Anthony Albanese reveals single reason his wedding to Jodie could be held very soon

Anthony Albanese could wed his partner Jodie Haydon sooner than anticipated so his fiancée’s grandmother doesn’t miss the ceremony.

Mr Albanese, 61, is set to tie the knot to Ms Haydon, 45, sometime next year with the couple remaining tight-lipped on a specific date.

It has since emerged the couple have been facing pressure from Ms Haydon’s 94-year-old grandmother to bring forward the wedding.

She has raised concerns she may not live to see the ceremony if it is held too late, the Daily Telegraph reported.

While Mr Albanese won’t reveal if he will move the date of the ceremony, he did admit to not knowing what he will wear – and sees the fact that he gets along with his in-laws more important than a wedding. 

Ms Haydon’s side of the family live around the Central Coast in NSW and the nuptials may end up being private – as well as being held after the election.

An election date has yet to be announced – however it is understood it will happen by May. 

The pair announced their engagement with a loved-up selfie on social media on February 15 – a day after Mr Albanese had proposed on Valentine’s Day. 

‘She said yes,’ he wrote. 

It is the first time an Australian Prime Minister has become engaged while in office.

In a joint statement, the couple said: ‘We are thrilled and excited to share this news and look forward to spending the rest of our lives together.’

‘We are so lucky to have found each other.’

The pair met in 2020 at a business dinner in Melbourne, when Mr Albanese asked the crowd if there were any fellow South Sydney fans present and finance worker Ms Haydon, who lives in his Grayndler electorate, shouted: ‘Up the Rabbitohs’.

He later introduced himself and they decided to go for a drink when they were back in Sydney.

He wooed his new girlfriend with a night out at the Young Henrys brewery in Newtown.

‘We had what I thought would just be a drink at Young Henrys in Newtown, and we got on really well. That’s how it started,’ he told Women’s Weekly. 

Meeting Ms Haydon and finding love again is a far cry from New Years Day in 2019, when Mr Albanese’s wife Carmel Tebbutt, who he had been with him for 30 years and married to him for 19, told him she was leaving him.

‘It was a shock to me. We had had a lovely night together the night before – New Year’s Eve – so there was no warning at all,’ Mr Albanese said.

An election date has yet to be announced – however it is understood it will happen by May

Anthony Albanese with his ex-wife Carmel Tubbutt (pictured) seen less than three months before their marriage breakdown 

After going to Europe alone to catch up with friends, do some sightseeing and think about his marriage breakdown, he decided to come to terms with his ex-wife’s decision. 

‘I was trying to understand what had happened with my relationship and it made me recognise that what I needed to do was not try to understand it but accept it,’ he said.

‘It happened, it was her decision, there was nothing I could do about it.’

Mr Albanese returned to Australia feeling renewed and worked hard on the 2019 election – which Labor’s Bill Shorten lost.

The Prime Minister decided ‘straight away’ that he would run for the nation’s top job. 

Mr Albanese said he also knew he was certain about something else: that he wouldn’t find another woman because at that time Carmel was still very much ‘the love of my life’.