Meet Strictly's Krishnan Guru-Murthy 'hot wife' who he met on blind date
This year Strictly Come Dancing features many familiar faces from British TV, including Channel 4 presenter and journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy. Murthy, whose journalistic career began in 1988, has been wowing the judges and audience weekly with his dance moves. His most popular choices have been his Cha Cha Cha to the famous 90s track Boom Shack-A-Lack.
When the 53-year old is not on our screens he's a devoted father and husband with wife of 28 years Lisa, who he married in 2005, and 18-year old daughter Jasmine and 16-year old son Jay.
He met Lisa through a mutual pal, Tim Hincks, who set them up on a blind date. Krishnan said: “Tim worked with me on a show and introduced me to Lisa, who worked with his wife, Pippa," he said, revealing he and Tim share a passtime. "Now, much more importantly, we play in a band together. But we don't talk rock 'n' roll in front of wives, they don't take us seriously."
Although he doesn't post regularly on Instagram, Krishnan did treat fans to a rare snap of his traditional Indian wedding day, showing Lisa looking stunning in a blue sari. To celebrate their wedding anniversary in 2019 he wrote: “I can’t believe it’s 14 years! I’m very lucky.”
Krishnan has been married to wife Lisa for 18 years and they share two children (Getty Images)Opening up about their wedding celebrations, he said it was a “real mixture of Indian and British culture”. Revealing his hidden talent, which became part of his big day, he once told The Guardian: “I played a few rock ‘n’ roll songs. I sang and played bass, on the grounds that I was the worst guitarist of the three of us. Let’s just say the crowd was on our side,” he said in a previous interview with The Guardian.
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Unlike her famous husband, Lisa is not in the public eye and not much is known about her job. However, Krishnan recently revealed his wife inspired him do Strictly after “being asked for years”.
He said that following his 53rd birthday in April he realised he could no longer be what he describes as “overweight and unattractive” - while Lisa was “looking hot” after transforming her own fitness by joining a rowing club and running 10 miles every other day.
Krishnan has two children with wife Lisa (Getty Images)Since then he has lost nearly three stone and now needs seven fewer holes to do his trouser belt up – and his wife isn’t complaining. He told MailOnline: “My wife is enjoying that I am a little bit lighter than I was. In a way, I’ve been trying to keep up with her... I think she’s pleased I have started pulling myself together, getting fitter and looking a bit more presentable.
“I am a bit obsessed with being overweight and unattractive. My wife has never talked in those terms, but she has always talked about me being healthy. Women in their 50s are looking amazing and my wife and her friends are all looking amazing, so men have become insecure about having hot wives.”
He continued: "I think that's not necessarily a bad thing if men pull themselves together because their wives are looking hotter than they are – if you get in that situation where all the women are looking good and all the men are overweight and beer bellies. I think you get yourself into a position where you give up and think it's fine. I just reached that stage."
Although he is doing Strictly for fitness and fun, Krishnan has to take extra precautions due to a genetic heart condition - hypertrophic cardiomyopathy – and said doctors have told him he “could drop dead” at any moment if he pushes his heart too much. But he says he came to the realisation he needed to do the BBC show now or he would be “too decrepit” to take part.
*Strictly Come Dancing continues on BBC1 on Saturday, October 7 at 6.20pm
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