MIRANDA Hart has secretly got married to a man who she met when he removed mould from her house.
The BBC comedian bonded with him in 2020 and tied the knot in the summer.
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Miranda, 51, reveals the news in her new book I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You, but does not name her new husband.
After telling the story of how they met, she writes: “He’s not my boyfriend. He’s my husband.
“We got married when I was fifty-one.”
It comes 15 years after the launch of her BBC sitcom Miranda, which featured a long-running joke about her mum being desperate for her to get hitched.
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The star got engaged in January during a visit to Kew Gardens in West London after realising she and her new partner had “fallen hopelessly in love with each other.”
She recalls: “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 crying, apparently saying yes before he had finished the sentence (awkward if he’d been tying a shoelace…).
“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, look up and commit to loving me and standing by me for the rest of his life.”
In the book she reveals she has been fighting a debilitating battle with Lyme disease, which was worsened by mould found at her home days before the first lockdown in 2020.
It meant she was forced to move out of the property in Hampshire, before the spores were removed by a project manager, who later became her husband.
She reveals they grew closer during socially distanced dates over cups of tea as lockdown eased.