Richard Wilkins denies split with partner Virginia Burmeister
Insiders have revealed there’s ongoing tensions between Richard ‘Dickie” Wilkins and his partner of three years Virginia Burmeister. However the Nine TV host, who was sidelined from the Today show, has shut down the rumours.
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Richard Wilkins stepped out with his partner of three years Virginia Burmeister at the Australian Open on Saturday and scotched talk the couple’s three-year relationship is over.
Wilkins, responding to break-up rumours via text, told Sunday Confidential he was with Burmeister an hour before she posted a photograph of the couple.
The public appearance comes as sources close to Wilkins — who in December was sidelined from Nine’s embattled breakfast show Today after almost three decades — claim the couple’s relationship has recently been tested by a series of heated arguments over Wilkins’ reluctance to tip his hard-earned cash into Burmeister’s property in the south of France.
Just months after it was reported, Wilkins — who has five children to four women — was planning a fourth trip down the aisle with the former Le Lido Paris dancer and mother-of-two, sources said the couple’s relationship is showing signs it could be on its last legs.
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Burmeister, 52, left wealthy Morgan and Stanley investment banker Mark Burmeister, with whom she has children Ciel and Blaise, in 2017, and fell for Wilkins, 65, after corresponding with the famous ladies man and TV entertainment reporter via Twitter as reported by Sunday Telegraph columnist Annette Sharp in February that year.
By October 2017 Wilkins and Burmeister were stepping out as a couple. A month earlier Burmeister had been in residence at the family retreat in France while Wilkins was partying nearby as a guest of Aussie Home Loans founder John Symond at his lavish 70th birthday party on board his $150 million super yacht Hansa, off Monaco.
Within weeks Wilkins and the statuesque Burmeister were a red carpet fixture at Nine events and in December 2018 were among guests at Wilkins’ wingmate Karl Stefanovic’s Mexican wedding to model turned shoe designer Jasmine Yarbrough.
Burmeister is known for flashing her flesh on the red carpet. Photographs of a shirtless Wilkins and Burmeister stumbling around Nikki Beach in Saint Tropez in July 2019 suggested the pair were made for each other with friends saying that in Burmeister Wilkins had found his perfect match.