BBC Breakfast's Carol Kirkwood says she 'shouldn’t really' as she breaks silence on intimate winter wedding

Carol Kirkwood has opened up about her intimate winter wedding for the first time as she returned to work on BBC Breakfast. The weather expert left her co-stars and fans thrilled at the end of December when she revealed she tied the knot with partner Steve Randall.

She's now shared how it was a small ceremony at Cliveden House in Buckinghamshire just after Christmas, on December 27, with the 61-year-old saying on BBC Breakfast on Monday morning (January 15): “I cannot tell you how fabulous it’s been."

Carol continued: "You shouldn’t really be talking like this about your own wedding, but it was blissful. It was romantic. It was absolutely perfect. And I would not change a thing about the day."

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She added: "It was very small as well and intimate so you didn’t have to worry that Auntie Nellie didn’t have a glass of sherry in her hand. You know, that kind of thing."

When presenter Jon Kay quipped: "Does that mean you had all the sherry?", she replied: "You know me far too well." Carol said she had been "quite overwhelmed and very touched" by all the good wishes she had received from Breakfast viewers about her "perfect day".

Asked how the weather was for the ceremony, Carik, who was previously married for 25 years to businessman Jimmy Kirkwood, said: "There was a storm! Storm Gerrit, can you believe it? But we didn’t even notice it."

Caorl revealed the couple were engaged on BBC Breakfast in May 2022, saying she had had “absolutely no idea” her partner was going to propose. At the time, she showed off her engagement ring during a weather