposedly false claims that her husband has been trying to poison her.

Platt is a member of the GMTV team, and also appears on Richard & Judy offering divorce advice for viewers. She had made claims that her husband Daniel had been trying to kill her by poisoning her food.

She made the allegations against her husband last year, causing the police to investigate her husband and search for evidence in their £1.5 million Barnet home. However they found nothing, and Vanessa was arrested on Friday for attempting to pervert the course of justice. Vanessa has previously been divorced twice herself, and is a mother of two.

The police stated:

She alleges Daniel made comments about being a very good chemist who was able to poison her without anyone finding out. But when we looked at her story we had concerns.

According to Vanessa’s lawyer she insists she is innocent of the charges.

Vanessa split from her husband of seventeen years, Daniel Lloyd Platt, three months ago. She is also a divorce lawyer with her own firm, and has represented a series of celebrities in their divorces, including Les Dennis and Anne Diamond.