{"id":364677,"date":"2025-12-22T14:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364677\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:35:40","slug":"aussie-model-megan-gale-reveals-shes-secretly-married-her-afl-star-partner-shaun-hampson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364677\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie model Megan Gale reveals she’s secretly married her AFL star partner Shaun Hampson"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\ufeffustralian model Megan Gale<\/a> has confirmed she secretly married<\/a> her partner Shaun Hampson a year ago.<\/p>\n

Despite spending years in the public eye, Gale, 50, decided to keep her nuptuals completely private, tying the knot in a quaint ceremony on Vomo Island in Fiji. \ufeff<\/p>\n

Gale confirmed the marriage in an interview with \ufeffMarie Claire Australia, saying the vows took place in December 2024 with only their mothers and children present.<\/p>\n

\"MELBOURNE,Shaun Hampson and Megan Gale are officially married. (Getty Images for NGV)<\/p>\n

“When so much of my life has been public, it was really nice to not have this shared or over-shared,” Gale said.<\/p>\n

“We wanted it just for us and the family. We told them at dinner the night before, there was a lot of ‘What? No way!’ <\/p>\n

“But it made it more special.”<\/p>\n

Gale said it was exactly the wedding she’d hoped for, and the celebrations ended with her jumping into a sea of water fully clothed.<\/p>\n

The couple only decided to share the news now as enough time had passed.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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\"MELBOURNE,“When so much of my life has been public, it was really nice to not have this shared or over-shared,” Gale said. (Getty Images for NGV)<\/p>\n

Gale and Hampson, a former AFL player, 37, began dating in 2011.<\/p>\n

They welcomed their two children \u2013 son River, 11, and daughter Rosie, eight \u2013 before he proposed in 2017.<\/p>\n

Gale previously spoke out on how she was labelled a “cougar” due to her 12-year age gap with Hampson, something the couple found quite challenging.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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“It was being turned into something scandalous,” she said in an interview at the time. <\/p>\n

“I was being called a cougar, he was being called a toyboy.”<\/p>\n

Gale’s modelling career soared back in 1999, when she was cast in a series of commercials for Omnitel (now Vodafone Italy).<\/p>\n

\"MELBOURNE,Gale held then Australia’s longest fashion contract with David Jones until 2015. (Getty)<\/p>\n

In 2001, she returned to Australia and signed a record-breaking contract as the Brand Ambassador for David Jones.<\/p>\n

She starred in the Hollywood movie Mad Max: Fury Road and became the host of Project Runway Australia and a judge on Australia’s Next Top Model.<\/p>\n

Hampson, meanwhile, played for Carlton from 2007 to 2013 before moving to Richmond from 2014 to 2018.<\/p>\n

He was forced into early retirement in 2018 due to a persistent back injury.<\/p>\n

He went on to appear on Australian Survivor: Champions v Contenders a year later in 2019, and later returned for \ufeffAustralian Survivor: Heroes v Villains.<\/p>\n

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