TV favourite Miriam Margolyes made a candid revelation about her partner during the filming of The Graham Norton Show last year.
Fans of Miriam will know that she has a rather unorthodox relationship with her partner Heather Sutherland.
Miriam, 83, and Heather have been dating for a truly impressive 54 years. However, they have NEVER lived together. But, the Call the Midwife star explained to Graham that was all about to change!
Here’s everything she said during her appearance on The Graham Norton Show.
Miriam Margolyes on The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show welcomed Miriam to talk about her book Oh Miriam!.
It was far from the first time Miriam has appeared on the BBC One chat show. Knowing she’s TV gold, Graham often asks her back on the show…
Her saucy revelations in 2021 almost made Stanley Tucci leave the show, and her X-rated clip with the late Friends actor Matthew Perry recently went viral again after his death.
Miriam Margolyes makes huge announcement about life with partner
During her most recent appearance on TGNS, Miriam was as candid as ever, and made a heartwarming revelation about her relationship with partner Heather Sutherland.
She said: “We are together, but we live apart. She is in Amsterdam, and I am in London, but now we want to live together. I really do want to live with her because we are old, and we haven’t got much time left. It is silly to live apart.”
Miriam previously credited their long-lasting partnership to the fact that they live apart.
The pair have enjoyed a relationship spanning more than five decades. Historian Heather, 80, prefers to keep out of the spotlight.
They met in 1967 and have been together ever since, making it ‘official’ with a civil partnership. But Miriam has revealed that she’s no longer sexually active.
She said: “I’ve finished with sex, but I don’t want everybody to be finished with it, because otherwise the world would stop.”
Why doesn’t Miriam Margolyes live with partner Heather?
Miriam has always been very open about her reasons for living apart from Heather. Talking on podcast Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware, she revealed: “I’m in love with my partner and have been for 54 years.
“We don’t live together because we’re both professional women. She is a historian and an academic, and I’m an actress and a documentarian now. Her work is in Indonesian and Dutch, and so she lives in Amsterdam. But we try to be together as much as possible.”
She went on to divulge that she and Australian-born Sutherland only lived together properly previously when they are staying in Italy, where they own a house.
And, while Miriam is happy to visit her other half in Holland, she revealed Heather isn’t a fan of London where she resides most of the time. As a result, it unclear where Miriam and Heather have decided to settle down.
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Catch Miriam on her Australian Adventure show tonight (August 9) on BBC Two at 9pm.
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