Former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq said when she first met Charlie Brooker he had told her he didn’t want kids but they then went on to have two after she told him it was a deal breaker
Children’s TV star Konnie Huq has admitted she gave husband Charlie Booker an ultimatum after he told her he didn’t want kids.
Former Blue Peter presenter Konnie, 45, met Black Mirror creator Charlie in 2009 and they got married just nine months later in June 2010.
Konnie said when she first met Charlie, 49, he had told her he didn’t want children – but they then went on to have two kids Covey, eight, and Huxley, six, after she told him it was a deal breaker.
Speaking on Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe’s Lockdown Parenting Hell podcast, she said: “He didn’t want kids but he hadn’t met the right person and all that changed. I said, ‘I am not really interested unless I am going to have kids.
“And so… he obviously saw the gene pool that I possessed and thought ‘it wouldn’t be right!’ I dunno, he just sort of changed his mind.
“I always wanted to be a mum. I always thought I’d have three. Two was just a nuclear family, so boring.
“Three is a dynasty, three is like a team and then I had two and I was like ‘no way!’ Two is company and three’s a crowd.”
