Alan Cumming’s Husband: All About ‘The Traitors’ Host’s Love Grant Shaffer & Past Relationships

is an incredibly versatile star of the stage and screen. Whether he’s the seductive emcee in or Fegan Floop in the films, he’s instantly recognizable to his fans. He’s starred in a wide variety of projects over the years, including and many more popular movies. Most recently, Alan has been hosting the second season of the reality competition show on Peacock.

The actor has also been very open about his sexuality. He’s openly bisexual and has been in relationships with both women and men. “I see a worrying trend among LGBT people, that if you identify yourself in just one way, you close yourself off to other experiences. My sexuality has never been black and white; it’s always been gray.

I’m with a man, but I haven’t closed myself off to the fact that I’m still sexually attracted to women,” he told in 2015. For many years, he’s been married to his husband Get to know more about Grant and Alan’s past romances here. Grant also works in the arts, but he mostly works as a visual artist.

He’s a popular illustrator, and he’s probably best known for his NYSee comic series, which depicts hilarious interactions and sightings around the Big Apple. He often shows the comics (as well as places that they’re displayed in public) on his . He also has a personal account for other . In addition to the comics, his work has been featured in and , according to his .

He’s also done storyboarding for movies and TV shows, as well as illustrated children’s books, including the books, which were written by Alan. After meeting through friends in New York, Alan and Grant first got married in London in 2007. At the time, they said that they had hoped to get married in America originally, but couldn’t as same sex marriage hadn’t yet been legalized.

“As residents of America we would have loved to marry there, but we hope that soon the civil rights that we have been afforded in the U.K. will be available to all gay Americans, and we look forward to celebrating not only our marriage, but the end of prejudice,” they said in a statement at the time, per Five years later, the pair had a second wedding ceremony in New York City, as same sex marriage had been legalized.

“On the 5th anniversary of our wedding in London grant and I tied the knot again in NYC!” he wrote in a since deleted post on Twitter. Alan is totally committed to Grant, and he’s gushed about what an excellent partner he is. “He’s lovely, kind and hilarious, but he’s also the first person who hasn’t wanted to change me.

We respect each other and we were a bit older when we met, so you know yourself more and are more respectful,” he told in January 2020. Long before his marriage to Grant, Alan was wed to his first wife from 1985 to 1993. Unfortunately, after eight years, the pair’s marriage came to an end, and the actor revealed that he was heartbroken when it ended in a 2021 interview with “I was so young when I got married.

I left home to get away from my father, I got into a marriage to feel secure and to feel… I was in love and everything as well. But I felt I was seeking the familiar,” he said on the podcast, via As a child of divorce, Alan revealed that he was “devastated” when his marriage ended. “I wanted my marriage to be a success to prove them wrong, or to prove that you could do it.

Which is a really bad reason! It wasn’t the main reason. It was certainly one of the things and what I felt when I failed in my marriage,” he said. “I was really, really devastated because it was the most adult grown up thing that I had done independently. And I wanted to make it a success. I needed it to be sure.

And for it to work.” After his marriage to Hilary, Alan was briefly linked to fellow actress who he met while filming according to In an interview with the British outlet, he explained that he thought that she was a great match for him at the time. “I was really lucky in that the first relationship I had after Hilary was with Saffron, who’s really… understanding and a broadminded person,” he said.

The two of them were also briefly engaged, but never went through with marrying. The star admitted that it would’ve been “disastrous” in hindsight. After Saffron, Alan had a relationship with theater director During their time together, they co founded the theater group The Art Party, per The pair broke up in early 2003 or late 2002, after about six years together.

In fact, they bought a home together shortly before breaking up, but split up before closing, according to.