{"id":30118,"date":"2025-07-29T02:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30118\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T02:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:56:10","slug":"eden-confidential-gb-news-presenter-ellie-costello-ties-the-knot-with-partner-gerard-durkan-in-three-day-irish-celebration-at-16th-century-french-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30118\/","title":{"rendered":"EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: GB News presenter Ellie Costello ties the knot with partner Gerard Durkan in three-day Irish celebration at 16th-century French castle"},"content":{"rendered":"

GB News<\/a> breakfast presenter Ellie Costello has a joyful bulletin to report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Eamonn Holmes<\/a>‘s co-host has said ‘I Do’ for a second time to her partner Gerard Durkan in an intimate ceremony at Chateau de Robernier, a 16th-century French castle in Provence.<\/p>\n

The couple, who have been together for seven years, after first meeting at university, held a civil ceremony earlier this year in Chelsea’s Old Town Hall in London.<\/p>\n

Ellie, 31, tells me: ‘We definitely felt like this was our real wedding. We got married in a church, we exchanged rings, and we literally “tied the knot,” which is an ancient Celtic tradition of having the priest tie a knot over your hands to represent your lives being bound together.’<\/p>\n

She adds: ‘We’re going to celebrate our anniversary on 12th July, which is our French wedding date.’<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the fairytale-like venue, which locals call the ‘sleeping beauty castle’, hosted three days of celebrations for the newlyweds, including a free-flowing rose pool party.<\/p>\n

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GB News breakfast presenter Ellie Costello has a joyful bulletin to report, as Eamonn Holmes’s co-host has said ‘I Do’ for a second time to her partner Gerard Durkan<\/p>\n

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The couple, who have been together for seven years, after first meeting at university, held a civil ceremony earlier this year in Chelsea’s Old Town Hall in London<\/p>\n

The couple also honoured their Irish heritage with an Irish band and an open mic session on the Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

Among the guests was her GB News co-presenter Stephen Dixon, with whom she hosts the breakfast show, which recently won a TRIC award for best news programme, on Thursdays and Fridays<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘It was the wedding of our dreams,’ says Ellie. ‘The atmosphere was electric and our guests told us they thought they were in a film.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘It’s everything we could have possibly hoped for.’<\/p>\n

While Ellie opted to wear a long-sleeved, buttoned, white mini dress for her civil ceremony, this time around she chose a traditional design by Allure Bridals and Jimmy for her nuptials in the South of France.<\/p>\n

She says of the design: ‘I saw it online and I knew it was the one because I had such a strong vision of what I wanted my wedding dress to look like.<\/p>\n

‘I’m very impulsive, and the ladies in the dress shop kept encouraging me to try on other dresses, but I just knew that it was my dress.<\/p>\n

‘I had it customised to make the straps removable, I also chose to add a large hoop in the skirt and a cathedral length train.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ellie, 31, tells me: ‘We definitely felt like this was our real wedding. We got married in a church, we exchanged rings, and we literally “tied the knot”‘<\/p>\n

\"While <\/p>\n

While Ellie opted to wear a long-sleeved, buttoned, white mini dress for her civil ceremony, this time around she chose a traditional design by Allure Bridals and Jimmy\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I wanted my dress to look timeless and regal, but also glamorous. Hopefully I managed to achieve that.’<\/p>\n

The final touches of glamour came from jeweller Neil Duttson, who supplied the Bride’s wedding jewellery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘He lent me a 25-carat necklace and 2-carat earrings which absolutely made the dress,’ reveals Ellie.<\/p>\n

The news star admits she put herself on a gruelling physical regime to be in the best shape possible for her big day.<\/p>\n

‘In terms of prep for the wedding, I had a series of NeoGen treatments with Ayla Aesthetics to help with my acne scarring and pigmentation and used skin boosters and polynucleotides.<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The couple also honoured their Irish heritage with an Irish band and an open mic session on the Sunday evening<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The final touches of glamour came from jeweller Neil Duttson, who supplied the Bride’s wedding jewellery (Seen with GB News co-star Stephen Dixon)<\/p>\n

‘I started Zero Gravity reformer Pilates straight after getting engaged, and over the past 18 months, it has transformed my body and leaned me out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘It’s the only exercise I’ve ever enjoyed, and I find the classes are such a good way to switch off from the stresses of the newsroom.<\/p>\n

She adds: ‘Gerard and I both got composite bonding done at Smiles and Smiles to get our smiles wedding-ready.’<\/p>\n

Indeed, she admits the newlyweds are still smiling and are on ‘cloud nine’ following their French ceremony and says: ‘We can’t wait for the next chapter in our lives together’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GB News breakfast presenter Ellie Costello has a joyful bulletin to report.\u00a0 As Eamonn Holmes‘s co-host has said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,97,5909,96,6189,388,478,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-30118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dailymail","tag-eamonn-holmes","tag-entertainment","tag-gb-news","tag-london","tag-tvshowbiz","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}