I would give it all up to keep my perfect wife, says millionaire He insisted there was not going to be a divorce despite the apparent legal move by Mrs Sykes, 68, with whom he has two grown up daughters and who is currently in Barbados. He said: "We're not going to get divorced. Me and my wife will never part - we're a devoted family. My wife is Miss Perfect, and although we have separated and I'm living in a different house to my wife, we are meeting each other more often. There is no other woman living here with me. There's no one else involved. It's because I travel around a lot and am not very settled, and she wants to become more settled. It's to do more with different lifestyles. We met when we were both 22, when I was a tyre-fitter. I'm not of the stuffed-shirt brigade, I've come from ground zero. Although lawyers were involved at the beginning, things have stalled because I'm hoping we'll get back together. He insisted money was not an issue, saying: "We give all our money away to charity anyway, every penny will be given away eventually. We enjoy doing that. Mr Sykes has said previously that they had a very traditional marriage, and has described his wife as a Victorian. Mrs Sykes is said to have run the home, including ironing her husband's underpants. Mr Sykes has vowed not to leave any of his fortune to his children, except for buying them houses, to encourage them to make their own way in the world. He has explained previously: "If you give the money to the kids, it could interfere with their natural evolution. You have to let your children get on with it and not distort their lives with money. The couple pay an active part ion their community in Ripon, North Yorks, and their donations have helped save local schools, provide floodlights for Ripon Cathedral and restore Harrogate's Royal Hall, which led to the couple meeting Prince Charles in 2006. After Mr Sykes was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000, he donated money to build a £1.5million urology centre at St James's Hospital in Leeds. The son of a miner, Mr Sykes left school with no qualifications to become a tyre-fitter. He started dealing in car parts before branching out to sell second-hand buses and lorries for a profit to the Far East. By the age of 24, he was earning £3,000 a week and driving a Rolls-Royce. In the Seventies and Eighties he invested in shopping centres, building the massive Meadowhall near Sheffield. The property sold for £1.2billion in 1999, making him £280 million. In 2000 he created the Planet Online internet provider, and bought a £2million jet and a £3million yacht with a crew of five.