Miranda Hart is married! 'Thrilled' TV star, 51, announces she's tied the knot with 'best friend'
Miranda Hart has revealed that she secretly got married. The actress and comedian announced the happy news as she called her husband her "best friend" and gushed that "someone put a ring on it" after years of being “housebound with chronic illness”. The 51-year-old, who starred in her self-titled TV sitcom from 2009 until 2015, excitedly showed off her wedding ring to The One Show hosts Alex Jones and Alex Scott on Tuesday evening while discussing her new book, I Haven't Been Entirely Honest With You, in which she writes about her mystery husband.
She happily said: "I'm married, I got married at 51 and it's just so lovely! I'd written Gary for onscreen Miranda and it wasn't until I was 49 that I met my person. It's a little undercurrent in the book, I'm not going to reveal how we met because that's a little bit of a twist. He's my best friend, we had the best fun and I'm just thrilled to be a young bride at 51."
She continued to talk about finding love after a tough time with her health as she said: "The fact that I met someone during a pandemic, during chronic illness, when I couldn't get out of bed or out of the house... I really, really wanted to meet someone, I didn't want to do life on my own anymore.
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"The fact that I could meet somebody, it's not some some of romcom story but it's hope. Whatever situation you are in, there is always hope, things really do change."
Miranda touched upon her health battles last week when she announced her book was on the way. She wrote on Instagram: "Big news – book out in a week. I share lots of stories of my last decade – mainly what I have learnt living with chronic illness – but there's lots of fun and some of my own big news."
After her exciting announcement, The One show tweeted: "Lovely news! Congratulations to @mermhart who has revealed that she recently got married."
One fan wrote: " This makes me so happy!! i love miranda hart so much." Another said: "WHAT?!!! Normally I don’t give a sh!t if a celeb announces that they’re getting married/having a child but, seeing a woman who’s show and attitude have helped me through the darkest of times, happy, is wonderful to say the least! #MirandaHart #Congratulations."
Others gushed: "Miranda Hart got married and that makes me so happy" and: "sobbing Miranda hart my fave is married I’m so happy for her omg!!! she deserves the world what an inspiration she is."
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After announcing the news on the BBC chat show, Miranda said she found her fans’ delight over news “really very touching”.
Posting a video on X, formerly Twitter, she said: “I’ve got my best friend to do life with and it’s wonderful and I’m also utterly thrilled to be back in telly land and having a book out so thanks so much for all your support.”
She ended the video high-fiving her husband, which she joked was an “exclusive”.
