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Patrick Stewart ties the knot – and friend Ian McKellen officiates the ceremony


September 9, 2013
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Sir Patrick Stewart is a happily married man. The British actor tied the knot in a fun-filled ceremony at the weekend, and announced the news on Twitter with a picture and the simple statement, "Yes, married".In the photo, only the heads of Patrick, 73, and his new wife Sunny Ozell are visible with their bodies completely submerged in a colourful ball pit. 

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Beaming for the camera, husband and wife look delighted as they shared their joy with Patrick’s 600,000 followers.Patrick’s good friend and X-Men co-star Sir Ian McKellen officiated the wedding ceremony. "I did my part," the Lord of the Rings actor revealed on his official Facebook page, sharing a picture of himself holding up a black 'Minister' t-shirt and his official 'Doctor of Divinity' certificate.

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Ian, 74, revealed that he was set to officiate the marriage during an interview on the Jonathan Ross Show. "I am going to marry Patrick," he quipped to his host.Patrick and Sunny – a 35-year-old singer-songwriter from Brooklyn – have been together since 2008.They met while the Yorkshire-born actor was performing Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and started living together in 2012. They announced their engagement in March of this year.

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It is the third time that Patrick has tied the knot. He has two grown-up children, Daniel and Sophie, from his first marriage to Sheila Falconer, to who he was married from 1966 until 1990.Seven years after his divorce, he proposed to Star Trek: The Next Generation producer Wendy Neuss, and the couple exchanged their vows in 2000 before parting ways three years later.