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Jessica Gibb

Grand Designs' Kevin McCloud, 63, discreetly remarries five years after split from wife

Grand Designs star Kevin McCloud has quietly married his partner Jenny Jones.

The presenter of the popular Channel 4 property and design programme started a relationship with the businesswoman last year - four years after he split from his wife of 23 years.

The new couple married in secret and are thought to be just back from their honeymoon.

Kevin split from his interior designer ex-wife in Suzanna McCloud, known as Zani, in December 2019 and they share a son and daughter.

Kevin also has has two other children from previous relationships and reportedly left the marital home suddenly.

"Zani is absolutely devastated. She came back home one day to find that Kevin had taken his things and left," a source told the Daily Mail at the time.

Mirror Online has contacted Kevin's representative for comment.

Kevin McCloud has enjoyed a career of observing the public creating their dream homes in Grand Designs.

He has seen countless successes and many failures over the years on the Channel 4 show.

It has been running for a staggering amount of time, with its premiere going back to 1999.

In all this time, viewers have never seen inside Kevin’s own home, which is surprising considering he never holds back his views on others.

The Grand Designs host split from his wife Zani in December 2019 (Channel 4)

Don’t hold your breath to see it though, as Kevin has publicly stated that we won’t be getting a tour of his house anytime soon.

Kevin appears to live in Frome in Somerset, formerly with his ex-wife Suzanna McCloud before their split.

It isn’t clear if he moved out after the split, as Kevin keeps his personal life very much under wraps.

However, he spent his childhood in a village in Bedfordshire, just north of London.

The little town had a range of architecture that inspired him to pursue the career he is now famed for.

It boasted 1930s semis, a row of 1940s bungalows and a 1950s estate, along with a Victorian school that he was educated in.

He's thought to be just back from his honeymoon (Paula Beetlestone 2016 (Channel 4 images must not be altered or manipulated in any way) CHANNEL 4 PICTURE PUBLICITY 124 HORSEFE)

Speaking to the Irish Times, he said: “All these kind of archetypes were just there:, you could reach out the window almost and touch them.”

Some Grand Designs viewers may think that Kevin would want to show off his humble abode, especially as his entire career is known for judging other people’s architectural delights.

However, he has never done so, and he has made it clear that it is something that almost certainly will never happen.

In a 2010 interview with the Daily Mail, Kevin said: "I don’t think I’m a celebrity. If I welcomed people into my lovely home every week in the pages of a magazine, they’d soon see how incredibly dull it is.”

“It’s important to maintain a bit of mystique.”

He added: "The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes."

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