Dara Ó Briain is one of Ireland's most successful TV personalities and comedians and he will be taking to the stage on The Late Late Show this evening as one of Patrick Kielty's guests.
He will be in studio chat about his new show Re: Creation as well as his summer of sport and the one piece of music that has always haunted him
Away from his work in the spotlight, the star is married to wife Susan, with the pair sharing almost two decades of marriage and three children.
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He prefers to keep his family life private, but has shared some insights into their life in the UK and Ireland over the years.
Family lifeDara was born in 1972 in Bray, County Wicklow. He was adopted into "a stable home" where he enjoyed a happy childhood with his "supportive" parents.
His family were happy to discuss his adoption, but that the subject just didn't come up that often.
He has some biological siblings who he has met along his journey to find his birth parents.
He went to secondary school in Coláiste Eoin before enrolling in University College Dublin.
Dara knew he was adopted throughout his life, and over the years said he had little interest in seeking out biological family members until he saw the film Philomena.
The Mock The Week host thought that there was a chance his birth mother, like the plot of the film, might be searching for a baby she gave up while in the Mother and Baby homes.
He started looking for his birth mother in 2016 but said it was a "slow process."
He told Ray D'Arcy on RTE Radio 1: "It's only a thing that's just happened and I'm very open about this when people ask about it but there's only so much you want to say because my story is not that interesting."
"You see the Mother and Baby stuff in the Philomena Lee, their story is obviously the far more interesting story."
"Whereas my story is far more like, 'Oh wow should I look this up? Should I do something about this?' And I put it off for ages."
"There wasn't a riddle at my core or a thing I felt was missing. I'm lucky I had a strong sense of who I am."
He made contact, letting his biological mother know that he had a great upbringing, and slowly they built up some contact.
"I've met people and it's been nice, it's been a very positive thing," he said. "But I came at it probably from a very different place to other people."
"I have [met my birth mother] and I've met that side of the family. I've met siblings.
"I just refer to them as brothers and sisters because it seemed weird for me not to."
Dara married his wife Susan, reported to be a surgeon, in 2006. They keep much of their private life under wraps.
The couple live in London and have three children, two sons and one daughter.
Speaking previously about passing on his love for amateur astronomy and astrophotography, he said he tries to share his hobby with his kids, to varying degrees of success.
"I have a routine about that in my show, about the presumptions that parents had in lockdown with the whole home-schooling era. ‘Oh, Father, this is so wonderful! You teach us so much about this! Your enthusiasm is so infectious!’" he told Metro.
"That is absolutely not the way it works. With the boys and their sense of wonder, one is nerdier than the other in that regard. The girl, no. The joke I do is, that’s just not the way it works as parents."
"I would imagine David Attenborough’s kids at some stage have gone, ‘Oh, can you shut up about polar bears?"
‘If you say polar bears one more time, I’m going to go into the oil industry and finish them off myself!’"
The family also have a furry member - a sweet golden retriever.
Touching on parenting with Irish identify in England, he said it is important to let them create their own identity.
"They aren’t born with DNA crying to be back on the turf – it’s not in them," he told The Mirror.
“They’ll wear Ireland T-shirts and they’re very excited for Ireland and daddy when he is jumping up and down at the telly but they create their own identity and you have to let them to do that."
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