Jon Richardson engaged to fellow comedian Lucy Beaumont
Jon Richardson has publicly revealed his engagement to fellow comedian Lucy Beaumont via his Channel 4 TV show Jon Richardson Grows Up.
As part of the programme - in which the 8 Out Of 10 Cats star travelled around the UK in a campervan with fellow comedian Matt Forde to uncover the nation's differing attitudes to love, sex and marriage - Richardson spoke about his relationship in-depth for the first time.
He said: "It's odd when we met. You obviously get that instant spark of romance and all that, but then also, with me and Lucy, we were very comfortable together very early."
He added: "I am very lucky. If I'd have read that I met someone and - within a couple of dates - we were going out, and then we went on holiday together, and then she moved in a few months later, I would have scoffed at it."
Summing up what he had discovered over the course of their trip, Richardson told Forde: "Fundamentally I've come back feeling that me and Lucy will probably get married, which - in terms of the view I've held all my life, never mind over the past week - is fucking enormous. It's almost like U turn isn't enough."
Richardson popped the question after filming had completed, with a caption added to the end of the programme (pictured) during the editing process to confirm "Jon & Lucy are now engaged".
Talking earlier in a Guardian interview about his OCD and relationships, Richardson said: "I notice if I walk Lucy to the station and we're chatting and being a couple, then I'm happy and I don't notice any of my obsessions. But the minute she gets on the train and I have to walk back on my own, I start noticing how many cracks I've stood on. It's when you're on your own that those sorts of things come to get you."
Lucy Beaumont, who is originally from Hull but now lives with Richardson in Surrey, won the BBC New Comedy Award competition in 2012. She was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award for her show We Can Twerk It Out at the Edinburgh Festival this August.
Writing on Twitter this morning, Beaumont posted: "If you tweeted me about 'you know what' thank you very much, very sweet and I'm very lucky. Xx"
The full episode of Jon Richardson Grows Up is available to Watch on 4oD
Below is a clip from Lucy Beaumont's current show: