Strictly Come Dancing star Chris McCausland's 'chaotic' marriage and famous daughter

Comedian Chris McCausland, 47, is dancing up a tempest connected Strictly. Off screen, the prima is portion of a blessed "chaotic" household with his woman Patricia and girl Sophie

Chris McCausland's creation was branded "spectacular" by notoriously hard to delight justice Craig Revel-Horwood connected Strictly Come Dancing this week.

The comedian, 47, performed a conception of his creation with Dianne Buswell with the lights off, receiving a people of 33 points from the judges. The show's first unsighted contestant is the bookies' favourite to assistance the Glitterball Trophy this year, impressing viewers and judges alike with his nifty footwork.

Chris affectionately says his woman Patricia, who is from Brazil, brings "chaos" into their relationship. "We were precise opposite," helium told Gyles Brandreth on his podcast Rosebud. "She comes crossed arsenic precise British but she's Brazilian, she came crossed erstwhile she was 5 oregon six. Her beingness is chaos successful the mode that Brazilian radical are chaos. It's a earthy property of their being that they are precise arrogant of - they bring chaos to immoderate room.

"The fig of times she'll beryllium talking successful Portuguese to her mum and past I'll accidental to her: 'Are you okay? What happened there?' It sounds similar they had the astir horrific statement and they're conscionable talking astir what they're going to bash that day."

The mates met successful 2005 erstwhile CBeebies Me Too! prima Chris was performing astatine the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Patricia was filming a documentary there. "We spent a batch of clip unneurotic erstwhile the camera wasn't running, socialising, going retired and doing things, and we conscionable had a batch of fun," helium said.

The prima said his woman was "full of energy" and "took maine retired of my comfortableness zone", portion helium made her laughter and was "almost this calming beingness successful her beingness that she was attracted to". He has been joined to Patricia for 12 years with an 11-year-old girl called Sophie.

The seldom seen youngster made an quality connected Comedians: Home Alone backmost successful 2020, which showed her sitting with her dada astatine a room table. Sophie is laughing astatine thing Chris says, with the prima looking relaxed successful a bluish t-shirt.

Back to Chris and Patricia, the prima revealed they person precise antithetic ideas erstwhile it comes to heating their home. "As you tin imagine, we are precise antithetic successful presumption of our civilization and our biologic effect to temperature," helium joked. "While my woman inactive needs a wintertime overgarment successful 22-degree sunshine, I find it hard to header successful temperatures supra astir 26.

"I judge there's a precocious likelihood that 1 of america mightiness beryllium discovered lifeless successful the hallway 1 day, reaching retired towards the thermostat, portion the different has fled the country."