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Riz Ahmed [2] just clarified those rumors about him having a "secret" wedding during the pandemic, after he casually mentioned he got married on Louis Theroux's Grounded podcast [3].
During his appearance on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon [4] on Jan. 13, the British actor confirmed his marriage to Fatima Farheen Mirza [5], author of the New York Times bestselling book A Place For Us [6]. And no, there was nothing secret about his wedding. He just didn't feel like putting it on social media. "I guess cause we live in a social media age, if you don't get on the megaphone about stuff, it's a secret?" he told Jimmy. "Like, I'm into matcha lattes, but it's just never come up. I'm not a 'secret' matcha latte drinker!"
Riz also talked about how he met his wife — whom he called an "amazing novelist" — and the story is actually super romantic. "We met so randomly while I was preparing for this role, for Sound of Metal, when I was in New York," the 38-year-old actor explained. "We both sat down at the same table in a cafe where we both turned up to write. We were both jostling over the same laptop plug points, like a very modern way of meeting." He added that the two of them "struck up a friendship and reconnected down the line. But it's weirdly like one of the many things about preparing for this role that was so special — it just brought a lot of goodness into my life."
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And what's the best thing about having a wedding during the pandemic, you ask? "You don't have 5,000 aunties touching your cheeks," according to Riz. Congratulations to the happy couple!