Tom Kerridge and his wife have been married for 24 years, yet started their romance in a very unconventional way. The TV chef, 50, is married to sculptor Beth Cullen-Kerridge, 54, having tied the knot back in 2000 and welcomed son Acey in 2015. Beth decided to pop the question just six weeks after meeting Tom at a bar.
He had finished a shift working as a chef in Covent Garden and despite wanting to go home, Tom headed out for a friend's birthday. Tom admitted his flatmate had to drag him along to the event, yet was greeted by Beth as he walked into the bar. “We went into Camden, walked into a bar and there was this loud northern woman,” he recalled to The Guardian.
He then shared what her first words to him were as he said: “She went: ‘You’re Tom. Give me £3 for the stripper.' That was the first sentence Beth said to me.
” Beth had been working with the brother of Tom's best friend and admitted they "talked for ages" that night. They hit it off so well that at one point someone asked them how long they had been going out with each other. Just six weeks on, Beth proposed at 1am on a Saturday in Leicester Square.
They said 'I do' in an old theatre in north London and hosted "about 200 people" in a small Kings Cross pub. However, they have had a few ups and downs throughout their romance as Tom recently confessed to branding Beth "unemployable". In an appearance on the Stirring It Up podcast hosted by Andi and Miquita Oliver, Beth chimed in: "I was quite horrified.
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