"She was the girl I had been looking for," said McIntyre about the time he saw his wife for the first time. He met her through his sister, Lucy.
At 22, he was a single college dropout trying to make a career being funny at the time.
He couldn't immediately start going out with her. She was dating someone else, and he had to wait.
So he did. For two years, he "stalked" her. He was sure Ward was the one.
"In the romantic comedy that was my life, this would have made a good ending. We would fall happily ever after," McIntyre confessed to the Daily Mail in March 2014.
Michael McIntyre with his wife Kitty Ward at an awards ceremony. (Photo: Instagram)
He came to that conclusion "within moments" of seeing and talking to her. He was so sure, he proposed on their first date.
McIntyre did not reveal her reactions to that, but they did not stop seeing each other.
In another interview, the British comedian gushed about how they had a really good start to their relationship. They even kissed on their first date.
Not knowing how to handle it, he went around telling everybody that he was in love and going to marry her.
McIntyre asked her to marry him later when out for dinner at a restaurant. She might not even have heard his words — the restaurant was noisy.
They got married in 2003.
