Miranda Hart reveals romantic proposal in Kew Gardens – after announcing her marriage to mystery man

Miranda Hart has revealed the sweet details of her romantic proposal at London’s Kew Gardens in her new book I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You.

The 51-year-old comedian announced the news that she is married live on The One Show on Tuesday night after a flurry of rumours.

Speaking to Alex Jones and Alex Scott about her mystery husband, Miranda, 51, declared ‘someone’s put a ring on it’ as she revealed she met ‘my person’ at the age of 49.

Going into detail in her memoir about how he popped the question, the actress explained that her boyfriend suggested the couple go to the gardens for a walk on an ‘ordinary January day’.

She wrote: ‘We stood still on the bridge overlooking the lake when the silence was pierced as he rather seriously said, “Miranda”. I turned around and as I did he got down on one knee. “Miranda…”

‘I don’t remember anything else because I simply burst out out crying, apparently saying yes before he had finished the sentence (awkward if he’d been tying a shoelace…)’

She emotionally penned: ‘I didn’t think a traditional proposal would affect me so.

‘But there was someone knowing all my ridiculousness and brokenness and still willing to bend down, lookup and commit to loving me and standing by me for the rest of his life.’

Miranda later described her husband as kind, loving, and really fun,’ before dramatically writing: ‘He’s not my boyfriend. He’s my husband. We got married when I was fifty-one.’

During her exciting announcement on The One Show, she gushed: ‘I’m married, I got married at 51 and it’s just so lovely!’

‘I’d written Gary [Tom Ellis] for onscreen Miranda and it wasn’t until I was 49 that I met my person,’ she declared, but insisted she would keep her husband’s identity a secret.

‘It’s a little undercurrent in the book, I’m not going to reveal how we met because that’s a little bit of a twist. He’s my best friend, we had the best fun and I’m just thrilled to be a young bride at 51.’

The star added that she hoped readers of her book will feel hope from her love story, explaining; ‘The fact that I met someone during a pandemic, during chronic illness, when I couldn’t get out of bed or out of the house… I really, really wanted to meet someone, I didn’t want to do life on my own anymore.’

‘The fact that I could meet somebody, it’s not some some of romcom story but it’s hope. Whatever situation you are in, there is always hope, things really do change.’

The star first set tongues wagging about the new man in her life during publicity for the memoir, teasing in her inimitable style that she ‘couldn’t possibly say if there is a love story in it… (There is – shush) Exciting.’

She has also been spotted wearing a wedding band in recent videos and snaps posted on Instagram, where she has a million followers, whilst locals near her £2million West London home have seen her with a mystery man.

Miranda, who has been Britain’s most single woman for more than 15 years, offered more of of an insight into her relationship in her new memoir.

She confirmed she has tied the knot with man she met during lockdown when he came to fix the mould in her £2million house.

Referring to her new husband only as ‘The Boy from Bristol’ or ‘The Mould Man’, the comedian kept his identity a secret but gushed over how handsome he is with ‘fine features’ and ‘salt and pepper grey hair’.

Miranda made the shock revelation in the final pages of her new memoir, I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You.

In the book, she writes: ‘I met my best friend and the love of my life who brings me more silliness, laughter, joy, support, care and safety than I thought possible in a person, because I lost my house due to mould illness and he was the building surveyor on the house remediation project.

‘Yes my love was Mr Mould Man/ My Mr Mould Man/ The Boy/ The Boy from Bristol/ The Boyfriend.

‘I haven’t been entirely honest with you, he’s not my boyfriend, he’s my husband. We got married when I was 51.’

Miranda explained her friends could not believe it when she first started dating him, due to the fact the UK was in lockdown and her house was crippled with damp issues.

She added: ‘Whenever I told any of my friends I had met someone, they all simply paused, confused and said how it’s not a high probability with housebound illness and a global pandemic for a knight in shining armour to appear on the doorstep but he did. To de-mould me…’’

Miranda catapulted to fame with her self-titled BBC sitcom in 2009, in which her fictional mother Penny exclaims ‘Such fun!’ whenever she thinks her daughter is about to bag a boyfriend. It follows her quest to find ‘the perfect man’ and her dalliance with dishy chef Gary.

The actress, who played nurse Chummy in Call The Midwife and Miss Bates in Emma, revealed over the summer that she has had been battling a chronic illness for three years.

WHICH CELEBRITIES HAVE BATTLED LYME DISEASE?

Justin Bieber was diagnosed with Lyme Disease in early 2020.

The 25-year-old made the revelation on Instagram after trolls said he ‘looks like sh*t’ and accused him of being ‘on meth’.

The Sorry star allegedly said he had felt severely depressed for much of 2019, but it wasn’t until later in the year that his doctors realized he was suffering from Lyme disease.

It’s unclear exactly when or where Bieber contracted the disease.

Country legend Shania Twain had to retrain her voice after she developed dysphonia – affects the muscles of the larynx – as a result of the Lyme disease she contracted during her 2003 Up! tour.

In response to rumours she was in rehab, Sk8er Boi singer Avril Lavigne revealed she actually spent five months bedridden as a result of Lyme disease in 2015.

Avril even said she ‘accepted death’ when she could ‘feel her body shutting down’. Now recovered, she reflects on the period as a ‘battle of a lifetime’.

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolanda Hadid has been battling Lyme disease remissions for years after finally being diagnosed in 2012. Doctors previously thought it was ME.

And her daughter Bella Hadid, who models for Victoria’s Secret, also suffers from the ‘invisible illness’ and has said she does not know what it is like to wake up without bone pain or brain fog.

Hollywood actor Ben Stiller was diagnosed in 2010. Although symptom free, he has said it ‘never leaves your system’.

She wrote online last week: ‘Big news – book out in a week. I share lots of stories of my last decade – mainly what I have learnt living with chronic illness – but there’s lots of fun and some of my own big news.’

And in a publicity blurb for the book on Amazon, out on Thursday, she writes she has had an ‘unexpectedly difficult decade – there have been surprising joys, but also deep revelations and challenging lows. I shall be honest about those, because what I discovered in the difficult times were my, what I call, treasures’.

‘Treasures – practical tools, values, ways, answers researched from some great scientists, neuroscientists, therapists, sociologists (all the ‘ists’) out there, that have genuinely led to a sense of freedom, joy, peace and physical recovery I never would have thought possible.

‘Life now, amazingly, with what I will share, is – such fun (always important to quote your own catch phrases)! If you fancy having a read, then I hope my story might help your story. After all, we are in this beautiful, mysterious, challenging life together.’

The comic, whose father was commanding officer of HMS Coventry, sunk by Argentina in 1982, has previously joked about her love life, saying:

‘I was very naive sexually. My first boyfriend asked me to do missionary and I buggered off to Africa for six months.’

The actress, who played nurse Chummy in Call The Midwife and Miss Bates in Emma, revealed over the summer that she has had been battling a chronic illness for years.

Speaking about her years spent housebound by her illness, Miranda told The One Show on Tuesday: ‘It’s not been the most pleasant few years, I’ve mainly been in bed or housebound with chronic illness, so it’s been a tough few years, nearly decade, which is what my book is charting.’

‘It’s so nice to be back in the television, I’m so excited to be here. Once you have been bed bound with a fatigue-base chronic illness which takes a long time to diagnose, you miss life a lot so I’m thrilled to be here. ‘

‘Part of the story of the book is the discovery of what could help. I needed to research this whole wellness expertise which is out there.’

‘I was in bed at home alone and doctors didn’t know what was wrong with me. I couldn’t have a yoga retreat so what are the universal truths. I did years of research. . In the book there are ten keys, which I call my treasures, for living well.’

‘I’m living a life of joy and meaning and fulfilment which I never had before.’

As for what’s next for the star, she told The One Show that after her book ‘I’m really keen to get back to some silliness now. I miss laughter, I don’t have any ideas yet, they haven’t percolated through. But I miss fooling around.’

In her new memoir, set to be released on October 10, Miranda, who has taken a break out of the spotlight for nearly the past decade, talks about her plight and the moment she ‘collapsed’ from ill health.

While fans know her as Chummy in Call The Midwife and for her cheery self-titled sitcom, Miranda has admitted behind closed doors she was desperately telling doctors: ‘I feel toxic and poisoned’.

It took medics 33 years to discover Miranda had been battling with the bacterial infection Lyme Disease, after initially mislabelling her as being agoraphobic – an anxiety disorder characterised by symptoms of anxiety in situations.

She recalls running out a doctor’s appointment in floods of tears after they told her she was ‘TATT’ – ‘Tired All The Time’ and said: ‘I just don’t know what to do with you’.

The comic officially received the diagnosis in lockdown and believes she contracted Lyme Disease when she 14 after battling nasty flu-like symptoms in Virginia.

She writes: ‘For me it was the unnerving neurological symptoms that I had got initially, aged fourteen, from Lyme, which I always found particularly hard to deal with. And they got considerably worse as I headed into my forties. As did the fatigue from the cell depletion. Yup, all delightful.’

Of the moment she got her diagnosis, she adds: ‘I got off that Zoom call, pulled my laptop shut and sat there, still and aghast. So many emotions, I was shocked, but I also immediately felt a deep well of sadness and disappointment – for over three decades I’d KNOWN there was something wrong. I recalled all the times I’d told different doctors, “I feel toxic and poisoned, or, It’s like I have flu every day but I don’t have a temperature.”

‘(It’s amazing how the body can sometimes literally tell us what’s going on.) I felt anger rising at the times l’d been told I must have agoraphobia.

‘I would try and treat it as such, when, as it turned out, it was the lack of energy and the extreme light and sound sensitivity that made my body crash when going out to be in any kind of activity or stimulating environment.’

Miranda says she struggled to know how to share the news of her diagnosis with her followers, fearing she would be perceived as ‘complaining’ or ‘just tired all the time’.

But Lyme Disease was causing havoc for her body and she ended up with ‘endless diagnoses’. Also, fans soon noticed her absence from TV screens.

In 2017 it was revealed Miranda would not be returning to Call The Midwife, citing a busy work schedule as her reason.

But she later revealed during an stand-up gig in London that she had been suffering from ‘ill’ health.