JUST IN: ‘Jane Fallon’ Breaks Silence On Why She AGREED Not To Marry $160 million ‘Ricky Gervais’ But Maintain A Perfect Relationship
Ricky Gervais Revealed The Real Reason Why He Hasn’t Married His Girlfriend Of Over 40 Years
Before his latest Netflix stand-up comedy special Armaggedon was released, Gervais received criticism for using the R-slur during a teaser of his set. A Change.org petition with over 13,000 signatures calling to remove the joke.
“I can play to a million people, I won’t get a complaint,” Gervais said on BBC 5’s Headliner’s Podcast. “As soon as it goes on Netflix or as soon as someone writes up a joke that says this is offensive, people go, ‘Oh, that’s offensive.’ They haven’t even heard the joke. They weren’t there. Ignore them. They don’t count. They have no effect on me. They don’t count. They’re hecklers.”
So back to whether Ricky Gervais has a wife and if he’s married his long-term girlfriend. Here’s what we know.
Does Ricky Gervais Have A Wife?
Does Ricky Gervais have a wife? No, but he’s been together with his girlfriend Jane Fallon since 1982.
The two met while they were attending University College London in the 1980s and moved in together in 1984. Fallon went on to become a producer, only to become a full-time novelist in 2008.
Fallon recalled the conditions of which they moved in together for the first time. They “went through a good few years when we had absolutely no money, and I’ve talked about this before — the brothel we lived above in Kings Cross — I always knew I had a plan to build up a career and I think once you do that it does mean a lot more because you’ve worked for all of it.”
As to why they don’t want to marry, Gervais told The Times in 2010: “We are married for all intents and purposes, everything’s shared and actually our fake marriage has lasted longer than a real one. But there’s no point in us having an actual ceremony before the eyes of God because there is no God.”
