Joe Lycett breaks his silence on shock fatherhood announcement and makes rare comment about mystery partner

Joe Lycett says he understands the fuss surrounding his shock baby announcement, admitting: ‘It’s unexpected for me to have a baby as a lot of people consider me to be the gay guy of television.’

The comedian, 36, has given his first interview since revealing he became a father for the first time with his partner last month.

Many followers of the Birmingham-born comic were skeptical that he was telling the truth given his form for pranks, and he claimed that many of his fans thought his Instagram post announcing the arrival of his baby was fake because it seemed as if he were ‘holding a potato’. .

But MailOnline confirmed last week that the baby was real and now Joe has spoken in detail about his first weeks of fatherhood, admitting he spent the first few weeks ‘crying’.

He explained: “I’ve done a lot, I mean less now, but the first two weeks I cried a lot because I was very homesick for the future and imagined what he would be like when he was 20 and worried at the time for him, while he is an old man and I cannot be there for him.’

Speaking about the Podcast for the hell of parentingJoe also revealed that his newborn son has sparked an unlikely new obsession.

The comedian, 36, has given his first interview since revealing he became a father for the first time with his partner last month

He says: ‘The only thing that has surprised me is that I am actually involved in sports, which was not on the bingo card.

‘I was in the States earlier this year and basketball was going on in the bar I was sitting at and the games are all between midnight and five in the morning, so when you do the feed there’s something happening live.

‘You feel like the world is happening even though you’re awake in the middle of the night.

“So I became a fan of the Cleveland Cavaliers.”

He added: “They didn’t do well but they are now winning the league since I became a fan. They are undefeated in 15 games. I love the statistics, I know the names of all the players.’

Joe said on Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe’s podcast that he is ‘bisexual’, having previously branded himself ‘pansexual’, meaning he is attracted to someone regardless of their gender.

The comedian had his son with his female partner, whose identity he keeps secret but has previously jokingly called her ‘Denise’.

The Late Night With Lycett star told how ‘immensely proud’ he is of her and said she has taken to motherhood like a ‘duck taking to water’.

Many of the Birmingham-born comic’s followers were skeptical that he was telling the truth and he claimed many of his fans thought his Instagram post announcing the arrival of his baby was fake.

Joe said about becoming a father: ‘The first two weeks I cried a lot because I was very homesick for the future’

He also reveals that the pair have become regulars at their local ‘baby cinema’ mornings and sought parenting advice through YouTube and books.

Joe joked that one of the perks of being a parent is being able to use his new “tumble dryer” because he loves “doing laundry.”

However, Joe admitted he was scared about registering his baby’s name because of a historical prank that saw him change his name to Hugo Boss in protest of the fashion brand’s brutal copyright war against small businesses that use the word “boss” in their used name. .

Joe explained, “Talk about things coming back to bite you.

‘When we went to register his name, the registrar said to me, ‘Are you known by other names?’

‘I said ‘no’, looked at my partner and she frowned and I said, ‘Oh yeah, I was known as a Hugo Boss for a while.’

‘And she had to go into great detail and she said, ‘You’re lucky because if you were Hugo Boss in your passport, we have to put that on his birth certificate, the father is Joe Lycett, aka Hugo Boss’ .

‘Luckily the passport was rejected because my signature as Hugo Boss when I was Hugo Boss for that period was a** and balls, so they rejected it.

“It was just changed via Deed Poll.”

The comedian had his son with his female partner, whose identity he keeps secret but has previously jokingly called her ‘Denise’

MailOnline last week told how locals had regularly spotted Lycett out and about with his new baby as they confirmed the baby was real.

One said: ‘He is a lovely baby boy and we are all very happy for Joe and his partner. He takes the baby for walks and even to his favorite local cafe. The baby absolutely exists, 100 percent.”

A woman who runs a local shop said: ‘I’ve seen the baby and he’s really cute. I understand why people don’t believe Joe because he’s known for his jokes, and we all love him for that.

“But I see Joe and the baby quite often and this isn’t one of his famous pranks.”

Another resident said: ‘We don’t know much about Joe’s partner but judging by her accent she is from Birmingham.

“They’re often seen together but we haven’t spoken to her that much so it’s all quite mysterious as to who she is and how they met.”