After turning down two of the broadcaster’s proposals, Richard Curtis has finally married his partner Emma Freud after spending 33 years with her.
Richard Curtis has finally married his partner Emma Freud after spending 33 years with the broadcaster.
The 66-year-old ‘Love Actually’ and ‘Notting Hill’ maker’s secret wedding was only revealed as Emma, 61, let the news slip at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in Gloucestershire on Saturday (14.10.23) while she was interviewing actor Richard E Grant, 66.
Richard was also pictured at the event with a gold ring on his wedding finger, with which he kept fiddling according to guests.
One onlooker told The Sun: “Emma confessed she had finally got hitched while interviewing Richard E Grant. She said they’d been married for four weeks.”
They added it was clear she wasn’t meant to have said anything, as she apparently put her finger to her lips and made a “funny noise which made everyone laugh” after mentioning she and Richard were married.
The source said: “It’s not surprising Emma wanted to talk about it though.
“They’ve been together for over 30 years so it was about time they got married.”
She was said to have tried to change the subject but it was “the talk of the festival”.
Emma has previously twice proposed to Richard twice – but neither attempt was successful as he refused the first time around and slept through the second.
Richard also revealed at the festival he would never include “fat” jokes in his films again and regretted they were not more diverse.
He made the admissions while being quizzed on stage by his daughter Scarlett, 28, about criticisms he has received over the years that the casts of his rom-coms have been almost exclusively white.
Scarlett raised the lack of diversity in his 1999 film ‘Notting Hill’, despite it being set in one of London’s most multicultural areas.
Richard said: “I wish I’d been ahead of the curve. I think because I came from a very un-diverse school and bunch of university friends, I think that I hung on to the feeling that I wouldn’t know how to write those parts.
“I think I was just stupid and wrong about that.
“I felt as though me, my casting director, my producers just didn’t look outwards.”
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