Newlywed comedian Jack Whitehall has gleefully admitted he is more than happy to leave his family behind for months on end to escape the pandemonium of life with a young child.
The funnyman confesses he embarked on a nationwide tour partly to flee the 'chaos' of life with his toddler daughter and his new wife Roxy Horner.
Jack is thoroughly enjoying hotel life on the road, grabbing some well-earned respite from raising two-and-a-half year old daughter Elsie with model Roxy Horner, whom he wed just last week.
The Brit Awards host is already busy honing his material, aiming to have crowds in stitches well ahead of his tour's January 2027 kick-off.
Jack's Honest Admission
The 37 year old has confessed he has already felt 'crushed' after his new jokes landed with a thud at warm-up gigs.
He said: 'Toddlers are chaos and being in a hotel for a month and a half is appealing right now. Also weddings it turns out are very very expensive so also quite good to be going on tour to cover some of that. These are all factors that played into the decision to get back out on the road, for sure.'
Jack is already bracing himself for 'payback' from Roxy and vows to overcompensate with dad duties come next spring.
'There will be me having to fawn over them because I made all these jokes and told these stories at their expense, so I will be on the nursery drop off every day for the next six months.'
Rehearsal Struggles
Jack admits rehearsals have not been plain sailing, with early audiences failing to warm to his new routines.
'Nurses have it tougher. But it can definitely be quite crushing especially at this point where I am trying out the new material and I going up on stage and doing bits which I do not know if they are going to work or not.
'Last week I had twenty minutes of stuff which I thought was absolute gold and the audience thought otherwise on some occasions.
'And you do a joke and you send it out to absolute tumbleweed. And it is all part of the process. But nothing, no matter how successful you get or how much resilience you have built, it is always a crushing feeling when you do set up, punchline and nothing. It stings on a molecular level.'
