Poldark’s Aidan Turner ‘MARRIES girlfriend Caitlin Fitzgerald in secret ceremony in Italy’

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Poldark star Aidan Turner has reportedly married his long-term girlfriend Caitlin Fitzgerald in a secret ceremony in Italy, after a three-year relationship.

The screen star, 37, is understood to have tied the knot with the American actress, 38, as filming concluded on his latest drama, Leonardo, last August. 

According to sources, the couple were eager to wed as soon as their schedules cleared, but kept their nuptials quiet due to their private lifestyles. 

An insider said: ‘The couple are both madly in love and couldn’t wait to get hitched when their schedules allowed.’

The source added to The Sun: ‘They’re both very private and have kept the ceremony very much under wraps, but he has been seen taking lockdown walks with his wedding ring on show.

‘Aidan hasn’t been in a rush to get wed and has very much been waiting for ‘The One’ to come along — and anyone who sees them knows they’re the perfect match.’ MailOnline has contacted representatives for comment.

The TV and film stars have been dating since 2018 after growing close while shooting scenes for fantasy movie The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot in Massachusetts.  

Insiders claim they rarely mingled with other cast members while staying at the Deerfield Inn, near Boston. 

The pair have largely kept their romance low-key, with Aidan saying in a 2019 interview: ‘I do have a girlfriend, yeah.’   

In 2018, Glamour magazine published a rare essay by the blonde entitled ‘No one can tell you what good sex looks like’, in which she admitted having ‘had some really bad sex in my life’.

The filmmaker said she had initially ‘crafted my bedroom behaviour around what I had seen women do on television – lots of excessive moaning and hair tossing but very little personal satisfaction’.   

Hobbit star Aidan won fans all over the world with his portrayal of the hunky Ross Poldark alongside his love interest Eleanor Tomlinson in the iconic drama, which concluded after five series in 2019. 

His new wife, meanwhile, is best known for her role as Libby Masters in US drama Masters Of Sex, which ran from 2013 until 2016.

She played the wife of sex therapist Dr William Masters (Michael Sheen) – who she was previously linked to.   

Caitlin, whose dad Des FitzGerald is the former CEO of ContiGroup’s ContiSea unit, was born and raised in Maine, before relocating to Massachusetts and New York City for education.

The thespian also studied Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.

Her late grandfather Desmond was a deputy director of the CIA during the Kennedy administration. 

The Dublin native was rumoured to be engaged to a secret girlfriend in April 2018, shortly before he started dating Caitlin.  

While little was known about his rumoured fiancée, she was believed to be ten-years his junior and based in the south-west of England.  

A source told MailOnline: ‘Aidan is engaged to a 24-year old graduate lawyer from Gloucester.’  

It is not known how long the pair had been dating, and they had not been pictured together publicly. 

Aidan was previously in a relationship with artist Nettie Wakefield, 33, whom he split from in 2017, following the end of his five-year romance with actress Sarah Greene, 36, in 2015. 

The Being Human actor also dated with co-star Lenora Crichlow, after meeting on the set of their supernatural BBC Three show in 2009.

Their break-up in 2011 is believed to be the reason behind his exit from the series, while his ex, 36, continued her role. 

Aidan’s latest TV series Leonardo was released in Italy earlier this month, and is scheduled to launch in the UK and Ireland on Amazon Prime Video on April 16. 

There has long been debate whether the painter was homosexual, a theme that is set to be explored in the eight-part series. 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Leonardo will ‘unlock the mystery’ behind Da Vinci’s genius as well as explore a tantalising secret in his life. 

Born in 1452, Leonardo is one of the greatest individuals of the last millennium, known primarily for his contributions to the art world, including paintings like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. 

During the Rennaisance he dabbled in invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

The artist left no clue as to his own sexuality. He never married and it cannot be stated with certainty that he had a sexually intimate relationship with any person, male or female. 

Despite this, speculation over his sexuality has been long debated, and it has long been claimed that he was in a same-sex relationship with his apprentice, Gian Giacomo Caprotti, better known by his nickname Salai.  

Caprotti is thought to have entered Da Vinci’s household when he was around 10 years old, and worked as his assistant for the next 20 years acquiring the nickname Salai, or Little Devil.

Salai was used in a number of Da Vinci’s paintings as a model and it has even been suggested that Salai was the subject of his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.  

Art detective Silvano Vinceti has said the portrait, which hangs in the Louvre in Paris, is an amalgamation of a Florentine merchant’s wife and Da Vinci’s possible gay lover.  

Vinceti, the head of a research group called the National Committee of Cultural Heritage, based his findings on an infra-red examination of the famous painting.

It was previously thought that the picture was based on Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a merchant from Tuscany. It has not been made clear if the co-star Aidan is pictured kissing depicts Salai.