Tv set pundit Richard Keys has released an astonishing online tirade soon after tying the knot with a lady fifty percent his age.
Keys, 66, married lawyer Lucie Rose, 35, in a very low-key open-air ceremony at the weekend surrounded by just a couple of close household and buddies.
The pair satisfied in 2016 following he stop Sky Athletics and though he was even now married to spouse of 36 decades Julia – the mother of their two kids.
Photos of the ceremony, which was at Kingswear close to Brixham, Devon, on Saturday afternoon emerged on social media accounts of Lucie’s friends.
Soon after news of their romantic relationship emerged Julia discovered how she experienced been still left ‘devastated’ by the affair as she was recovering from thyroid most cancers.
But in a furious rant Keys lashed out on his on the internet site and mentioned: ‘When my very first relationship collapsed my spouse was not struggling with cancer. She’d been in remission after a dreadful scare – a person she managed with dignity and bravery.
Richard Keys, 66, married Lucie Rose, 35, in a very low-critical open-air ceremony at the weekend surrounded by just a couple near spouse and children and friends
Lucie Rose, 35, (correct) is pictured with Richard Keys’ daughter Jemma, 38
Keys (centre) pictured with his ex-spouse Julia (still left) and their daughter Jemma (suitable)
‘And I was with her just about every move of the way. She is nonetheless incredibly substantially alive and well, whilst it is true that most cancers sufferers often require to be mindful about their health and fitness.’
Keys also hit out at statements expressing his affair with Lucie did not ‘wreck’ his small children Joshua and Jemma’s lives saying ‘one was 28 and the other 32’ – even though neither attended the weekend wedding day.
His assault arrived after Julia claimed in a past interview that the affair had ruined the occupation of previous Hollyoaks actress Jemma who experienced spiralled into alcoholism and despair.
The sporting activities presenter, who now will work for Qatar dependent BeIn sporting activities, also dismissed statements that Lucie and his daughter were being buddies, expressing: ‘Lucie was in no way my daughters’ buddy – allow on your own her ideal friend.
‘They achieved twice. The circumstances really do not make a difference – at this phase. That’s a little something I’ll deal with going ahead.’
Speaking of his departure from Sky Sports in January 2011 soon after he and fellow pundit Andy Grey had produced disparaging remarks about a female referee Keys explained: ‘I resigned of my own volition after Sky sacked Andy.
‘As he himself has claimed “they have been immediately after me. Keysie was collateral damage”. He’s my mate. I will generally stand by him – just as he has me.’
A supply near to Julia said: ‘She has moved on with her daily life and put her marriage to Richard behind her but she’s adamant the kids ended up influenced by the affair – in spite of what he says and them currently being grown up as he implies would make no big difference. It hit them equally really hard.
‘The dilemma with Richard is that the truth of the matter hurts and sadly he does not know what the truth of the matter is.’
Keys split with his ex-spouse Julia when information of his shock partnership with Lucie emerged in 2016. A source close to Julia mentioned she was unaware of the wedding ceremony until eventually she gained a text from Richard just two hours ahead of it took spot.
Julia shared her thoughts on the news in an distinctive job interview, telling MailOnline: ‘What can I say – I’m in a new romantic relationship now and I’ve put Richard and our relationship guiding me now.
Lucie, 35, married Keys, 66 on Saturday. The previous Sky Sporting activities presenter had formerly denied owning an affair with her
Lucie displays off her physique in a snap shared on social media
Lucie (pictured in an undated social media photograph) was noticed with Keys at a 5-star lodge in London final week
‘I desire him and Lucie all the most effective. If that is what would make him content then I am joyful for him but as for me it truly is all in the earlier now. I’m in a new romantic relationship and I am actually joyful and that is all I want to concentrate on.
‘It looks as if he is joyful as properly from the images so all the most effective to them. As I say anything to do with Richard and our relationship is in the previous so I would like them well.’
Keys’ daughter Jemma also faced authorized action around a string of abusive texts she despatched to Lucie prior to fees had been dropped by prosecutors.
Keys proposed to Lucie two many years in the past and they finally exchanged vows on Saturday under cobalt blue skies and blazing sunshine.
Speaking to The Solar just before the ceremony, Keys claimed: ‘I’m a really blessed man, even though feeling a little bit nervous. We’re heading off to Canada for our honeymoon which is a little bit unique.
‘Then it can be back to get the job done for each of us in August and the commence of the soccer period for me. People today imagine I could be a little bit prolonged in the tooth now but I you should not treatment.’
The couple ended up pictured on social media last week making the most of beverages at a £400-a-night time, five-star lodge in London. In April, they sent out ‘save the dates’ to guests along with £45 bottles of personalised Veuve Clicquot champagne.
An invite noticed by MailOnline reveals how the pair booked lodging for wedding day friends at the four-star, £245 a night Dart Marina Lodge in Dartmouth and laid on a ferry to shuttle attendees across the river to the location.
It additional: ‘Dartmouth, Kingswear and Brixham have a array of other accommodation selections on give and Lucie simply because we all know Dickie is worthless at this would be content to deliver many others if any person needs support.’
Less than the heading gown code, it provides: ‘We do not want to inhibit your style and flair so we are not telling everyone what to put on, except just be certainly wonderful darlings.’
In advance of Saturday’s ceremony there ended up pre-wedding ceremony drinks at the Dart Marina Lodge whilst the ceremony by itself started out at 1pm and was followed ‘by a working day of food and fun’.
The nuptials finished on Sunday with a publish marriage ceremony ‘hair of the dog’ get together at a location that was to be confirmed and was organized by a neighborhood wedding ceremony planner known as Rebecca Marie, who is a close friend of Lucie’s.
Lucie and Keys observing a Brighton v Coventry Metropolis game at the Amex Stadium on February 17, 2018
The pair married in a £20,000 ceremony attended by shut loved ones and pals at this clifftop location in Devon
Photographs posted on social media demonstrate Keys donning a silver-grey fit standing opposite Lucie who is sporting a white wedding robe and keeping a bouquet of white roses.
A pal of Lucie’s wrote together with the image: ‘Non end enjoy for the past several days,’ with a heart emoji.
Amongst other company ended up Keys sister Susan and some of his buddies from BeInsports.
It emerged in September 2016 that Julia Keys had filed for divorce on grounds of adultery amid accusations her partner experienced an affair with Lucie.
The pair ended up comprehended to have been released by a mutual acquaintance on the expat social circuit in Qatari cash Doha, wherever Keys was working as a presenter for Television set network BeIN Sports.
At the time, it was described that Julia, a psychotherapist, felt her spouse experienced ‘run out of chances’ immediately after she experienced stood by him after he left Sky Sports activities.
Keys and co-presenter Andy Grey produced offensive off-air remarks about Leading League official Massey, declaring she did not know the offside rule.
In a different studio dialogue, which was filmed but not transmitted, Keys questioned pundit Jamie Redknapp about a previous girlfriend, expressing ‘Did you smash it?’ indicating ‘did you have sexual intercourse with her?’
Keys experienced earlier denied leaving his wife although she had thyroid cancer, telling The Athletic in 2019: ‘I’ll mention the unmentionable for you. Did I go away my spouse combating cancer? No.
Keys with his ex wife Julia (right) and daughter Jemma (still left) at the HMV Soccer Extravaganza in London in 2004
Julia (viewed with Keys in 2006) has earlier composed about the psychological effects of her husband’s affair
‘I really don’t know what occurred. I do not know why our marriage finished the way it did, but my spouse was combating cancer for seven many years ahead of I left her and she experienced been in remission for seven a long time.
‘She and I went to London each individual working day of her fight, prior to a ground-breaking procedure that noticed her in a interval of recovery.
‘Julia experienced been in remission for seven a long time. I know how really hard it was for her when matters went erroneous.
‘I wasn’t likely to get started engaging in a tit-for-tat, he-claimed, she-said, respond to everything that was claimed about me.
‘If men and women feel that I walked away with my spouse battling cancer with a good friend of my daughter’s. I won’t be able to change that now.
‘Tell a lie 2 times and it turns into the reality. Explain to it on social media and it haunts you without end. I failed to fall in like with a friend of my daughter’s.’
In April 2018, Julia wrote about her husband’s affair in her e-book The MANScript, indicating: ‘Richard’s affair didn’t just devastate my planet, but the environment of our children Jemma and Josh as well.
‘It is only now, two several years on, that he has admitted he did have an affair with Lucie, as nicely as acknowledging his deceit and the destruction it has triggered.
She also explained to The Sunlight: ‘He satisfied Jemma’s close friend Lucie, who was doing the job in Doha, and the lies began. He claimed she and her close friends thought of him as their ”Doha Dad”.
‘I recall at Richard’s birthday bash, just as I was leaving, Lucie grabbed my arm and stated: ”Are you leaving now Julia?’ She was so insistent, and I thought it was odd – then Richard was ages coming home.
Richard Keys (appropriate) now provides a football programme in Qatar just after he resigned from Sky Sports pursuing a sexism row
‘When I questioned him, he’d said Lucie wanted to converse to him as she experienced a trouble. I you should not truly feel bitter to Lucie, but deeply dissatisfied that she could devastate our relatives like this.’
Jemma told in 2018 how her mother found out WhatsApp messages from Lucie on his telephone although they have been on holiday in St Ives.
‘I heard Mum shouting, “Your father’s been possessing an affair,” ‘ Jemma advised the Everyday Mail. ‘My heart stopped. Then I questioned, ‘With who?’ ‘
In the midst of her soreness Jemma began bombarding Lucie with abusive and threatening late-evening text messages which referred to her as ‘the filthiest sl**’ and a ‘Qatar w****’.
1 warned, ominously: ‘I’m seeing every single shift you make. You really don’t know what is actually coming.’
Jemma has since claimed she was in a state of ‘alcoholic blackout’ when she sent them – and would never ever have done it although sober.
She was radically arrested in a morning law enforcement raid, and claims 3 officers putting on overall body armour threw her into a law enforcement van in her pyjamas.
She faced an unseemly courtroom scenario in the full glare of the media and, perhaps, a 6-thirty day period jail sentence.
But even with remaining billed with harassment and showing in advance of magistrates, she was spared the humiliation of a whole trial when the Crown Prosecution Assistance (CPS) dropped the circumstance.