BBC Strictly Come Dancing winner Chris McCausland's 'chaos' wife and rarely seen daughter
Chris McCausland, alongside his professional dance partner Dianne Buswell, has been declared the winner of Strictly Come Dancing 2024. The blind comedian, aged 47, was overcome with emotion as they were announced as this year's champions in a tense final of the BBC competition.
Their fellow finalists - Sarah Hadland and Vito Coppola, JB Gill and Lauren Oakley, and Tasha Ghouri and Aljaž Škorjanec - gathered around them as a stunned Chris embraced Dianne tightly. He will undoubtedly continue the celebrations off the dance floor with his family - his Brazilian wife Patricia and their 11 year old daughter.
The couple first met in 2005 when CBeebies Me Too! star Chris was performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Patricia was filming a documentary there. "We spent a lot of time together when the camera wasn't running, socialising, going out and doing things, and we just had a lot of fun," he previously shared.
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The star described his wife as being "full of energy" and someone who "took me out of my comfort zone", while he made her laugh and was "almost this calming presence in her life that she was attracted to". Chris fondly says his wife Patricia, who hails from Brazil, brings "chaos" into their relationship, reports the Mirror.
Chris describes his wife as having a Brazilian temperament, having moved to the UK at a young age. While speaking on the Rosebud podcast, hosted by Gyles Brandreth, the comedian said: "She comes across as very British but she's Brazilian, she came across when she was five or six. Her life is chaos in the way that Brazilian people are chaos. It's a natural attribute of their being that they are very proud of - they bring chaos to any room."
He also explained how even straightforward conversations in Portuguese with her mum can seem dramatic. He said: "The number of times she'll be talking in Portuguese to her mum and then I'll say to her: 'Are you okay? What happened there? ' It sounds like they had the most horrific argument and they're just talking about what they're going to do that day."
Chris has been married to Patricia for 12 years and they have an 11 year old daughter, Sophie, who occasionally appears in public with him. However, Chris said he initially felt apprehensive about fatherhood. He said: "I was in such a dilemma about it because I knew I would regret not having kids but the thought of having kids terrified me
"The idea of being a parent and all of the things I was going to be unable to do properly. My dad, all the things he used to do with me as a kid, taking me to different places, and the time he put in helping me build things, you go, 'how am I going to be able to do those things? I'm not going to be a proper dad, I'm going to be a half dad'."
Reflecting on the stark differences between himself and his partner Patricia in their home life, the celebrity shared with a chuckle that their cultural backgrounds and individual biological responses to temperature have led to quite the domestic debate. "As you can imagine, we are very different in terms of our culture and our biological response to temperature," he quipped.
Revealing their personal thermostat thresholds, he admitted: "While my wife still needs a winter coat in 22-degree sunshine, I find it hard to cope in temperatures above about 26."
He humorously added a dark twist to their situation by saying: "I believe there's a high likelihood that one of us might be discovered lifeless in the hallway one day, reaching out towards the thermostat, while the other has fled the country."
