According to reports from today, Anthea Turner’s wedding to Mark Armstrong has been postponed four times.
Friends are now said to be unconvinced the TV presenter, 64, will ever marry her long-term partner after repeatedly scrapping plans. However, since Mark proposed in 2019, a series of personal tragedies have put paid to dreams.
In recent years, Mark and Anthea have experienced the trauma of losing their mothers, which causes the wedding bells to stop chiming. Vid also hampered plans, but it’s not clear what led to the fourth glitch.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, former GMTV host Anthea said: “We feel like we’re married. But why it hasn’t happened is my mum died, and Mark’s mum died, then there was Covid and then we moved in together properly”.
Anthea, who has hosted Blue Peter for two years, addressed reporters this week at the London restaurant’s Undercroft Mayfair launch party. TV chef Aldo Zill is the chef.
The presenter, who was raised in Stoke-on-Trent, said she had pencilled in a date in 2022 to marry 59-year-old businessman Mark. It was scheduled to take place in Italy, but it was postponed until 2023 when Britain replaced the location.
Speaking at the event in Mayfair, Anthea added: “We keep telling friends, ‘ Oh, we will sort it out. ‘ Maybe we’ll get married on vacation, take a trip, and let everyone know.
Yet, no new date has been set for the ceremony, which would make Mark Anthea’s third husband. When she was 30, Anthea married her manager, former DJ Peter Powell. They divorced in 1998 after an eight-year marriage.
Then, TV’s golden girl, who has also fronted Top of the Pops, married businessman Grant Bovey in 2000. Anthea and Grant, who was CEO of Imagine Homes, split in 2012 and divorced in October 2015.
Anthea presented Blue Peter from September 14, 1992 to June 27, 1994, often alongside John Leslie, Diane-Louise Jordan and Tim Vincent. Stuart Miles would follow her and spend almost five years on the show.
Source: Mirror
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