Former Sky Sports presenter Richard Keys marries friend of his daughter, Lucie Rose after denying he left his wife for her while she was fighting cancer
Shamed football pundit Richard Keys has secretly tied the knot with his daughter’s friend after previously denying falling in love with the young lawyer while his wife was fighting cancer.
The former Sky Sports News presenter, 66, married Lucie Rose, 35, in a £20,000 ceremony attended by family and friends, which did not include his 38-year-old daughter Jemma or son Joshua.
He split with Julia Keys after 36 years of marriage when news of his shock relationship emerged in 2016, with his ex revealing how the affair ‘devastated’ her as she recovered from thyroid cancer and also wrecked the lives of their two children.
Julia said the affair ruined the career of her Hollyoaks actress daughter as she spiralled into alcoholism and depression. Jemma also faced legal action over a string of abusive texts she sent to Lucie before charges were dropped by prosecutors.
Keys – who resigned from his £500,000-a-year job fronting Sky’s Premier League coverage in 2011 after making disparaging remarks about female linesman Sian Massey-Ellis – proposed to Lucie two years ago.
Covid postponed the wedding several times, but they finally exchanged vows last weekend in an open-air civil ceremony in Kingswear near Brixham, Devon under cobalt blue skies and blazing sunshine.
It emerged in September 2016 that Julia Keys had filed for divorce on grounds of adultery amid accusations her husband had an affair with Lucie.
The pair were understood to have been introduced by a mutual acquaintance on the expat social circuit in Qatari capital Doha, where Keys was working as a presenter for TV network BeIN Sports.
At the time, it was reported that Julia, a psychotherapist, felt her husband had ‘run out of chances’ after she had stood by him following his sacking by Sky Sports.