Inside Romesh Ranganathan’s life with wife and three children

Romesh Ranganathan has been a agency fixture of British comedy for the reason that early 00s and infrequently jokes about his household life along with his spouse and kids.

Regardless of her husband’s superstar standing, spouse Leesa Ranganathan steers clear from the highlight and as a substitute chooses to cheer him on from the sidelines.

Whether or not he’s starring in a brand new television collection or operating within the London Marathon, Romesh has at all times thanked his spouse for supporting his profession.

The 46-year-old presenter can be set to move out on a bought out tour for the following two months, kicking off in Brighton and snaking throughout the UK and Eire.

His tour, Hustle, hits cities like Birmingham, Belfast, Edinburgh, Cardiff, and London, earlier than wrapping in Manchester in early June.

Little doubt the present can be full of jokes about his life with Leesa however fortunately she is unfazed by this as he as soon as confessed: ‘She genuinely sees all of it as simply comedy, and subsequently meaningless.’

Who’s Romesh Ranganathan’s spouse?

Leesa met Romesh when the pair labored collectively in 2009 at Hazelwick College in Crawley, earlier than his stand-up profession took off.

She was a member of the drama division whereas her future husband was a maths instructor.

Little is thought about her aside from what Romesh has shared in regards to the pair, which incorporates particulars of their intercourse life — or lack thereof.

‘It was a reasonably frank dialogue of what Leesa and I have been experiencing passion-wise,’ he revealed in his column for the Guardian in 2020.

He continued: ‘I have a vivid reminiscence of seeing her face within the viewers, trying utterly calm, after which glancing throughout to our associates, who appeared totally horrified on the prospect of going out for dinner with a pair they now knew have been undoubtedly not having intercourse once they obtained residence.’

Romesh went on to explain their intimate actions as ‘like making risotto’, one thing you ‘at all times get pleasure from’ however more often than not can’t be bothered to do.

What number of youngsters do Romesh and Leesa have?

Regardless of Romesh’s frank confessions of their lower than steamy residence life, the couple have three youngsters collectively; Theo, Alex, and Charlie.

The doting dad even has two of his sons’ names tattooed on his arm — though not his youngest’s as he revealed in 2019.

He and Leesa had initially agreed to each get tattoos after the beginning of their first son, however ‘she bottled it’, he wrote.

‘I obtained one other finished when my second son was born, however am but to get a tattoo for our youngest,’ he stated on the time.

‘The clock is ticking, as a result of he’s now studying to learn, and can be upset when he discovers that, not solely have I obtained his brothers’ names, but additionally Richard Pryor, Nas, the Roots and the Transformers’ Autobot brand earlier than getting spherical to him.’

Is Romesh Ranganathan vegan?

Rising up Romesh was a vegetarian however determined to go vegan in 2013 and has been an advocate for a plant-based life-style ever since.

In 2019 he posted a video titled ‘The true motive individuals hate vegans’ which garnered a whole lot of traction as he merely stated as a result of they’re ‘saving the planet’.

‘Individuals hate vegans,’ the comic shared. ‘And the explanation they hate vegans is as a result of they assume we’re humourless, and so they assume we expect we’re higher than non-vegans, and all of these issues are true.

‘By way of my moral choices, I’m so significantly better than you. I’m higher for the planet, I’m higher than the animals, there’s nothing worse about me other than I’m barely irritating to have spherical for dinner.’

He added: ‘It’s form of a way of guilt, while you see a vegan. That vegan is a reflective floor exhibiting you your personal inadequacies and you may’t deal with it.’

The star additionally shares recipes along with his followers and has praised his mum’s vegan Sri Lanken curries previously, though it’s not clear if she can be plant-based.

What’s Romesh Ranganathan’s web price – and did he as soon as run a pub?

Due to his stints presenting The Weakest Hyperlink, showing on panel reveals, and naturally touring his comedy, Romesh has an estimated web price of £2.4million.

A part of this wealth got here from inheriting a pub from his father, which fashioned the premise of his sitcom The Reluctant Landlord.

The Prince of Wales pub in East Grinstead was run by Romesh’s dad for a minimum of 10 years earlier than he handed away.

It has since been demolished because the comic beforehand lamented to Metro.co.uk, he stated: ‘We tried to run it for a bit after which gave up after just a few months.

‘It was an absolute catastrophe after which I simply contacted the brewery and stated we are able to’t do that any extra. The pub doesn’t exist any extra.

‘They saved telling us it was a viable pub location after which we deserted it and so they knocked it down, which supplies you an concept about how sincere they have been being about that! We weren’t nice at it.

‘What I do assume is unhappy is that pubs are simply dying everywhere in the nation, and that pub went that manner so it’s unlucky.’

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