I’m A Celebrity star Iain Lee has revealed he is engaged to his former talkRADIO co-host Katherine Boyle.
The broadcaster and comedian, 52, took to Instagram over the weekend to shared that he had popped the question in a romantic proposal during a holiday to Lake Como.
Iain shared the exciting news paired with a snap of himself and Katherine – who was first his producer then co-host on his talkRADIO show, which he was sacked from in 2020.
Sharing the snap, he wrote: ‘In case you’re wondering, as I’m sure everyone is, I proposed to @katherine_e_boyle on August 12th on Lake Como and for some strange reason she said yes.
‘This is seconds after it happened. We received a tepid round of applause from the person you can see faintly in the background.’
Meanwhile Katherine shared another engagement snap showing off her ring, which she captioned: ‘BTW this happened.’
I’m A Celebrity star Iain Lee has revealed on Instagram over the weekend that he is engaged to his former talkRADIO co-host Katherine Boyle
Iain commented on the post: ‘I love you and can’t wait to be your husband.’
It comes after Iain admitted last month that he was ‘incredibly obnoxious’ while in the throes of his drug addiction as he recalled his breakdown and ‘chaotic past’ in a candid new interview.
Iain was previously sober for 13 years until he relapsed in 2017 after appearing on I’m A Celebrity.. Get Me Out Of Here. He is now currently nearly five years sober.
He has also spoken openly about his battles with depression, revealing in May 2018 that he was sexually abused as a child.
Despite his TV success with The 11 O’Clock Show, in a new interview with The Guardian he told how he was ‘never proud’ of his work and ‘f***ed up his career’ due to his addiction.
He said: ‘I’m making peace with my past. I was never very proud of my TV career. I thought it was s**t.’
‘If anyone was f***ing up my career, it was me. I was taking loads and loads of drugs and becoming incredibly unreliable and obnoxious to work with… an a**hole.’
He added that he ‘didn’t know what he was doing’ for much of his TV career and ‘so I took cocaine and it gave me this false bravado. It looked like arrogance but it came from absolute terror.’
The broadcaster and comedian, 52, took to Instagram over the weekend to shared that he had popped the question in a romantic proposal during a holiday to Lake Como
Meanwhile Katherine shared another engagement snap showing off her ring, which she captioned: ‘BTW this happened’
Iain commented on the post: ‘I love you and can’t wait to be your husband’, to which Katherine replied: ‘It’s happening x’
He added that he still finds it hard to take any kind of compliment about his career as it is ‘so ingrained that I’m not very good, that I’m a terrible human being’.
Back in 2020 Iain marked 30 days ‘clean’ after admitting to suffering a drugs relapse the month before following more than two years of sobriety.
The TV personality took to Twitter at the time to reveal he was back on the wagon after he revealed on his show, The Late Night Alternative, he had taken drugs recently.
Discussing the experience, Iain told listeners it ‘wasn’t his drug of choice’, and made him feel a ‘little bit buzzy’, before giving him a headache and making him vomit.
He wrote on Twitter (now X): ’30 days clean and sober.’
Iain spoke about his long-term battle with drug addition during his call-in show the month before, after breaking his sobriety for the first time in two and a half years.
He told listeners: ‘So here’s the thing, I took drugs. After two and a half years clean, I took drugs. This is awful. It isn’t awful, but I feel awful.
‘Last weekend, not the weekend just gone, last weekend, I took some drugs. It wasn’t my drug of choice and it didn’t really do a lot, it gave me a terrible headache, it got me a little bit buzzy and it made me puke.’
Iain was previously sober for 13 years until he relapsed in 2017 after appearing on I’m A Celebrity.. Get Me Out Of Here.
He explained that at the time he didn’t reach out to his sponsor for Narcotics Anonymous because he believed he had the situation under control.
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