Anthea Turner's friends hoped it would be third time lucky when socialite Mark Armstrong proposed to the twice-divorced television personality in Italy back in 2019 after a whirlwind two-month romance. Now, however, I can disclose the couple have called off their wedding – for a fourth time. And some pals are unconvinced that it will ever happen.
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The wedding was due to take place in Italy in 2022 but was postponed to 2023 with the location switched to Britain. Anthea, 64, who was a Blue Peter presenter before becoming television’s golden girl as a presenter on programmes such as GMTV, admits she and Armstrong, 59, no longer have plans for a wedding. ‘We keep telling friends, “Oh, we will sort it out”,’ Anthea says at the launch party for Undercroft Mayfair restaurant in London, which is headed up by TV chef Aldo Zilli.
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Anthea Turner has admitted that her marriage to socialite Mark Armstrong has been called off. The couple at the launch party for Aldo Zilli's Undercroft Mayfair restaurant. She tells me: ‘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.’.
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Anthea, 64, split from her first husband DJ Peter Powell in 2008 and later married businessman Grant Bovey. They divorced in 2015 after his adultery with a 24-year-old. Anthea tells me: ‘Maybe we’ll elope and have a holiday and tell everybody we got married on holiday.’.
