Major US comedian reveals they're coming to Scotland – and looking for love

Scottish Sun

23-05-2025

The popular US personality comes to Glasgow next month.
ON THE PROWL Major US comedian reveals they're coming to Scotland – and looking for love
CHELSEA Handler is feeling 50 and flirty – as she looks to land herself a Scottish fella.
The popular US TV presenter admits she'll be on the prowl when she arrives in Glasgow next month after celebrating the milestone birthday.
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Chelsea is bringing her tour to Scotland.
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She's hoping to find herself a Scottish fella.
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She's never been married or had children, despite high profile romances with the likes of rapper 50 Cent and comedian Jo Koy.
But the comic, who lives in Los Angeles, hopes to show other ladies that age is just a number when performing her stand up show An Abroad Broad.
She said: 'I've got to find myself a husband. This is an audition for any international men who want to marry me and take me.
'I need someone to take me from America. I'm down for whatever. I am an open book, I don't discriminate. I'm an egalitarian across the board.'
Chelsea, who skied down a mountain in a bikini to celebrate her birthday, added: 'I'm reclaiming 50. It looks pretty good on me. So I'm going to go with that and encourage other women to also embrace it.
'Don't reject our ageing, it's part of who we are. And there's really nothing you can do about it, so you might as well get on board with it and have a great attitude.
'I need a guy with great dental hygiene. And I don't want to see anyone in flip-flops. Hopefully, it's too early in the year in Scotland for people to be wearing those.
'But someone who's honest, someone who is strong emotionally and can handle a woman like me. And they have to have a job.'
Chelsea started her career on reality TV after stints on programmes like Girls Behaving Badly. She later became a regular commentator on popular US channel E!
In 2007, she landed her own late-night E! comedy series, Chelsea Lately, which ran for seven years.
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She was even serenaded by Scots 300 star Gerard Butler, 55, in the final episode. Meanwhile, she's pals with Glasgow-born Craig Ferguson, 62, who, like her, became a famous chat show host in America.
A sitcom called Are You There, Chelsea? was based on Handler's 2008 best-selling book Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.
She also filmed a more serious documentary series for Netflix titled Chelsea Does, which covered topics including marriage, racism and drugs.
She's written six books that have been No1 on the New York Times Best Seller List, with I'll Have What She's Having released earlier this year. And her third Netflix stand-up special The Feeling earned rave reviews.
The comedian is excited to get back to her roots in Scotland and hopes to prove she's a woman of many talents — and a master of all.
She said: 'It's a lot about travelling with my family and my relationships with them. A lot of mishaps that have happened on vacations — the family members who have gotten cut from going on vacations with me.
'I've decided to start editing those family members down. I haven't married my brother's wife and my sister's husband so why am I so connected to them?
'After 25 years of family vacations, I've decided to put my foot down and only go on vacation with people I actually want to go on vacation with.
'So there's a lot of family drama stories that will inspire many others on how to handle their own vacations and dramas. There's a funny story about me falling out of a helicopter, one about me taking my dog to Spain and giving him Xanax. There's a lot to choose from.'
Chelsea added: 'I do my podcast Dear Chelsea — I love that because I get to talk to real people. They call in for advice and it's been great giving advice to people who call in about life problems.
'I love getting involved in people's drama, and I love sharing whatever I'm going through with everybody. I'm very honest about what I'm sharing.
'If I'm going through good stuff, I share that. And if I'm going through bad stuff, I share that. I'm not afraid to embarrass myself or talk about my affinity for disastrous situations.
'My modus operandi with regard to any sort of creative outlet I have is that I don't take myself too seriously. Be proud. You don't have to apologise for living in a loud, brave way. I encourage everyone to try it.'
A regular on the US tour circuit, Chelsea is looking forward to the culture shock of performing all over Europe this time.
She hopes her first visit to Scotland in more than two decades brings lots of laughs and becomes one of her favourite gigs. She said: 'I'm really excited about spending time in all these places. I haven't done a European tour in years.
'Some nights, you can have more fun with an audience than on other nights — like you might do a lot more improv. It just depends on the vibes that night.
'Every city is different and it brings great joy to me to have strangers sitting next to each other in an audience, who don't know each other but are hysterically laughing together and grabbing onto each other out of hysteria. That is why I do what I do.'
But above all else, Chelsea hopes to make a Scottish gentleman laugh so much that he falls in love with her.
She joked: 'You definitely want to bop around. I'm going to all these fun places so I definitely want to check them out.
'They have me on a pretty tight schedule, but I have a few days off here and there.
'So I'm going to take advantage of those. I'm going to spend some extra time in Edinburgh this year. So I get to go to both Glasgow and Edinburgh this time, which is very exciting.
'The thicker the accent the better, as then there could maybe be a little bit of a language barrier. And that usually works to my advantage too.'
Chelsea's An Abroad Broad tour comes to Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre on May 25 and tickets can be purchased at ChelseaHandler.com.