Editing Bill Bailey (section)

==Personal life==
Bailey lives in the [[Hammersmith]] area of [[London]] with his wife Kristin, whom he married in 1998, on a whim, in [[Indonesia]]. In 2009, he said: "We were travelling around Asia and sailed into a place called [[Banda Islands|Banda]], with a beautiful lagoon, and a smoking volcano on one side and a Dutch colonial fort, an old church and remains of a little town on the other. We decided to get married there and then."<ref name="IndependentInterview09">{{cite news|title=Stand up guy: Bill Bailey on music, marriage and the moment he refused to sell out|first=Charlotte|last=Philby|date=5 December 2009|work=The Independent|location=London|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/stand-up-guy-bill-bailey-on-music-marriage-and-the-moment-he-refused-to-sell-out-1832693.html|access-date=13 August 2010}}</ref> Their son Dax was born in 2003.<ref name="IndependentInterview09"/>

Bailey supports [[Queens Park Rangers]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://fourfourtwo.com/interviews/celebrityfans/49/article.aspx|title=Bill Bailey&nbsp;– Celebrity fans&nbsp;– Interviews|magazine=FourFourTwo|date=31 July 2009|access-date=26 August 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110718063441/http://fourfourtwo.com/interviews/celebrityfans/49/article.aspx| archive-date= 18 July 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> and describes himself as an avid fan of ''[[Star Trek]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/20259/bill-bailey-interview|title= denofgeek.com Bill Bailey Interview|date= 18 November 2009}}</ref>

He has a carnivorous [[pitcher plant]] named after him, ''[[Nepenthes]] x Bill Bailey'', created by Borneo Exotics in [[Sri Lanka]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100530/Plus/plus_17.html|title=Borneo Exotics strikes gold for the third time at Chelsea Flower Show|work=sundaytimes.lk|access-date=2 December 2015}}</ref> His sporting interests include [[standup paddleboarding]] (SUP). He is an active supporter of [[British Canoeing]].<ref>[https://www.britishcanoeing.org.uk/news/2020/comedy-legend-bill-bailey-is-our-guest-on-this-weeks-paddlecast Comedy legend Bill Bailey is our guest on this week's Paddlecast] Retrieved Novemeet 21, 2020.</ref>