Richard Keys, a former broadcaster, has married his daughter’s friend, who is more than three decades his junior.
The 66-year-old is alleged to have married Lucie Rose, his daughter Jemma’s 35-year-old companion.
On Saturday, the couple was photographed in Kingswear, Devon, in what seemed to be a private outdoor ceremony.
Keys wore a light grey suit as he exchanged vows with Lucie, who was dressed in a gorgeous, flowery, white wedding gown with a lengthy veil.
This follows his divorce with Julia in 2016, following an alleged infidelity with his new wife.
Julia said in 2018 that she was ‘devastated’ when her 34-year marriage ended while she was recuperating from thyroid cancer.
But Keys has denied having an affair, stating, ‘I’ll address the unmentionable for you.” Did I abandon my cancer-stricken wife? No.’
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.’
Why did Richard Keys leave ?
Keys and his co-commentator Andy Grey were embroiled in a sexism issue in which they were overheard making disparaging remarks about female referee Sian Massey.
They later apologised after being caught on film referring to female assisting referees.
Keys had said: ‘Somebody better get down there and explain offside to [Massey].
Gray replied: ‘Yeah, I know. Can you believe that? Female linesman. Forget what I said – they probably don’t know the offside rule.’
Keys then said ‘Course they don’t,’ to which Gray replied: ‘Why is there a female linesman? Somebody’s f***** up big.’
Keys afterwards apologised for his remarks, but a second video of Grey speaking to pitch-side reporter Andy Burton later emerged, in which he bluntly commented to Massey’s looks.
In another leaked clip, Keys and Gray used inappropriate comments towards colleague Charlotte Jackson, in which Gray asked her: ‘Charlotte, can you tuck this [microphone pack] down here for me love… Tuck this down here.’
Grey was fired in January 2011, and Keys resigned the following day.
Keys later said: ‘Prehistoric banter isn’t acceptable in the modern world. I accept that. We failed to change when the world has changed. We wholeheartedly apologise for our behaviour. It was wrong. I deserve to be battered. I can stand up and take a beating. I’m not sorry for me, I’m sorry for Sian Massey.’
Gray also said: ‘If off-air conversations of television and radio presenters were recorded, there would be no one left working. That is not to defend what happened.’
After 12 years apart, the couple appeared in a Piers Morgan Uncensored interview.
During the chat, Keys said he ‘regretted’ his comments, and added: ‘In isolation, my questioning whether she knew the offside law was unacceptable.’
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.’
Keys had his big break in 1984 as the primary anchor of ITV’s breakfast show TV-am, before leaving for in 1990, where he led their Premier League and UEFA Champions League coverage, as well as working for Al Jazeera.
In 2008, he resigned from the broadcaster after being filmed making inappropriate remarks towards linesman Sian Massey.