Miranda Hart has shared the first details of her new husband after revealing she has secretly got married after ‘unexpectedly’ finding love at 49.
She has been Britain’s most single woman for more than 15 years known for her hilarious romantic mishaps and socially awkward encounters with eligible bachelors.
But it can now be confirmed that Miranda Hart this year secretly married a man she met during lockdown when he came to fix the mould in her £2million Hammersmith house.
Tongues were set wagging after she flashed a gold wedding ring on her Instagram last week and now the funny woman, 51, has confirmed she has in fact found the love of her life.
Miranda made the shock revelation in the final pages of her new memoir, I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You.
Referring to her new husband only as ‘The Boy from Bristol’ or ‘The Mould Man’, the comedian kept his identity a secret but gushed over how handsome he is with ‘fine features’ and ‘salt and pepper grey hair’.
Miranda Hart has shared the first details about her new husband after unexpectedly finding love with the ‘mould man’ as she describes him as her ‘best friend’ and ‘love of her life’ in new memoir
It can now be confirmed that the comedian this year secretly married a man she met during lockdown when he came to fix the mould in her £2million Hammersmith house (pictured on her sitcom)
She wrote: ‘I met my best friend and the love of my life who brings me more silliness, laughter, joy, support, care and safety than I thought possible in a person, because I lost my house due to mould illness and he was the building surveyor on the house remediation project.
‘Yes my love was Mr Mould Man/ My Mr Mould Man/ The Boy/ The Boy from Bristol/ The Boyfriend.
‘I haven’t been entirely honest with you, he’s not my boyfriend, he’s my husband. We got married when I was 51.’
Miranda explained her friends could not believe it when she first started dating him, due to the fact the UK was in lockdown and her house was crippled with damp issues.
She added: ‘Whenever I told any of my friends I had met someone, they all simply paused, confused and said how it’s not a high probability with housebound illness and a global pandemic for a knight in shining armour to appear on the doorstep but he did. To de-mould me…’’
Appearing on The One Show on Tuesday evening, Miranda couldn’t contain her happiness as she declared to hosts Alex Jones and Alex Scott, ‘someone’s put a ring on it’ as she revealed she met ‘my person’ at the age of 49.
‘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.’
She continued: ‘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.’
Referring to her new husband only as ‘The Boy from Bristol’ or ‘The Mould Man’, the comedian kept his identity a secret but gushed over how handsome he is with ‘fine features’ and ‘salt and pepper grey hair’ (pictured with her on-screen love interest on Miranda – Tom Ellis)
Miranda has never spoken publicly about her dating history and has always been believed to be single while in the public eye
Miranda has never spoken publicly about her dating history and has always been believed to be single while in the public eye.
Over the last few years, the comedian has not starred in as many roles and did not return to Call the Midwife due to a chronic, unnamed, illness, which she has now revealed is Lyme disease.
She revealed she was battling the bacterial infection spread by ticks, that can cause general flu-like symptoms, including fatigue, headache, swollen joints and a fever.
But she wrote in her book that she has returned to a place of joy and peace after ‘physically recovering in a way I never thought possible’ and meeting her now husband.
The pair started their romance through phone calls during the pandemic and enjoyed a first date in her living room sharing a plate of biscuits with, ‘No fear in how to partake in the ghastly first kiss lunge when we had to be two metres apart’.
He would take her on walks in the park, to a pottery class and trips down the coast to Dorset, where they visited Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door.
Miranda said she fell instantly for the ‘salt-and-pepper greying’ man as she explained: ‘I went on a date for the first time in… Doesn’t matter, moving on… truly a twist because one minute I’m grieving my diagnosis in a shed during a pandemic and the next I’m telling you I met a boy, worthy to consider an ‘appointment’ with.’
Discussing how she felt before their first date she continued: ‘However, having met The Boy once briefly, and having chatted to him a couple of times on the phone [very nineties of us], I was already pretty taken by him.
‘I therefore decided I was going to practise not hiding myself or any natural emotions. I was going to be vulnerable to forge as honest a connection as I could. As I opened the door to him, my heart was racing.’
The pair later enjoyed a romantic first holiday in Dorset, renting a cottage, and fell even more ‘hopelessly in love’ before he proposed.
Four years later in a moment that would have sent Miranda fans into a tailspin, the man popped the question to her while on a walk on a wooden bridge overlooking a lake in Kew Gardens in January.
Miranda said: ‘The Boyfriend suggested we go to Kew Gardens for a walk. It was a delightful potter and became rather magical when the sun started to break through grey clouds as we approached a wide, winding bridge across a lake.
Miranda also revealed she had been battling Lyme disease which had caused her to ‘gain weight’ over the past few years (pictured in 2015)
Miranda made the shock revelation in the final pages of her new memoir, I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You which is available from October 10
Four years later in a moment that would have sent Miranda fans into a tailspin, the man proposed to her while on a walk on a wooden bridge overlooking a lake in Kew Gardens in January (pictured on her sitcom)
‘I felt The Boyfriend squeeze my hand, which usually meant he was feeling emotional about the beauty of something.
‘That was true, but it turned out his heart was starting to race for another reason.
‘We stood still on the bridge overlooking the lake when the silence was pierced as he rather seriously said, “Miranda.” I turned around, and as I did, he got down on one knee.’
For her millions of fans it is a triumph as they spent six years watching her semi-autobiographical character in the BBC sitcom, Miranda, struggle to land a husband.
Praising him over not ‘giving a rat’s a**e [his words] about what I did for a living’, she wrote: ‘In fact, on any occasions, we did talk about my work, we would laugh about how little he had seen of it.
‘If a show with me popped up, he would switch off pretty quickly as he didn’t want to know the person on the TV. It was such a gift to have someone say it was the real me that they wanted to know and to be complimented on aspects of myself I might have forgotten.’
The Call the Midwife star detailed how they took a break because ‘We didn’t know whether it was the right time to become “Us”.
But they reunited and she wrote: ‘The Boy became The Boyfriend. And never did I think I could ever meet anyone who could be so genuinely perfect for me in every way.’
Miranda, who is thought to have a net worth of £5million, was flung into the spotlight when her 2009 series on the BBC starring Patricia Hodge, who plays her overbearing mother, became an overnight success.
For years, Brits tuned on a weekday to the comic’s series, laughing – and cringing – at her socially-awkward character’s search for love, which would see her go on some disastrous dates.
In real life the comic also joked about her unfortunate love life, saying: ‘I was very naïve sexually. My first boyfriend asked me to do missionary and I buggered off to Africa for six months.’
While publicising her autobiography last week she wrote: ‘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.’
It came after she revealed she had been battling the secret illness which had caused her to ‘gain weight’ over the past few years, which caused her to ‘feel shame’ for not feeling like herself.
The caption of the clip read: ‘I have found it incredibly hard not to feel shame from gaining weight over the last three years.
‘Not because of striving for an aesthetic ideal but because it doesn’t represent me and who I naturally am. But life happens. Illness happens.
‘And it’s a great way to keep focusing on the greatest healer – self-compassion. If I lose it or not I know I am loved. Peace out.’
I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You by Miranda Hart is available to buy from October 10
