Watts: 'My son means more than my job'

Merrick Watts has revealed that fatherhood means everything to him.

The Australian comedian and radio personality, whose wife Georgie gave birth to their first son Wolfe about a year ago, said that he realised his priorities had to change when his baby was rushed to hospital with a gastro infection during a trip to Italy last year.

Watts told The Australian Women's Weekly magazine: "Wolfe was quite sick and it hit me for the first time that my job and career are so much less important to me than my son. I guess I always knew it, but suddenly it became blindingly obvious."

He also revealed that since becoming a father, he goes to bed very early so that he can wake up at 3.30am for his morning shift on Nova radio.

Watts said: "Being in bed before a 1-year-old is pretty sad, [but] during the day I do lots of nappy changes, walks and feeds. I just really hope, when he grows up, he'll like football!"