Andy Lee’s Smug Comment on Kids with Partner Rebecca Harding

Andy Lee has risked rustling up some internet trolls with his latest comment about his child-free lifestyle with his partner of 10 years, Rebecca Harding. 

The Australian comedian and his fiancée recently celebrated the fourth birthday of their only child, a beloved Welsh Terrier named Henri. 

On Monday, the 43-year-old luxuriated in a midday sleep in to mark the King’s Birthday public holiday. 

‘It’s 11.48am,’ he captioned a photo taken of his dog curled up at his feet in bed, with the curtains in his Melbourne apartment still drawn. 

Andy shared the post to his Stories with the caption: ‘Tell me you don’t have kids without telling me you don’t have kids.’ 

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The funnyman, 43, and Rebecca, 35, returned to Melbourne on Saturday from a quick jaunt to New York City to pay a visit to Andy’s recently opened Aussie-themed Manhattan pub, Old Mates. 

With Andy at the helm of the venture, it is backed by an owner’s group that includes the likes of Hamish Blake, tennis star Ash Barty, surfing legend Mick Fanning, Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins and Hollywood A-lister Hugh Jackman.

The comic did not let jet lag get to him either, getting back on the tools at his $8million renovation of an 1870s-era home built on the banks of Melbourne’s Yarra River by Saturday afternoon. 

Andy freely admits that the ambitious project has taken precedence over planning their upcoming wedding. 

‘Most of our planning times and decision time we spend on the house,’ Andy said with a laugh when he appeared on TMZ’s Big Down Unda podcast in March. 

Asked by host Charlie Cotton for details about the wedding, Andy said he was ‘lo-fi’ while Bec is very ‘hi fi’. 

‘When people come round to our house I don’t feel the need for napkins for instance,’ he said. 

‘But because Bec is very hi-fi, I’m lucky because I get the benefit of that…everything is nicely laid out and its the right cutlery…

‘And I’m worried that [the wedding] is going to be that X a 1000.’ 

Andy said the couple had no plans to a family right now — but teased a potential to change that. 

‘If Bec wants to [have a baby] I’m open to all that kind of stuff,’ he said. 

It’s quite the turnaround from comments the comic made in an interview with Kate Langbroek for the Mammamia Unfiltered podcast last year.

‘I’ve gone through times where I thought I would, and then I’ve definitely gone through patches of feeling, “I don’t think I want this at all. We’ll see”,’ Andy confessed. 

‘One thing I do love about not currently having kids is how available I am to my family. My mum, my dad and I were down at the beach house the other day and they said, “When are you going to start a family?” 

‘And I said, “You realise you wouldn’t be here in this beach house if I had my own family and kids.” I think I spend so much time with them because of [being child-free].’ 

‘I love being available to people. It’s something that I love with friends – being a reliable source to call upon,’ he continued. 

‘I do definitely worry that having my own family means that I give that up… People think that’s selfish. But it’s not, I get a lot of self-worth [out of it].’

Parenthood, he said, doesn’t mean a person can’t show up as a good mate, but ‘it’s all-consuming’.

‘Naturally, people turn inward when they have their own kids,’ he said.

Ultimately, Andy said, marriage isn’t ‘super important’ for the couple. 

He said he thinks Rebecca will be ‘an amazing mum,’ but the often ‘unfair pressure’ on child-free couples to announce their future plans isn’t helpful. 

‘There’s no rub between Bec and I on that front. Because she also doesn’t want [kids] right now. This is the misconception,’ he added.