The Chase star Paul Sinha has announced he married long-term partner Olly over the weekend.
Speaking on his personal blog, the quiz-master described the wedding as the ‘greatest day’ of his life.
The celebrations had lots of personal touches, including lyrics to the Pet Shop Boys hit Love Comes Quickly being used as the first reading.
Comedian Paul then entertained his 75 guests with a self-written song and dance number at the reception.
“Halfway through the song, I was thinking, “I am having the f**king time of my life,” said Paul. “My clan were meeting his clan, and everything was wonderful in the world.”
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The party reached a jubilant end with Paul and his new husband Olly stood on chairs ‘destroying’ Carter USM’s cover of The Impossible Dream.
“Best of all, when I woke up the next morning, I realised: I hadn’t thought about my Parkinson’s once.”
Paul was diagnosed with the condition in May this year.
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Speaking to the BBC today, he said that he does not feel unlukly and that he is “living the life he wants to live.”
“We all have in life terrible misfortune, and terribly good fortune and you have got to embrace both. I don’t consider myself unlucky.” said Paul.
Sinha, also known as The Sinnerman in the ITV show, spoke to Elis James and John Robins on BBC Radio 5 Live about how he has handled the news about his illness.
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He explains: “My mental health has been through everything this year, and I’m not saying it’s easy but I don’t feel depressed. I feel energised. I’ve written a show and it took me six weeks to write. It’s never taken me such a short time to write a show. And it’s really good, it’s far more ambitious than any other full length show I’ve done.
“It’s born from a ferocity of spirit, I want to take chances.”
Paul originally trained as a doctor but turned his back on medicine to become a stand-up comedian.
“I’ve had a tough life. I ended up doing a career that I never ever wanted to do, which was medicine, because I was pushed into it by medical parents and the cultural values they represented and I ended up doing a job I was OK at but absolutely hated.
“I was the most unhappy drunk you could possibly imagine. I was the guy who would be crying in the corner of his own birthday party… It was a cry for help because being single and being someone who felt excluded by the gay scene I just never got to meet the kind of people I wanted to go out with let alone be in a position where I could ask them out…
“Now, paradoxically, I’m happy. I’m happy because I am the person I wanted to be – (a) professional comedian and professional quizzer. How could I possibly be having more of a dream life than the one I’m having now?”
