He became a father for the first time at 56 – and now it appears actor Tom Hollander has fully immersed himself in domestic life by marrying fiancée Fran Hickman.
They sparked rumours they had married in secret after they were pictured the morning after his 58th birthday this week.
Tom – who at 5ft 4ins is nicknamed a ‘sex thimble’ – and Fran were wearing gold bands on their wedding ring fingers as they loaded a pram into their car outside Claridge’s in Mayfair.
They held their two year-old son and kissed as they prepared to leave London after an apparent short break.
Tom, who starred in The White Lotus and sitcom Rev, and interior designer Fran – 17 years his junior – have had a chequered romance since meeting two decades ago.
After an initial engagement, they split in 2010 only to rekindle their romance in the pandemic when they had dinner at Mayfair restaurant Scott’s.
He became a father for the first time at 56 – and now it appears actor Tom Hollander (pictured this week, seemingly with a wedding ring) has fully immersed himself in domestic life by marrying fiancée Fran Hickman
They sparked rumours they had married in secret after they were pictured the morning after his 58th birthday this week (pictured)
Tom – who at 5ft 4ins is nicknamed a ‘sex thimble’ – and Fran were wearing gold bands on their wedding ring fingers as they loaded a pram into their car outside Claridge’s in Mayfair (pictured)
She then moved into his £2million West London flat and friends say she has ‘never left’.
Two years ago they welcomed their son and Tom is believed to have proposed for a second time, before they swapped their Notting Hill home for Oxfordshire last year.
In his time apart from Fran, Tom dated Jemima Goldsmith, 51, ex-wife of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan.
In the early 2000s he had a relationship with Daphne Guinness, 57, daughter of peer Jonathan Guinness.
Tom gave a candid insight into his life in 2020 when an article he wrote for a Sunday newspaper went viral, just after he and Fran reunited.
He wrote: ‘I wake at 3 or 4am. Not because I’m like Mrs Thatcher but because I need to pee. I pee in the darkness using my phone screen to illuminate the target.’
Bafta-winning Tom is in eight-part thriller The Iris Affair on Sky Atlantic later this year. A spokesman declined to comment on the couple’s marriage.
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Tom Hollander spotted with wedding ring on his finger as ‘sex thimble’ appears to have tied the knot with fiancée Fran Hickman