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THE COMEDIAN HAS MADE A CAREER ANNOUNCEMENT 11:01, 01 Jun 2025 Romesh Ranganathan has said he will be 'taking a step back' from comedy - but has insisted he is not retiring. The

comedian said he wants to 'be at home a bit more' and is looking to take a 'bigger break' in between projects. But the dad-of-three Romesh told Lauren Laverne on BBC

Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that he was not making a 'retirement announcement'. The 47-year-old said: "I know that people sort of say I’m busy and I’m always like, trying to

work and stuff. "There is no strategy. There’s no game plan. I have no end game." Romesh went on: "There’s no vision board or anything like that. [I’m] just doing whatever

feels good." Article continues below READ MORE: HMRC WARNING AS WORKERS COULD LOSE £560 IN TAX CHANGES He added: "I do feel like I’m sort of settling into winding things up, like

not winding things up, but I’m taking a step back. "I want to be at home a bit more. "And by the way, this is not an announcement of retirement, but I do feel like, relatively

recently, this is quite fortuitous that we’re talking about this at the time that we are, because I have just hit this period of thinking I am probably going to just be a bit more measured

in what I do going forward. "I think I might take a bigger break between bits. "I’ve told you, I’ve not hit the thing yet, maybe this next thing could be it, but it’s not going to

be it if I don’t go off and just live life." Romesh, from Crawley, is known for his Bafta-winning TV series with comic Rob Beckett – Rob And Romesh Vs - and for hosting game show The

Weakest Link. _Don't miss the biggest and breaking stories by signing up to the BirminghamLive newsletter here._ He has also starred in BBC One sitcom Avoidance, BBC Two documentary

series The Misadventures Of Romesh Ranganathan and BBC Three’s Asian Provocateur, which saw him trace his family roots. In 2024, he took over Claudia Winkleman’s Saturday morning slot on BBC

Radio 2 and presents Romesh Ranganathan: For The Love Of Hip Hop on the station. Romesh reflected on his previous job as a maths teacher and said it was more stressful than working in

comedy. He said: "There wasn’t a single day of that job that I didn’t feel completely fulfilled. Article continues below "I felt very stressed. It’s the most stressed I’ve ever

been in my life actually. "There’s not been a single day of my comedy career that’s even come close to the stress that I felt as a teacher. "I cannot speak highly enough of

teachers and teaching and how I loved that job."