Inside Romesh Ranganathan’s life with incredibly private wife and three children-Danni Scott-Entertainment – Metro

Romesh Ranganathan’s family stay away from the spotlight (Picture: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images for Warner Bros)

Romesh Ranganathan has been a firm fixture of British comedy since the early 00s and often jokes about his family life with his wife and children.

Despite her husband’s celebrity status, wife Leesa Ranganathan steers clear from the spotlight and instead chooses to cheer him on from the sidelines.

Whether he’s starring in a new tv series or running in the London Marathon, Romesh has always thanked his wife for supporting his career.

The 46-year-old presenter is also set to head out on a sold out tour for the next two months, kicking off in Brighton and snaking across the UK and Ireland.

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

No doubt the show will be packed with jokes about his life with Leesa but thankfully she is unfazed by this as he once confessed: ‘She genuinely sees it all as just comedy, and therefore meaningless.’

He’s set to go on tour around the UK for the next two months (Picture: CBS via Getty Images)

Who is Romesh Ranganathan’s wife?

Leesa met Romesh when the pair worked together in 2009 at Hazelwick School in Crawley, before his stand-up career took off.

She was a member of the drama department while her future husband was a maths teacher.

Little is known about her except for what Romesh has shared about the pair, which includes details of their sex life — or lack thereof.

‘It was a pretty frank discussion of what Leesa and I were experiencing passion-wise,’ he revealed in his column for the Guardian in 2020.

Romesh is married to fellow educator Leesa Ranganathan(Picture: Scott Garfitt)

They’ve been together since 2009 (Picture: Instagram/Romesh Ranganathan)

He continued: ‘I have a vivid memory of seeing her face in the audience, looking completely calm, and then glancing across to our friends, who looked utterly horrified at the prospect of going out for dinner with a couple they now knew were definitely not having sex when they got home.’

Romesh went on to describe their intimate activities as ‘like making risotto’, something you ‘always enjoy’ but most of the time can’t be bothered to do.

How many children do Romesh and Leesa have?

Despite Romesh’s frank confessions of their less than steamy home life, the couple have three children together; Theo, Alex, and Charlie.

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

He and Leesa had originally agreed to both get tattoos after the birth of their first son, but ‘she bottled it’, he wrote.

The couple have three sons (Picture: Can Nguyen/Capital Pictures)

‘I got another done when my second son was born, but am yet to get a tattoo for our youngest,’ he said at the time.

‘The clock is ticking, because he is now learning to read, and will be upset when he discovers that, not only have I got his brothers’ names, but also Richard Pryor, Nas, the Roots and the Transformers’ Autobot logo before getting round to him.’

Is Romesh Ranganathan vegan?

Growing up Romesh was a vegetarian but decided to go vegan in 2013 and has been an advocate for a plant-based lifestyle ever since.

In 2019 he posted a video titled ‘The real reason people hate vegans’ which garnered a lot of traction as he simply said because they’re ‘saving the planet’.

‘People hate vegans,’ the comedian shared. ‘And the reason they hate vegans is because they think we’re humourless, and they think we think we’re better than non-vegans, and all of those things are true.

‘In terms of my ethical decisions, I’m so much better than you. I’m better for the planet, I’m better than the animals, there’s nothing worse about me apart from I’m slightly irritating to have round for dinner.’

He added: ‘It’s sort of a sense of guilt, when you see a vegan. That vegan is a reflective surface showing you your own inadequacies and you can’t handle it.’

The star also shares recipes with his fans and has praised his mum’s vegan Sri Lanken curries in the past, although it’s not clear if she is also plant-based.

What is Romesh Ranganathan’s net worth – and did he once run a pub?

Thanks to his stints presenting The Weakest Link, appearing on panel shows, and of course touring his comedy, Romesh has an estimated net worth of £2.4million.

Part of this wealth came from inheriting a pub from his father, which formed the basis of his sitcom The Reluctant Landlord.

The Prince of Wales pub in East Grinstead was run by Romesh’s dad for at least 10 years before he passed away.

Romesh is worth around £2.4million(Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

It has since been demolished as the comedian previously lamented to Metro.co.uk, he said: ‘We tried to run it for a bit and then gave up after a few months.

‘It was an absolute disaster and then I just contacted the brewery and said we can’t do this any more. The pub doesn’t exist any more.

‘They kept telling us it was a viable pub location and then we abandoned it and they knocked it down, which gives you an idea about how honest they were being about that! We weren’t great at it.

‘What I do think is sad is that pubs are just dying all over the country, and that pub went that way so it’s unfortunate.’

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