06 August 2015, The Tablet

Keeping it in the family


 
Television presenter Declan Donnelly, better known as one half of the presenting duo “Ant and Dec”, was married last Saturday by his priest brother, Fr Dermott Donnelly. Dec married his manager, Ali Astall, at St Michael’s Church in Newcastle, and Ant was best man. Fr Donnelly, who is the dean of St Mary’s Cathedral, Newcastle, gave his brother a framed certificate of blessing from Pope Francis as a wedding present. “Dec was in shock,” a guest was reported as
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