Former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh and actor Hazel Keech have been happily married for nearly a decade and share two adorable children. But their love story, as Yuvraj once revealed, wasn’t an easy one. It took him over three and a half years just to convince Hazel to meet him — and even then, the journey to marriage was far from smooth.
The couple had earlier appeared on The Kapil Sharma Show, where the usually reserved Yuvraj opened up about his early struggle to win Hazel’s attention. He recalled first spotting her at a friend’s party and being instantly smitten. “She didn’t care to even show me her face for about 3.5 years,” Yuvraj said, laughing. “I requested her so many times, but she just wouldn’t meet me. Finally, when she agreed, I saw her walking like a man and that actually impressed me! I thought, this girl is different. Then I looked at what she was wearing and decided to just focus on her cute face.”
Yuvraj went on to share how his early attempts to impress her failed miserably. “When I texted her saying I was sick, she replied, ‘Good luck!’ That’s when I realised she’s extremely weird and I stopped talking to her for a while,” he said.
Eventually, fate intervened. “I found out she was friends with one of my friends. I told him to stay away from her because one day, I’m going to marry this girl!” he joked.
After years of waiting, Hazel finally added him on Facebook. “I immediately sent her a folded-hands emoji and thanked her for accepting my friend request after 3.5 years. That’s when she agreed to meet me,” Yuvraj laughed.
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But the chase didn’t end there. “Even after that meeting, she made me wait for another year before saying yes,” he added.
Hazel, who was also on the show, revealed she wasn’t initially interested in the cricketer. “Once, he asked me out for coffee, and I said yes then switched off my phone,” she admitted with a laugh. When Kapil asked when she finally fell for him, she replied, “I don’t know. Maybe the day he proposed. I thought, okay, he seems decent — I can think about it.”
Recalling the proposal, Yuvraj shared, “When I knelt down, I forgot which finger to put the ring on. I had to ask her — ‘Which one?’ and she said, ‘Left!’ We spent five minutes figuring it out,” Hazel added.
When asked if his mother approved of Hazel, Yuvraj joked, “My mom loved her. She said, ‘I’m so happy you’re marrying a man!’”
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The couple got engaged in 2015 and tied the knot a year later in a grand Sikh-Hindu wedding. Hazel even adopted the name Gurbasant Kaur after their marriage.
Reflecting on their union, Yuvraj’s father Yograj Singh once told YouTuber Krishnank Atrey, “When he turned 38, I told him to find his own partner. I just requested him to ‘change the breed’ — I wanted an Irish or English girl in the family. Then Hazel came into our lives. She’s not my daughter-in-law; she’s my daughter.”
