{"id":395108,"date":"2026-01-28T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395108\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:22:13","slug":"ellie-costello-shares-first-glimpse-at-honeymoon-break-away-from-screens-after-confirming-gb-news-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395108\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellie Costello shares first glimpse at honeymoon break away from screens after confirming GB News absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

GB News Breakfast presenter Ellie Costello has given fans a first peek at her long-awaited honeymoon getaway, 24 hours after she revealed on Tuesday that she is stepping away from the morning programme to embark on the trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the presenter shared her excitement with viewers, announcing she would be jetting off on a safari adventure \u2013 a trip she has always dreamed of taking.<\/p>\n

Speaking on air alongside Eamonn Holmes, Ellie explained the half-year delay between her summer nuptials and the honeymoon.<\/p>\n

“We had to have this gap because we got married six months ago, and you all know it was an extravaganza in South France,” she told viewers.<\/p>\n

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Ellie Costello is currently on a break from Breakfast <\/p>\n

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Eamonn quipped about the timing: “She got married last summer, and now she’s got the honeymoon.”<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old first exchanged vows with her partner, Gerard Durkan, at Chelsea Old Town Hall on April 12 in an intimate civil ceremony.<\/p>\n

Three months later, the couple celebrated again with a gorgeous three-day affair at Chateau de Robernier, a historic 16th-century castle in Provence that locals have nicknamed the “sleeping beauty castle”.<\/p>\n

24 hours after announcing her temporary absence from Breakfast, Ellie has taken to Instagram to share a peek at how she and her other half are celebrating their romantic getaway.<\/p>\n

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Ellie Costello kicked off her honeymoon in style <\/p>\n

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The People’s Channel fan-favourite shared a snap from her seat on board the British Airways flight to Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Getting into the honeymoon spirit, a glass could be seen on the side ahead of the long-haul flight in business class.<\/p>\n

Ellie completed the update with the emojis of a pot of honey and a half-moon, symbolising, of course, “honeymoon”.<\/p>\n

The GB News star and her beau met at university. The two branded their French wedding the ceremony of “their dreams”.<\/p>\n

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Ellie Costello regularly fronts Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes <\/p>\n

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“We definitely felt like this was our real wedding,” Ellie told the Daily Mail last year following her nuptials.<\/p>\n

“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

The festivities at the Provence venue included a rose pool party with free-flowing drinks, while the couple paid tribute to their Irish roots with a traditional Irish band and open mic session on the final evening.<\/p>\n

Fellow GB News presenter Stephen Dixon, who co-hosts the Thursday and Friday breakfast shows with Ellie, was among those attending the celebration.<\/p>\n

For her civil ceremony, the bride wore a long-sleeved white mini dress with buttons, while her French wedding called for a more traditional gown by Allure Bridals and Jimmy.<\/p>\n

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

The presenter took on the role of wedding planner herself for both ceremonies, a decision she admitted left her exhausted.<\/p>\n

“There wasn’t a wedding planner. I was the wedding planner, and it took it out of me,” Ellie explained at the time. “It knocked the stuffing out of me.”<\/p>\n

Despite the demanding preparation, Ellie described the outcome as everything she had hoped for.<\/p>\n

“It’s everything we could possibly have hoped for,” she said.<\/p>\n

No doubt the honeymoon will also live up to expectations as Ellie and Gerard soak in the sights in Kenya for their once-in-a-lifetime getaway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GB News Breakfast presenter Ellie Costello has given fans a first peek at her long-awaited honeymoon getaway, 24…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,830,148401,96,759,2331,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-395108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-ellie-costello","tag-entertainment","tag-presenters","tag-sgg","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395108","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=395108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}