Sam Thompson has shared his fears over becoming a dad after going public with his new romance with model Talitha Balinska.
The podcaster, 33, and his new love Talitha, 25, are said to be ‘inseparable’ after being set up on a date by Sam’s friend and former Made In Chelsea co-star Reza Amiri-Garroussi.
Now, Sam has made a candid confession about his stance on having kids – and set a deadline for the age he’d like to be a dad.
But the thought of becoming a father is ‘freaking him out’, Sam admitted to his best friend Pete Wicks on their Staying Relevant podcast earlier this week.
Discussing regretting not pursuing a dream of his, which was to move to LA, Sam began: ‘I don’t know, I feel like I’m getting a bit old. I feel like you’ve got to be pretty young to do all that kind of stuff.
‘I think we’re quite similar like that, I just always wanted to wing it, but I do want to be a dad and that has been freaking me out a bit recently. I’m like, “Ah, s**t”.’
Sam Thompson has shared his fears over becoming a dad after going public with his new romance with model Talitha Balinska last month
The podcaster, 33, and his new love Talitha, 25, (pictured) are said to be ‘inseparable’ after being set up on a date by Sam’s friend and former Made In Chelsea co-star Reza Amiri-Garroussi
Pete then asked if Sam had a deadline for having kids, to which he replied: ‘I feel like as you say, it’s got to work with the person you’re with and all that kind of stuff.
‘Hypothetically, I would probably say 36, so I have three years, less than three years and I know I’m not going to do that as well, so that kind of sucks.’
It comes after Sam confirmed he’s dating model Talitha – but confessed why he hasn’t asked her to be his girlfriend yet.
They first met in 2023 during a photoshoot for Sam and Reza’s sunglasses brand, Dinelli, when Talitha modelled for a campaign, though at the time, Sam was still in a relationship with Zara McDermott.
Sam confirmed that their romance is becoming more serious, but they aren’t official just yet.
Pete asked: ‘What stage are you in currently?’, before listing the stages, which included love bombing, then being “too tight” to go out.
He added: ‘So look, you are dating, I think it is clear now. Are we just admitting that you are currently dating?’
Sam couldn’t wipe the smile from his face as he confirmed, before Pete asked: ‘So how are you going to ask her to be your girlfriend? Will you do it like Love Island?’
The thought of becoming a father is ‘freaking him out’, Sam admitted to his best friend Pete Wicks on their Staying Relevant podcast earlier this week
Sam confirmed he’s dating model Talitha (pictured) – but confessed why he hasn’t asked her to be his girlfriend yet
Sam responded: ‘No mate, there’s not been any chat about that. There’s no pressure, and that is the beauty of it. There’s no pressure, there’s no time frame.
‘The worst part about this is, if she sees this, I could get canned next week.’
Referring to Sam’s split from Zara, Pete said: ‘Oh, we can’t go through another break-up, not this year. At least wait till next year, darling. So, where are we at with it?’
Sam said: ‘Mate, I don’t know, everything is just super relaxed, you know what it is like with dating. We are just enjoying it. Realistically, if I were to ever ask anyone out, I wouldn’t even know how to do it.
‘I would panic. I haven’t asked someone out in years.’
Elsewhere during the episode, Pete jokingly hit out at Sam over a double date snub that made him feel ‘sad, lonely and depressed’.
Pete asked when he will get to meet Talitha, without naming her, as he said: ‘I am on the edge of my seat. I’m waiting for the call-up. When will that be?’
Sam replied: ‘I just don’t know if I can do it. You wouldn’t even want to meet people I’m dating. Would you want to meet people I’m dating?’
Sam has already introduced Talitha to his sister Louise, her fiancé Ryan and their son Leo, signalling the seriousness of their blossoming romance
Since splitting from Sam, Zara has moved on with One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson, who recently said he’s ‘so in love’ with the former Love Island star
Pete said: ‘No. Sam did invite me on a double date at the weekend. It was him and his friend and peep and his respective friend’s peep and just me, so I declined.
‘It was sort of an invite that was thrown out there because he said he was gonna see me and then made it a double date. So, then I said, “Am I still seeing you later?”‘
‘Now, what that says to me is, “Come if you want, but it will be weird, and we don’t want you there. We don’t want you there, alright, because we’re going to be lovey-dovey feeding each other at the table and all the rest of it, and it might be weird for you to sit there… I know you’re sad, lonely, and depressed so it might be too much for you.”‘
As he spoke, Sam could be overheard laughing and saying Pete was ‘wrong’ and that his claims were ‘not true’.
Sam and Talitha recently reconnected when Talitha was invited as a surprise guest to Sam’s sold-out Staying Relevant live show at London’s O2 Arena and, as one source told the Daily Mail, ‘the rest is history’.
Sam has already introduced Talitha to his sister Louise Thompson, her fiancé Ryan and their son Leo, signalling the seriousness of their blossoming romance.
