Pregnant Made In Chelsea star Tabitha Willett has secretly married wealthy businessman Harry Hoare, just four months after announcing their engagement.
The TV personality surprised social media followers by announcing plans to marry the son of late stockbroker Timothy Hoare – a friend of the disgraced former Royal Sarah Ferguson during his lifetime – in November.
A formal announcement was also printed by The Times on the newspaper’s births, marriages and deaths page at the time.
Now pregnant with the couple’s first child together, Willett, 33, already a mother to six-year old daughter Ottilie from her former relationship with Fraser Carruthers, has exchanged vows with her new fiancé at Chelsea Town Hall.
Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, the TV personality shared a distorted video clip of herself and Hoare standing on the steps of the King’s Road venue while guests shower them with confetti.
Eschewing conventional bridal attire, Willett opted for a cream trouser suit and wide-brimmed hat as she exchanged vows with Hoare – appropriately smart in a two-piece suit.
Pregnant Made In Chelsea star Tabitha Willett has secretly married wealthy businessman Harry Hoare, just four months after announcing their engagement
Standing alongside her mother, Ottilie appears to serve as one of Willett’s bridesmaids, with the youngster wearing a conventional white lace dress.
Captioning the brief clip, she wrote: ‘My feed is full of AI April fool’s so I thought I would just leave this here…’
A separate video shared by Willet six days ago suggested she was preparing for the ceremony, with the TV personality inviting followers to ‘get ready with me for a day I’ll never forget.’
News of Willett’s engagement would no doubt have come as a surprise to Made In Chelsea fans, who watched her brief romance with co-star Arman Pouladian-Kari play out on screen shortly before it was announcement.
The TV personality later confirmed she and Hoare had known each other ‘for years’ before getting together romantically.
Writing for The Wedding Edition, she recalled: ‘We stayed in contact but were never close. It was actually January 1st 2025, at my most single, after putting on my vision board for the year that I wanted to find love…
‘That I replied to an Instagram story of his saying we should grab a drink and catch up soon. He loves telling the story that I “slid into his DMs”.
‘We went for a drink, our first date lasted three days, and I called my best friend Ollie Locke after he left and said, “I am going to marry this man.”
‘It sounds quite unromantic, but I think in your 30s, and as parents (Harry has a daughter too), you want to be sure you are not wasting any time. It was a discussion we had right from the beginning.
‘We aligned on everything and it all felt very uncomplicated. Not full of fire or passion, just easy.’
When Hoare finally proposed during their stay at The Lana, a new hotel which is a part of the Dorchester Collection, he did so with a ‘placeholder ring’, while she wore a long white dress with a cape.
Ahead of the proposal they were enjoying the sunset from the rooftop bar, before returning to their room so that Harry could ‘grab something’ before dinner
The TV personality surprised social media followers by announcing plans to marry the son of late stockbroker Timothy Hoare in November
Hoare’s wealthy stockbroker father Timothy (pictured) passed away aged 69 in 2019. His funeral, held in London, was attended by Sarah Ferguson, then the Duchess of York
Willett revealed that when the door opened their suite was filled with rose petals and candles, and there was a table set on the balcony for a private dinner.
The couple began the year with a lavish babymoon in Paris as they splashed out on a £1,800-a-night (€2,170) stay at the five-star Hôtel Plaza Athénée.
Willett, who returned to the long-running E4 show ahead of its 29th series in March, announced the news of her pregnancy with her Instagram followers.
She posted an adorable video of her getting a scan at the hospital, with daughter Ottille at her side.
Just days after confirming the engagement, Willett took to Instagram to say that a ‘low-key small wedding’ is planned for January.
Sharing a picture of wedding dresses, she wrote: ‘It’s starting… We are actually having a low-key small wedding in January so these are too wedding gowny but so fun to get in the mood.’
The millionaire financier lived at the Grade-II listed Hollycombe House (pictured) in Liphook, Hampshire, with his wife Virginia, which they filled with treasured antiques
Hoare’s wealthy stockbroker father Timothy passed away aged 69 in 2019.
His funeral, held in London, was attended by Sarah Ferguson, then the Duchess of York, her daughters Princess Eugenie and Beatrice, and Sir Bob Geldof.
The millionaire financier lived at the Grade-II listed Hollycombe House in Liphook, Hampshire, with his wife Virginia, which they filled with treasured antiques.
A prized painting by the late surrealist Salvador Dali, various ornaments and pieces of valuable furniture from the property were sold at auction in 2021.
Timothy, who attended prestigious private school Eton, was very close to Geldof, the prominent singer-songwriter who organised the Band Aid campaign to raise money for Ethiopian famine victims in the 1980s.
The financier had been married three times and had five children.
Willett, who returned to the long-running E4 show ahead of its 29th series in March 2025, shared news of her engagement with Instagram followers in November
The TV personality later confirmed she and Hoare had known each other ‘for years’ before getting together romantically
He founded the successful brokering operation T Hoare & Co in 1993, which helped fund mining projects around the world.
Described by the Daily Mail’s Sebastian Shakespeare as a ‘once-Falstaffian, popular figure’, he famously shot a leopard dead in Tanzania in 2006.
Willett, who raises Ottilie with former partner Carruthers, originally joined the Made In Chelsea cast in 2018, during their annual trip to Croatia.
A tumultuous year on the show saw her hit it off with Miles Nazaire before secretly dating Sam Prince.
She left in 2019, but has since returned for its 29th and 30th series’, during which she embarked on a short-lived romance with Arman Pouladian-Kari.
Viewers watched as she ended her brief relationship with the DJ after discovering he was still close with his ex, Yasmine Zweegers – only to reunite for a secret tryst.
The TV personality announced her separation from club mogul Carruthers in 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic forced the couple to postpone their wedding that July.
Willett announced her separation from former fiancé Fraser Carruthers in 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic forced the couple to postpone their wedding that July
She told Instagram followers at the time: ‘After months of consideration and many long and thoughtful conversations, Fraser and I have decided to separate. As you can imagine, this is an incredibly hard time for us as a family.
‘This year has provided so many uncertainties and forced us to postpone and eventually cancel our wedding as well as being new and full time parents and government closures of businesses.
‘Ottilie is our world and remains our number one priority. We also share so much love and respect for one another and our beautiful daughter and we are eager for her to grow up watching us mature into a modern family, as close friends.
‘Fraser is the most incredible father and it fills me with great sadness that we have been unable to make our relationship work.’
