BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Chris McCausland reveals hidden 'conflict' in his marriage

Comedian and Strictly Come Dancing's Chris McCausland has revealed that there is constant friction between himself and his wife Patricia because they are so different

Strictly’s Chris McCausland claims his wife Patricia brings "chaos" into his life and there is one particular thing they can never agree on that may result in one of them ending up "dead".

Viewers of Strictly Come Dancing have witnessed the wonderful relationship comedian Chris McCausland has with his professional partner Dianne Buswell. She spoke about what a big fan she was of Chris before the show started but the pair have had to face challenges other couples on the show haven’t, due to his disability.

Chris, 47, is the first blind contestant to take part in the BBC talent show and obviously that has brought its own difficulties to learning routines each week. However the CBeebies actor has stunned both fans and judges in the ballroom with his steely determination and use of his famed quick wit to deal with tricky situations, helped by the expertise and patience of Dianne.

The woman Chris usually spends most of his time with away from Strictly is his wife Patricia. The couple met in 2005 when he was performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and she was filming a documentary there. He previously spoke about how they hit it off and told the Gyles Brandreth's Rosebud podcast: "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. We were very opposite, she comes across as very British but she's Brazilian, she came across when she was five or six."

The couple went on to marry in 2012 after Chris proposed during a Pearl Jam concert at Hyde Park and share daughter Sophie together. But their cultural backgrounds make them very different from each other. "Her life is chaos in the way that Brazilian people are chaos," he continued. "It's a natural attribute of their being that they are very proud of - they bring chaos to any room. 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."

But there’s one thing the couple can never agree on at home and it’s a constant cause of ‘conflict’. In an interview with Brighton Magazine, Chris joked that their physical responses to heat could actually end up being the death of them. "As you can imagine, we are very different in terms of our culture, and our biological response to temperature," he said. "Whereas my wife will still require a winter coat in 22 degree sunshine, I struggle to function in anything warmer than about 26."

He continued: "This obviously creates a great deal of conflict when the central heating comes into question. I talk about this in [my stand-up] show, but I think there is a good chance that one of us may one day be found dead in the hallway with one arm reaching out towards the thermostat, with the other one of us having skipped the country."

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