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Comedian Romesh Ranganathan has announced that he is taking a career break 'to be at home a bit more'. Although the 47-year-old stressed he is not retiring, he feels that stepping
back to 'just live life' will benefit him in the long run. "I know that people sort of say I'm busy and I'm always like, trying to work and stuff," he told
Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. "There is no strategy. There's no game plan. I have no endgame. "There's no vision board or anything like that.
(I'm) just doing whatever feels good." He then 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." The 47-year-old from Crawley is known for his Bafta-winning TV series with comic Rob Beckett – Rob and Romesh Vs. He's also starred in various other TV shows, including his
own travel programme, The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, on the BBC. He continued: "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." During the conversation, Romesh also reflected on the time he spent as a maths teacher before
his current career. He even confessed it was more stressful than working in comedy. "There wasn't a single day of that job that I didn't feel completely fulfilled," he
continued. "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." In addition to his stand-up comedy, the comedian
hosts the game show The Weakest Link and appears in the BBC One sitcom Avoidance. He also starred in BBC Three's Asian Provocateur, where he explored his family heritage. In 2024, he
assumed Claudia Winkleman's Saturday morning slot on BBC Radio 2 and hosts Romesh Ranganathan: For The Love Of Hip Hop on the same station. _HAVE YOU GOT A STORY TO SHARE? GET IN TOUCH