BBC Gladiators star Rob Beckett's secret health struggle that nearly ended in tragedy
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Rob Beckett will take part in Celebrity Gladiators but while the comedian is riding high in his career he has been open about experiencing difficulties along the way. Rob, 39, married long term girlfriend Louise Watts in 2015. The couple met in their early twenties and the star told the Daily Mail the history teacher had "paid all the bills for three years when I was earning no money as a comedian". The couple have two young daughters and Rob calls parenting the 'best thing I have ever done'.
He told the Guardian: "When your daughter snuggles up to you on the sofa to watch telly, that's better than a promotion or the smell of a new car. That's the real stuff, not your status in society." The versatile star, who presented the spin off show of ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! and narrated E4'S Celebs Go Dating, presents parenting podcast Parenting Hell with fellow comedian Josh Widdecombe.
The show began in lockdown and became so popular the duo went on a live tour. "I love my kids to pieces and try my best but sometimes I'm rubbish at it," Rob told the BBC in a candid chat about parenting. "And that's life. And if you don't accept you're rubbish at it sometimes, you'll never get better.".
While the presenter has a happy family life in South East London and enjoys a very successful career he has experienced hard times too. "On January 4, 2020, I was nailing it," he wrote in his autobiography A Class Act. "I had just flown into Cape Town, South Africa, in first class to film a TV show. The show was watching cricket, drinking beer and going on safari with one of my best mates AND getting paid. This filming was squeezed in during a nationwide sell-out tour.
