Kirstie Allsopp secretly marries property tycoon after 20 years of dating
Kirstie Allsopp secretly marries property tycoon after 20 years of dating
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KIRSTIE Allsopp has secretly married a property tycoon after 20 years of dating. The Location Location Location presenter tied the knot to her lover in an "elegant and lowkey" ceremony in Mayfair, London. Kirstie has been in a relationship with the self-made property tycoon Ben Andersen - who is now her husband - for the past 20 years.
The pair first met in 2004 while attending a party for a prospective Conservative MP. At the time, Ben and his ex-wife Theresa had only been separated for five months, with Kirstie forced to shut down rumours that she had "stolen" Ben from his ex. "I did not [steal him]. I met Ben at a party for a prospective Tory MP friend of mine, Orlando Fraser.
"Ben's wife, whom I knew at school and whom he was already separated from, introduced us," she told the Evening Standard in 2012. Kirstie and Ben have two sons, Bay, who was born in 2006, and Oscar, who was born in 2008. The TV star is also stepmother to her partner's two sons from his previous marriage.
Before Kirstie met Ben, she had been described as "not girlfriend material" by someone she had dated. She previously told Stylist magazine: "No one was interested in me in my twenties. "I had 'please marry me' tattooed on my forehead. It was so vital to me to get married and have children.".
