Miranda Hart confirmed she is married, announcing the news live on The One Show on Tuesday night after a flurry of rumours.
The comedian appeared on the BBC show to promote her new book I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You, in which she writes about her mysterious new husband.
Speaking to Alex Jones and Alex Scott, Miranda, 51, declared that “someone has put a ring on her” and revealed that she met “my person” at the age of 49.
‘I’m married, I got married at 51 and it’s so lovely! I had written Gary for Miranda on screen and it wasn’t until I was 49 that I met my person.’
The star first opened up about the new man in her life during the publicity for her memoir, joking in her inimitable style that she ‘couldn’t tell if there’s a love story in it… (There is – silence) Exciting.’
Miranda has been seen wearing a wedding ring in recent videos and snaps posted to Instagram.
Miranda catapulted to fame with her eponymous BBC comedy in 2009. It follows her quest to find “the perfect man” and her flirtation with chef Gary.
She has also been seen wearing a wedding ring in recent videos and snaps posted to Instagram, where she has a million followers, while locals near her £2million home in west London have spotted her with a mystery man .
Miranda rose to fame with her 2009 BBC comedy of the same name, 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.
The actress, who played Nurse Chummy in Call The Midwife and Miss Bates in Emma, revealed over the summer that she has 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, he 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.
Miranda photographed in a wedding dress in one of the episodes of her hit comedy
‘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 HMS Coventry, sunk by Argentina in 1982, 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’
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.
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 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.’