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Privacy NoticeComedian and TV presenter Richard Osman is best known as one of the faces of BBC One’s Pointless, hosting the show with Alexander Arnold. Although Richard, 53, gave up his role on Pointless to focus on his writing, he continues to host Celebrity Pointless – which sees famous contestants attempt to give unpopular but correct answers to questions. While Richard is a very busy man – with his hit novel Thursday Murder Club being adapted into a film and his role hosting Richard Osman’s House of Games – not many fans are aware that he is happily married to a star who is famous in her own right.
Pointless Celebrities host Richard Osman met his Doctor Who star wife Ingrid when she took part on his BBC game show House of Games
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Richard tied the knot with actress Ingrid Oliver back in 2022 after the pair met two years earlier whilst filming his quiz show House of Games. Richard has previously spoken about the moment that the pair locked eyes on one another, having previous told Hello!: “Ingrid came on House of Games. I knew who she was through social media. We’d never met – I had never met her. I had a little twinkle in my eye, I’ll admit that. “She came on, we filmed that day together. Our first date is completely on camera. After filming, I was thinking: ‘How can I ask her for a drink, this is difficult.'” The couple married in December 2022 at Goodwood House in Sussex, with Richard describing his wedding day as “the best day” of his life. “It was everything we dreamed of,” he said in an interview. “We had friends there from school, university and every stage of our lives.”
Richard Osman with his wife Ingrid Oliver at Wimbledon 2024
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Richard, who has two children to a previous marriage, revealed that he walked down the aisle to Eminem hit Lose Yourself, explaining: “You only get one shot!” Meanwhile, Ingrid walked down the aisle to The Long and Winding Road by The Beatles. There was not a dry eye in the house,” he told Saga Magazine. Ingrid, 47, has taken on roles in Peep Show, Twenty Twelve, Defending the Guilty, Beyond Paradise and the film You, Me and Him. However, she’s best known for playing Petronella Osgood in Doctor Who and for starring in her 2012 sketch show Watson & Oliver with Lorna Watson. She is set to play the role of Joanna in Netflix’s The Thursday Murder Club, starring alongside Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie. Speaking about Ingrid being cast in the adaption of his book, Richard said on his podcast The Rest Is Entertainment: “It was not my idea, I have to say, but [writer/director] Chris Columbus’s idea.”
Richard Osman’s brother Mat is the bassist in rock band Suede
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Ingrid isn’t Richard’s only famous family connection – his older brother Mat is a member of the rock band Suede. Mat Osman, 56, is the bassist in Suede, which is best known for hits like Stay Together, Trash and Electricity. Speaking about his and his brother’s success, Mat told The Guardian: “Every now and then the pair of us do marvel at it because I think if you’d met us at about 15, you’d have thought, well… good luck to those two!” He said in another interview that the pair are close, adding: “The biggest difference between my world and his is that Rick has no interest in being cool. And he never has – it’s quite impressive. At the age of 15, he was writing for a golf magazine. He loves Saturday night TV, he loves Ant and Dec, he loves Busted. He doesn’t want to be Martin Scorsese and I’ve got so much respect for that.”Story SavedYou can find this story in  My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnBBC
