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“She flipped out, genuinely flipped a table... She is happy now though, it
worked out.”
Ryan added that her daughter “really loves” Kootstra, which is “a beautiful
thing”.
“It means she trusts me again, I actually made a good decision for once,” she
said.
In October 2018, former Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the law
would be changed to allow mixed-sex couples in England and Wales to
enter civil partnerships.
The government stated that it would address the “imbalance” that permitted
same-sex couples to choose between having a civil partnership or getting
married, but didn’t give mixed-sex couples the same choice.
Monday 2 December 2019 marked the first day on which mixed-sex couples
could register their intent to enter a civil partnership in England and Wales.
In October, it was reported that Ryan and Kootstra fought off a masked
robber in their London home, saving the comedian’s Netflix scripts.
