Stand-up star, Michael McIntyre, is without doubt one of the most famous faces on TV with an entire host of programmes below his belt, together with The Wheel and his self-titled Big Show
Michael McIntyre has develop into a family identify after discovering fame on the British comedy circuit(Image: BBC)
Michael McIntyre has develop into a family identify after discovering fame on the British comedy circuit. The stand-up star, who turns 50 this weekend, boasts an entire host of big hits on his CV, together with The Wheel, Mock the Week and self-titled collection, Big Show and Comedy Roadshow.
The floppy-haired star, who turned the best paid comic within the world in 2012 with ticket gross sales of a staggering £21 million from a 71 date tour, continues to be very a lot in excessive demand.
However, when he’s not larking about on stage, cracking jokes for his legion of loyal followers, Michael enjoys spending time together with his household, together with beloved wife Kitty, who has a really famous household…
Michael McIntyre with wife, Kitty(Image: WireImage)
Kitty’s sister is actress, Sophie Ward(Image: Getty)
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Famous in-laws
Michael has been married to aromatherapist, Kitty, who has famous household, since 2003. Kitty’s dad is actor Simon Ward, and her sister, Sophie Ward, can also be within the performing trade.
Simon, who died away in 2012, was greatest identified for taking part in Winston Churchill within the 1972 movie Young Winston, as properly as for his roles in Judge John Deed and The Tudors.
Meanwhile, Sophie performed the recurring function of Dr Helen Trent within the long-running ITV drama Heartbeat, and additionally portrayed Sophia Byrne in Holby City.
Actor Simon Ward, star of The Young Churchill
Michael McIntyre and Kitty McIntyre take pleasure in a glam date night time on the BAFTA awards(Image: LightRocket through Getty Images)
‘Stalking’ his wife
Michael first met Kitty in his early twenties and spent two years making an attempt to woo her to go on a date with him.
“We had a really good start and I think she really liked me but I didn’t know how to handle that,” he mentioned on Desert Island Discs in 2011, explaining how he’d introduced to his household that he was going to marry Kitty after their first date.
Opening up concerning the couple’s early days in his 2010 e book, Life and Laughing, Michael shared his first impressions of Kitty, gushing: “She was the girl I had been looking for. In the romantic comedy that was my life, this would have made a good ending.
“We would fall fortunately ever after. Within moments of seeing her and chatting to her I used to be completely up for that ending. Unfortunately, she wasn’t.”
Determined to win Kitty over, Michael would typically cellphone her, leading to a “record-breaking” number of missed calls as he was reluctant to leave messages on an answer phone. Playfully referring to himself as a “stalker”, Michael admitted how he even ended up moving into a flat over the road from the future Mrs McIntyre.
Michael admitted to ‘stalking’ his wife once they began courting
Grandma tries to sabotage relationship
While Michael eventually managed to successfully propose to Kitty, his grandmother struggled to accept the new lady in his life.
Sadly, this turned into a rather “vicious” state of affairs, with the comedian admitting: “Unfortunately my grandma did not actually prefer it after I obtained a girlfriend.
“She was trying to break us up which was funny for a while but then it became quite vicious, an untenable situation.”
The couple are dad and mom to 2 youngsters(Image: AFP through Getty Images)
Kids
After lastly settling down, Michael and Kitty welcomed two sons, Lucas and Oscar, who are sometimes referenced in Michael’s stand-up routines.
In one in all his extra memorable jokes about his offspring, Michael mentioned: “My son’s got two words: car and map, that’s all he can say. ‘Car, car, map, car!’ I’m fairly worried he’s trying to escape. So if the next word is passport, we’re in serious trouble.”
Now his children are older, the stand-up star revealed that they don’t seem to be shocked together with his stellar success. Speaking to the Mail on Sunday in 2020, he mentioned: “I have only done this Netflix show to appear cool to them, but they watch other things. I am not a comedy star in their eyes. My teenage son thinks I am a very annoying person.”
Lavish pad
Michael has raked in substantial wealth as a sought-after comedian and tv character, forking out on lavish pads in posh London suburb, Hampstead, and Wiltshire.
The comedian actually went to city on the property ladder in 2020, dropping a cool £10million on a London pad that options eight bedrooms, alongside a subterranean swimming pool, its personal cinema, as properly as spa and fitness center services.
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