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Kirstie Allsopp gets married at famous movie location

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January 27, 2025

Kirstie Allsopp gets married at famous movie location

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Kirstie Allsopp has tied the knot with actual property entrepreneur Ben Andersen after greater than twenty years collectively.

The couple, who’ve been collectively since 2004 and share sons Oscar Hercules and Bay Atlas, bought married on the Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair on Thursday (23 January) – the situation of the Love Really wedding ceremony between Keira Knightley’s Juliet and Chiwetel Ejofor’s Peter.

The Location Location Location presenter, 53, shared an image of her and Andersen on Instagram, writing: “It’s an enormous privilege listening to your son give a speech at your wedding ceremony, which is one motive Ben and I are trying so cheery on this image…

“I share an incredible deal on right here and so recognize all the type and fascinating feedback, however I felt our wedding ceremony ought to be personal, and fortuitously on the day it was. Sadly it turned out that there was an unseen pap, so I’ve launched a few our personal footage.”

She then thanked the individuals who helped her make her day so particular, earlier than concluding: “To marry in the identical church that my dad and mom and grandparents married was all the time my hope and fortuitously I already know that we did stay fortunately ever after.”

The Location Location Location presenter, 53, informed The Mail on Sunday she had saved the marriage a secret, solely telling company about it three days beforehand.

She mentioned that the 70 company had initially been informed they had been attending Andersen’s sixty fourth birthday.

In one other nod to the 2003 romcom Love Really – made by Allsopp’s neighbour Richard Curtis – the service included Beatles hit “All You Want Is Love”.

Allsopp and Andersen in 2013 (Shutterstock)

Final 12 months, Allsopp’s father’s funeral was held in the identical church. Her father, Charles, was the previous chairman of Christie’s auctioneers and the sixth Baron Hindlip.

Allsopp beforehand mentioned she felt no big have to get married, and has claimed that she and Andersen swore they might by no means tie the knot 10 days into their relationship, eschewing the fashionable development for “overblown” weddings.

Ejiofor and Knightley in the ‘Love Actually’ wedding scene — Ejiofor and Knightley within the ‘Love Really’ wedding ceremony scene (Common)

In 2020, she additionally informed press: “I’ve no drawback being a middle-aged girlfriend with an excellent older middle-aged boyfriend. And I’ve learnt from the easiest, as we stay subsequent door to essentially the most well-known fortunately single couple — Richard Curtis and Emma Freud.”

Her wedding ceremony was so last-minute and secretive that her Channel 4 co-host Phil Spencer was unable to make it.

‘Love Actually’ wedding scene — ‘Love Really’ wedding ceremony scene (Common)

The duo have been making the present, which sees them attempt to discover the right house for a distinct set of patrons every week, since 2000.

Allsopp – whose household helped her purchase her first house – obtained backlash in 2022 for feedback she made about individuals not with the ability to buy housing, arguing many refuse to make sufficient sacrifices like chopping out espresso, Netflix, and gymnasium subscriptions.