Karl Pilkington Wife: Who Is The TV Star’s Other Half?
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Karl Pilkington is one of the most recognisable figures on TV today. Millions of viewers loved seeing him travel the world on ITV’s An Idiot Abroad, and he’s now branching out into writing his own comedy shows.
Despite being in the public eye for almost 20 years, we don’t know very much about the star. Apart from his well-documented friendship with Ricky Gervais, there are parts of Karl Pilkington’s life that are still a mystery.
For example, who is Karl Pilkington’s wife?
Karl Pilkington Wife
Despite being a public figure, Karl Pilkington keeps his private life, well, private. In fact, not much is known about the comedy star aside from the fact that he does have a wife, and the pair live together in Dorset.
But who is Karl Pilkington’s wife?
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Actually, Karl Pilkington’s wife is Suzanne Whiston. She is a journalist and TV producer who has worked on BBC’s Match of the Day.
Though it’s not clear how they met, Karl sometimes mentioned her on-air while working on the radio. They have been together since the 1990s.
In 2013, he was in deep water after calling his wife “plump” on an episode of his show The Moaning of Life. On that episode, he spends a night ‘pheromone dating’ and even goes as far as to arrange his own marriage.
However, he said that Suzanne Whiston wouldn’t mind his comments. Karl explained:
“It depends how you use that word. I don’t see it as a bad thing.
She’s not unhealthily thin, what’s normal these days? It’s just a word that came into my head. And she won’t be offended by that.”
His Career in Comedy
While we may not know much about Karl Pilkington’s wife, we do know a lot about how Karl came to be one of TV’s most well-known comedy stars.
He got his break while working on Ricky Gervais’ radio show, The Ricky Gervais Show. Though he was originally only meant to work behind the scenes of the show, he was frequently brought on-air, to the delight of the show producers and listeners.
Ricky Gervais has talked about his first impressions of Karl, and the comedian extraordinaire actually says that Karl was “the funniest man” he’d ever met. Ricky said: “I liked him instantly, as he wasn’t impressed by who I was.
I think the first words I said to him were, ‘Why have you got a round head?’ and he replied, ‘What shape’s a head meant to be?'”
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Though at first Karl was simply providing ad-libs and chatting with Ricky Gervais and co-producer Steven Merchant on air, he soon became a staple of The Ricky Gervais Show.
Ricky and Karl eventually became firm friends, with Karl explaining that it was Ricky who encouraged him to do a second series of An Idiot Abroad.
He said: “But in a way he knows what’s best for me: he pushed me to do the second series of An Idiot Abroad even though I’d hated the first one, being in India and ill. And I enjoyed the second season. He’s like my careers adviser.”
What is Karl Pilkington doing now?
Karl Pilkington has gone from being the butt of jokes on An Idiot Abroad to actually writing and starring in his own comedy series.
Sick of It premiered in 2018 and saw Karl playing a fictional version of himself as well as his character’s doppelganger, who is the voice inside his head.
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Though many fans were sceptical about Karl working without Ricky, the show was a success and was even commissioned for a second series, which was broadcast in 2020.
However, in an interview on Lorraine, Karl said that series two would be the final series.
On the show, Karl also mentioned how lockdown had left him annoying his wife, Suzanne Whiston.
“I got really bored, was driving the girlfriend up the wall. I was letting things annoy me,” he said.