BBC Breakfast’s Carol Kirkwood, 61, opens up about marriage to toyboy cop fiance Steve Randall, 48
BBC Breakfast star Carol Kirkwood has opened up about her forthcoming marriage to toyboy Steve Randall.
The TV presenter previously revealed the pair had got engaged in May last year during a live broadcast.
But now Carol, 61, is opening up on her romance as she explained that she never expected she would get remarried.
The BBC Breakfast personality told Closer magazine: “My fiance is very handsome. He’s very kind and caring and he makes me laugh.
“Steve’s a good cook too. He’s all I could ever want In my eyes he’s perfect,” she continued.
“We were friends before we became romantically involved so we knew each other quite well before we started dating.
“That was nice because it just kind of happened. Neither of us were looking for romance and there it was, it just evolved.
“It’s so lovely. Who would have thought that at my ripe old age, I’d be getting married again? I certainly didn’t.”
The Scottish weather presenter, 60, has kept her fiance’s identity tightly under wraps since they got together in 2021.
MailOnline reported that her sweetheart is retired cop Steve Randall, 47, a fitness fanatic and dad-of-one who once completed the world’s toughest marathon.
Steve divorced ex-wife Nichola in 2017 after 12 years together and is Carol’s first significant romance since her own “shocking” split in 2008.
Carol – who has been part of the Breakfast team since 1983 – married Jimmy Kirkwood, a former cricket player, in 1990 when she was aged 28 and hadn’t even started doing the weather reports.
She has remained tight-lipped about why their relationship broke down, but admitted when their divorce was finalised in 2012, she broke down backstage at BBC Breakfast.
She explained: “In a funny way though, that helped with the healing process. I put my grief into a compartment which I kept separate from my work, otherwise I’d have ended up in a puddle of tears. Work kept me going.”