Inside Chris McCausland's marriage to Brazilian wife and cheeky on-screen spat

Comedian and TV prima Chris McCausland has go a instrumentality favourite connected this year's Strictly Come Dancing. And portion his woman tends to enactment retired of the spotlight, they've shared immoderate jokey digs together

Chris McCausland's woman mostly stays retired of the spotlight - but 1 on-screen tiff betwixt the brace raised eyebrows.

The comedian is making past arsenic Strictly Come Dancing's archetypal unsighted contestant, and fans can't get capable of his performances. He is being proudly supported by his Brazillian woman Patricia arsenic she cheers him connected lovingly successful the crowd.

The Liverpudlian 8 retired of 10 Cats prima has been joined since 2012 and the mates person been unneurotic for 16 years. They met erstwhile Patricia, from Rio De Janeiro, was moving connected a TV programme astir the Edinburgh Festival and present person a 10-year-old girl called Sophie.

While small is known astir their marriage, the brace did person an awkward brushwood connected surface erstwhile that led to Patricia jokingly storming disconnected set.

She and Chris chatted astir their matrimony during an occurrence of David Mitchell's Outsiders past year. The mates cameo was a fiery 1 arsenic Patricia was shocked astatine Chris' cheeky effect to Alan Davies' grilling.

"On a standard of 1 to 10, however blessed are you successful your relationship?" Alan asked, prompting Patricia to reply: "I'll spell for a good, coagulated 9 and a half. And that's not to accidental I don't consciousness similar it's a ten. I conscionable consciousness there's ever country for improvement, due to the fact that we've got that winning mentality and that's wherefore we're here."

But she was shocked erstwhile she turned to spot Chris feigning daze astatine her score, arsenic helium jokingly quipped: "You'd spell 9 and a half?" When she repeated her people again, the comedian shrugged and said: "Yeah 9 and a half." Patricia thanked him for agreeing, but Chris continued to upwind his woman up, arsenic helium asked her again: "Nine and a half?"

Alan past poked again and asked Chris what his "real number" was, but the funnyman insisted his people was the aforesaid arsenic his wife's to support the bid and repeated: "Nine and a half." However Patricia looked furious, and Alan struggled to incorporate his laughter arsenic helium asked the couple: "Do you combat often?"

Not wanting to get into occupation for a 2nd time, Chris said to his wife: "Can you spell first?" However, Patricia didn't clasp backmost with her reaction, arsenic she stormed disconnected the TV acceptable shouting: "All right. You cognize what. There you go. Yeah, spot you later."

But the tiff didn't look to beryllium serious, arsenic the mates person been unneurotic for 16 years. In an interrogation with Disability Horizons, Chris revealed however helium popped the question and said: "My woman utilized to enactment successful TV and we met precise aboriginal connected successful my vocation erstwhile she was progressive successful making a programme astir the Edinburgh Festival. We've been unneurotic for 16 years present and got joined successful 2012 aft I'd projected during a Pearl Jam performance astatine Hyde Park. Rock and roll!"

Chris besides erstwhile joked astir the taste differences betwixt him and his Brazilian spouse and told Brighton Magazine: "As you tin imagine, we are precise antithetic successful presumption of our culture, and our biologic effect to temperature. Whereas my woman volition inactive necessitate a wintertime overgarment successful 22-degree sunshine, I conflict to relation successful thing warmer than astir 26."

The comedian past jibed that the weather brings 'conflict' to their relationship. He added: "This evidently creates a large woody of struggle erstwhile the cardinal heating comes into question. I speech astir this successful [my stand-up] show, but I deliberation determination is simply a bully accidental that 1 of america whitethorn 1 time beryllium recovered dormant successful the hallway with 1 limb reaching retired towards the thermostat, with the different 1 of america having skipped the country."

In a abstracted interview, Chris bravely opened up astir his fears astir parenting. The prima said his impaired vision, caused by retinits pigmentosa, heartbreakingly made him interest that helium would lone beryllium "half a day" which caused him "a batch of torment". He told the Daily Mail: "I was successful specified a dilemma astir it due to the fact that I knew I would regret not having kids, but the thought of having kids terrified me. The thought of being a genitor and each of the things I was going to beryllium incapable to bash properly.

"My dad, each the things helium utilized to bash with maine arsenic a kid, taking maine to antithetic places, and the clip helium enactment successful helping maine physique things. You spell 'how americium I going to beryllium capable to bash those things - I'm not going to beryllium a due dad, I'm going to beryllium a fractional dad'. That benignant of truly caused maine a batch of torment successful my head."

Chris' fears were wholly unfounded, however, arsenic he's described fatherhood arsenic "amazing" and seems to beryllium a superb dada to his daughter. The prima said: "Weirdly, I deliberation I wanted a miss due to the fact that I figured if we got a miss I could beryllium a loving dad, but immoderate of the applicable obligations that autumn connected dads they'd autumn much connected [his wife] Patricia due to the fact that she'd beryllium a girl."

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