Matt Lucas shares sadness at not becoming a father after painful divorce
Little Britain comedian Matt Lucas has revealed he would have 'loved' to become a father if his marriage to TV producer Kevin McGee had worked out
Matt Lucas says he regrets not becoming a father. The Little Britain comedian believes he would have had children if his two-year marriage to TV producer Kevin McGee hadn't ended in divorce in 2008.
Matt accepts at 51 he still could start a family but he would only want to have a baby if he was in a committed relationship.
Speaking on his Making A Scene podcast, he said: 'I think I would have loved to have been a father. I still can, I'm 51. How old was Elton when he had them?
'If things had worked out differently in my marriage then probably we might have done.It's not something that I feel I could do on my own. I feel I'd want to be in a relationship if I was gonna have kids.
'I do think about it, sometimes. To me it's part of the package of being in a relationship that's settled and happy and something you both want.'
But Matt has one overriding fear about fatherhood. The comic is terrified that if he did have a child they wouldn't support Arsenal like he does.
The former Fantasy Football host said: 'I've got this one fear that if I had a child and he or she ended up supporting a different football team to me, I think I would struggle. It would be tough on my mental health. Both my parents after they divorced each other they both re-married.
'For a time my father and stepmother were discussing the option of having a child together. She already had two, he already had two. Me and my brother are Arsenal fans, my stepbrother and stepsister are Spurs fans. The problem is that child would have grown up in that home with the two Tottenham fans.
'I used to say to my dad, when I was a kid, 'I really just don't think you should have a child because what if they were Spurs, I really don't think you should, I'm really worried about it.'
'It genuinely used to play on my mind that I wouldn't get the chance to indoctrinate this child.'
As well as making their podcast Lucas and Walliams are expected to have a new series on Netflix.
Speaking on Virgin Radio Walliams was asked about working with Matt Lucas again in November and said: 'I saw him today. We just had a meeting with Netflix, which is very exciting… We've got a few ideas that we're developing and it's exciting and so we want to do something on stage. We want to do something as a podcast we've just started working on and we obviously want to do something on TV.'
Little Britain was removed from BBC iPlayer in 2020 after criticism of the show including the use of make-up to portray people of other races.
It returned in March 2022 but with some sketches from the show edited out.
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