She has made a name for herself as the terminally single middle-aged woman, constantly searching but never able to land a husband.
But it looks like Miranda Hart may have found love at the tender age of 51.
In the publicity for her new book, I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You, the comedic actress jokes in her inimitable style that ‘I couldn’t tell if there’s a love story in it… (There is – silence) Exciting.’
Hart also appears to be wearing a wedding ring in recent videos and snaps posted to Instagram, where he has one million followers.
There has been talk of whether she has gotten married, and locals near her west London home have spotted her with a mystery man. But there was no sign of the couple at their £2million home in Hammersmith yesterday.
The much-loved Mrs Hart catapulted to fame with her eponymous BBC comedy in 2009, in which her fictional mother Penny exclaims: “How funny!” every time she thinks her daughter is about to get a boyfriend. Follow her quest to find “the perfect man” and her flirtation with Chef Gary.
Miranda Hart is wearing what appears to be a wedding ring on her right hand… but is she trying to throw us off by not wearing it on her left?
Miranda Hart as Miranda and Tom Ellis as Gary in the show’s third season.
Miranda photographed in a wedding dress in one of the episodes of her hit comedy
Hart, who played Nurse Chummy in Call The Midwife and Miss Bates in Emma, revealed over the summer that she had been battling a chronic illness for three years.
Last week he wrote online: ‘Big news: book in a week. I share a lot of stories from my last decade, mainly what I learned living with chronic illness, but there’s also a lot of fun and some of my big news.’
And in an Amazon ad for the book, out Thursday, Hart writes that he has had an “unexpectedly difficult decade: There have been surprising joys, but also profound revelations and difficult moments.” I’ll be honest about it, because what I discovered in the tough times were my, what I call, treasures.
‘Treasures: practical tools, values, ways and answers researched by some great scientists, neuroscientists, therapists, sociologists (all the ‘ists’) that have truly led me to a sense of freedom, joy, peace and physical recovery that I would never have believed possible.
‘Life now, surprisingly, with what I will share, is very funny (it is always important to quote your own catchphrases)! If you feel like reading, I hope my story can help you. After all, we are in this beautiful, mysterious and challenging life together.”
The comedian, whose father was the commander of the HMS Coventry, sunk in Argentina in 1982, had previously joked about her love life, saying: “I was very sexually naive. My first boyfriend asked me to be a missionary and I went to Africa for six months.
Miranda Hart at the premiere of the film ‘Spy’ in London in 2015
The cover of Miranda’s new book ‘I have not been entirely honest with you’
Miranda Hart at the ‘Annie’ press night in London in June 2015
In a video promoting the book in August, he revealed that he had been battling a secret illness that had caused him to “gain weight” in recent years.
The comedian said she has “felt shame” about gaining weight, not because she is striving for an “aesthetic ideal” but because she doesn’t feel like herself.
Miranda told her fans that she had been diagnosed with an “illness,” but did not reveal what she was suffering from.
In the video, Miranda said that she has worked hard to eliminate negative feelings about her body.
The caption of the clip read: “I’ve found it incredibly difficult not to feel ashamed about gaining weight over the last three years.”
‘Not because I strive for an aesthetic ideal but because it doesn’t represent me or who I naturally am. But life happens. Illness happens.
‘And it’s a great way to continue focusing on the best healer: self-compassion. Whether I lose it or not, I know I am loved. Peace.’
The TV star, wearing a T-shirt with the word Proud, held up his book and joked that he had “lost all the weight accumulated in middle age.”
She whispered, “I haven’t,” before pointing to the title of her new memoir.
Miranda and Gary in episode three of the third season of the hit comedy show.
The comedian stated that she has ‘felt ashamed’ for having gained weight, not because she is fighting for an ‘aesthetic ideal’ but because she does not feel like herself.
Miranda Hart photographed during the filming of the Graham Norton Show
Miranda told her fans that she had been diagnosed with an ‘illness’ but did not reveal what she was suffering from.
Miranda continued: “But can I say that I’m actually very proud of the fact that I’ve dismantled a lot of shame about my weight gain, not because I don’t think being bigger is beautiful, but because it’s not entirely me and I I feel very uncomfortable and it is one of the things I talk about there.
She explained further in the caption of the post, writing, “I’ve found it incredibly difficult not to feel ashamed about gaining weight over the past three years.”
‘Not because I strive for an aesthetic ideal but because it doesn’t represent me or who I naturally am.
‘But life happens. Illness happens. And it’s a great way to continue focusing on the best healer: self-compassion. Whether I lose it or not, I know I am loved. Peace.’
Miranda’s fans flooded her comments section with messages of support after she spoke candidly about both her illness and her weight gain.
They said: ‘Weight gain is a terribly misunderstood topic and people can be terribly critical. Learning to accept yourself is a very good starting point. I can’t wait to read the book!’; ‘I’m 40 and the last three years have been a weight gain nightmare, no matter what I do. THANK YOU for being real here.’
‘You have achieved all these wonderful things in life because of who you are, not because of what size clothes you have. You have a lot of love around you.’
