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Stephen Fry has shared a defiant message with critics of his age-gap relationship with husband Elliott Spencer, who’s 30 years his junior.
The Celebrity Traitors star confronted the road of questioning on ITV sequence The Assembly, which has previously been called “the most groundbreaking show of the year”. The format sees a star interviewee participating in a wide-ranging group questioning the place the folks with the microphones all are autistic, neurodivergent or studying disabled.
The present returns for sequence two on Wednesday (8 April), the place Fry, 68, fields questions from the meeting about his non secular beliefs, former cocaine behavior and psychological well being struggles.
In one half, the previous QI host was requested about his “30-year age gap” together with his 38-year-old husband, with the questioner explaining that she, too, was older than her girlfriend.
“What do you say to people who don’t like age-gap relationships?” she requested, to which Fry responded: “I feel a bit sorry for them. I don’t see why they should have such an opinion about things.”
“The only thing that should matter in a relationship is love and if you feel it,” Fry continued, clarifying that this must be “felt on both sides” and “not an exploitative relationship”.
“I mean, I always say to people that in our relationship, Elliot has all the power, really,” he mentioned. “He makes a lot of the decisions about things because I trust him to. It just works for us, extremely well, and if people don’t like it, well, sod them.”
The legendary British actor, author and presenter met comic Spencer at a home occasion in 2012. They introduced their engagement in 2015 and have been married 10 days later.
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The pair have lengthy stored their relationship non-public and are not often photographed collectively, though Spencer shared a similarly strong response to those that criticise their relationship again in 2015.
“I don’t care what people think,” he mentioned. “Stephen is the love of my life, the light of my life.”
Fry, in the meantime, has beforehand credited his youthful husband for broadening his cultural horizons, saying in a 2025 podcast look: “He teaches me things I just didn’t know. He introduced me to Kendrick Lamar, which was a great thing to do because Kendrick Lamar, I’ve decided, is a great poetical spirit, a really remarkable figure.”
Elsewhere in the episode, Fry was requested an much more private questions on his relationship, as he was questioned on which sexual place he favoured in intimate moments together with his husband.
“Wow! That is direct as it gets,” Fry mentioned, earlier than saying that he was “going to leave that a mystery for people to guess”.
Speaking forward of the present’s launch, Fry admitted that he’d been stunned by “the rather eye-watering curiosity as to my sexual preferences”. “Not sexuality, you understand – that was understood – but my preferences within that sexuality framework… well, I wasn’t expecting that!” he mentioned.
Fry is one of six stars to face the questioning firing line on this sequence of The Assembly, with Lenny Henry, Nicola Sturgeon, Anna Maxwell Martin and Aitch all showing on the brand new sequence. The remaining movie star might be revealed at a later date, with the primary sequence that includes interviews with Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Jade Thirlwall and Danny Dyer.
The Assembly begins on Wednesday 8 April at 10.05pm on ITV1.
