Is David Attenborough Married
Here’s where the rumors get gloriously messy. If you’ve seen Planet Earth II, you saw him whispering to a baby sloth. It was borderline romantic. The internet, naturally, lost its collective mind and demanded he marry the fuzzy creature.
Then there’s the infamous clip of him staring deeply into the eyes of a mountain gorilla. People wrote fan fiction. I am not making this up. There are actual online petitions asking if he’s “married to nature,” which is a very hippie-dippie way of saying he’s single but has a lot of demanding plant children.
Let’s settle this: He is not married to a penguin, a sloth, or a particularly charismatic fern. Though, if you look at his career, you’d be forgiven for thinking he has a harem of Documentaries.
The Surprising Truth: He’s a Dad, Not a Groom
The real shocker? David Attenborough has kids. Bet you forgot he was a human for a second, didn’t you? He and Jane had two children: a son named Robert and a daughter named Susan.
Robert Attenborough is a senior lecturer in bioanthropology. That means while David was talking to chimps on TV, Robert was actually studying their bones in a lab. The family is basically a biological dynasty with great audio equipment.
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His daughter Susan is a former primary school teacher, which means she once had the power to tell a room of five-year-olds to quietly appreciate the wonders of the natural world—just like Dad, but with more crayons.