Fry weds

[Gob]

Comedian and writer Stephen Fry has married his fiance Elliot Spencer.




Fry shared a picture of the couple signing the register in Dereham, Norfolk, with his 8 million Twitter followers. He said: "Gosh, @ElliotGSpencer and I go into a room as two people, sign a book and leave as one. Amazing." Two weeks ago Stephen Fry said on Twitter that he was "very very happy" to announce that he and 27-year-old writer Elliot Spencer were to marry. "Oh. It looks as though a certain cat is out of a certain bag. I'm very very happy of course but had hoped for a private wedding. Fat chance!"

The pair are thought to have started their relationship last year. Fry, who has spoken openly about his struggles with drug abuse and depression, has largely kept his love life private. It's thought he separated from a long-term partner five years ago. Fry is a director of Norwich City Football Club and has been a familiar face on television since the 1980s. He's most recently known for presenting the comedy quiz show QI, as well as for acting roles in The Hobbit and the latest series of 24.

[Sue U]

I hope they are very happy together (I'm certain Fry is, at any rate -- talk about a May -December romance!)

[Gob]

My thoughts exactly Sue.

[Sue U]

Fry did well; nice looking young man.

[TPFKA@W]

I think he deserves the same snark he would get if he was marrying a much younger woman who would doubtlessly have been labeled a gold-digger.

[Lord Jim]

I think he deserves the same snark he would get if he was marrying a much younger woman who would doubtlessly have been labeled a gold-digger.

I was thinking the same thing...

If this was a 60 something guy and a 20 something woman, I bet the comments here would be quite different...

[Big RR]

Not the same thing--with the men, 20 goes into 60 more times than the 20 year old woman's 60 into 20.

[TPFKA@W]

Not the same thing--with the men, 20 goes into 60 more times than the 20 year old woman's 60 into 20.

[Guinevere]

I have no idea whether anyone is a gold digger, and I know enough about attraction and relationships to know that no one can know what brings two people together. But I have to wonder what a 60-something and a 20-something have in common (that can build a lasting relationship, anyway).

[TPFKA@W]

I can think of a million or more things they could find common ground on.

See, if gays want the rights straights have, they are going to have to accept equal snark and judgement of their matrimonial choices. It's part and parcel.

I hope I am wrong and they are incredibly happy for years, but doubts, I haz them.

[Gob]

See, if gays want the rights straights have, they are going to have to accept equal snark and judgement of their matrimonial choices. It's part and parcel.

This.

I told my godson, who came out last year, that he should expect no special treatment from me. He gets exactly the same ribbing level that his cop brother gets.

[Sue U]

Pretty sure I said the exact same things I would have if it were a hetero couple.

[Guinevere]

I definitely did.

[Gob]

Stephen Fry says he is still "in the honeymoon phase" after his marriage to 27-year-old partner Elliot Spencer and says the pair have talked about becoming parents.

The broadcaster, who tied the knot with Spencer in January, told Desert Island Discs host Kirsty Young he was "adoring" marriage.

He said: "I'm still very much in the honeymoon phase. I think we both are, I hope so, and new and miraculous things have happened in our culture and I wanted to celebrate that and what better way than to be married. It's bliss, I do carry a ridiculous beam on my face."

Fry, who dedicated Ella Fitzgerald's Do I Love You? to Mr Spencer, describing him as the "great love of my life", was asked if the couple would like to bring up children and answered: "We sort of talk about it and I suddenly think, 'Oh my goodness I'm such an age now', but actually that's rather good, but we better get on with it if we do."

Among the other tracks chosen by Fry, 57, were two he had heard his long-time collaborator Hugh Laurie play during their time at university, including Nina Simone's I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free.

Fry, who got a 2:1 in English literature at Cambridge, said it would have been "an outrage" if he had got a first class degree.

He said: "I did absolutely no work. I went to three lectures in my entire three years at Cambridge, I think I just spent every moment of the day doing drama."

Fry, who also chose composer Arthur Wood's Barwick Green which is better known as the theme tune to The Archers, was asked what he thought the Prince of Wales made of the revelations in his last autobiography that he had taken cocaine during a visit to Buckingham Palace.

He said: "I think it's safe to say that he knows I'm naughty, and I think he's not a judgemental, mean, prissy sort of man.

"I think he would not be especially pleased at the thought of somebody doing that in the palace but nor would he leap to point you to the exit door and say 'never return again'."

The comic and actor chose T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as his book and said he would take paint, brushes and canvases as his luxury item.



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