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ABBA legend Björn Ulvaeus has tied the knot for the third time, marrying his companion Christina Sas on Saturday in a ceremony officiated by comic and ex-“Nice British Bake Off” host Sandi Toksvig.
“At the moment on the twenty first of September 2024, Björn Ulvaeus married Christina Sas from Herning, Denmark,” a statement posted on the 79-year-old songwriter and guitarist’s Instagram web page reads.
The pair met within the southern German metropolis of Nuremberg in 2021 “in reference to the discharge of ABBA’s final album Voyage and began courting within the spring of 2022,” the assertion continues. “The marriage occurred in Copenhagen within the presence of shut family and friends.”
Toksvig, who’s a former host of the truth cooking present “The Nice British Bake Off” (recognized to US audiences as “The Nice British Baking Present”), was captured in a marriage photograph shared on Instagram sporting a purple gown with gold designs, with papers in hand and the completely satisfied couple within the background.
Ulvaeus’ representatives confirmed to the PA Media information company that Toksvig performed the marriage ceremony.
At its outset, ABBA, which dominated the US and European charts within the Seventies, consisted of two {couples}: Ulvaeus and vocalist Agnetha Fältskog, and songwriter and keyboard participant Benny Andersson and vocalist Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
Ulvaeus married Fältskog in 1971 and Andersson and Lyngstad wed in 1978.
After profitable the 1974 Eurovision Track Contest with the track “Waterloo,” and making world hits comparable to “Mamma Mia,” “Dancing Queen,” “SOS” and “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight),” Ulvaeus and Fältskog divorced earlier than the discharge of 1979 track “Voulez-Vous.”
Two years later, Andersson and Lyngstad had been additionally divorced and the group disbanded in 1982.
Ulvaeus married Lena Kallersjö in 1981 however the pair divorced after 41 years of marriage in 2022, a yr after ABBA reunited.
He has 4 youngsters, two from every of his former marriages.