Who is Strictly star Chris McCausland’s rarely-seen Brazilian wife?

Strictly's Chris McCausland

Chris McCausland has been married to Patricia since 2012. (Image: ITV)

has been married to his wife Patricia since 2012. The couple, who have been an item for 16 years, first connected when Patricia was working on a TV programme about the Edinburgh Festival.

She is from Rio De Janeiro, , and the couple share a daughter named Sophie, now aged 10.

Despite his wife’s preference for privacy, the comedian and 8 Out of 10 Cats star previously opened up about their relationship in an interview with Disability Horizons.

The Liverpool-born entertainer reminisced: “My wife used to work in TV and we met very early on in my career when she was involved in making a programme about the Edinburgh Festival.”

He went on to share the memorable moment he proposed: “We’ve been together for 16 years now and got married in 2012 after I’d proposed during a Pearl Jam concert at Hyde Park. Rock and roll!”

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Chris McCausland

Chris McCausland is taking part in this year’s Strictly Come Dancing. (Image: BBC)

However, the for Chris.

Speaking to the Mail, he confessed his fears about becoming a parent: “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’. That kind of really caused me a lot of torment in my head.”

Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell

Chris McCausland is partnered with Strictly pro Dianne Buswell. (Image: BBC)

Chris, who , is currently paired with professional dancer on Strictly.

As the show’s first blind contestant, he faced unique challenges but chose to tackle them head-on alongside his dancing partner Dianne.

He told the Mirror: “In my opinion, the point of it is for my partner to learn how to teach me and me to learn a dance from her and that’s for us to figure it out together.

“We’ll make mistakes and we’ll have a laugh along the way and that’ll make for better VTs in the week, really.”

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