Miranda Hart, 51, reveals she BROKE UP with her husband just before he popped the question – as she admits she had always believed her ‘hope for finding love was very, very slim’ [Video]

03:45 EDT 10 Oct 2024, updated 06:21 EDT 10 Oct 2024

Miranda Hart has revealed she broke up with her husband before his romantic proposal in Kew Gardens.

The comedian surprised fans this week when she announced she was married at the age of 51, but has now admitted her relationship has had its challenges.

In her new book I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You, Miranda confesses that she and the building surveyor ‘briefly’ split before realising the depth of their feelings for one another. 

Writing in her book, Miranda recalls that she was ‘spending more and more time’ with ‘The Boy From Bristol,’ as she calls him, and ‘feelings were deepening. And then. We had to take a break.’

‘There were a few reasons why, we didn’t know whether the timing was right to become an ‘us.’ It was hard. It hurt my heart. A lot. I didn’t know whether it was the end or whether circumstances might eventually …