Talk:Emma Freud

Married or not?

Hm. Actually, I thought that Freud and Curtis weren't technically married. A 2003 article in USA Today says:

They never bothered to marry because, much like Grant's character in Four Weddings, "between the age of 25 and 35, I worked out that I went to 72 weddings. I couldn't think of a way to distinguish my wedding from all these other weddings I've been to. But we might do it when I turn 50."

Curtis' 50th birthday will be in November of 2006, so maybe they jumped the gun and got married already? Or maybe the article is just wrong. --John Callender 18:42, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

The Curtis article did say there were married until it was recently changed to "not married" [1]. It was me who originally added that to both the Freud and Curtis articles, based on the BBC biography which I cited in the Freud article. The addition of "not" in the Curtis article was done without citation.

There are plenty of online sources that call them "partners", but it guess they weren't married but are now. The USA Today article is the only thing I've found that definatively says they aren't married.

The following (all pretty respectable) sources support the claim that they are married:

• The Daily Telegraph [2] says "The click was invented by Curtis for the Make Poverty History campaign when he was trying to explain to his wife, Emma Freud"
• The Daily Telegraph [3] "He and his wife, Emma Freud"
• The British Film Institute [4] "the brother of Curtis' wife Emma Freud,"
• BBC London [5] "She is married to script-writer Richard Curtis"
• BBC News [6] "Curtis's wife, Emma Freud"
• Neil Tennant [7] "Emma Freud /wife of co-organizer Richard Curtis/ approached me at a party "
• David Aukin (head of drama for Channel 4 TV, which underwrote Four Weddings and a Funeral) [8] "Curtis got engaged to Emma Freud on the day that we green lighted the film "
• Preview Online [9] "Richard Curtis, with wife Emma Freud"
• London's Evening Standard [10] "It was also at Oxford that Fielding met her first serious boyfriend, Blackadder creator Richard Curtis... But in true Bridget Jones style the relationship came to a messy end when he dumped her for Emma Freud, whom he married."
• The Guardian [11] "and Curtis's wife, Emma Freud"

-- Finlay McWalter | Talk 19:24, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

That seems pretty conclusive to me. I'd only read that USA Today article, since it was one of the few things linked to from Curtis' IMDB listing, and since it was the first bio of his I saw I assumed it was correct. Thanks for the additional citations. I've reverted the change I made to Emma Freud earlier today (in which I had made them partners), and also edited the Richard Curtis article to show them as married, citing this discussion in the edit summary. Thanks. -- John Callender 21:13, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

I think your edit summary calling it "likely" is right on the money. While there is a preponderance of incidental cites, I didn't manage to find any actual information about the wedding itself (where, when, details, etc.). You'd think the author of Four Weddings himself getting married would be a news story, after all. Ideally we'd find some cunning form of words that skirted the issue, but marriage is one of those boolean things. I think we should failsafe to saying they're married, but I'm not 100% comfortable. Why don't these darn people have personal websites? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 21:33, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Whether married or not, they obviously still live together, and none of their children has died; so why it says, The couple had four children. They lived in Notting Hill, in the past tense, I do not understand. Nuttyskin (talk) 01:31, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

NADB

For the avoidance of any doubt, anyone who is about to add anything controversial about Comic Relief and the NADB should first read this. Please bear in mind the very clear warning given in the infobox at the top of the wikipedia article. Parrot of Doom (talk) 19:15, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

BLP?

"Her name is rhyming slang for haemorrhoids"

This doesn't seem appropriate and it's not even accurate. While the reference looks genuine, it doesn't lead the reader to anywhere this claims is supported. It just seems to be a random insult and even if it is true, it is not important to include this is a Wikipedia profile. 69.125.134.86 (talk) 11:37, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes - it's irrelevant, brings Wikipedia into disrepute and is simply nasty. Deleted. IainCheyne (talk) 12:39, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

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