by Congratulations are definitely in order because Miranda Hart got married in secret and is sharing plenty of bombshells in her brand new book I Haven’t Been Totally Honest With You.
The actress, best known for her BBC sitcom Miranda, blew everyone away with the dramatic announcement on The One Show on Tuesday ahead of the release of her book on Thursday, saying: “Somebody put a ring on it.”
In her autobiography, Hart has discussed marriage details and her love story with her mystery husband. The star also shared her experience of being misdiagnosed during her health struggles before being diagnosed with Lyme Disease 33 years later. Here are the biggest bombshells revealed in Hart’s book.
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Who is Miranda Hart’s husband?
Love finally struck Hart when she fell in love with a man she met in the pandemic and they married when she was 51 years old.
In his new book, Hart took great pleasure in telling his readers that “he’s not my boyfriend”, that “he’s my husband”.
The star is happy to share details of their romance in her book, but was careful to keep his identity a secret. Instead of referring to him by name, Hart called him “The Boy from Bristol” or “The Mold Man”.
Kew Gardens proposal by Miranda Hart
Letting readers in on their love story, Hart has shared the first details about the romantic proposal in his book. It was an “ordinary January” when they went for a walk around the stunning Kew Gardens, in Richmond, London when her then boyfriend popped the question.
They were standing on the bridge overlooking the lake when Hart was taken by surprise and the actor broke down in happy tears over the emotional moment. She admitted that she thought that a traditional compliment would not have touched her heart the way it did.
In typical Hart style, she reminded the moment with kissing humor that it would be awful if he wasn’t going to ask her to marry him.
She wrote about the moment in her book, shared with the Daily Mail: “I turned around and as I did he went down on one knee. “Miranda…” I don’t remember anything else because I simply burst out crying . . , apparently saying ‘yes’ before he had finished the sentence (it was difficult if he was tying a shoe…).”
Miranda Hart’s Lyme Disease Diagnosis
Marriage is not the only thing Hart writes about in his autobiography. The TV personality also raised the lid on being diagnosed with Lyme Disease. According to the NHS, Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks.
Viewers were disappointed when Hart did not return to her role on Call The Midwife in 2017, at the time putting it down to a busy work schedule, although she later revealed she had suffered ill health during a comedy gig.
Doctors misdiagnosed Hart’s symptoms as agoraphobic, an anxiety disorder in which a person fears being trapped in situations. It was locked up, 33 years on from her first symptoms at the age of 14, that Hart was diagnosed with Lyme Disease which reflected what she had been suffering for many years.
In an excerpt shared with the Daily Mail, she wrote: “I got off that Zoom call, closed my laptop and sat there, for a moment. So many emotions, I was surprised, but I also immediately felt a well of sadness. and disappointment – for over thirty years I knew something was wrong. temperature.”
“(It’s amazing how the body can sometimes literally tell us what is going on.) I felt anger rising at the times that I was told that I have agoraphobia. I would try to treat it like that, when, as it turned out, it was the lack of energy and the sensitivity to light and sound that made my body tense up when I went out to be in any kind of activity or exciting environment.”
Why Miranda Hart has a real reason to write her book
One of the reasons Hart wrote her book was because it helped her recover after sharing her Lyme Disease diagnosis.
On Wednesday, she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I thought I had to research this whole wellness expertise and discussion that’s out there, but I was in bed at home by myself, I didn’t the doctors know what I should do and myself. There was no chance of having a cold or going to the back of yoga.
“So, I thought what are the universal truths? So I did years of research, when I felt able, and in the book there are 10 keys, which I call my treasures, to live well. And they have have been really really. [helped]. I feel that, despite the suffering it has caused, I am living a life of joy and meaning and fulfillment in a way I never have before.”
Miranda’s memoir I’m Not Completely Honest With You is out on Thursday 10 October.
