Stand-up comedian Russell Kane has revealed that he’s been to Ibiza three times this year with his wife, with them dropping their daughter off at school and heading to the airport
19:00, 22 Nov 2025Updated 19:32, 22 Nov 2025
Russell Kane with his wife Lindsey Cole(Image: Getty Images)
Stand-up comic Russell Kane couldn’t be busier with tour dates, presenting gigs and the school pick-up to do. However, the 50-year-old admits that he always makes time to go raving with his wife in Ibiza several times a year – even if it’s just for 24 hours.
“I’ve been with my wife three times this year,” he tells us. “I love raving. It can’t be a midlife crisis if I’ve just continued to do it.
“Me and my wife one morning dropped our daughter off at school, kissed her at the school gates and then ran to the airport,” he adds. “Landed at 2pm, got a bit tipsy in the pool, went to the nightclub, danced till 7am, slept until 2pm.
“Then we’re back home at 8pom for story time so all we missed was the school run the next morning and dinner the night before when she was with her nana so it’s guilt free.”
The comedian shares 10-year-old Mina with his wife, wellness entrepreneur Lindsey Cole, who he married in 2014. “We’re very lucky because we live up north so we have amazing built-in help with our family. Her parents really support us,” he adds.
After 11 years of marriage, Russell says that communication is key for him and Lindsey. “Lindsey and me – we’re still obsessed with each other,” he admits. “Don’t get me wrong – at the moment, it’s tough. I’m working long hours, it produces stress.
Lindsey and Russell have been married for 10 years(Image: Getty Images)
Russell is hosting ITV quiz app The Spin Off with Sian Welby(Image: Max Cisotti/Dave Benett/Getty Im)
“I can be almost in tears but I’ve said yes to a job and I know I need to do it. Then I’m struggling because of the trains and all the travelling. We’re not living in paradise but we always come through because we communicate so much.”
In fact, the couple are still “tearing each other’s clothes off”. He says: “We s**g all the time. It cannot be undervalued, sex between a couple. We live in an intimacy recession – ‘We’ve been together for three years, obviously we don’t have sex anymore.’ You’re no longer in a relationship. If you’re bored of each other, bring novelty into the bedroom.
“You need to go to the furthest end of what you’re both comfortable with to stimulate that erotic part of you. As long as you both consent and communicate clearly. You should be tearing each other’s clothes off 24-7.”
Russell is coming to the end of his longest tour yet, having been on the road for 18 months. However, he doesn’t believe that ‘woke culture’ has impacted the comedy scene.
In fact, he says that those who are willing to “offend a minority group” are proving to be successful these days. “I don’t know a comedian who’s been cancelled for doing comedy,” he says. “If only I was brave enough to say some slightly more outrageous and hurtful things, I’d probably be number one on Netflix.
“It’s not my type of comedy but my point is, I think there’s more freedom of speech now than there was.” As for ‘woke culture’, he adds: “It’s such a weird word because the opposite of woke is asleep. I don’t want to be asleep.
“Just because I recognise that someone of colour has had a different life journey to me – I’m not woke, I’m just not f**king ignorant. It’s ignorance.”
The comedian is teaming up with This Morning’s Sian Welby to host ITV’s The Spin Off – a new free-to-play quiz app that gives players the chance to win various prizes. It’s the perfect challenge for the secret quizzer – who has previously won Celebrity Mastermind, Beat the Chasers and The Weakest Link. “I train like a boxer because my stand-up is incredibly energetic – I got to 35 and thought, ‘How can I slow down aging?’
“My daily regime is 60 minutes while quizzes are playing. I’ll put The Chase on or The 1% Club. I’m training my mind and body like some sort of renaissance man.”
He adds that it’s his “dream” to become a Chaser – much like Joe Pasquale recently did on Beat the Chasers. “I’d love to go up to the level where I could be a Chaser,” he said.
“I’m currently learning how to speak Shakesperean verse properly because of my aspirations to act. My tour finishes in December – the longest tour I’ve ever done – and I want to do something completely different with my life next year. Stage-wise, I’m gonna thesp it.”
Having turned 50 earlier this year, Russell lives by “five pillars of wellness” to stay healthy: avoiding processed foods, exercising, minimising stress, strengthening relationships and taking evidence-based supplements.
The comic isn’t afraid to cut out friends who are a “drain” on his energy. “A lot of us spend our lives hanging around with drains because we’ve been friends with them for years and we feel bad, but it’s time to say, ‘bye t**t,’ and get that toxicity out of your life.”
Although Russell admits that he has a small group of friends and family anyway. “People tend to cut me off because I work so hard,” he says. “I’m very friendly with celebrity types but I’ve kept my friends from home, my mum, my wife and my daughter.
“That probably holds me back in showbiz. I’ve not fallen out of clubs with the right people but I can’t help it. I’m so unavailable because I’m working so much – any spare time I’ve got goes on my daughter, my wife and whatever’s left over goes on my mum, my brother who’s not very well and then the rest of my mates.”
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