Kian Egan Marks 17 Years With Jodi Albert in South of France
kian egan and Jodi Albert marked their 17th wedding anniversary on the French Riviera with a trip to the South of France. The couple shared a public glimpse of the celebration from Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, a Four Seasons hotel with luxury palace status in France since 2011.
They have been together since the summer of 1999, a relationship that began long before they married on May 8, 2009, in Barbados. The anniversary trip read less like a standard celebrity post and more like a tightly framed family break: three children at home, one rare escape on the coast, and a set of photos built around meals rather than publicity.
Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat
The hotel choice gave the trip its sharpest signal. Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat sits on the South of France coast and carries the French government's luxury palace status, a designation it received in 2011. For a couple celebrating a 17-year marriage, that setting says the trip was planned as a proper milestone, not a quick stop between obligations.
They shared breakfast photos from the sun-soaked coast, and one selfie showed Egan kissing Albert's face. He and Albert also drank bubbly and beer while waiting for their meal, a small detail that makes the outing feel lived-in rather than staged. Jodi Albert wore a white lace top over a black cami and a black-and-white polka dot neck scarf.
Breakfast, Oysters, Hermès
The food trail from the trip filled in the rest. The couple ate pain au chocolat in bed, then oysters in a restaurant with sea views, and Albert bought something in Hermès during the stay. Those details point to a short luxury break built around time together, not just the anniversary date itself.
There is a clearer business story underneath the romance: the couple first crossed paths at a festival when she was 15 and he was 19, then started dating four years later. Egan once said, "In 2003, I took Jodi to Barbados. We had only been together for eight weeks." He later added, "As soon as you arrive in Barbados, you know you’re on holiday as everyone’s friendly and laid-back. It’s a bit like Ireland. We enjoyed the place so much, we decided to have our wedding there."
Barbados to France
The new trip closes a loop that started long before the wedding. Egan proposed on Christmas Day the year before they married, their first child Koa was born two years after the ceremony, their second son Zekey arrived in May 2015, and their third child Cobi was born in 2017. The French Riviera celebration fits that timeline cleanly: after 17 years of marriage, the update is not a launch or a reinvention, but a rare look at a long-running partnership in motion.
For readers, the useful takeaway is simple. The couple marked the anniversary in the South of France, stayed at a palace-status hotel, and shared enough from the trip to show the tone of the break without turning it into a full reveal. That leaves the celebration exactly where it should be: public enough to register, private enough to feel personal.
