Konnie Huq to marry Screenwipe's Charlie Brooker

Konnie Huq to marry Screenwipe's Charlie Brooker
Konnie Huq to marry Screenwipe's Charlie Brooker (Image credit: UK Press/Press Association Image)

Konnie Huq is to tie the knot with Screenwipe host and writer Charlie Brooker, it has been confirmed. The former Blue Peter host, who has landed the job of hosting ITV2's The Xtra Factor, has been secretly dating Charlie for several months. Her spokeswoman said: "I can confirm they are engaged." The relationship is said to have blossomed since she appeared on his Screenwipe series on BBC Four last year. Cambridge-educated Konnie dated Radio 5 Live presenter Richard Bacon for many years. Charlie hosts Channel 4 series You Have Been Watching and wrote the station's zombie spoof Dead Set, broadcast in 2008. Earlier this year Konnie dropped a less than subtle hint about her relationship during an interview, when she revealed she was dating a TV screenwriter called Charlie. "He's definitely a keeper and I'm very happy," she said. "Is he 'the one?' Yes, but then I say that about everyone I date. Two weeks later, I've changed my mind. "I do want to get married and have at least three babies, but I know I need to get a move on. While I was in Blue Peter my life was on hold and suddenly I'm in my 30s. But I will get married. To Charlie? Maybe. We mustn't jinx things though."

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.