Paul Merton's love life from Caroline Quentin split to loss of wife weeks after wedding

Paul Merton has been a team captain on the comedy panel show Have I Got News for You since it began in 1990. The comedian was also the host of Room 101 from 1999 to 2007.

But what do we know about his love life? Paul is married to fellow comedian Suki Webster, his third wife. They tied the knot in 2009 working together for years before romance blossomed over a shared stomach bug contracted while on tour in India.

They had their own Channel 5 show, Motorhoming With Merton And Webster, and opened up about how humour strengthens their relationship. Suki said: “We got on so well during the filming of Motorhoming, even the crew were saying, ‘Do you two never argue?’

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“We rarely do as we find most things funny most of the time. We make each other laugh each day." Paul added: That’s really important. It is good for your mental health. There is always some humour somewhere, even in the darkest times.”

The BBC star's first wife was actress Caroline Quentin. They wed in 1990 after meeting on a train to the Edinburgh Festival, when Paul threw the book she was reading out the window. They went on to star in The Live Bed Show in 1995 together.

But two years later they split - and it was a separation that Caroline didn't see coming. "I didn't know my marriage was going wrong till it ended, really," she previously told the Guardian.

Making matters worse, she recalled being followed by photographers, telling the Independent: "It is such a dreadful time, when you're feeling so vulnerable and crap as a person, and then that happens." Paul, 63, then moved on with Sarah Parkinson, who had served as Caroline's understudy on the three-month London leg of The Live Bed Show.

Paul and writer and producer Sarah got together and they married unofficially in the Maldives in 2000. Sadly, Paul and Sarah never got achieve their dreams of starting a family when just months after trying IVF, Sarah discovered two small lumps in her breast.

She was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer at 39 and underwent surgery but declined to have chemotherapy or radiotherapy, fearing it would 'finish her off'. Instead, the writer and producer turned to alternative therapies and married Paul in an official ceremony in Rye, Essex in 2003.

Just 12 weeks later on September 23 - 19 months after being diagnosed - Sarah passed away with a heartbroken Paul by her bedside. In a statement at the time he said: "After her initial devastating diagnosis of cancer in February 2002 Sarah successfully lived with the disease for the next 19 months.

"She refused chemotherapy because she knew it would finish her off. Instead, she boosted her immune system with a mixture of nutritional therapy, yoga, meditation, positive thinking and laughter. Consequently she led a full and active life right up to the last couple of weeks when her condition suddenly worsened.

"She faced the situation with courage and died serenely and without pain in the early hours of Tuesday morning."