Kirstie Allsopp marries long-term partner Ben Andersen in Love Actually chapel
Allsopp and Andersen have been together for over 20 years and share two sons
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Kirstie Allsopp has married her long-term partner Ben Andersen in a surprise ceremony at Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair, the iconic church featured in Love Actually.
The TV presenter, 53, who had long described herself as āhappily unmarried,ā kept the wedding top secret, with guests reportedly only learning the details at the last minute, according to the Mail.
Allsopp and Andersen have been together for over 20 years and share two sons: Bay, who turns 20 this year, and Oscar, 17. Mr Andersen, a property developer, also has two children from a previous relationship.
Allsopp said in 2016: āI've been with my partner for 16 years and have two children and two stepchildren and, like many of my friends, we are very happily unmarried.
āI have no problem being a middle-aged girlfriend with an even older middle-aged boyfriend. And I have learnt from the very best, as we live next door to the most famous happily unmarried couple ā Richard Curtis and Emma Freud.ā
There was a nod to Love Actually director Curtis in the choice of the venue and also in the use of All You Need is Love by The Beatles, which was used in the 2003 film. Curtis had himself once said he wrote the nineties classic Four Weddings and a Funeral to help explain to his mother why he did not want to get married.
Guests had reportedly been told that they were going to be attending a surprise 64th birthday party for Mr Andersen - but really the surprise was on them. Allsopp walked down the aisle in a Oscar de la Renta dress while Mr Andersen wore a blue suit.
Grosvenor Chapel was also the venue used for a memorial service to her dad Charles, the 6th Baron Hindlip, who died last year aged 83.
Her children have been in the news before with Allsopp saying last year that she was contacted by social services for allowing Oscar to go on an interrailing trip.
Back in 2018, she told Jeremy Vine: āI smashed my kids' iPads, not in a violent way. I actually banged them on the table leg.
"There is a game called Fortnite and another PUBG and I decided... we had made all sorts of rules and all sorts of times when we said you can't play them and all those rules got broken and in the end I said: 'Right that is it, I have to physically (break them)."
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