By Ayaan Ali
Katherine Ryan heaped praise on Taylor Swift after recalling her meeting with the pop star at the 2020 NME Awards.
Their encounter came after the 40-year-old comedian - who gained a reputation for her deadpan humour and appeared on several well-known panel shows including 8 Out of 10 Cats and Mock Of the Week - brutally roasted Taylor in a famous comedy skit, where she had slammed the singer's friendship with Lena Dunham. Although she assumed there might be some awkward tension between them at the music awards, Katherine said this hadn't been the case and was amazed that Swift had complimented her on her joke.
She recalled meeting the Midnights hitmaker backstage after winning the Best Solo Act in the World award and told the Daily Express: "She was very complimentary. I was hosting and she came up to me and was like 'Oh, you’re amazing, you’re doing an amazing job.'
"That is a moment that earned my daughter's respect every day because Violet only cares about Taylor Swift,” she joked about her 15-year-old daughter who she shares with ex Alex Edelman. Katherine revealed that she admired Lena Dunham who hadn't taken offence to her quip.
It comes as the doting mother-of-three, who shares two children, Fenna Grace, 14 months, and Fred, 2, with her current partner Bobby Kootstra and daughter Violet 14, with ex-boyfriend Alex Edelman, recently revealed thatthere is one thing holding her back from signing up to Celebrity Big Brother, an ITV reality show that sees famous faces living together in a house.
The star says she is waiting for her kids to grow old enough for her to appear on the popular series.Speaking to The Mirror, she said: "I would definitely go on Celebrity Big Brother. If my kids were old enough, I would have a real problem being away from a one-year-old and two-year-old for any length of time. So if I could either bring my kids, who would be better behaved than a lot of the celebrities, or if my kids could stand to be without me, I would love it.
"I don't think that I can be edited wrong, there's just no side of me that's ever going to come out. There are so many people who worry about going on those shows because they think 'What if I look like I'm a bad person,' or 'I'm framed differently', or 'the producers don't like me and set up a storyline'. I just think that's impossible with someone like me. I think I'd be the Sharon Osbourne in there, just telling it like it is. There's only one version of me."
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