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Ex-Sky Sports presenter Richard Keys, 66, marries daughter’s friend, 35, after denying he left wife during her cancer battle-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro
He denied the affair took place during his ex-wife’s cancer battle.
Richard Keys has married his daughter’s friend, three decades his junior (Picture: REX)
Former Sky Sports presenter Richard Keys has married his daughter’s friend, more than three decades his junior.
The 66-year-old is said to have tied the knot with Lucie Rose, the 35-year-old friend of his daughter Jemma.
The pair were spotted in Kingswear, Devon on Saturday, in what appeared to be an intimate outdoor ceremony.
Richard opted for a light grey suit as he took his vows next to Lucie, wearing a lavish, floral, white wedding dress with a long veil.
This comes after his split from wife Julia in 2016, after an alleged affair with his new wife.
Julia had admitted in 2018 that she was ‘devastated’ after her marriage of 34 years came to an end, as she was recovering from thyroid cancer.
But Richard has denied an affair took place, saying: ‘I’ll mention the unmentionable for you. Did I leave my wife fighting cancer? No.’
The pair tied the knot in Devon (Picture: Instagram)
Lucie Rose, 35, wore a floral wedding gown (Picture: Instagram)
He continued to The Athletic, during an interview in 2019: ‘I don’t know what happened. I don’t know why our marriage ended the way it did, but my wife was fighting cancer for seven years before I left her and she had been in remission for seven years.
‘She and I went to London every day of her fight, prior to a ground-breaking operation that saw her in a period of recovery.
‘Julia had been in remission for seven years. I know how hard it was for her when things went wrong.
‘I wasn’t going to start engaging in a tit-for-tat, he-said, she-said, respond to everything that was said about me.
‘If people believe that I walked away with my wife fighting cancer with a friend of my daughter’s. I can’t change that now.
‘Tell a lie twice and it becomes the truth. Tell it on social media and it haunts you forever. I didn’t fall in love with a friend of my daughter’s.’
Richard has denied an affair took place while his ex-wife Julia battled cancer (Picture: MCCAFFERTY/REX/Shutterstock)
In April 2018, Julia wrote about her husband’s alleged affair in her book The MANScript, saying, according to Mail Online: ‘Richard’s affair didn’t just devastate my world, but the world of our children Jemma and Josh too.
‘It is only now, two years on, that he has admitted he did have an affair with Lucie, as well as acknowledging his deceit and the damage it has caused.’
Richard had his big break in 1984 as the main anchor of ITV’s breakfast show TV-am, before he left for Sky Sports in 1990, where he fronted their coverage for the Premier League and UEFA Champions League, and worked for Al Jazeera also.
He resigned from the broadcaster in 2008, after he was caught making sexist remarks about linesman Sian Massey. Other recordings also emerged of Keys behaving in a sexist manner.
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