MIRANDA Hart has revealed the heartbreaking reason she broke down in tears on her first date with her now-husband, after revealing their secret wedding.
The BBC star, 51, surprised fans by revealing she got married in the summer – after falling for a man who removed mould from her house in 2020.
Miranda then showed off her ring on The One Show after writing about her unnamed husband in her new book I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You.
And in her book she also discussed their first date, saying they got to know one another over a socially-distanced cup of tea.
And they both ended up in tears after her now-husband recalled something that occurred in his past.
Miranda wrote: “The date therefore consisted of a cup of tea in my sitting room, with some social distancing in force, passing biscuits to each other at arm’s length. In many ways, it made it feel more relaxed. There’s no fear of how to partake of the often ghastly first-kiss lunge when we have to be two metres apart!
“However, having met The Boy once briefly, and having chatted to him a couple of times on the phone (very nineties of us), I was already pretty taken by him.
“I therefore decided I was going to practise not hiding myself or any natural emotions. I was going to be vulnerable to forge as honest a connection as I could.
“We’d been chatting and getting on very well and easily, thank you very much, please.
“I didn’t police a beautiful, natural, connecting moment when he told me about a dog he’d lost ten years earlier, and how sad he still feels when he thinks of that goodbye. He too welled up a little.”
Miranda’s marriage comes 15 years after the launch of her BBC sitcom Miranda, which featured a long-running joke about her mum being desperate for her to get hitched.
The star got engaged in January during a visit to Kew Gardens in West London after realising she and her new partner had “fallen hopelessly in love with each other”.
She recalls: “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 crying, apparently saying yes before he had finished the sentence (awkward if he’d been tying a shoelace…).
“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, look up and commit to loving me and standing by me for the rest of his life.”
