Katherine Ryan’s Husband Bobby Fends Off Knife-Wielding Burglar While She Hides Below in Terrifying Incident

Published on October 28, 2025 at 03:20 PM
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COMEDIAN Katherine Ryan has revealed details of a distressing robbery where she witnessed her husband in a fight with a knifed burglar.

opened up about the traumatic experience involving her partner and how he tackled the weapon-carrying criminal.

Katherine Ryan speaking into a blue microphone that says "What's My Age Again?"Katherine Ryan and her husband Bobby have talked about the knife-wielding burglar incidentCredit: Instagram A man with short grey hair and a beard wearing a white t-shirt and grey cardigan speaks into a blue microphone.Comedian Katherine revealed Bobby couldn’t sleep ‘for about a week’ afterCredit: Instagram

Speaking on her podcast What’s My Age Again?, The Duchess star reminisced with Bobby about the

She shared the video clip captioned: “All Bobby wanted was a clean shirt but found a burglar instead.”

went on: “I want to talk to you about the burglary, because I have told this story before. I think it is very traumatic.

“I know that you couldn’t sleep for about a week. We were home in our new house…”

Bobby continued: “It was so eerie, because it was just me and you. We were making pasta, having some red wine and I spilled some pasta sauce on my shirt.

“I’m like, Oh, I’m gonna go change my shirt. So I go upstairs into my room and I see cufflinks out on the bed and some weird items that I’ve never even taken out of the drawer ever.

“So I grab a shirt, walk out of the room, and I come face to face with this masked man.

“First words are, what the f*** and I took after him.”

He explained: “He had your laptop in his arms I saw, so I chased him out the window.

“We had this like kind of landing and he jumped down, went to the neighbour’s garden so I saw where he went and then I heard some bushes rumbling.

“So I saw the fence and I tucked down behind these bushes and he jumped over and I just tackled him, knocked the laptop out and then we got into a fight.

“It seemed like it lasted a long time, but it was probably a minute long.

“And then he went to pull up his waistband. I don’t know if there was a knife or not, and that’s when I backed off the fight because I had tackled him.”

Katherine added: “Well, he was saying, I’m gonna f****** kill you.”

Bobby added: “But then the knife kind of came out, and I’m like, whoa, whoa, whoa, and then we ended up on the street, and randomly, a cop was driving along, I was pointing at the guy, like, this guy, this guy.

“So the cop chased after him in the car down this little laneway and I gave up my pursuit.”

The comedian has Holland Juliette Kootstra.

She already has three children including son Fred, three, and daughter Fenna, two, with husband , and she is mum to her 15-year-old Violet from a previous relationship.

Katherine announced earlier this year.

She revealed on October 18 that .

Bobby and Katherine first fell for each other as teenagers in , but split for 20 years before rekindling their romance in 2018 and .

A split image shows Katherine Ryan speaking into a microphone, with her husband Bobby Kootstra below.The pair spoke about the hideous experience on her podcastCredit: Instagram Katherine Ryan and Bobby Kootstra sitting on a brown leather couch.Childhood sweethearts Katherine and Bobby married in 2019Credit: PA Katherine Ryan and her family, husband Bobby Koostra and children Violet, Fred, and Fenna, stand in a backyard.The parents have recently welcomed another baby girl into their familyCredit: UKTV Katherine Ryan holding her baby Fenna in a living room.The London pad was broken into six years agoCredit: instagram/@kathbum Katherine Ryan holding her baby while taking a mirror selfie.The mum-of-four bought her swanky London mansion in 2019Credit: instagram/@kathbum Katherine Ryan and her daughter Violet posing in matching pink tracksuits and boots.Katherine with her teenage daughter Violet by their front doorCredit: Instagram/kathbum Katherine Ryan and her husband in matching tie-dye loungewear with "No Problemo" text.The duo – in their garden – got back together after not seeing each other for 20 yearsCredit: Instagram/@kathbum Katherine Ryan posing in pink pajamas with feather trim on a staircase.Glam Katherine on her decadent staircase with printed wallsCredit: Instagram/@kathbum Katherine Ryan in a striped shirt sitting at a table with a plant.The Canadian comedian has shared her home interior with fansCredit: Instagram/@kathbum

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