Romesh Ranganathan is going to be ‘taking a step back’ from his career.
Initially working as a mathematics teacher, Romesh then pursued a career in the entertainment industry.
He’s since become best known for appearing on shows including A League of Their Own, Taskmaster, and Have I Got News for You, as well as hosting The Weakest Link.
However, after a decade on our screens, the 47-year-old has now revealed he wants to focus on spending more time with his family.
This week Romesh was the guest on the latest episode of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, where he spoke about his intense schedule.
‘I know that people sort of say I’m busy and I’m always like, trying to work and stuff. There is no strategy. There’s no game plan. I have no end game,’ he told host Lauren Laverne.
‘There’s no vision board or anything like that. (I’m) just doing whatever feels good.’
‘I do feel like I’m sort of settling into winding things up, like not winding things up, but I’m taking a step back,’ he added.
Romesh then discussed ‘wanting to be at home a bit more’ but that he wasn’t calling time on his showbiz career.
‘And by the way, this is not an announcement of retirement, but I do feel like, relatively recently, this is quite fortuitous that we’re talking about this at the time that we are, because I have just hit this period of thinking I am probably going to just be a bit more measured in what I do going forward,’ he explained.
‘I think I might take a bigger break between bits. I’ve told you, I’ve not hit the thing yet, maybe this next thing could be it, but it’s not going to be it if I don’t go off and just live life.’
In the interview Romesh also reflected on his past career, which he said was far more stressful than working in the entertainment industry.
‘There wasn’t a single day of that job that I didn’t feel completely fulfilled,’ he recalled.
‘I felt very stressed. It’s the most stressed I’ve ever been in my life actually.
‘There’s not been a single day of my comedy career that’s even come close to the stress that I felt as a teacher. I cannot speak highly enough of teachers and teaching and how I loved that job.’
Since appearing on Taskmaster and The Apprentice: You’re Fired! In 2015, Romesh has fronted The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, Judge Romesh and Rob & Romesh Vs.
He has been married to his wife Leesa since 2009. The couple first met when working at the same school in Crawley, where she was a drama teacher.
They share three sons – Theo, Alex and Charlie.
Earlier this year Romesh spoke about how he came ‘very close to ending his life’ as a teenager.
‘When I was 18 or 19 years old, I feel like I came very close [to] ending my life,’ he told Runners World UK.
‘I just couldn’t see the point in carrying on. I was super depressed. Then I started to do suicide ideation, where you start to fantasise about it.
He went on to share that mental health was still ‘something I am still aware of’ and he had to ‘stay on top of it’.
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