Who Is Hannah Berner's Husband? All About Des Bishop

It was love at first sight for comedy husband-wife duo Des Bishop and Hannah Berner.

A growing media sensation at the time, Berner was aware of the Irish comedian when he stoically entered her Instagram DMs back in July 2020. The pair met for coffee in Westhampton, New York — Bishop has a residence there, while Berner was at vacationing on Shelter Island at the time. Their date ended up lasting four hours and they haven’t spent much time apart since then.

“I was pretty sure Hannah was the one for me pretty quickly,” Bishop told PEOPLE after their engagement in February 2021. “When I met her for the first time, I immediately thought not only was she beautiful, but I just wanted to spend all my time with her because she’s a lot of fun.”

Meanwhile, Berner said his jokes and mindset sealed the deal for her. “He lets me be me and we laugh together. I make him laugh and he makes me laugh,” she interjected. “I really fell in love with how his mind works. And I really listen to his advice, and I really just respect him.”

While the fans supported Bravo Summer house alumna’s blossoming romance with the native New Yorker, others can’t help but point out their 15-year age difference. But the gap only benefited their relationship, according to Berner.

“If I met another guy in his early 20s in his early 20s, we grow together, we learn about things together,” Berner said during an appearance on He’s not skinny, but he’s not fat either podcast.

However, as she explained, “I don’t want to be a project manager.”

“So, meeting Des, I thought, wait, wait, wait. All the girls in your past have already given you guidance on what you should and shouldn’t do. And I look at this kind of more complete man, who is sure of himself and doesn’t compete with me. Because he has his own career. He can handle me,” Berner continued on why their age difference works.

Here’s everything you need to know about Hannah Berner’s husband, Des Bishop, and his relationship with the comedian and podcaster.

He spends his time between New York and Ireland

Des Bishop and Hannah Berner at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey.

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A native New Yorker, Bishop moved to Ireland in his mid-teens in 1990. His father, Mike Bishop, was a famous actor and model at the time, but later gave up a career in the entertainment industry to work in a department store to better provide for Des and his two brothers, according to Bishop’s personal website. He transferred during his school years and graduated from University College Cork, where he majored in history and English.

Ireland was Bishop’s primary residence until the COVID-19 pandemic, when the comedian decided to move to New York for quarantine. Since then, Bishop splits his time between Ireland and NYC, where Berner lives full time.

“Mentally, I don’t like to say I’m in the United States anymore. I feel like I haven’t made that transition in my mind,” he said in a guest appearance on an Irish program The Anton Savage Show. “But I married a Yankee, so I’m more in the States.”

He’s a comedian

Des Bishop.

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Bishop’s impressive comedy career has taken him around the world. His big break came in 2004, when he was chosen to star in his own TV series, Des Bishop work experience, in which he worked a series of medium-paying jobs while doing stand-up, according to his comedian bio. In 2006 Joy in the Hood, Bishop traveled to impoverished areas across Ireland to teach stand-up comedy. His show In the name of Fade won the Irish Film and Television Award (IFTA) for Best Television Series 2008.

In 2013, he temporarily moved to China and learned Mandarin to put together a show called Breaking China. He released three comedy specials: Made in China (2015), One day you will understand (2018) and All People (2024).

The bishop’s work is also rooted in loss. One of his most personal shows to date focuses on his late father, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer around 2010. My dad was almost James Bond it is the name of both the show and the memoir that Bishop made in honor of his father. The book was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award and the show took him on an international tour.

He asked Berner out on Instagram

Des Bishop and Hanna Berner.

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Bishop first reached out to Berner on Instagram in July 2020 — however, unbeknownst to Bishop, it wasn’t the first time their paths had crossed. “So I actually saw him at the Comedy Cellar five years ago. He came up and he was so flamboyant and confident and cute,” Berner recalled during the 2020 episode. He’s not skinny, but he’s not fat either podcast.

At some point, Bishop followed Berner on Instagram, and she wrote back. He snapped when he realized they were both vacationing on Long Island that year. “He DMs me and he’s very direct… He says, ‘Do you want coffee?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, here’s my numbers,'” Berner said of their first exchange of messages.

It would be an understatement to say that their first date was a success. Berner said that they ended up hanging out for “about four hours”. However, fans didn’t find out about their relationship until months later in September 2020 when Berner revealed the details Bravo’s talk show.

“I don’t know if you’ve heard, but in the true twist of quarantine 2020, I trapped a man and I have a boyfriend,” she announced on the late-night show, according to Bravo’s Daily Dish.

“He’s a comedian, and I saw him five years ago at a comedy club,” she continued. “And then he DMed me recently, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s a funny, cute guy.’ ”

He proposed to her on Valentine’s Day

Des Bishop and Hannah Berner. Hannah Berner

Six months after entering her DMs on Instagram, Bishop surprised Berner with a proposal on Valentine’s Day 2021. “We’re so excited. It all happened so fast, but when you know, you know,” Berner told PEOPLE at the time. for the proposal, Bishop popped the question at home with a sweet invitation to start their relationship.

“When we first started dating, Des would send me this really funny video, singing videos, that would make me laugh. I woke up on Valentine’s Day and I had a video of him singing and I hadn’t gotten it since the summer.. And then it ends like this for him to say, ‘I have a surprise for you,'” Berner explained of how things got going.

When the video ended, she found herself face to face with Bishop on one knee holding a round diamond ring. “I’m in bed with Invisalign on and my breath is terrible,” she joked. “And he just kneels to the side, and then he just pulls out the ring. I think I just made weird crying noises.”

Berner added that the ring “is perfect because I can wear it with sweat… [or] more refined”. The beautiful piece of jewelry has an 18-karat yellow gold bracelet. “And I feel like, as my friends would say, I’m just me,” Berner said.

He knew right away that Berner was “the one”.

Des Bishop and Hannah Berner.

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“We clicked right away. It was quite an intense experience of falling in love,” Bishop admitted on RTE. Sundays with Miriam radio podcast in September 2020.

Although the couple had only been in a relationship for three months, Bishop admitted that Berner is the most serious relationship he’s ever been in and he doesn’t see it falling apart anytime soon.

“It was a stronger kind of falling in love with someone than I’ve ever experienced in my life so I’d be safe to say I’m definitely going to give it a shot because I feel like it’s The One,” he said.

They got married in 2022

Hannah Berner and Des Bishop on their wedding day.

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On May 13, 2022, Bishop and Berner exchanged vows in a small, private ceremony in Westhampton Beach attended by close family and friends. While the couple decided against a wedding party, Berner’s Summer house co-stars Ciara Miller and Paige DeSorbo were there to celebrate their friend’s big day. Their first dance was set to “If I Ain’t Got You” by Alicia Keys.

They looked “so in love and so happy,” an insider told PEOPLE.

They host a joint podcast

Hannah Berner and Des Bishop.

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In August 2023, the couple launched their own aptly named podcast Phone Berner. Listeners are encouraged to call the show’s hotline as Berner and Bishop give their best advice on all things relationships, life, social media and business. Coming from the world of comedy themselves, the duo take listeners down hilarious rabbit holes about pet peeves, relationship dilemmas and life’s tricks.

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