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What happened to Jill Morrell and John McCarthy?
After McCarthy’s release on 8 August 1991, the couple remained together until 1994, and wrote a joint memoir, Some Other Rainbow, but they parted amicably. McCarthy subsequently met BBC photographer, Anna Ottewill, and eventually married her in April 1999.
Are Brian Keenan and John McCarthy still friends?
He keeps in close touch, too, with John McCarthy, the journalist who went to Beirut to cover Keenan’s kidnapping, and instead became his cell-mate. He still considers McCarthy his closest friend and he and Audrey love seeing McCarthy, his wife, Anna, and their young daughter Lydia.
Did Jill Morrell marry?
Jill, now 51, had hoped to marry the journalist before his capture but remains single.
Is McCarthy alive?
Deceased (1927–2011)
John McCarthy/Living or Deceased
How long was McCarthy held prisoner?
The euphoric day, 30 years ago this week, that Beirut hostage John McCarthy’s harrowing five-year ordeal finally ended. In 1986 journalist John McCarthy was taken hostage by Islamic jihadists in Beirut and held in brutal captivity.
Did John McCarthy get married?
By the time of McCarthy’s release, his mother Sheila had died of cancer, unaware of his fate. Following his release, he co-authored, with Morrell, a memoir of his years in captivity, entitled Some Other Rainbow. Their relationship ended four years later, and he married Anna Ottewill, a photographer, on 16 April 1999.
What happened to Brian Keenan?
Hostage. On the morning of 11 April 1986, Keenan was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad. After spending two months in isolation, he was moved to a cell shared with the British journalist John McCarthy. He was kept blindfolded throughout most of his ordeal, and was chained hand and foot when he was taken out of solitary.
Is Brian Keenan still married?
Today, nine years after his release, Keenan, 48, reveals that he is now the proud father of a son, Jack, who is almost two. “Jack was born on September 5, 1997,” he says, his face lighting up with almost translucent joy. “My wife, physiotherapist Audrey Doyle, and I have kept it quiet.
When was McCarthy freed?
8 August 1991
John McCarthy was a 29-year-old TV producer on his first foreign assignment when he was snatched at gunpoint in Beirut in 1986. He became Britain’s longest-held hostage in Lebanon, although for several years nobody in the UK knew whether he was alive or dead. Finally, on 8 August 1991, John was allowed to go free.
Who did McCarthy marry?
Anna Ottewillm. 1999
John McCarthy/Spouse
Where was McCarthy held hostage?
In 1986 journalist John McCarthy was taken hostage by Islamic jihadists in Beirut and held in brutal captivity.
How long was McCarthy imprisoned?
five years
John Patrick McCarthy CBE (born 27 November 1956) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster, and one of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. McCarthy was the United Kingdom’s longest-held hostage in Lebanon, where he was a prisoner for more than five years.