Editing Lucy Benjamin (section)

==Personal life==
Benjamin married Richard Taggart, an oil businessman, at [[Babington House]], [[Somerset]] on 30 March 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/archive/2006/03/31/east-ender-lucyweds-89520-16886115/ |title=East Ender Lucyweds |work=Daily Mirror |location=UK |date=31 March 2006 |access-date=16 January 2012 |archive-date=22 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222235344/http://www.mirror.co.uk/archive/2006/03/31/east-ender-lucyweds-89520-16886115/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The couple met during a flight to [[Dubai]] and became engaged three months later. Benjamin and Taggart now live in [[Gidea Park]], [[Greater London]].<ref>[https://archive.today/20120803050816/http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/182802004.htm X Factor: Lucy Benjamin]</ref>

In the first episode of ''The X Factor: Battle of the Stars'' on 31 May 2006, [[Sharon Osbourne]] accidentally revealed that Benjamin was pregnant. Benjamin smiled while host [[Kate Thornton]] commented: "I don't think you wanted that announced tonight, did you?"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds33578.html |title=Showbiz – News – Ex-'Enders actress Lucy Benjamin pregnant |publisher=Digital Spy |date=30 May 2006 |access-date=16 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061207215550/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds33578.html |archive-date=7 December 2006 }}</ref> Benjamin gave birth by [[caesarean section]] to a daughter at [[Harold Wood Hospital]] in London on 22 November 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/archive/2006/11/23/a-special-delivery-for-lucy-89520-18143067/ |title=A Special Delivery For Lucy |work=Daily Mirror |location=UK |date=23 November 2006 |access-date=16 January 2012 |archive-date=22 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222235349/http://www.mirror.co.uk/archive/2006/11/23/a-special-delivery-for-lucy-89520-18143067/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On 19 October 2010, she revealed that she was three months pregnant with her second child.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/gallery/gallery-specials/27918/2/3/new-pictures-pregnant-celebrities/1/ |title=NEW PICTURES Pregnant Celebrities &#124; Gallery Specials |publisher=Now Magazine |date=22 June 2010 |access-date=16 January 2012 |archive-date=18 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418225649/http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/gallery/gallery-specials/27918/2/3/new-pictures-pregnant-celebrities/1 |url-status=live }}</ref> In April 2011, she gave birth to a second daughter.<ref>{{cite news |title=HELLO! Exclusive: Lucy Benjamin proudly presents baby Rosie to the world |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/201107185784/lucy-benjamin-hello-exclusive/ |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=[[Hello (magazine)|Hello]] |date=18 July 2011 |archive-date=29 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129140457/https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/201107185784/lucy-benjamin-hello-exclusive/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In May 2015, she claimed £326,000 for infringement of her privacy rights, although substantial she was awarded less than half that sum, £157,250<ref>{{Citation |title=Gulati & Ors v MGN Ltd (un-redacted) [2015] EWHC 1482 (Ch) |date=21 May 2015 |url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2015/1482.html#Taggart |access-date=2023-12-17 |archive-date=10 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510010533/http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2015/1482.html#Taggart |url-status=live }}</ref> by [[Anthony Mann (judge)|Mr Justice Mann]] as part of an overall £1.2 million celebrity payout relating to the phone hacking scandal carried out by Mirror Group newspapers (''[[Trinity Mirror]]''), under her married name, Lucy Taggart.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32825751|title=Phone hacking: Celebrities win damages from Mirror Group|date=21 May 2015|work=[[BBC]]|access-date=4 September 2020|archive-date=8 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108103628/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32825751|url-status=live}}</ref>