Richard Curtis says it has simply been ”simpler” to not marry his girlfriend of 28 years Emma Freud.
The 62-year-old screenwriter – who has penned a number of hit romantic comedy movies resembling ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’, ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ and ‘Love Actually’ – admitted that though he ”believes in” the idea of marriage he by no means tied the knot along with his accomplice Emma – with whom he has kids Jake, Spike, Scarlett and Charlie – as he feared he and his mom would disagree on plans for the large day.
Speaking on the ‘Table Manners with Jessie Ware’ podcast, he shared: ”It’s not that I do not imagine in it. I believe the marriage my mum would have wished isn’t the marriage I might have wished.
”Consequently it was simpler to not get married as a result of it did not make a lot distinction when it comes to kids.”
Emma, 57, beforehand insisted that neither she nor her long-term accomplice may ”think about taking place an aisle” and says one of many causes she by no means wed Richard was as she thought if the 2 by no means married they would not be capable of divorce.
She mentioned: ”When we had been engaged on ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ we added up the variety of weddings we had each been to and it was over 100.
”Those weddings had been the premise of the film, and in addition the rationale that neither of us may think about taking place an aisle. And I all the time thought that if we did not get married, we may by no means get divorced.”
However, the broadcaster added that Richard has beforehand ”introduced her with a hoop”.
She mentioned: ”He did current me with a hoop 27 years in the past and ask me if I’d spend the remainder of my life not being married to him. He’s a superb boyfriend, and is every part I like in life.”
