Carol Kirkwood has hailed her ‘blissful’ Christmas wedding ceremony as she returned to the BBC Breakfast studio this morning.
The climate presenter, who tied the knot together with her marathon-running police officer husband Steve Randall the day after Boxing Day has heaped reward on her ‘fabulous’ nuptials.
The 61-year-old mentioned this morning she ‘wouldn’t change a factor concerning the day’ and that it was ‘completely excellent’ as she appeared in a very good temper coming again to work.
She obtained married to her 48-year-old beau at an intimate and personal ceremony at Cliveden Home in Buckinghamshire on December 27 after being collectively for two-and-a-half years.
Carol has been effusive about her new husband, revealing he leaves her romantic love notes and cups of tea at 2.45am earlier than she heads off to work, and described him as ‘humorous, beautiful and, additionally, he’s actually sort, considerate and romantic’.
Steve Randall, 48, tied the knot with Carol Kirkwood, 61, throughout an intimate and romantic ceremony on the swanky Cliveden Home in Buckinghamshire.
Talking on her return to the BBC studio on Monday after a two week absence, Carol gushed concerning the large day when questioned by newsreader Jon Kay.
She mentioned: ‘John I can not let you know how fabulous it has been.
‘You should not actually be speaking like this about your personal wedding ceremony nevertheless it was blissful, it was romantic, it was completely excellent.
‘I’d not change a factor concerning the day.
She lightheartedly added: ‘It was very small as properly, and intimate, so you did not have to fret that Auntie Nelly did not have a glass of sherry in her hand.’
This sparked Jon to joke: ‘Does that imply you had all of the sherry?’, leaving Carol a hysterical Carol saying: ‘You already know me far too properly!’
Carol had tied to knot to divorced father-of-one Steve, who she first met in her 50s, after placing up a friendship with him and getting collectively in June 2021.
The star beforehand instructed Prima Journal earlier than her marriage that he was ‘all the time making me giggle’, and he or she described him as ‘extraordinarily good-looking’.
Carol and Steve throughout a snowy Norway vacation. Steve is a police officer who’s 13 years her junior
Carol and Steve on a cruise to Tromsø, Norway. The star has beforehand mentioned how Steve ‘all the time makes me a cup of tea earlier than I’m going to work within the morning, which may be very romantic – it is 2.45am’
She mentioned: ‘I do not wish to say an excessive amount of about my boyfriend, however I’ll say that he’s very sort and really humorous – he is all the time making me giggle. And very good-looking, as properly.
‘He all the time makes me a cup of tea earlier than I’m going to work within the morning, which may be very romantic – it is 2.45am and he typically leaves me just a little love observe for once I come dwelling from work. That, to me, is price 1,000,000 purple roses.
‘He’s one of the best factor that is ever occurred to me, with no shadow of a doubt.’
Carol wrote on X on the day of her wedding ceremony: ‘It was probably the most excellent and romantic and intimate wedding ceremony. We’re each so extremely completely satisfied.’
In snaps from their large day, Carol shocked in an off-the-shoulder robe with a dramatic skirt as she posed for snaps together with her husband Steve.
She wrote on social media: ‘Thanks a lot for all of your pretty messages. We had probably the most excellent day.
‘It was a tiny wedding ceremony however so romantic and intimate. A day we’ll always remember. We’re bursting with happiness. It wasn’t a ”secret” wedding ceremony, only a personal one.’
Carol beforehand confessed she deliberate to wed Steve in secret earlier than ‘[telling] everybody later.’
While chatting with an viewers at Good Housekeeping Stay, she admitted that she ought to ‘get on with it’, including: ‘I think about we’re simply going to go and do it and inform everybody about it later.’
‘Steve got here into my life once I was already very completely satisfied, I did not want a person in my life – however I would like him in my life – and that is the distinction.’
Steve has been married as soon as earlier than, like his new spouse, having one daughter together with his spouse of 12 years Nichola Randall.
Carol Kirkwood married police officer Steve over Christmas. Pictured: The completely satisfied couple at The Radio Occasions Covers Celebration in January 2023
The pair cut up in 2017, together with his ex-partner posting a fateful message on her Fb web page in June that, which learn: ‘And now it is time for me.’
Away from his work as a police officer, he’s a devoted runner and eager beginner athlete.
He upped his challenges by his late 30s, participating within the South Downs half marathon in 2013 earlier than the gruelling Marathon Des Sables by way of the Moroccan desert, which was described because the ‘hardest foot race on the earth’ in 2014, requiring members to run 244km over six phases within the baking warmth.
The Hampshire-based policeman raised cash for most cancers charities and the poppy enchantment throughout each races.
Carol introduced her plans to get married reside on BBC Breakfast by flashing her engagement ring as she reported from the Chelsea Flower Present in Might 2022.
Speaking to Whats up journal in July 2022 about how her then-fiancé popped the query, she additionally revealed that the pair knew one another earlier than they began courting.
She described how Steve requested her to marry him as they had been having fun with a riverside picnic.
The couple lastly went public in February 2023 by attending the star-studded Radio Occasions Covers Celebration held at Claridge’s in London, igniting additional questions on who Ms Kirkwood was pictured with.
The BBC Breakfast climate presenter revealed her engagement whereas reporting from the Chelsea Flower Present in 2022
They now reside collectively in Carol’s £2million dwelling in a gated neighborhood in Berkshire, on the banks of the Thames. They’re believed to have moved in collectively final 12 months.
One resident of the advanced instructed MailOnline: ‘Steve and Carol are highly regarded members of this neighborhood. You generally see them strolling round and it is apparent that they are each very completely satisfied.
‘They’ve all the time obtained time for a chat with us and we’re all actually completely satisfied for them.’
Carol was married to Northern Irish cricketer Jimmy Kirkwood, who additionally represented his nation taking part in hockey, from 1990 – when she was 28.
Carol’s shock cut up from Jimmy was revealed in 2008, nevertheless it was not till she starred in Strictly Come Dancing seven years later – when she was partnered with professional Pasha Kovalev – she actually opened up about it.
She mentioned: ‘I used to be married for a very long time, and I obtained married fairly younger, so it is good doing issues I’ve the liberty to do now.
‘If I wish to exit to the theatre or exit with associates for dinner, I’ve obtained that freedom.’
