South Korean actor Song Joong-ki and British actress Katy Louise Saunders are married and expecting their first child together.
Song’s agency confirmed the news to CNN Monday after he released a statement on a fan website.
“Today we just came back from registering our marriage to start our life as a couple based on deep trust and love,” Song wrote on the site, according to CNN.
Song reportedly told his followers in his statement that he’s “a better person” because of Saunders.
“I vowed to do life together with Katy Louise Saunders, who has been spending precious time with me by supporting and caring for me,” he wrote, per a translation of the statement.
“She has a kind heart, and has been passionately living her life. She is an admirably wise and wonderful person.”
He went on to confirm that he and the brunette beauty had “dreamed of making a happy family,” and “thankfully, a precious life came to us.”
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“Just like now, the two of us will look in one direction and walk beautifully together in the future. It will always change. I am sincerely grateful to all the fans who care for me without fail.”
Reps for Joong-ki also reportedly told a Korean news outlet that the pair “plan to hold a wedding ceremony separately, but nothing has been specifically decided at the moment.”
Reps did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.
His new wife made her acting debut in the 2002 flick “A Scandalous Journey” and had a brief cameo in a scene with Adam Lamberg in “The Lizzie McGuire Movie.”
Song, for his part, is one of Asia’s most high-profile actors, and will soon star in the Netflix film “Ro Gi Wan.”
The news comes four years after he split from actress Song Hye Kyo in 2019.
The pair, who starred opposite each other in the 2016 romantic series “Descendants of the Sun,” earned the joint nickname the “Song Song Couple.”
