4 Weddings star Callow marries his toyboy lover
He is best known for playing Gareth in Brit rom- com Four Weddings And A Funeral, who dies of a heart attack during the groom’s toast at one of the weddings.
Thankfully, simon Callow’s own wedding passed without mishap this week as he quietly tied the knot with a man half his age.
Despite once resisting the idea of gay marriage, the 67-year- old film actor and theatre star has had a radical change of heart.
Callow enjoyed a private wedding ceremony on Monday on the Greek island of Mykonos with sebastian Fox, a 33-year-old management consultant whom he describes as ‘glamorous and fantastic and beautiful’.
it was a lively affair, ending with a jubilant Callow making his way home at the end of the night in fits of laughter.
‘it was a merry night in Mykonos, what can i say?’ he said the next day.
speaking to me ahead of their nuptials, Callow said: ‘i don’t think we will have children — i am too old to be a father. A man in his late 60s is usually past thinking about having children.’
Although his new husband is German, the pair chose Greece for their wedding venue because of Callow’s love of history — and politics. ‘i just love it there. But it is also a very conscious decision to embrace a civilisation and culture, one of the very few instances where homosexuality was an actual integrated part of society,’ he says.
‘it’s wonderful to make such a great commitment, such a great affirmation of love, in that almost innocent landscape. That pure world.’