Dad-of-six Jason Manford talks ‘difficult moments’ in family life with ex and current wife
Jason Manford has three daughters and a son with his first wife Catherine, and a daughter and a son with current wife Lucy.
Jason Manford, the father of six and a household name in comedy, has opened up about the secret to managing his bustling family life. The comedian, who is set to appear on Saturday Kitchen this morning, shares his brood with two women: three daughters and a son from his first marriage to Catherine, and another daughter and son with his current spouse, Lucy.
"It's a lot, it has its difficult moments like any family but at the end of the day there's more love to go around," Jason revealed about his large family dynamics. "We get by and we've got a lot of help, my parents live nearby, my ex-wife, my wife, everybody pitches in and makes sure it works and it does for the most part."
The West End performer also touched on fame and how his children perceive his celebrity status, which ranges from indifference to pride. "It depends what I'm doing," he explained.
"Two of my kids came to the musicals show and absolutely loved it and the other two were like: 'I'll just watch it on telly'."
Having recently starred as the lead in Jack And The Beanstalk in Manchester, Jason finds himself enjoying attention from younger fans. "Post doing a panto I get a lot of kids," he told the Mirror in an interview back in January.
"I was at the gym yesterday with my kids and some little kids came over, they'd seen the show and wanted a chat. That's really lovely."
Jason and Lucy married in 2017, following his divorce from his first wife, Catherine, in 2013.
Lucy also works in TV as a producer and has been behind hit shows including Black Mirror, The Split and Ripper Street.
However, Jason previously admitted their marriage was tested back in 2021 when he had to transform his appearance for a role.
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It came after Jason had to grow sideburns for a theatre production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
He said on the Manatomy podcast with Danny Wallace and Phil Hilton: "When I was Caractacus Potts in Chitty [Chitty Bang Bang] I grew big sideburns and I got them right down to here, right down to below the lip sort of thing and my wife hated them, like genuinely hated them.
"I guess a lot of fellas do this, once you are married and they can't leave you for trivial reasons, like having mutton chops. You can do what you like, but if you have dated someone once and they have got mutton chops, you don’t have to have a second date, but once you have got kids, that’s a really trivial reason to go through the process of divorce.
"So I think we as men do things that sort of annoy our wives, but it's sort of like us testing the boundaries. I knew she hated it, but I still grew them and I was in that show for 18 months."
