Lara Ricote’s partner is Fernando, an Argentinian man who left South America and moved to the Netherlands around 2020 to be with her. His full surname has never been made public. What the wider world knows about him comes almost entirely from one source: the show Ricote built around their relationship while she was simultaneously trying to figure out how to keep it.
Little Tiny Wet Show (Baptism) toured London, Melbourne, Los Angeles and Edinburgh through 2024. Its official description, written by Ricote herself, read “a moving comedy show about what it means to care for someone if you always leave them.” That line was not written for marketing. It was the actual subject of the hour.
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Fernando: What Is Known
Fernando is Lara Ricote’s boyfriend. He is Argentinian, moved to the Netherlands from South America around 2020, and has no public profile outside of what Ricote has disclosed on stage and in interviews. His surname has never appeared in any credible publication. His profession has never been mentioned.
Quick facts:
| First name | Fernando |
| Surname | Not publicly disclosed |
| Nationality | Argentinian |
| Based | Amsterdam, Netherlands (as of 2024) |
| Relationship | Ricote’s first adult relationship |
One personal detail she has shared: Fernando has anosmia, a condition where a person has no sense of smell. Ricote has described this as his “complementary disability” alongside her own degenerative hearing loss.
He Left Argentina. She Was Already Leaving.
Fernando relocated from Argentina to the Netherlands for Ricote, around the same period her stand-up career was breaking into the UK circuit in earnest. She was building, performing, touring. He was adjusting to a country that was not his own for a woman who was frequently somewhere else.
Reviewers who covered the 2024 show across multiple countries documented the same central dynamic consistently: Fernando gave up his life in South America for this relationship while Ricote circled the globe for her career. She has been direct about the strain that created between them.
According to their couples therapist, Fernando has an anxious attachment style. Ricote’s is avoidant. The sessions that followed made it into the show.
What Came Out in Couples Therapy
Ricote entered couples therapy with Fernando by the time she was 25. The sessions became material for the show, not as confession or performance of vulnerability, but as a genuine attempt to understand something she was living through.
The observation that stayed with audiences across every territory the show visited came from what the therapist identified as the root of Ricote’s avoidant patterns. She grew up in a home with no doors. Only bead curtains. Rooms without real thresholds. A childhood without any concept of closed-off private space. The therapist connected that directly to how she functioned in intimacy as an adult: one foot always slightly pointed toward the exit.
The Scotsman, reviewing the Edinburgh Fringe run in August 2024, cited “smart commentary on the pass-agg nature of her therapist” and the relationship between early environment and adult behaviour in romantic relationships. Time Out Melbourne made the same observations during the April 2024 run.
Ricote told Fest Magazine during the Edinburgh run: “If you try and be the best person you can, you can keep the people in your life that are worth being there.”
Whether she found that convincing in her own life is something the show deliberately left open.
A Show Built From a Relationship in Progress
Little Tiny Wet Show (Baptism) did not reference Fernando in passing. He was the architecture of the whole hour.
The full tour ran:
- Soho Theatre, London — February to March 2024
- Melbourne International Comedy Festival — April 2024
- Netflix Is A Joke Festival, Los Angeles — May 2024
- Edinburgh Fringe, Monkey Barrel — August 2024
ThreeWeeks Edinburgh gave it five stars. The Scotsman praised it. The Guardian had previously called Ricote a “razor-sharp goofball.” Chortle reviewed the Melbourne run and noted it was “her first adult union, and one that, if all works well, will be her only one.”
Four territories. Three continents. One of the most selective comedy festivals in the United States. All built around one Argentinian man who moved to Amsterdam, and one comedian who kept leaving.
Ricote’s description of the show holds up across every city it played: what does it mean to care for someone if you always leave them. The show and the act of touring the show were the same question.
Lara Ricote’s Relationship Status in 2026
As of May 2026, Ricote lives in London, having left Amsterdam. Fernando’s current location and whether the relationship is ongoing have not been publicly confirmed. No interview from 2025 or 2026 addresses this directly.
At Edinburgh 2025, Ricote performed a work-in-progress show titled I Don’t Yet Know Anything. In the listing description she wrote in April 2025, she noted she was in “a deep state of Not Yet Knowing.” She offered no further context.
What is confirmed on her career in 2026:
- Break Clause (Channel 4) — Six-part comedy series announced February 2026. Ricote plays Lil opposite Samuel Bottomley as Ben. A couple breaks up the day they move in together but are locked into a six-month tenancy. Written by Jess Bray, directed by Alice Snedden, co-produced by BBC Studios Comedy and Germany’s ZDFneo. The series started life as a Channel 4 Comedy Blap in 2024, the same development strand that produced Stath Lets Flats and We Are Lady Parts.
- Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping (Channel 4) — Appeared September 2025. Also worked in the writers’ room.
- Richard Osman’s House of Games — Five daily episodes, January 2025.
Fernando gave his name to a show that played four countries, earned five stars in Edinburgh and got selected for a Netflix-backed festival in Los Angeles. Beyond that, he has kept his private life private, and Ricote has respected it. What their relationship looks like in 2026 is not in the public record. What it looked like in 2024, when she was working through it on stages across two continents, was honest, unresolved and, by every critical account, worth the admission price in every city it visited.
