Anthea Turner has postponed her wedding due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The 59-year-old TV presenter – who was previously married to Peter Powell from 1990 to 1998, and Grant Bovey from 2000 to 2015 – had planned to tie the knot with Mark Armstrong, 55, in Italy this September but they have put the wedding because of the global health crisis.
Anthea told HELLO! magazine: "Mark and I had planned to go out and look at venues in March and then set a date for September.
"Mark is from Italy, his family are from Milan, so it seemed the perfect place for us. It will be next year now. I am not even in any angst about it. When we do it, it will be small and cute, just with our close friends and family."
And Anthea believes it will be third time lucky with Mark when they do eventually tie the knot, calling him the "absolute love" of her life.
She gushed: "Mark is the absolute love of my life, we adore each other.
"He makes me smile every day and we are excited about our life together. Sometimes, when you are a bit older and you have lived, something tells you this is so right, you just know.
"People might say why do you have to get married, or why would you want to. It is because I do believe in marriage, and I can’t think of a nicer person to be with for the rest of my life.
"I’ve always said I would get married again, I knew I would meet someone, that I would not be on my own. I definitely never put up the shutters to finding love again, with ‘keep away’ tattooed on my forehead."
Mark proposed to Anthea in Rome last year and friends said she had despaired of finding love again before she met him.
An insider said: "Anthea has had a rocky few years, and had almost given up on finding love again.
"But she met Mark at London’s Wellington club and they hit it off straight away. He’s half-Italian, very charismatic and good looking – plus a few years younger, which is a boon.
"He fancied her straight away and they swapped details – Mark immediately asked her out, and it went from there."
Anthea Turner postpones Italian wedding due to Covid-19
