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 Sabrina Barr
 @fabsab5
 Friday 13 December 2019 11:01

Katherine Ryan has explained her reasoning for entering a civil partnership,

saying she “didn’t need to put on a white dress and pretend to be a virgin”.
In 2018, the comedian was reunited with her childhood sweetheart, Bobby

Kootstra, while filming BBC genealogy programme Who Do You Think You
Are? in her native Ontario, Canada.

The couple recently entered into a civil partnership, opting to conduct their

ceremony in Denmark because it was “quickest and easiest”.

“It was a lovely day”, Ryan said on ITV’s The Jonathan Ross Show.

“It’s perfect having a civil partner. We didn’t have a wedding, I didn’t need
to put on a white dress and pretend to be a virgin, that ship has sailed!”

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Ryan has a 10-year-old daughter, Violet, from a previous relationship.

The comedian told Jonathan Ross that her daughter didn’t want her to enter a
relationship “because it had just been the two of us against the world for a
really long time”.

“She was not trusting of my decisions,” the 36-year-old said. “She put

Chanel glasses on and moped around Tivoli Gardens [an amusement park in

Copenhagen, Denmark] but we thought it was funny about an hour after it
happened.