Dermot O’Leary’s adorable confession about why he loves changing son’s nappies
The proud dad recently welcomed son Kasper Koppang O’Leary with his wife Dee Koppang and is clearly making the most of fatherhood
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Dermot O’Leary could be the perfect man after admitting he actually enjoys changing his baby son’s nappies.
The presenter, who recently welcomed son Kasper with his wife Dee Koppang, said he didn’t believe people when they told him he wouldn’t be bothered by getting up at 3am to change nappies once he had a kid of his own.
The star, 47, who is standing in for Zoe Ball on her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, admits he had reservations before his son came along but soon knew what people meant.
Dermot was chatting to Konnie Huq about her new children’s book, Cookie and the Most Annoying Girl in the World, when he made the adorable confession.
Konnie said she had made her book interactive as that’s what she loved as a kid.
Dermot brought up his son Kasper as he asked Konnie what it was like to have kids judge her work, and she was quick to congratulate the new dad.
Konnie admitted she gets around the pressure by treating her audience like “mini editors” and letting them have an input into the book so they feel like it’s there’s too.
She was awkwardly left hanging when she asked her six-year-old son Huxley, who she shares with husband Charlie Brooker, as well as eight-year-old Covey, to loudly declare if he liked her book.
She laughed: “He’s being shy now, the minute you’re on live radio he goes quiet, maybe that’s a ‘no’ then.”
As he asked Konnie for some parenting advice, Dermot said he had found things that he never believed to actually be true.
Konnie asked Dermot how fatherhood was going and if he was experiencing sleepless night.
“Great,” he said.
“It’s a lot of fun. The crazy thing is, everyone says you’re going to be sleep deprived but that when you’re up at three and you’re changing a nappy and it’s your own kid you don’t mind, and you go ‘That sounds like BS’ because no one wants to get up at three in the morning, it hurts when you wake up at three in the morning.
“I wake up and feel like I’m in pain being up this early, or late, whichever way you want to look at it, but they’re right!
“They’re absolutely right, you get up and you’re like, ‘Hello there, buddy, let’s get this nappy changed’. Before you know it, you’re kind of enjoying it.
“But I’m at the enjoyable nappy changing stage at the moment because at the moment he’s just drinking milk so it’s fine.”
Konnie chipped in: “Yeah, you’ve just got those buttery yellow poos, which are milk poos, wait until he starts eating food, it gets grosser.”
“Everybody says that,” Dermot laughed.
And Konnie said: “This is good breakfast chat, isn’t it? I’m talking about faeces.”
“Don’t worry,” Dermot said. “You’re right at home here.”
Konnie also spoke about a new book she’s working on that’s a modern take on traditional fairytales.
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