The truth behind Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont’s off-screen relationship after couple announce shock split: ‘People don’t realise it’s not real’

Lucy Beaumont and partner Jon Richardson are recognised for rowing in mockumentary Meet up with The Richardson’s the place they perform exaggerated variations of themsleves. 

Nevertheless enthusiasts ended up remaining in shock, and featuring the sequence would be cancelled, when the pair – who share 7-year-old daughter Elsie Louise – introduced they were being to divorce just after 9 a long time of relationship in a joint statement on Friday. 

But Lucy, 40, has earlier discovered their squabbling was all part of their act, admitting many people today ‘didn’t appear to be to realise it can be not real’. 

She told The Sunday Submit in November 2023: ‘I really don’t henpeck – we would not have lasted this lengthy if I was as indicate to him in real life’. 

‘You really don’t want to see a smug couple in enjoy, in a nice household, with a secure career and a pretty very little little one. Who wants to see that? I wasn’t performing it if we have been going to be like that’. 

Just before heading on to say: ‘We’ll show the other side wherever we are just at each and every other continuously. It’s a extra truthful portrayal. The earth we’ve acquired about us is slightly weird, but I believe men and women continue to experience like they recognise by themselves in it, which is very good.’

The pair have starred in Meet The Richardsons, given that it it 1st aired in 2020. Its fifth sequence began on Dave just this week on April 8. 

Lucy formerly joked about divorcing Jon, 41,  just a person yr saying their split with foreboding remark throughout a joint look on 8 Out Of Ten Cats Does Countdown previous yr. 

Speaking on the Channel 4 display, host Jimmy Carr reported: ‘Lucy and Jon are married.

‘So I know Lucy, anyone looking at at property is dying to know… What created you decide to settle?’ 

Joking Lucy responded: ‘I don’t see this for everyday living. Is not it a song – just passing by way of? Is it?’

‘Just passing by means of?’ Jimmy questioned. 

She ongoing: ‘You satisfy in your lifetime previous souls, new souls… a***holes. Who understands what will materialize in the long term.’ 

Reducing in, Jon asked: ‘Are we breaking up now?’

The few started courting in 2013 following assembly via fellow comic Roisin Conaty, in advance of tying the knot in April 2015 and welcoming their daughter in September the pursuing year. 

Recalling their initial assembly in her e-book, Drinking Custard: Diary of a Bewildered Mum, Lucy stated they ‘hit it off’ straight away.

She spelled out how she experienced just moved to London to go after a vocation in comedy when Roisin invited her to a gig at The Battling Cocks in Kingston-on-Thames. 

‘I felt someone’s existence guiding me. I just about fainted truthfully my coronary heart was beating like the clappers as I was absolutely sure Jon understood I fancied him,’ she wrote. 

Talking in an job interview with The Sunday Times, Lucy additional: ‘It was quite symbolic as we have been battling like cocks ever due to the fact.’

Two months following their to start with meeting at the gig, the duo went on to have their 1st day, creating in her memoir, she uncovered ‘something pretty bizarre took place.’

‘Jon dropped me off in his vehicle to the prepare station and we swapped cell phone figures,’ the comedian wrote. ‘Lo and behold, by way of Bluetooth, on his dashboard in huge LED letters flashed ‘MY WIFE’. I have never received out of a car so rapid.

‘I rang my mate Jackie and she told me really calmly that he should be a psychopath and to leave London straight away and appear again and reside in Hull with her yet again.’

A statement to the PA information company read: ‘After 9 years of relationship, we would like to announce that we have divided. 

‘We have jointly and amicably made the tough final decision to divorce and go our independent techniques.

‘As our only precedence is taking care of this tough changeover for our daughter, we would inquire that our privacy is revered at this delicate time to defend her perfectly-getting. We will be earning no even further remark.’