Love Actually director 'marries' partner after 33 years and 2 rejected proposals

17 October 2023 , 08:23

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Love Actually director Richard Curtis 'secretly marries' long-term partner Emma after 33 years, according to reports (Image: Ray Tang/REX/Shutterstock)

Love Actually director Richard Curtis has reportedly tied the knot with his long-time partner Emma Freud after 33 years together.

The 66-year-old screenwriter and producer, who started dating Emma in the nineties, was proposed to by his partner two times but both attempts weren't successful. When she proposed the first time, he refused and the second time saw him sleep through her radio proposal.

According to a source, Emma accidentally revealed the duo got hitched during The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival in Gloucestershire while interviewing Richard E. Grant. Emma's new husband was also seen wearing a gold band on his finger.

The two reportedly tied the knot (Anthony Harvey/REX/Shutterstock)

Emma proposed to him twice before (David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock)

"Emma confessed she had finally got hitched while interviewing Richard E. Grant," the onlooker claimed to The Sun. "She said they’d been married for four weeks." Mirror have contacted Richard's representatives for comment.

The onlooker claimed Emma didn't mean to reveal she got married. The director's new wife previously said she popped the question in the early stages of their relationship. The Notting Hill director contemplated the big question for six months before eventually turning her down.

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He said to her: "Look I don't want to get married, but can we be not married for the rest of our lives?" However, he did once appear on a radio show and said he 'might' one day marry Emma.

The second attempt wasn't any better as he admitted to falling asleep while she tried to propose. Chatting about the big moments at Latitude Festival earlier this year, Emma explained how the second proposal went down and used an appearance on a radio show, which he would have been listening to, to do so.

"I did propose to him once. I did it on air," she said. "I was doing Loose Ends on Radio 4 and I proposed to him - it was February 29th - knowing that he was listening to the show. Then he always came to the pub after the show every time we did it. As he walked in, all our table went very, very silent because they'd heard obviously. It was like 'What's he going to say?'"

She continued: "And he didn't say anything apart from 'Great show, loved every minute of it, it was fantastic' - and then nothing else. The table was kind of like 'Oooh'." He soon went up to her and whispered in her ear to explain he fell asleep.

Emma continued: "He sat down and said 'How was it? I didn't hear a word, I slept through it'."

Zara Woodcock