Patrick Kielty has revealed his marriage to Cat Deeley is more normal than it’s made out to be.
The comedian wed the TV presenter in a surprise wedding in 2012, after only dating a few months.
Although it has been reported the pair have a long-distance relationship, as they split their time between Ireland, London and LA, Patrick said they spend most of their time together.
“It’s a myth that we have a long-distance relationship,” he said.
“It’s really not what people think. We’re either both living over here, or we’re both over there, or we’re working,” he told the Belfast Telegraph.
“We sit there together, reading stuff like that and I’ll say, ‘Yes, this is a very long-distance relationship, now who’s making tea, you or me?'”
Speaking about their whirlwind wedding in Italy three years ago, Patrick said the pair wanted a low-key ceremony.
“The thing is we didn’t want a big wedding. In our business, we get to go to a lot of functions in big rooms with round tables and gold-painted gold chairs,” he explained.
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“A lot of people, when they have a wedding, want all that. But that type of thing would’ve just seemed like work to us. We didn’t want to get married, we wanted to be married. There’s a difference.”
“We did it on the hoof, really. We just wanted to run off somewhere sunny and get married. There was no big planning, really.
“And it worked out great on the day. We just had immediate family and around six friends each. To be honest, we didn’t really care where we did it, we just wanted to be married.”
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“People wait, because they need to get to know each other first. Cat and I were friends for such a long time, a good 10 years, so we already knew each other very well.”
“It was such a shock for me as well. We were going out together and next thing I’m standing there and Cat turns up in a wedding dress and I’m like ‘What the hell is this about?”
