Cat Deeley's wedding day with Patrick Kielty is one of her best-kept secrets, but the This Morning host has previously revealed she purchased her designer bridal gown before even meeting her second husband.
The 52-year-old TV presenter met the comedian and presenter while hosting Fame Academy in 2002, but their love story didn't begin until 10 years later. Based on Cat's admission about her wedding dress, that means she bought her ravishing ruffled gown by Alexander McQueen – who was also the mastermind behind the Princess as Wales' lace royal wedding dress – over a decade before her big day!
During an episode of Lorraine in 2021, the mother-of-two was discussing Boris Johnson's wife Carrie's rented wedding dress when she admitted she stumbled across her gown and fell in love with it. Cat didn't want to risk missing out on wearing it, although she didn't necessarily intend to keep it for her wedding day.
"Mine is in the cupboard somewhere but I'd actually already got my dress before... It wasn't because I was feeling lucky, I promise! It was a couture dress from Alexander McQueen - a shift white dress.
"It was so beautiful that I just couldn't not buy it and I hadn't even met Paddy at that stage. I literally put it in my cupboard and I was like I'll wear it to something... I'll wear it to some awards. There you go!" An unearthed photo has revealed it boasted layers of horizontal ruffles around the neckline and sleeves, before diagonal ruffles cascaded down the bodice and skirt.
To complete her boho bridal outfit, Cat wore her honey-blonde hair in soft curls, fastening the majority into an updo topped with a flower crown while loose strands framed her face. Meanwhile, her husband chose a classic black suit and a relaxed open-collared shirt.
Cat and Patrick secretly married on 29 September 2012 in Rome, just four months after going public with their romance. Cat has since admitted she didn't have a big role in the planning process, revealing the only thing that concerned her was whether her friends and family had fun.
Speaking to Closer magazine, the 46-year-old revealed: "Patrick went and tried the food and did all that, I never even saw the place where I got married before I got married, that’s how uninvolved I was."
She added: "I get to dress up and have really special occasions all the time, so to me, that was the most exciting thing to happen."
They welcomed two sons Milo and James, and the family now live in London after staying in America for 15 years while Cat hosted So You Think You Can Dance – although Patrick doesn't consider the England capital his home.
© GettyHe made some rare comments about their marriage after the coronavirus pandemic, which saw them spend more time than ever in each other's company. "We’ve been married for ten years, but we’ve probably been married for about 30. If you look at a normal couple, they get up in the morning and spend 45 minutes with each other.
"They get their breakfast and somebody leaves for work, and somebody else goes somewhere else, and you come back and have three or four hours with them that evening. If you’re lucky, maybe less than that.
"You add that up and you see these old people saying: 'Oh we’re 50 years married and we’re blissfully happy, and it’s been an amazing journey.' You go: 'I think you might have spent five years, seven, max.'
"So what was really interesting was for the rest of the world to end up in lockdown and see the stress that put on a load of relationships, the amount of time you’re spending with your partner. Some people could take the pressure and some people couldn’t."
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