Brooker: Marriage and kids was best decision
CHARLIE BROOKER has said that he thought marriage and having children was “something other people did” before he fell in love with wife Konnie Huq.
The Black Mirror creator, satirist and broadcaster married the former Blue Peter presenter in 2010 in Las Vegas after a whirlwind romance, and the couple have two sons together, Covey and Huxley.
He has also told of Huq’s “horrific” emergency Caesarean section while giving birth to their eldest son, and his initial fears about the possibility of not bonding with his children.
Brooker, 46, told Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that he has a “romantic fluttering heart” underneath the cynical exterior for which he is known.
Of marrying Huq after just nine months together, he said: “That was absolutely the right time.
“It was weird because, for years, I’d not known if I’d wanted kids or a family, that seemed like something that other people did, I couldn’t perceive of that as a future.
“And then Konnie came along and quite early on she said ‘I want kids and a family’ and this sort of thing, and I heard myself going ‘OK’. “It was the made.”
Brooker said it is “such a cliche” to admit that being a father has changed him, particularly because he used to write columns in which he would say he disliked children and did not want them.
He said: “Having kids ruins your life in the best way possible... it gave me a sense of purpose that must have been profoundly lacking before.”
Desert Island Discs is on BBC Radio 4 today at 11.15am. best decision I ever