Richard E. Grant is set to become a grandfather five years after his wife Joan's death.

The 68-year-old actor was left heartbroken when vocal coach Joan Washington died aged 74 from cancer in 2021, but he insisted he isn't "lonely" as he has his family around him.

He told Gyles Brandreth's Rosebud Podcast: "Not lonely. I live communally because our daughter [Olivia] and her now husband [Florian Wirst] chose a couple of years ago to come and live in our house.

"So we all live together and I'm kind of like a concierge. I do most of the shopping and the majority of the cooking because they're both very busy.

"And she's going to have a baby in June."

Richard also revealed while he's open to a new partner, he has "not thought about it".

He explained: "I've certainly been set up with people. And I keep being told by people 'It's four years. It's time. You must find somebody else.'

"But I'm not consciously looking. But if I walked out the door now, a coup de foudre happened, I wouldn't be opposed to that."

And while he wouldn't have any reservations about a girlfriend, he also has no "inclination" of looking.

Asked if he would feel guilty falling in love again, Richard said: "No. But I've not had any inclination whatsoever."

Richard previously opened up about his late wife's sense of humour in the weeks before her death, including warning him off "all the women" they both knew.

Appearing on The Lulu Podcast: Turning Points, he said: "She was hilarious - a month before she died, she went through all the women, the women who were either single, divorced or available or widowed, that we knew.

"And she basically went through all of them like a lioness and gave me a reason why I shouldn't pursue any of them.

"And I knew how much she loved me by doing that..."

However, he joked the idea of being with another woman at his age is "mortifying".

He quipped: "The idea of being 67 and three quarters and taking my kit off is so mortifying, I'd have to be in a Krakatoan cave without a crack of light.

"That may change. I'm hopeful-minded and open-hearted but I'm not looking for it."