Life hasn't been a breeze for Burley. She dotes on 20-year-old Alexander but split with his father, football agent Steve Kutner, when her son was just a year old. She has been divorced twice but never married George Pascoe-Watson, who was the political editor of The Sun during their five-year relationship. She has hinted though, that he was her one big love, saying after their split in 2009: "Sometimes you feel as if the bits of your heart are scattered under the fridge and you have to gather them together again.''
She's obviously aware of her critics but they don't seem to have cut too deeply into her self-belief. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," she says.
She says: "If you're a good journalist, you ask the questions that people at home want to know the answers to. Sometimes it gets me into trouble."