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.
Keys 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 Keys has denied an affair took place, saying: ‘I’ll mention the unmentionable for you. Did I leave my wife fighting cancer? 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 Sky Sports?
Keys and his co-pundit Andy Gray were involved in a sexism scandal in which they were heard making derogatory comments about female referee Sian Massey.
They later apologised, after a leaked audio tape heard them refer to female assistant 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 later apologised for his comments, but a second video later emerged of Gray talking to pitch-side reporter Andy Burton, in which he crudely referred to Massey’s appearance.
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.’
Gray was sacked in January 2011, with Keys resigning the next 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.’
The pair later appeared in a Piers Morgan Uncensored interview, 12 years after their departure.
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 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.
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