Miranda Hart has revealed she broke up with her husband before his romantic proposal in Kew Gardens.
The comedian surprised fans this week when she announced she was married at the age of 51, but has now admitted her relationship has had its challenges.
In her new book I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You, Miranda confessed that she ‘briefly’ broke up from her husband after believing that her ‘hope for finding love was very, very slim.’
‘I admitted that I was longing for love within a romantic relationship too, for that one person who truly got me, but my hope for that was very, very slim,’ she admitted.
But even after meeting her building surveyor husband when he came to fix a mould problem in her £2million home, Miranda took a step back from commitment, before deciding: ‘I didn’t need to run away.’
Miranda Hart has revealed she broke up with her husband before his romantic proposal in Kew Gardens (pictured showing off her wedding ring on The One Show on Tuesday night)
‘I had been vulnerable, yet I felt dignified. I had shown him the silliest me, the irritable me, the farting me, the no-make-up me, the teary me, the deep me. I trusted fulled that he was there because he liked me.’
The real-life Bridget Jones revealed on the One Show on Tuesday night that she married the building surveyor this year at the age of 51 after he proposed in Kew Gardens, West London.
The comedian has gone to lengths not to reveal his identity, referring to him in her new book I Haven’t Been Completely Honest With You as simply ‘The Boy’ or ‘The Mould Man’.
The man, who she met when he came to fix a mould problem in her £2million home, is described as ‘salt-and-pepper greying hair look on a fine featured man’.
The comedian first announced the news that she is married live on The One Show on Tuesday night after a flurry of rumours.
Speaking to Alex Jones and Alex Scott about her mystery husband, Miranda, 51, declared ‘someone’s put a ring on it’ as she revealed she met ‘my person’ at the age of 49.
Going into detail in her memoir about how he popped the question, the actress explained that her boyfriend suggested the couple go to the gardens for a walk on an ‘ordinary January day’.
She wrote: ‘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. ‘Miranda…’
‘I don’t remember anything else because I simply burst out out crying, apparently saying yes before he had finished the sentence (awkward if he’d been tying a shoelace…)’
She emotionally penned: ‘I didn’t think a traditional proposal would affect me so.
‘But there was someone knowing all my ridiculousness and brokenness and still willing to bend down, lookup and commit to loving me and standing by me for the rest of his life.’
Miranda later described her husband as kind, loving, and really fun,’ before dramatically writing: ‘He’s not my boyfriend. He’s my husband. We got married when I was fifty-one.’
During her exciting announcement on The One Show, she gushed: ‘I’m married, I got married at 51 and it’s just so lovely!’
‘I’d written Gary [Tom Ellis] for onscreen Miranda and it wasn’t until I was 49 that I met my person,’ she declared, but insisted she would keep her husband’s identity a secret.
‘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.’
The star added that she hoped readers of her book will feel hope from her love story, explaining; ‘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.’
