Rik Mayall Wife: Who Is Barbara Robbin?

Rik Mayall was married to Scottish make-up artist, Barbara Robbin in 1985, and the couple had three children.

The couple met in 1981 while filming A Kick Up The Eighties and embarked on a secret affair. At the time, Mayall was in a long-term relationship with Lise Mayer.

Upon discovering that Robbin was pregnant, Mayall left Mayer who was also pregnant with his child at the time while on a shopping trip with her and Ben Elton and eloped with Robbin to Barbados.

Mayer would later suffer a miscarriage. In a 2002 newspaper article, Mayall said that Mayer had since forgiven him.