STRICTLY’S Craig Revel Horwood has revealed the heartbreaking reason his wedding has been delayed again.
Craig, 59, and his partner Jonathan Myring, 37, got engaged back in 2020, but decided to wait until Covid restrictions had eased before saying I do.
They then hoped to marry in 2022, but later pushed the date back until 2023 due to home refurbishments – and it now looks set to be delayed all the way until 2027.
In a new interview ahead of Strictly’s return, the TV judge emotionally announced his mum’s cancer has returned and that the pair are waiting until she gets better.
He told Woman’s Own magazine: “The wedding has had to go on the back burner again! It’s going to be the longest engagement ever – there’s a date in the diary for 2027.
“It’s been a right royal mess, but we’ll get there eventually, and hopefully our house will be renovated by then and the gardens will have grown. We want to get married at the house so it’s important to get all that sorted before we do it.
“I wanted my mum to be here for it as well. She got cancer 10 years ago and was given the all-clear, but now it’s returned sadly. She’s not really well enough to come over this year, so I’ve said we’ll wait until she’s better.
“I have said that I’ll be going up the aisle on a Zimmer frame, but with Jonathan joining the ambulance service, at least I’ll be looked after! There’s a little bit of method in the madness!”
Craig and Jonathan revealed they had got engaged during a holiday in Tasmania in 2020.
Speaking to OK!, Craig said at the time: “There’s such comfort in knowing you have somebody that loves you and wants to spend the rest of their life with you.
“I feel like I have someone who has my back and I’ve got theirs.”
Jonathan surprised Craig during a trip to a national park.
He stripped off in a salt bath and dropped to one knee to ask the question as the pair were enjoying champagne.
The couple met in 2018 after being introduced by a friend on the Strictly arena tour.
Craig was previously married to his ex-wife Jane for two and a half years; the former couple exchanged vows in 1990 when he was 25 and she was 30.
But he admitted the marriage collapsed after he caught her in bed with another man.
