Congratulations are in order! At least, we think congratulations are in order. Rumor is, Outlander star, Caitriona Balfe, and her music producer fiancé, Tony McGill, are officially wife and husband. They haven’t confirmed anything but supposedly, we have photographic evidence… of her co-star Sam Heughan in what could be wedding guest attire:
Okay, Sam’s emojis are probably the confirmation. And someone close to the couple leaked some info:
Caitriona Balfe is married!
On Saturday, the Outlander star said “I do” to music producer Anthony “Tony” McGill at St. Mary’s Church in Bruton, Somerset, in the United Kingdom, multiple sources tell PEOPLE.
It was a close-knit family affair officiated by Rev. Louis Beasley-Suffolk, who performed a Roman Catholic service.
Reps for the actress did not return PEOPLE’s request for comment. But the public calendar for the church confirms a wedding for “A McGill” took place there last weekend.
[From People]
I don’t doubt that they did get married, I’m just having fun with the how they connected the dots. This lack of information is Caitriona and Tony’s MO about their relationship. We learned of their relationship only after she was filmed sitting on Tony’s lap. We learned of their engagement when she showed up at the Golden Globes last year wearing an engagement ring. At that time, Caitriona gave an extensive statement about the proposal in which she said, “It happened over the break. I’m very happy.” And now we learn of their wedding because Sam wore a suit (and looked lovely in it as well.)
I can’t be mad. Every bride and groom should have the wedding they want, and Caitriona and Tony clearly value their privacy. I’m sure it was a beautiful wedding and just as remarkable as Sam said. Speaking of Sam, it says the wedding was a “close-knit family affair” but Sam is not family-by-blood, he’s family-by-screen. So were other Outlanders there? Probably not Tobias Menzies, or they made him sit in the “other series” section of the chapel. Was the place drenched in flowers? What did they serve? And the cake, I’ll bet the cake was delicious and the first dance made everyone cry. Okay, so apparently, I’m a little mad. But only because I’ll bet Caitriona was a stunning bride and I would love to see a photo of her in her wedding dress.
Comhghairdeas le Caitriona agus Tony!
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So I guess she and Sam weren’t dating? ghegheghe 🙂 In that photo of Sam I’m seeing Heath Ledger complete with receding hairline.
Oh, I thought he was known to be gay? Like Richard Armitage gay where they’re open with friends, family and colleagues but don’t state it publicly for fear of alienating female fans and/or hurting their career.
I was joking because gossip always says they are a couple. I don’t know if he is gay not but Richard Armitage being gay is news to me! I didn’t know that.
Nope. He had a longtime girlfriend that is an actress. They split up not too long ago I believe.
Armitage never came out. I wish people would stop assigning LGBT+ identities to celebrities..
He’s not straight but how do you know he’s not pansexual or bisexual? Hmm…
P.S. I have been lurking for years on this site, first time posting… but I think Sam said he was straight in an interview. Whether that’s the truth or not, it shouldn’t matter to us.
@StarGreek THIS.
Armitage has never come out but there are rumors (as there always are with Hollywood men so that’s no evidence). There was also a possible unintentional outing by Ian McKellen when he referred obliquely to his gay costars on the Hobbit (but there were a couple of candidates besides Armitage).
Ian McKellen’s interview never named Armitage, unlike others like Lee Pace and Luke Evans.
And yes many have those rumours in Hollywood (Armie Hammer is another, go figure).
What really annoys me is defining ‘gay’ any man who dated men, allegedly or not.
It smacks of bi and pan erasure. This issue is quite close to my heart as I had two female friends coming out as bi in the last year, while their lesbian partners were against it. There still is a lot of stigma associated with bisexual and pansexual identities, both from hetero and gay/lesbian people… you just need to look at comments on Mikey Cyrus’ threads, perhaps not on this site but others.
Taking into account that nobody knows these people in real life here, perhaps we should refrain from sweeping judgements unless the person is already ‘out’ and has spoken about their own LGBT+ identity. Just my opinion, of course.
I was a bit of a fangirl of Richard Armitage ever since I saw him in North & South, and I’ve followed his career. There is or was a site called Richard and Lee which was basically a fansite to their supposed relationship. I’m always sceptical of these rumours however this site basically sold me on the idea because
– there a photos of them wearing the same items of clothing – not just kind of looks the same, but the same. They are the same size so they could conceivably share.
– fan snaps of them together, completely dressed down, just chilling, years after The Hobbit in random locations
– a photo of Lee and Richard with Lee’s former costar from Pushing Daisies, posing backstage with her at her play, again years after The Hobbit
– Lee’s father joining twitter and following only his son and Richard, perhaps not realizing that people can see who he’s following, then unfollowing them both
– and honestly, some pretty invasive snaps of them hanging out with, I believe members of Lee’s family. These just seemed to be privately taken family photos that some loser released.
Again, this doesn’t prove anything but this is a gossip site so I thought someone might have the benefit of my somewhat obsessive googling from back in the day : )
He was openly gay here in London when he was a theatre actor.
Oh I am well aware of the whole Richard-Lee saga, but that does not make him ‘exclusively gay’ unless he says so, which was my point overall.
It’s the bi-pan erasure in comments that irks me.
Note: Lee Pace is out as ‘queer’ and has not endorsed the ‘gay man’ definition for himself either. We should respect how LGBT+ people define themselves, regardless of ‘gossip’.
@MeganBot2000
I live in UK as well and a few theatre people I knew in London would swear he made no difference in gender and he openly showed so. So stating ‘he was openly gay’ seems more of an interpretation done by whoever talked about it.
In addition, Armitage still is a theatre actor. Plenty of British actors who were openly gay… have remained openly gay after transitioning to a movie career. Armitage became famous in his 40ies, he didn’t need to hide the fact he was ‘openly gay’ to get roles… If he thinks so, I would question his sanity rather than anything else. And please let’s not talk about female fans as it’s not like Armitage is so famous than he has many fans left.
Concerning ‘man dating man equals 100% gay’, you just need a look around Richard Madden threads to get the OTT misrepresentation of LGBT+ identities.
@Nocturne
I did a quick Google search yesterday after your post, went down a rabbit hole! Armitage spoke of several girlfriends during his interviews so he tied himself in knots if he is gay… I doubt he will ever come out, his PR people would have to delete half of the internet. Very sad.
StarGeek I was referring to Sam H being openly gay, not Richard Armitage. I have no idea who Richard Armitage is.
I’m gay and used to be a successful actor and there’s still massive pressure to be closeted and that’s first hand experience. Here in the UK it’s okay (and if you work in theatre it’s 100% find to be out) but not in LA and not in TV/film.
I do agree about the bi erasure. I probably know more bisexual or bicurious actors than gay or straight actors.
MeganBot2000
Oh I misunderstood, sorry! I am too old to have heard of Heughan when he was doing theatre, but I had read about the gay rumours. I am not posting the link but in an interview posted on Celebitchy on July 29th 2018 he said he wasn’t gay. It’ll be interesting to see if that was a way to deflect from another LGBT + identity or he straightout lied about it.
It’s impressive the number of my friends or even acquaintances who have come out as bisexual/pansexual when they were over 40. All gay/lesbian people I know had come out in their 20ies to friends and family.
However, I haven’t worked in the entertainment business for more than 20 years so I trust your experience about the pressure put on movie/tv actors to stay closeted. It is absolutely disgusting. I shouldn’t be surprised though, as I have been pressured to hide I am a-gender and I don’t work in entertainment.
I’ve never seen Outlander but I’ve heard about the crazy Tinhats who are obsessed with the idea of the two actors dating or being secretly married to each other. I don’t blame this actress at all for keeping her relationship private, tinhats can be so extremely vicious and stalkerish towards real life partners who ‘get in the way’ of the fantasy ‘ship.’
Tinhat theory, she has to be private about her real love life because the fans of this show swear Sam and her are a couple In real life…OR ELSE!! Honestly I’ve seen the fans in Facebook go crazy if you state they’re not actually a couple…anyways I hope we see the dress too!
I haven’t watched the show in a few years but I couldn’t resist a twitter search when I read about the wedding. The crazies didn’t disappoint! They were out in force, twi-harding and tin-hatting their crazy little hearts out!
I assume these “actors have good chemistry so must be together in real life” delusions have always been around; but wow has the Internet made it soooo much worse! 😂
Their chemistry is off the charts.
Caitriona has been dating her now-husband for YEARS and somehow there are disgruntled fans on twitter right now reacting to her marriage with shock and anger – people are actually saying that Sam and Cait manipulated them in into believing they were a real life couple! It’s insane. And this is where I get annoyed with “shippers” – they lash out whenever reality encroaches on their conspiracy theories.
I dared take a peak at stan twitter yesterday and people were going nuts, mostly coming after Cait and saying some pretty nasty stuff about her. I will never understand the delusion required to be a shipper.
I enjoy a good-natured “shipping,” but fans who lose their minds about this stuff scares me.
My daughter explained shipping to me when she was a tween, so 11 years ago. I said, “ok, how about Invader Zim is dating Pam from The Office?”
She rolled her eyes at me and said, “Mom, don’t be ridiculous! Invader Zim would obviously date Angela.”
I firmly believe tinhats are not fans but conspiracy nuts who happen to have chosen celebrities as the target for their latest conspiracy. One of the two main Cumberbatch tinhats is super into 9/11 and anti-Jewish/New World Order conspiracy theories, but it’s obviously easier to find out info about (and pass yourself off as an expert” on) some random actor living in a house in London, than to do the same about top politicians and some shadowy global elite.
You should see the “fans” on Tumblr. They’re nuts. And need to go outside and talk to people. They’ve gone from being convinced those two were together and hating Caitriona’s fiancee to now openly hating poor Caitriona for living her life. Not only for marrying the person she loves, but for not sharing any photos of her wedding? No wonder she keeps things so private.
Aw. Congrats to them. I bet she was a beautiful bride. The Tinhats should be satisfied that Sam was invited because it proves they are very good friends.
these two truly have the most intense on screen chemistry. i understand how people could think they are together but alas they are just good actors. and – of course he is invited. he’s been looking up her ass for the last 6 years – i’m sure they are extremely close.
Tobias Menzies was just incredible on that show – IMHO it’s his best-ever performance, pulling off Jack Randall and Frank Randall as two very opposite characters. Even if the writing veers too far into soapiness too often, it’s a fun premise and I love the show. I hope Tobias was invited!
Love him!
I saw him in a play about a man falsely accused of child molestation a few weeks ago, he’s incredible.
From an avid reader from Ireland had to give a shout out of appreciation for the congratulations “as gaeilge” for the happy couple. Love the show and truly appreciate the talents of two incredibly beautiful and talented actors in being able to bring that chemistry to screen …. but it *is* acting. Wish the twosome a blessed and private marriage (but totally agree – would love love love to see the dress, I bet she was breath-taking)
Same here!
Love the Irish sign-off @hecate 👌🏻
So Sam is gay I guess. Still want to see the dress! I hope she stops the innuendos with Sam, it’s really getting old.