rosie o’donnellRosie O’Donnell has said she has no plans to remarry long-term partner Kelli Carpenter once the Californian ban on same-sex marriages is lifted next week - because they’d rather wait until it’s legal everywhere in the US first.

Rosie and Kelli were amongst the first to marry four years ago when the mayor of San Francisco briefly allowed same-sex ceremonies to take place. However the California Supreme Court later overturned the decision, declaring all the marriages that had taken place as illegal. But last month a second overturning by the state’s Supreme Court lifted the ban, allowing ceremonies to take place again legally from 11th June.

But Rosie told AP Radio recently that she and Kelli won’t rush down the aisle again just yet: “[We’re] going to wait until it’s legal everywhere, because otherwise, I said to Kelli, we’ll be going around touring the country on the marriage tour every state by state.

“Once it gets to be at the federal level, once every state recognises the marriages of every other state, I think that’ll be the time we would do it.

“The same way it was illegal for black and white people to marry at one point and people couldn’t conceive of that ever being different, I do think that two consenting, law-abiding adults who want to share their life together should be allowed to do that.”