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Telegraph
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Frank Skinner gets married after being turned down four times
Comedian and presenter Frank Skinner said he has married his long-term girlfriend, Cath Mason, after she rejected his proposals four times. Skinner, 68, previously presented The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio's breakfast slot for 15 years, leaving the station in May 2024, and now hosts the podcast Frank Off The Radio alongside co-hosts Emily Dean and Pierre Novellie. Speaking during an episode released on Friday, Skinner told his co-hosts that the pair got married on Monday at Camden Town Hall after being together for 24 years. He said: 'You'll never guess what I did on Monday. I got married. 'Don't be offended. We didn't invite anyone. We got married on the stairs, not in a room, but on the stairs at Camden Town Hall. 'What the thing that no one ever says about getting married is it's quite embarrassing. How can I put it? It's a bit basic, getting married.' In an interview with The Sun in 2024, the comedian shared that he proposed and got rejected by Mason, a talent agent, four times. When she agreed to his latest proposal, he said Mason told him that she did not want to have a big party with lots of guests or wear a white dress. Instead she wore a 'flowery dress'. The couple share a son together, Buzz, who Skinner said attended the wedding as a witness. He said: 'We had our child there. I think you have to have them now to a modern marriage, it's like something old, something new, something boring, something blue and your children.' He also added that the pair entered to the song Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul by The Fall. 'That sounds gimmicky. That sounds like getting married by Elvis in Vegas,' he said. 'But in fact, The Fall meant so much to me and Cath when we were in our early days, so it was actually quite an emotional thing.' When asked why they decided to get married, he said: 'I don't know why, I just thought maybe I got too much money. I'll give her half of it in about five years' time.' The comedian is best known for presenting BBC One's comedy talk show Room 101 and several series of Portrait/Landscape Artist Of The Year for Sky Arts. He also co-wrote the football anthem Three Lions with David Baddiel. He was made an MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours list and was inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame in December 2015. His show won a number of gold awards at the Radio Academy's Audio And Radio Industry Awards (Arias), including best entertainment/comedy production in 2017 and best community programming for his conversation with Al Gore.
BBC News
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Frank Skinner finally gets married after four proposal rejections
Frank Skinner has revealed he has married his girlfriend Cath Mason after 24 years comedian and presenter shared the news on his podcast, Frank Off The Radio on an episode broadcast on Friday morning, alongside co-hosts Emily Dean and Pierre Novellie."You'll never guess what I did on Monday, I got married", the 68-year-old said, adding: "Don't be offended, we didn't invite anyone".He confirmed that their only witness was their son Buzz, who was born in 2012, and that the marriage took place at Camden Town Hall. Skinner previously said during an interview with The Sun in 2024 that he had asked Mason to marry him four times, but she had always declined."Maybe it's some terrible personal reason that I don't know about," he said, "that she doesn't actually like me as much as I think she does."Her parents got divorced, so she got a bit cynical about it and thinks if we get married it would be like a slight curse on the thing," he went on to who met Mason when she was working for his management company, says their wedding was not a traditional one at her request."I don't want a load of guests, I'm not going in a church. I don't want a ring," he says she told added: "The thing that no one ever says about getting married is it's quite embarrassing. How can I put it? It's a bit basic getting married."Instead of a white dress, Skinner says "she wore a flowery dress" and they walked down the aisle to Lie Dream Of a Casino Soul by The Fall as the Manchester post-punk group "meant so much to me and Cath when we were in our early days".He says Mason also kept her own name and does not wear a ring now that they are married. When he was asked why they had decided now was the right time, he said: "I don't know why. I just thought, "Maybe I've got too much money, I'll give her half in about five years time!" and denied that it was "a tax thing", adding "I'm not planning on dying anytime soon". Skinner, whose real name is Christopher Graham Collins, is probably best-known for writing the lyrics and singing on football song Three Lions, with David Baddiel and The Lightening Seeds, and for his TV and radio hosted The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio from 2009 to 2024, before moving the format over to the also hosted The Frank Skinner show for 10 years on ITV from 1995 to 2005 and Room 101 on the BBC between 2012 and 2018.
