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Craig and Bruno's Great British Road Trip's Craig Revel Horwood reveals dreams of becoming a dad

The Strictly star is thinking about adoption

Deputy Online Editor
August 18, 2021

Craig and Bruno's Great British Road Trip star Craig Revel Horwood has revealed he would like to become a father at the age of 56. The TV star, who has been in a relationship with fiance Jonathan Myring since February 2018, confessed that his previous role in the musical Annie has inspired him to think about adopting a child.

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"It is something we have talked about. There are so many children out there just like in Annie, who are orphaned for whatever reason and they just need a loving family," he previously told The Sun.

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"But I am waiting to see how our relationship develops and if it's solid enough and a good base to bring children into it. It certainly needs a lot of planning," the Australian-British dancer added. From 2015 to 2017, Craig starred as drunken orphanage owner Miss Hannigan in the UK tour of the hit musical. Based on a comic strip by Harold Gray, called Little Orphan Annie, the story follows a curly red-haired girl called Annie, who lives in an orphanage.

Craig has never looked happier since embarking on his relationship with Jonathan; they were introduced through a mutual friend backstage during the 2018 Strictly tour. Sharing his happiness, he previously told The Sun: "I'm really happy. He's absolutely gorgeous, super intelligent. It's a bit too early for the L word but we really, really like each other. This one is definitely a keeper."

The pair are now set to tie the knot! Appearing on The Steph Show back in May, Craig and Jonathan revealed that the marriage proposal took place during a recent trip to Tasmania. "It was a slight disaster really," said Jonathan. "I had a beautiful engagement planned in Tasmania and Craig refused to go and sit on the banks of the river to look for platypus. So I had to call him to frantically call him to go…"

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Interrupting his partner, Craig quipped: "That's because the last time we waited for platypus, it was four hours and we didn't see one. So I wasn’t going to sit through that again, was I? All I wanted to do was go back to the hotel and have a bubble bath. Well I jumped in the bubble bath and then Jonathan jumped in with me and proposed in the bubble bath with a glass of champagne."

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