Comic Jon Richardson has agreed a mega payout to ex spouse Lucy Beaumont after they break up.
Jon handed over £1.625 million to Lucy after they known as time on their 9 12 months marriage in April.
The pair starred collectively within the mockumetary-style present Meet the Richardsons for seven years, and amassed a £6 million fortune.
However paperwork for an organization that they had run collectively reveal that in June, two months after their break up, Jon, 41, paid Lucy, 40, £1.625 million for her shares in an organization that they had co run.
Jon even needed to pay HMRC stamp obligation of £8,125 after shopping for out her stake within the enterprise This Man at Evening Restricted.
Comic Jon Richardson has agreed a mega payout to ex spouse Lucy Beaumont after they break up
Based on just lately filed accounts the corporate was value £4 million final 12 months and the couple are nonetheless listed as joint homeowners of a £1 million indifferent dwelling with a pool in Yorkshire and a £1 million flat in a swanky a part of North London.
The pair, who share one daughter collectively, tied the knot in April 2015 and introduced their break up in April this 12 months – simply days after the launch of the fifth sequence of their comedy present Meet The Richardsons.
The began courting in 2013 after they met one another by good friend Roisin Conaty and went on to work collectively on a lot of reveals together with Meet The Richardsons.
However 4 months in the past in a joint assertion the couple stated: ‘After 9 years of marriage, we want to announce that now we have separated. We’ve collectively and amicably made the troublesome determination to divorce and go our separate methods.
In an interview final 12 months Lucy hinted that Meet the Richardsons can be ending.
She stated: ‘This can in all probability be the final one, and we’re going out on a excessive.’
Final 12 months, Lucy confessed that viewers typically don’t perceive that their combating just isn’t actual, saying: ‘It has been nice however I see feedback on social media and folks do not appear to grasp it is not actual…
‘I do not henpeck – we would not have lasted this lengthy if I used to be as imply to him in actual life. You do not wish to see a smug couple in love, in a pleasant home, with a steady profession and a beautiful little little one. Who desires to see that?…
‘I wasn’t doing it if we had been going to be like that. We’ll present the opposite aspect the place we’re simply at one another consistently. It is a extra truthful portrayal…
Jon handed over £1.625 million to Lucy after they known as time on their 9 12 months marriage in April. The pair starred collectively in Meet the Richardsons and amassed a £6 million fortune
The pair, who share one daughter collectively, tied the knot in April 2015 and introduced their break up in April this 12 months – simply days after the launch of the fifth sequence of Meet The Richardsons
Based on just lately filed accounts the corporate was value £4 million final 12 months and the couple are nonetheless listed as joint homeowners of a £1 million indifferent dwelling with a pool in Yorkshire
‘The world we have got round us is barely weird however I feel individuals nonetheless really feel like they recognise themselves in it, which is nice.’
Jon in the meantime has landed a big role after the shock split, becoming a member of the Absolute Radio group in September.
He’s on air each Saturday morning at 8am and will likely be broadcast from the present’s London studios or from his custom-built studio, which is situated in his savvy backyard pub.
Jon is greatest often called a group captain on Channel 4’s well-liked present 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
He additionally co-hosts Down the Canine with Matt Forde, who’s an Absolute Radio presenter with a Saturday afternoon present.
Final 12 months, Lucy revealed her profession was held again by predatory males on the circuit as she confirmed she had been focused herself.
She stated she had suffered ‘fairly a couple of incidences’ early on as she set out within the business.
And confirming the ‘blacklist’ of alleged offenders, she stated there have been as much as 15 males finishing up the appalling behaviour.
Lucy, stated when being requested if something had held her again: ‘Predatory male behaviour.
‘I’ve had fairly a couple of incidences the place in case you’re in some other workforce you’ll go to HR, however there is not one. I feel it is simply all over the place and it is not talked about sufficient.
‘It upsets me once I hear about younger feminine comics having the identical experiences. I assumed for some time it was the identical 5 – 6 individuals – and now it is not – I may title you 10 or 15 due to course individuals speak.’
The began courting in 2013 after they met one another by good friend Roisin Conaty and went on to work collectively on a lot of reveals (pictured in 2017)
The author and performer spoke in July concerning the subject on The Comic’s Comic Podcast.
She added: ‘Comedy has the largest gossips ever so all people is aware of – or if you do not know those I do know but then you’ll do quickly.
‘It attracts such fascinating, passionate, uncooked, edgy, wounded individuals – however it additionally attracts predatory males who’re actually tousled and sexually have been repressed for years. And so they get a little bit of fame and show these behaviours.
‘It simply will get lined up. Their brokers know and the channels know and no person appears to be doing something about it.
‘There’s been instances once I’ve simply needed to go on Twitter and simply let individuals know everybody that we speak about, however not allowed to say.’