This is Going to Hurt writer Adam Kay reveals he’s welcomed two children with his husband via a US surrogate – but MISSED dramatic birth of his daughter after she arrived early
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British comedian Adam Kay, who wrote hit TV series This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, has revealed he’s welcomed two children via a surrogate with his TV producer husband James Farrell.
Kay, who once worked as an obstetrician for the NHS before turning to comedy, told Lauren Laverne on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that the couple, who married in 2018, had welcomed two children by a US-based surrogate.
Kay said while their daughter is six months old, the couple’s son is two months old. The TV writer joked that his life had been both transformed for the better and ‘ruined’ by the pitter patter of tiny feet.
He said: ‘We have a very boring life, or we did until six months ago. This isn’t something that I’ve spoken about before, there is no calm whatsoever, because we’ve got two very young babies – Ruby, who’s six months, and Ziggy, who’s two months.’
The former NHS doctor’s book about life as a junior doctor was adapted for the BBC starring Ben Wishaw and aired to wide critical acclaim in 2022. His book has won four National Book Awards and has sold more than three million copies.
Adam Kay, right, with his husband James Farrell, a TV producer. Kay, who wrote best-selling book This is Going to Hurt about his life as a junior doctor, said the couple have welcomed a son and a daughter via surrogate in recent months (Pictured at the BAFTAS in May 2023)
The writer said the birth of the couple’s first child hadn’t been straightforward, when their surrogate, who lives in Washington in the US, went into labour four weeks before Ruby’s due date.
With only one flight seat available at short notice, Kay told the BBC Radio 4 programme that his TV producer husband Farrell took it, leaving Kay to fly out later after the birth.
He explained: ‘James got there on the only seat of the only possible flight and made it in time for Ruby’s birth and I didn’t.
‘So many of my thoughts are about how to be a good father and how to get it right and how to be there, and I’ve started off very, very, very badly by missing it.
Adam Kay found huge success after leaving the NHS with his book about his time as a junior doctor, which has since sold 3 million copies and been turned into a BBC series (Pictured at the National Book Awards on November 20, 2018)
The British comedian was once married to a woman, known in his famous book as H, before coming out as gay. Kay and his wife experienced a miscarriage during their time together.
He revealed last year in his book Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients that he was once raped by a man while in New Zealand and still married.
The star said he was attending a medical conference to perform a comedy and had planned to cheat on his wife with a man at a sauna but was raped, and left so traumatised he didn’t talk about the attack for a decade.
‘A man in his 40s stood up, took my arm and wordlessly led me to a dimly lit cubicle, where he raped me,’ and then said ‘thanks’ afterwards.
He said he later tried ‘to work out if there could have been some kind of misunderstanding, something I did wrong’.
He wanted to be to able to put it down to poor communication on his part.
‘But I can’t – the truth of it is inescapable. I was clear. I said no when it became obvious he wanted this interaction to go a lot further than I did’
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