Clive Myrie: Mastermind host describes meeting wife Catherine as ‘love at first sight’
Clive Myrie, 56, opened up about how he met his wife Catherine, a talented antiques renovator, admitting it was “love at first sight”. The pair met 29 years ago and married six years later, and in a new interview, the BBC News star gushed over his beloved.
“I met Catherine, who then worked in publishing, at the 1992 London launch of a book about Swiss cheeses,” he explained.
“Even though I don’t much like cheese!”
He smiled: “It was love at first sight for me.”
They married at the Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Covent Garden right after he was promoted at work.
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“I’d just been made the BBC’s LA correspondent, so after returning to the UK for our big day, we flew back to the States before honeymooning on Venezuela’s Maracaibo coast,” he recalled.
Catherine is a furniture restorer and upholsterer, and the Mastermind host revealed the pair love to browse in second-hand stores and antique shops for new items.
“She picked up this beautiful early-19th-century chair for next to nothing at an auction,” Clive told the Daily Mail.
“It was a complete wreck but it now looks incredible.
The journalist, who was named Network Presenter of the Year, has been on TV for over 35 years, and in a new interview, he spoke of how he finds it “upsetting” that people feel the need to sent racist emails and messages to the BBC switchboard.
He’s even received cards with crude gorillas on the front and his fair share of death threats.
“Yes, it’s upsetting, but I feel an overwhelming sense of pity for these people,” Clive explained.
“The idea they’re superior to me because of their skin colour is so pathetic.”
His stance on cultural politics is carefully calibrated as he explained to Radio Times that while working for a corporation such as the BBC, he must remain impartial and dispassionate.
When asked his thoughts on taking the knee, he said: “People misunderstand what it means.
“It’s got b****r all to do with Black Lives Matter. It’s a gesture of humility, a moral gesture of shared humanity.”
When pressed about whether he would do it himself, he commented: “Because I work for the BBC. I’m not supposed to have a view.”
Clive’s full interview is available to read now in Radio Times.
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