Inside Louis Theroux’s life – ‘affair’ talk, rarely-seen kids and ‘drink problem’

As Louis Theroux celebrates his birthday, we’re taking a look into his very private life.

The national treasure is well-known for his bizarre documentaries that dig into the lives of wild individuals, but now it’s our turn to have a deep dive into his.

As he turns 53, we are looking into some of his wildest confessions and some of the more secretive parts of his life that many fans aren’t aware of.

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Let’s go…

Marriage confessions

Louis is now happily married to his wife Nancy Strange, with who he tied the knot in 2012.

But this isn’t the first time, he has gotten hitched. His first wife was writer Susanna Kleeman, who he met at the age of 15 at Westminster.

The documentary maker previously branded his first wedding as a “marriage of convenience”.

He told The Financial Times in 2005: “You see, I was married. What happened was that my girlfriend was living with me in New York.

“She was having trouble finding work…legally. So we got married, to make it easier for her.

“We never really considered ourselves married in the full sense – there were no wedding photos or anything like that.

“It was really a marriage of convenience. I hope that I am not going to get arrested for that.”

Though after three years of marriage, from 1998 to 2001, their pair parted ways.

He then met TV producer Nancy, who has worked on shows such as Timewatch and Imagine.

Speaking to Clara Amfo on her This City podcast, Louis revealed how he met his current wife back in 2002.

Louis explained: “I began seeing her around the White City building. And I remember thinking ‘wow, she’s beautiful’. She looked sort of like a French chanteuse.

“And she was sort of fashionable, but sort of not aggressively stylish. People didn’t really say ‘hipster’ in those days, but she had a touch of hipster.

“She would go out and smoke cigarettes outside in front of the building. I saw her on these little trips. I would pass her in the corridors as she went out to smoke cigarettes.”

‘Affair’ talks

Louis Theroux also once confessed that his partner Nancy gave him the ‘OK’ to have an affair.

On the True Geordie Podcast, he claimed: “She said ‘If you were ever thinking of having a relationship outside the marriage’ – or straying – I can’t remember how she phrased it, she said ‘I would be okay with that’.

“And I was like ‘Oh, well that’s cool’.”

However, he reckoned he could never cheat because he is a “stranger to myself” and “I don’t always know what I’m feeling half the time”.

Rarely-seen kids

Louis lives at his North West London home with his wife Nancy and their three children, Albert, 16, Frederick, 14, and seven-year-old Walter.

In his autobiography titled Gotta Get Theroux This, he also admitted that Nancy had unfortunately suffered two miscarriages before they had their son Walter.

He penned: “Getting to term [in her pregnancy] had been a trial, two had ended in miscarriage. There were tears on a weekend in Yosemite…

“We’d been through nothing like that before. A language of grief and the social forms I was versed in did not seem adequate to the occasion.’

“But sadness was complete and if I’m honest, I didn’t understand what she was going through. It still seemed abstract to me whereas for Nancy the babies had been real.”

‘Borerline drinking problems’

During lockdown, Louis revealed that he had been drinking “quite a lot” after struggling with the way the world was at the time.

On the True Geordie Podcast, he explained: “I don’t use the term ‘blackout’, but there were several times when I would wake up on the sofa or on the spare bed, not quite remembering the last couple of hours.

“For some reason, January 6, the night of the insurrection, I got mullered.”

He continued: “I think there was a lot going on, and a lot of the people involved in what was going on at the White House – some of them were people that we’d been in touch with for documentaries, and had been in the process of making a documentary about members of far-right groups. And I was thinking, ‘This is so weird, what’s going on over there’.”

“Specifically it was the feeling of having a young child at home – and I think anyone who’s listening to this or watching this who had young children at home, who weren’t in school during the lockdown, while also attempting to do a job from home, will recognise this – and you’ve got a deadline or you’ve got someone expecting something from you or an important call, and then you have a small child who’s too young to really be independent or to be able to take care of homeschooling on his own, and they’re kicking off… It’s a very weird and upsetting feeling, because it feels like it’s a combination of sadness and rage.”

Last year, he was keen to overturn “borderline drink problem” and took on ‘Dry January’ where he abstained from alcohol for the month.

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