Scott Mills shares emotional reason he 'never' wants children

Daily Mirror

10-05-2025

As he prepares to host Eurovision, Scott Mills talks about his friendship with 'Rylan Clark', taking over from Zoe Ball, marrying Sam Vaughn and his thoughts on having children
He's had the best year of his life and Scott Mills knows what kicked it all off – getting married. Last year Scott tied the knot with his partner Sam Vaughn, before the pair went on to win Celebrity Race Across The World. Then in November, he was announced as the new host of the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, taking over from Zoe Ball.
'I had such a mad year last year, it was the best year of my life,' says Scott, 52. 'I'm honestly the happiest I've ever been in my life.' It's certainly true that things are going well for Scott and he credits the stability that Sam, 36, gives him with making his career fly. 'I honestly feel that because I feel safe and secure with him that every area has fallen into place,' he says. 'That will affect how good you are on air, how you appear, how you look, if you look happy… People now say to me every day, 'Oh my God, you look so happy with life.' And maybe they wouldn't have said that before. I really feel like I finally sorted it out and everything is in order.'
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Scott's first love is radio presenting but he is also a regular face on TV and when we talk, he's preparing to fly to Basel in Switzerland to host the Eurovision Song Contest for the BBC. But until he met Sam, being on live TV terrified him. 'I did The One Show on Friday,' says Scott. 'Even five years ago, the idea of that would have terrified me. On Friday I was the most relaxed person on that sofa and I actually do think it's because in every area I just feel chill. It took me some time to find Sam, but was it worth it? 100% yes.'
The natural next step for some newlyweds is to have a baby and Scott has appeared broody on his Instagram, cooing over his young nephew, Fred, who he recently took to the Paddington Bear Experience. However, Scott's not sure he wants to be a parent. Especially with his schedule. 'I've got a dog and I find that quite a lot now because I get up at 4am,' he says, laughing. 'No, I love being an uncle – I'm the best uncle ever. You'll get the best presents from me, you'll get all the love in the world but I cannot imagine getting up at 4am and having children. I just cannot. Hats off to anyone who does that because I've got enough trouble from looking after one dog. I get to do cool uncle stuff. Sam's sister has a little boy called Fred who's three now so I got to take him to the Paddington Experience and you just get to do great stuff and then you can be like, 'Bye!' So for now, I think that'll do us.'
The early morning starts are a huge lifestyle change for Scott, but how does Sam feel now that his DJ husband has swapped their loved-up late nights for 4am starts? 'Well, one of the reasons I married him is that he is actually the most chilled out person on the planet,' says Scott, who reveals he has just sprung another disruptive work project on his husband of 11 months.
'There's something else coming up soon, where we might have to lose an entire holiday. It's something that I should probably do because it's quite big but we're going to have to move everything and it's all booked. This happens a lot. It was the same when I had the conversation about the Radio 2 Breakfast Show. I'm just completely honest – I tell it exactly like it is. Then I'll say, 'So I'll leave that with you.' But so far, every single time he's completely like, 'Yes, I think you should do that.' That's another reason I love him, because he's so incredibly supportive of every single thing that I do. He just gets it, but before I said yes to this dream job on Radio 2, we did have to have that conversation.'
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To make sure his marriage to Sam stays on track, Scott is committed to regular date nights and holidays where they can reconnect. 'If anything, it's made us more aware that the time we do spend together is so brilliant and so precious,' he says. 'Sam will block weekends out in our diary and go, 'That weekend we're going away,' or, 'We're going out for dinner that night.' Date nights are absolutely key to the relationship.'
Scott's next challenge is Eurovision with his friend Rylan Clark, who he's been presenting the contest with since 2018. 'I love him, I love it,' says Scott. 'It's my favourite week of the whole year. This is my Christmas. I literally count down the days.'
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The pair will fly out to Basel and Scott jokes that the BBC fly them out together so Rylan doesn't get lost, recalling that when Eurovision was in Liverpool, he had to help his co-star catch his first ever intercity train. 'That probably is the reason why we're on the same flight because I have to show him what to do,' he says. 'He hates travelling alone. If Rylan has to go somewhere, even if he has to pay the fare, he will always want to travel with someone else. He just wants to chat.'
It's a catch-up Scott is looking forward to, especially as Rylan has just returned from filming the second series of his Paramount+ show Dating Naked. 'We'll have a really good catch-up because I hadn't seen that he's been away doing the filming for the show with the naked people,' he says, laughing. 'He'll tell me all about that and about the latest things he's had done in his house.'
But the subject Scott wants to talk about is his pal Rylan's love life. Rylan has been single since divorcing his ex-husband Dan Neal in 2021, and Scott wants to find him someone just like his own husband. 'Rylan needs to find his version of Sam because that's what he needs,' he says. 'Sometimes Rylan is like, 'Oh, I wish I had someone like Sam,' and it's like, 'Hey, you have got all the time in the world.' I know deep down he would love to find somebody.'
Scott was in his forties when he met Sam and had almost given up on finding lasting love. 'It took me a long time to find the right one,' he says. 'Not discounting any of my other relationships because I'm on good terms with people. But it took me quite a long time and it's worth it in the end because you know it's the right thing.'