TV host Lorraine Kelly has wedded a homosexual couple reside on her ITV present Lorraine, and left viewers in tears.
In at present’s present (27 March), Scottish TV host Lorraine Kelly was decked out in a glittering rainbow gown as she ready to marry Cardiff couple Luke Avaient and Gavin Sheppard.
Kelly, 64, introduced earlier this week that she would marry the couple in celebration of the ten-year anniversary of the primary same-sex marriage within the UK.
The UK’s first homosexual wedding ceremony happened on 29 March 2014, following the Marriage (Similar Intercourse {Couples}) Act 2013 being handed on 17 July 2013.
Through the heartfelt ceremony, NHS nurse Luke and property agent Gavin had been joined by their family and friends within the Lorraine studio, as Kelly requested them to learn out their lovable, private vows.
Addressing the couple, LGBTQ+ ally Lorraine Kelly stated that she wished to host the couple on her programme to “present individuals throughout the nation that love is love”.
Musical theatre singer Alfie Boe was available to spherical off the ceremony with a rendition of Foreigner’s energy ballad “I Wish to Know What Love Is”, whereas pop celebrity Anastacia despatched in a message congratulating the couple.
Gavin proposed to Luke in 2022 at an Anastacia live performance. The couple met in the summertime of 2019, initially by way of a relationship app, however correctly by way of an incidental hospital appointment in November that yr.
Luke was the nurse at one Gavin’s routine appointments, and the “connection” started then.
Because the couple’s family and friends members cheered throughout the reside ceremony, Kelly introduced that that they had additionally been gifted an all-inclusive journey to Santorini, Greece, as a honeymoon current.
The nuptial ceremony was transferring sufficient to ship Gavin into floods of tears, whereas viewers at dwelling additionally stated that they had been getting weepy.
“Props to #Lorraine and her workforce!! The media panorama is so hostile to something queer, and he or she’s confirmed herself to be a real ally with at present’s wedding ceremony. Beautiful, beautiful stuff to have a good time ten years of homosexual marriage,” one viewer shared.
Whereas a number of boring social media dwellers dubbed the reside wedding ceremony as “cringe”, and others launched into predictable requires Kelly to host a straight wedding ceremony subsequent, most had been merely comfortable to see one thing so candy on TV.
Talking to Angle journal forward of the ceremony, Kelly defined why she wished to host the homosexual wedding ceremony.
“We wished to have a good time the truth that it doesn’t [matter] who you like, all people needs to be allowed to like who they need to. I believed it was essential to mark that,” she stated.
“We by no means thought we’d see at the present time. We by no means thought there’d be this stage of acceptance… It’s joyful, it’s completely joyful.”