Comic Alan Davies is ready to seem on James Martin’s Saturday Morning on Saturday, March 7
The One Present: Alan Davies says how he met his spouse
Alan Davies is a beloved British comic, actor and presenter – however who’s his well-known spouse?
The 60-year-old star might be greatest recognized for his portrayal of the title position within the BBC thriller drama sequence Jonathan Creek, which ran from 1997 till 2016. He is additionally the one everlasting panellist on the BBC panel present QI since its premiere again in 2003, outlasting its unique host, Stephen Fry.
Alan started his profession as a stand-up comedian, and has undertaken a number of excursions acting on stage, with the newest one going down final yr. The star has additionally written three standard autobiographies: My Favorite Folks and Me (2009), Simply Ignore Him (2020), and White Male Stand-Up (2025).
Alan is ready to seem on James Martin’s Saturday Morning later right now (March 7). The newest episode of the present will even function chef Sami Tamimi and gardener David Domoney, in addition to James cooking up a storm in his Hampshire kitchen.
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Forward of his look on James Martin’s ITV present, followers could also be shocked to study that Alan has a really well-known spouse.
The comic is married to writer and former literary agent Katie Maskell. Katie studied English and Drama at Warwick College, earlier than finishing a one-year postgraduate diploma at London drama college, East 15. She notably received Waterstones’ £5,000 Youngsters’s Ebook Prize in 2010 for her e-book, The Nice Hamster Bloodbath.
Alan and Katie met backstage at a taping of QI in 2005, earlier than getting engaged six months later. They bought married in 2007, with comic and Strictly Come Dancing winner Invoice Bailey appearing as Alan’s greatest man. The couple have three kids collectively. Their first baby, Susie, was born in 2009, adopted by their son, Robert, in 2011. Their youngest baby, Francis, was born in 2016.
Alan beforehand spoke about how he met his spouse on an episode of The One Present final yr. In the course of the instalment, host Alex Jones stated: “All people loves, in fact, QI. And we heard the story that that is the place you truly met your spouse.”
Alan is married to writer Katie Maskell (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)
“Yeah, it is true. 20 years in the past,” Alan replied. A photograph of the couple then appeared on display screen, with Alex quipping: “She’s lovely. [You’re] punching, Alan… She’s gorgeous.”
Alan then defined: “I noticed her within the viewers at QI and simply as I noticed her, that is what occurred proper, we had a stunt arrange with a sugar glass, which is a glass that may smash, proper? After which Arthur Smith, a superb comic, was on the opposite staff and he had a glass, and he thought that was a sugar glass. It wasn’t a sugar glass.
“He threw it in our course, I neglect who was on my staff. And because it got here in direction of me, I assumed, ‘I’ve simply noticed somebody within the viewers I wanna speak to afterwards and this might finish my profession. This might end me.'”
The star concluded: “I almost died, however in actual fact, it hit the desk and broke. It was very humorous, and I met her within the inexperienced room afterwards. Fortunately for me, she wasn’t sporting her glasses, so she could not see what I regarded like.”
James Martin’s Saturday Morning will air at 9.30am on ITV1 right now (Saturday, March 7), whereas QI could be streamed on BBC iPlayer
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