Sandi Toksvig: I didn’t know me officiating Abba star’s wedding would be public

Sandi Toksvig says she had nary thought that pictures of her officiating astatine the wedding of Abba prima Bjorn Ulvaeus, successful a afloat priest-like outfit, would beryllium made public.

Ulvaeus, 79, tied the knot for a 3rd clip earlier this year, erstwhile helium joined Christina Sas – who helium met successful transportation with Abba’s past medium Voyage – connected September 21.

He posted photos from the day, 1 of which shows QI big Toksvig dressed successful a reddish and golden robe arsenic she conducted the ceremony.

Toksvig told ITV’s Good Morning Britain (GMB) connected Monday: “So I archetypal of each did not cognize it was going to beryllium publically known.

“So Bjorn is my friend, and helium phoned maine up and said, ‘Sandy, you would travel to my wedding’. I said ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘You volition bash the wedding’. I said, ‘In what sense?’.

“And past I thought, I don’t cognize what to wear, due to the fact that I’ve ne'er done a wedding before, and truthful I recovered a store online… truthful I could look the part.

“It was lone astir 120 radical and it truly was friends and family, but.. that picture, (it) made the beforehand screen of the (Indian English-language insubstantial The) Hindustan Times, I consciousness I’ve arrived.”

“I committedness you, it was due to the fact that we’re friends,” she added.

Ulvaeus was antecedently joined to his chap Abba subordinate Agnetha Faltskog earlier they divorced successful 1980.

He past was joined to Lena Kallersjo from 1981 until they separated astir 2 years ago.

Toksvig was besides asked by GMB astir being “the archetypal pistillate presenter of a British mainstream drama sheet show” erstwhile she took connected QI successful 2016.

She responded saying: “Where is the precocious nighttime chat amusement host? I don’t cognize if they deliberation women can’t enactment up precocious oregon something, I don’t cognize what they think, we’ve got excessively galore chores to bash successful the house.”

Toksvig, a erstwhile The Great British Bake Off host, besides said that she was “unusual” to beryllium 66, and fronting a TV show.

“There’s a immense mode to go,” she added.