has offered a rare insight into his 10-year marriage to Elliot Spencer and revealed that his younger husband helps him discover aspects of pop culture. The couple have been together since 2013 and celebrated their milestone anniversary earlier this year, with the 67-year-old describing himself as a "lucky man".

The former QI presenter opened up about his relationship during an appearance on the Sounds podcast, Rylan: How to Be in Love. In the latest episode, the actor was interviewed by host and quizzed about his age gap with his 38-year-old husband, to which he admitted he "stopped thinking about it." Stephen went on to suggest that having a younger partner can be "more experienced in the world as it is than as it was".

Stephen revealed that he and Elliot have "completely different tastes in things" and added: "So much of what I love in music and literature and so on is from not necessarily this century. It isn't from this century."

When Rylan asked how that plays out, the actor gushed: "It's wonderful," and said that his husband introduced him to rappers and the wrestling brand WWE, which he now admits to being a fan of.

Stephen said: "He teaches me things I just didn't know. He introduced me to Kendrick Lamar, which was a great thing to do because [he's] I've decided is a great poetical spirit - a really remarkable figure."

He went on: "So that, plus, now you're really going to laugh here, because I thought 'is he insane?' He has a great affection for, and I guess you could call it ironic, but it's real, for WWE.

The couple first met in 2012 and the actor told Jonathan Ross: "We met at a friend's house and I knew pretty much straight away that this was someone I wanted to spend, what I considered, the rest of my life with."

As for starting a family together, Stephen admitted that not having children is "probably the biggest hole in my life experience."

Despite having "many godchildren now, nieces and nephews, and great-nieces and great-nephews," he revealed they had spoken about having their own brood.

"Elliott and I, we talked about it a bit, but we never talked about it to the extent of 'Right, so, we're going to a clinic tomorrow to talk this through to some expert,'" Stephen said.

"We never quite got that far. It was always 'Yeah, it would be nice, wouldn't it?'"