Strictly star Chris McCausland's dispute with 'chaotic' wife over daughter's request

Away from the glitzy Strictly Come Dancing ballroom, comedian Chris McCausland lives a blessed beingness with his family, woman Patricia and girl Sophie, successful South West London

Chris McCausland mightiness look calm and successful power connected the dancefloor, but his existent beingness is simply a small much chaotic.

The comedian, 47, is paired with Strictly Come Dancing nonrecreational Dianne Buswell successful the BBC contention and the brace are among the favourites to assistance the Glitterball Trophy. Chris, the first unsighted contestant successful the show's history, mislaid his show 20 years agone owed to retinitis pigmentosa, a familial disease.

His stand-up drama endowment has seen him onshore a TV relation playing Rudi successful CBeebies' Me Too! and person regular appearances connected Have I Got News For You. But distant from tv screens, what benignant of beingness does Chris live? Here, the Mirror takes a look astatine his loving household and nett worth...

Chris is happily joined to his woman Patricia and they stock an 11-year-old girl called Sophie. The mates met successful 2005 erstwhile 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. Chris said Patricia was "full of energy" and took him retired of his comfortableness zone, portion helium made her laughter and was "almost this calming beingness successful her beingness that she was attracted to".

Patricia, who is from Brazil, brings "chaos" into their relationship, Chris antecedently said. "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 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."

The couple's girl Sophie made a uncommon quality connected Comedians: Home Alone backmost successful 2020, which showed her sitting with her dada astatine a room table, laughing astatine thing helium said. But Sophie isn't the lone small 1 astatine location - the household has a canine called Dora, though Chris wasn't overly keen astir getting her.

Speaking to the Oh My Dog! podcast with chap comedians Jack Dee and Seann Walsh, Chris explained that helium was "against the idea" of getting Dora for tons of reasons. He said: "As a comedian, I question a lot, I'm not astir much. I knew it would massively restrict my woman and daughter's quality to beryllium retired and socialise.

"It would beryllium 1 of those things that I got blamed for adjacent though it wasn't my determination to get a dog. We unrecorded successful a level inactive with nary contiguous entree to outside. I was like: 'Well wherefore don't we conscionable permission it a small bit. When we moved location we tin look astatine getting a dog, and we tin get a due size dog.'

"Cut to 2 months aboriginal and we've got a tiny canine that's been specifically researched and purchased for level life. It has monolithic separation anxiety, you can't get up without it pursuing you around." He went connected to gag that Dora is the runt of the litter and they needed to get an other tiny harness for her injections, which was inactive excessively big.

As of 2021, Chris was worthy £800,000 according to Net Worth Post. Of course, since past he's go importantly much good known, pursuing appearances connected the likes of Have I Got News For You and Live At The Apollo, arsenic good arsenic a vigor slot connected Radio 4. He besides started his ITV programme The Chris McCausland Show implicit the summer.