Comic couple Chris and Rosie Ramsey love a chuckle – but their kids can’t watch them on TV because they’re too near the knuckle.
The couple have two sons – Robin, six, and Rafe, 19 months. But their BBC Two chat show is sprinkled with innuendo and the odd choice word – or two.
And that’s not for such young ears. Chris says: “Oh no, there’s too many dirty stuff for the kids.”
But the kids DO know the theme tune.
Rosie, 35, adds: “Our son who is six sings ‘the Robin and Rafe Ramsey Show’, so he has stolen the theme tune, which is very cute.”
The Chris and Rosie Ramsey Show sees them quiz a star couple and delve into their history, likes and dislikes. It is back for another six-part run next year. And their podcast Shagged Married Annoyed recently won a prized Television and Radio Industries Club award.
But despite their success neither will leave their native Tyneside for London because they don’t want their children to lose their Geordie accents.
Chris, also 35, says: “We’d have to do what Cillian Murphy did with his children when they were getting a London accent and boot them all back up pretty quickly.
“We love the North East. Plus South Shields just won Best Beach Of The Year.”
Rosie adds: “All our family and friends, our whole unit, is in the north.”
Their chat show features segments such as It Goes or I Go – and Rosie reveals their own key to happiness.
She says: “Laughter! We laugh a lot and I think that’s really important.
“We row all the time. Probably our parenting techniques are different.”
Chris praises Rosie’s mothering skills, adding: “She is incredible and the reason why our six-year-old is such a balanced and confident, independent child is because I was on tour and Rosie did most of the parenting.
"I am home a lot for Rafe, he’s going to be a disaster!” Of their chat show, Chris – fourth in the 2019 series of Strictly Come Dancing – admits to being “very nervous” at first.
He adds: “There’s so many big hitters who dominate, quite rightly, the chat show landscape and I feel maybe we hit on a really nice angle of getting couples on. There are some people who turned us down because they’re too busy. Hopefully we’ll see them on series two.”
They may even invite TV presenting couples – like Ant and Dec.
“They’ve been together more than most marriages, so why not?” Chris adds.
Dream guests would be Meghan and Harry, John Krasinki and Emily Blunt, Barack and Michelle Obama. But Chris admits: “We’ve got to be realistic here!”
The couple have hosted BBC1’s The One Show, but found it a tough gig.
Chris says: “After the show we had to run into a room on me own and fire out a load of jokes. It was like releasing a pressure valve just having to be serious. You’ve got to hold it all back, you’ve got to be respectful.”
