Danny Dyer’s now wife Joanne Mas was the one who proposed to him back in 2015 after he admitted to cheating on her
Danny Dyer has been married to his wife Joanne Mas for nearly a decade – but it nearly didn’t happen. Joanne was the one who got down on one knee on Valentine’s Day in 2015.
At the time, the EastEnders star and Joanne shared three kids – and he admitted her proposal was “a complete bolt out of the blue”. Speaking about the moment, Danny said he loves the fact she was the one who proposed.
Discussing her decision to propose to him, she said: “It was a complete bolt out of the blue but I’m so glad she did it because I don’t think I could have taken the rejection. I love the fact Jo proposed.”
Her proposal came after Danny admitted he cheated on her in the past. Discussing what happened, Jo said it was hard but she wouldn’t want to “destroy the lives” of her children over it.
His then-fiancé Joanne added to Hello! magazine: “It’s been hard but I’ve got over it. When you have children, it isn’t just about me and Danny. I wouldn’t destroy the lives of my babies for something that doesn’t matter.”
Danny then added: “I thought the grass was greener – but the grass was horrible and I don’t ever want to go there again.”
The pair got engaged on Valentine’s Day in 2015 and Joanne said it would have “never happened” without her initiating it.
She said: “I’ve always wanted to marry Danny and I decided that if I didn’t get things moving, it would never happen.
“I never wanted to get married when the children were babies because I wanted to let my hair down and enjoy the day. But we have had our little boy now and we’re not going to have any more, so the time is right.”
Danny’s life is in the spotlight amid a new show called The Assembly, where he is quizzed about his life.
Asked if he and his wife still have a shared bank account after she emptied it and kicked him out over his wild behaviour in 2000, Danny said: “She controls everything now.
“Yes, she did kick me out because I was a pr***. And she deserved better. Sometimes I would go out and get off my head, take drugs, and I wouldn’t come home for three days. I had issues – I never wanted the party to end. She had every right to throw me out.”
He was also asked about his working class roots and if he felt he had betrayed them by privately educating his kids, he told the group in his answer: “What you want to do is earn some money and then move to a better place, a better area where you can bring your children up. But I put my children in a private school and now they’re not streetwise. I don’t regret it, but there’s a part of me that wishes I could instil a little bit of knowing what it’s like to struggle.”
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