Ulrika Jonsson renews marriage vows

Ulrika Jonsson renews marriage vows
Ulrika Jonsson renews marriage vows (Image credit: PA)

TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson as put the "stresses and pressures" of the last few years to one side to renew her marriage vows on a Barbados beach. The former weathergirl, who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2009, said the ceremony with third husband Brian Monet was a chance "to do something special" after several years struggling with a chronic back condition that had taken her "down the lonely road of depression". She told Hello!: "Hard times either force you apart or bring you closer together. "The stresses and pressures we have experienced over the past couple of years, I am thrilled to say, have made us stronger." The couple were joined at the ceremony by their son Malcolm, three, and Ulrika's daughters, Martha and Bo, from previous relationships. She paid tribute to Brian who she said was "more than just my husband". She said: "He is a jaw-droppingly brilliant father who has the same values of parenthood as I do. "His patience knows no bounds; his love for our children is unconditional and their love for him completes our family entirely."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.