He has lots of favourite British words and expressions, which he’s learnt from his wife. A video of Kieran Culkin listing the most “adorable” Britishisms on The Graham Norton Show has gone viral. The Succession actor, 42, who hails from New York, was talking about the expressions he’s learned from his Londoner wife, Jazz Charton, 36.
The pair met in a bar and have been together for 13 years. They got married in 2013 and share two children, daughter Kinsey Sioux and son Wilder Wolf. Speaking on the BBC One show on Friday night (12 December), Culkin said he disovered one of his favourite words years ago when he and Charton were watching the wrestling on TV.
“There’s this wrestler called Biggie, who was this really big muscular guy, big biceps, you know? Pecs all that,” Culkin explained. “He had a singlet on him and before he would do his finishing move, he would take it off, and we were watching this on TV, and she just went, ‘That’s right, love, get your baps out.’ I was like, ‘What?! I need that word.’”.
Culkin also said he loved the word “chuffed”, explaining, “We don’t have anything like it in the States, nothing.”. Addressing the audience in London, he said: “You guys have the most adorable little expressions and words for things.”. He then listed more words, such as “chinwag” for conversation and “sunnies” for sunglasses, as well as “brolly” for umbrella.
