Strictly Come Dancing star Chris McCausland, who competes in The Chase's Celebrity special this evening, was asked about his rarely-seen wife during a recent interview
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Strictly Come Dancing champion Chris McCausland insisted he doesn't get his stand-up material about his marriage approved by his wife Patricia, before hitting the stage.
The comedian often jokes about his personal life while performing, including living with blindness and his long-term marriage to his Brazilian wife Patricia.
During a show last year, he joked: "My wife, she is not of these parts, she's from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. I'm a very lucky guy, she's a good looking girl, so she tells me," which prompted the audience to laugh.
He added: "I don't want to argue with her because it upsets her, and deep down inside, I know she likes being upset. I just don't want to give her that little piece of joy."
Probed about joking about his wife during his shows in an interview with The Sunday Times, journalist Laura Pullman claimed he was "shocked" by the question.
"I know where the lines are," he replied. "Often, in taking the p**s out of your wife, you're actually taking the p**s out yourself. The joke is that you're the idiot."
Chris and Patricia, who have a daughter together, have been married since 2012. They first met in 2005 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he was performing and she was working.
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Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell won Strictly Come Dancing in 2025 Chris later popped the question to Patricia at a Pearl Jam concert in Hyde Park. Though he rarely shares details about his family life, the Strictly 2024 winner has previously opened up his concerns with fatherhood due to his blindness.
Struck by retinitis pigmentosa at the young age of 22, a hereditary condition shared with both his mother and grandmother, Chris has faced significant challenges. Retinitis pigmentosa is a group of uncommon diseases causing the retina cells to deteriorate slowly over time, leading to a gradual loss of vision.
In a heartfelt conversation with Gyles Brandreth on the Rosebud podcast, Chris expressed: "I was in such a dilemma about it because I knew I would regret not having kids, but the thought of having kids terrified me.
"The idea of being a parent and all of the things I was going to be unable to do properly. My dad, all the things he used to do with me as a kid, taking me to different places, and the time he put in helping me build things.
"You go, 'How am I going to be able to do those things - I'm not going to be a proper dad, I'm going to be a half dad'. That kind of really caused me a lot of torment in my head."
The Chase Celebrity Special airs tonight at 6.30pm on ITV and ITVX.
