KRISHNAN GURU-MURTHY'S LIFE OFF-SCREEN - 'HOT' WIFE, FAMOUS SISTER AND INSECURITIES
When Krishnan Guru-Murthy isn't presenting on Channel 4, he's spending time with his doting wife Linda.
The 54-year-old broadcaster is best known for his journalism career, having covered General Elections, the funeral of Princess Diana, and the 2012 and 2014 Paralympics. The dad-of-two is a trustee of Duchenne UK and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, and competed on Strictly Come Dancing last year.
But when he's not busy in front of the cameras, Krishnan is a proud husband and father. As the TV presenter leads the election special for the Channel 4 alongside former BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis as the results come in after the polls close at 10pm on Thursday, the Mirror takes a look at his life off-screen...
Krishnan isn't the only well-known face in his family - his sister, Geeta Guru-Murthy, is also a news presenter and journalist with BBC News. Geeta, 56, has mainly covered morning news bulletins since 2013 and was appointed a chief presenting role with the organisation earlier this year.
Krishnan met his wife Linda on a blind date over two decades ago, set up by their mutual pal Tim Hincks. He told The Guardian: "Tim worked with me on a show and introduced me to Lisa, who worked with his wife, Pippa." The couple tied the knot in 2005 and share two children together, Jasmine, 18, and 16-year-old Jay.
Their big day was a "real mixture of Indian and British culture" and Lisa wore a blue sari for the occasion. In 2019, Krishnan shared a snap of their traditional Indian wedding day to mark their anniversary and wrote: "I can't believe it's 14 years! I'm very lucky." Unlike her famous husband, Lisa is not in the public eye and little is known about her career.
However, it was Lisa who inspired him to do Strictly last year after "being asked for years". Of his weight loss on the show, 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."
He added: "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."
Speaking about anchoring the election coverage on Channel 4, Krishnan said prior to Thursday night's broadcast: "It is the big ambition I had, actually, which I didn’t think I would ever get to do…If anybody ever asked me ‘what’s the thing you’d still really like to do?’, for the last 20 years I would have said election night in the (David) Dimbleby role.
"Obviously that was never going to happen to me because I left the BBC 25 years ago and Channel 4’s election nights have always been very different, and we’re sort of alternative and have involved comedy, we’re a totally different take. This is the first time Channel 4 have decided that our job as an alternative public service broadcaster is to provide an alternative but serious, analytical news programme on election night. So, it’s the first time that we’ve really taken on the BBC and ITV on their terms as well. So, this feels like a big first and something I never really thought I’d get to do.”
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