Joe Lycett addresses scepticism over his baby boy announcement after fans thought it was a prank

Joe Lycett has addressed the instrumentality scepticism aft helium welcomed a babe lad with his spouse “Denise” earlier this month.

Some fans thought the station was a “PR stunt” owed to his past of pranks and joked that it looked similar helium was “holding a overgarment potato”.

Lycett has present spoken retired astir the confusion, saying connected the Parenting Hell podcast: “It's unexpected for maine to person a babe due to the fact that tons of radical deliberation of maine arsenic the cheery bloke disconnected the telly.”

He added that helium is bisexual, aft antecedently describing himself arsenic pansexual, which means being attracted to idiosyncratic careless of their gender.

The Birmingham-born comic besides reflected connected his archetypal fewer weeks of fatherhood, admitting helium “did a batch of crying”.

“I've done a batch of, I mean little truthful now, but the archetypal benignant of 2 weeks I did a batch of crying due to the fact that I did a batch of nostalgia for the aboriginal and imagined what helium would beryllium similar erstwhile helium was 20 and past disquieted astir him erstwhile he's an aged antheral and I can't beryllium determination for him,” helium explained.

The Late Night With Lycett prima said however “immensely proud” helium is of his spouse Denise, praising her for taking to motherhood similar a “duck to water”.

He revealed successful April that helium was dating a pistillate whom helium publically calls Denise for privateness reasons.

Lycett added successful the podcast that the mates person go regulars astatine their section “baby cinema” mornings and get parenting proposal from YouTube and books.

The TV property joked that 1 of the large advantages of becoming a father is being capable to usage his caller tumble drier arsenic helium “loves washing”.

He besides admitted they faced immoderate trouble erstwhile registering their baby’s sanction owed to an aged prank successful which helium changed his sanction to Hugo Boss to mock the manner brand’s copyright conflict with tiny businesses connected utilizing the connection “boss” successful their name.

“Talk astir things coming backmost to wound you connected the a***,” the Bafta-winning comedian said.

“When we went to registry his sanction the registrar said to maine 'have you been known by immoderate different names?’ I said 'no' past I looked implicit astatine my spouse and she furrowed her brow and I went, 'oh yeah, I was known arsenic a Hugo Boss for a while.'

“And she had to spell into existent granular item and she said, 'you got fortunate due to the fact that if you were Hugo Boss connected your passport, we person to enactment that connected his commencement certificate the begetter is Joe Lycett besides known arsenic Hugo Boss'.

“Fortunately the passport was rejected due to the fact that my signature arsenic Hugo Boss erstwhile I was Hugo Boss for that play was a c*** and balls truthful they rejected it. It was conscionable changed via Deed Poll.”