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Reanna Smith

Is Joe Lycett dating anyone? Inside the comedian's mysterious relationship history

Joe Lycett is a man of many talents.

While he's known as a funnyman, the stand up comedian has tried his hand at a fair number of things throughout his career.

On his website he describes himself as a "comedian, painter, filmmaker, sculptor, television presenter, poet, gardener, dietician, radio presenter, tuning fork, Fiat Punto manual and queer".

It might seem like a joke, but he has actually had some experience with many of those vocations.

From presenting the Great British Sewing Bee to using pranks to get justice for the underdog on Joe Lycett's Got Your Back, he's had a varied career so far.

His latest career endeavour is becoming an artist, and in his new BBC Two show Joe Lycett: Summer Exhibitionist, he attempts to make it onto the walls of the RA Summer Exhibition 2022.

While fans have been following Lycett's successful professional life since he first rose to fame, his personal life is still shrouded in mystery.

Who is Joe Lycett's partner?

Joe Lycett revealed he struggles with his libido when working (Channel 4)

Joe Lycett hasn't revealed whether he's currently in a relationship or not.

Some fans have taken this to mean that the comedian is currently single, but he may just be keeping his love life private.

While he hasn't opened up about the specifics of his current love life, Lycett has been open about his sexuality.

The comedian came out as gay as a teenager but now identifies as pansexual, which means that you can feel attraction to people regardless of their gender.

Speaking to the i in 2016, Joe said: "I say bisexual because it’s easy for people to understand but I actually don’t quite think it’s that.

"Pansexual seems to be the closest thing at this point. In the sense that, what I’m attracted to changes depending on intangible things.

"Sometimes you just look at someone’s thighs and think, ‘Oof, God, yeah’, but the other parts don’t appeal to you. It’s not entirely to do with gender – it’s to do with where you’re at, your upbringing and the kind of person you are. It’s really complicated, like life is."

Joe Lycett's dating history

Joe Lycett has a mysterious dating past (PA)

Like his current relationship status, Joe Lycett has also kept his past dating history private and his love life remains a mystery.

In 2019 Joe told the Mirror that he wasn't looking for a relationship and struggles with his libido while working.

He said: "I’m not looking for a partner, I don’t feel like there’s an emptiness there.

"When I’m working, my libido is so low I’m not fussed.

"Then the minute I stop working I think, ‘I’d love a cuddle,’ but then because I've not done any of the work to initiate a cuddle, nobody wants a cuddle.

"I need to do some forward planning."

He added that he had been 'pursuing' someone but nothing ended up happening between them.

"At Christmas I got frustrated because I’d just finished work on the tour and I had nothing to do and I thought, ‘It’d be nice to have a cuddle,’ and there was somebody I was pursuing a bit and I spent lots of nights going out getting p***ed, then nothing happened and then you think, ‘I did all that then nothing!

"I got cross with my libido, I was like, let’s just chop the thing off," he explained.

In 2015, Joe also revealed to Attitude that he'd tried using Tinder but the dating app didn't work out.

He said: "I've tried Tinder. I'm not a very sexual kind of person. I'm emotional.

He went on to describe his perfect partner, saying: "Someone to lie there with eating chocolate. That's the dream."

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