Emilia Fox repeatedly refuses to marry her partner – despite his daily proposals
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Emilia Fox says she is resisting the urge to get married again - but she gets asked constantly. The Silent Witness star has been with her current partner, TV producer Jonathan Stadlen, since 2021. She said: “Jonathan asks me to marry him every single day but we’re not officially married. Just saying we love each other each day has been enough for us in this moment. It has felt very romantic because there’s a choice every day to go, ‘Yes, I really want to marry you today.’.
"He asks me in all different places and at different times. Sometimes when we wake up, sometimes it’s at lunchtime, sometimes on bended knee.” Despite resisting his overtures, she tells Woman&Home how last Christmas they “bought very ordinary rings to both wear as a sign of love for each other.”.
She added: “Then people were saying, ‘I hear you’re married! We weren’t invited to the wedding!’ I’m a great believer in marriage and a diehard romantic but I don’t know whether we need to have a ceremonial marriage or what that looks like for our family. The children are the greatest consideration.
Emilia shares 14-year-old daughter, Rose, with former partner, Jeremy Gilley. Prior to that she was married to Jared Harris for five years. Talking about her current partner, she says: “[Finding love with Jonathan] is amazing but we work hard at it. When you reach a certain age and have experiences – I’ve been living my own way with Rose for a long time – you have to keep working on communication and working out what we’re bringing to this relationship in our histories. The good things but also the bad things and how to work that out together.
