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Sex and The City star John Corbett has married Bo Derek after nearly 20 years of dating
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John Corbett has revealed he married Bo Derek over Christmas after nearly 20 years of dating and we’ve got to say, we’re impressed by the secret-keeping.
The Sex and The City star confirmed during an appearance on The Talk that he and the Tarzan, the Ape Man actress tied the knot late last year.
Speaking to friend and The Talk host Jerry O’Connell, John, 60, flashed his wedding band and said: ‘Around Christmas time we got married. Bo and I got married, with Jerry responding: ‘I noticed your ring, and I was going to say something, but not on live television, but wow. Congratulations.’
John continued: ‘We got married. And this is probably the first time – we’re pretty private people. We didn’t make an announcement. All our friends and family knew.”
‘But this is the first time either one of us has said anything publicly about it because really, we haven’t had an opportunity. So, you’re my buddy, and now I guess I’m telling all of America or the world. And yeah, after 20 years we decided to get married.’
The My Big Fat Greek Wedding star added: ‘After 20 years, we decided to get married. We didn’t want 2020 to be that thing where everybody looks back and hated it. Let’s get one nice thing out of this.’
The couple began dating in 2002 (Picture: Jerod Harris/WireImage)
John and Bo, 64, have been dating since 2002, when they were set up by John’s friend, Hollywood agent Norby Walters.
Just last year, 10 star Bo said that she didn’t mind being asked about marriage because ‘we’re the abnormal people’, but told Entertainment Tonight: ‘It’s not really a conscious decision not too, it’s just at our age we’re not going to have children, we’re not building a new family together that this is important to a family tree. So for us it would just be a piece of paper.’
This is Bo’s second marriage; she was married to director John Derek from 1976 until his death in 1998 at the age of 71.
Derek had launched her career, and directed her in Fantasies, Tarzan, the Ape Man, Bolero and Ghosts Can’t Do It, as well as photographing her for Playboy.
Bo and John live on a ranch in Santa Ynez, California, with John saying their home is ‘where the romance is’.
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He previously told Closer Weekly: ‘We enjoy each other’s company; we make each other laugh. After 15 years we still hold hands; we still have barbecues with friends a couple times a week.
‘[Bo] still laughs at all my jokes even though she’s heard them a million times. We just enjoy each other. I’m sad when she’s not around.’
John will be back on our screens next year as Aidan Shaw in the Sex and The City reboot And Just Like That…, having last reprised the role of Carrie Bradshaw’s ex in the 2010 film Sex and The City 2.
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