I’m A Celeb’s Tom Read Wilson opens up about marriage plans in sweet jungle chat
Tom Read Wilson is in the I’m A Celebrity jungle (ITV)
Tom Read Wilson is in the I'm A Celebrity jungle (ITV)
In a sweet I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! jungle chat Tom Read Wilson opened up about his change of heart regarding marriage.
The Celebs Go Dating client co-ordinator has already been deemed a “national treasure” for his entertaining qualities, which include impressive voice impersonations.
Opening up about marriage to his fellow campmates, Wilson, who shared on the show that he’s currently single, shared: “I was sort of ambivalent about marriage, but then I was so thrilled about that bill to equal marriage and I remember thinking, ‘This is such a beacon of parity,’ and it made me want to do it.”
The 39-year-old continued: “It suddenly made me think, ’Actually that’s a really lovely thing,’ and it also made me think completely differently about the institution of marriage, because I thought, ‘Oh, now it’s for all of us’.”
“It’s about love,” former EastEnders actor Martin Kemp responded, to which Wilson added: “Yes, for everybody, yes.”
@imacelebrity ”Marriage is for all of us” 🥹 #ImACeleb @officialt.r.w ♬ original sound – I'm A Celebrity…
March last year marked 10 years since the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill in England and Wales came into force (after being passed in July 2013) – the first same-sex marriages took place on 29 March 2014.
Same-sex marriage was also passed by the Scottish parliament in February 2014 through the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014, received royal assent on 12 March 2014, and came into effect on 16 December 2014, with Scottish same sex couples able to tie the knot from then.
Northern Ireland followed suit in 2019. The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 were signed by Secretary of State Julian Smith on 19 December 2019 and came into effect on 13 January 2020.
Wilson isn’t the only one who has spoken about the marriage while in the jungle. Former England Lioness Alex Scott revealed that she has been waiting for a proposal from her partner, singer Jess Glynne.
Glynne seemed happy to oblige, taking to her Instagram Stories to write: “I better go get a ring.”
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