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Kootstra was the childhood sweetheart with whom Ryan was reportedly reunited after two decades during
a chance meeting while filming for BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? in her hometown of Sarnia,
west of Toronto.
She has been living in London for more than a decade and has a young daughter she regularly mentions in
her comedy routines.
In another post after the burglary, Ryan suggested she was finding it hard to sleep.
"That's fine, I never liked sleeping anyway," she said.
She joked she would get a German shepherd after her small dogs were "asleep at the wheel" during the
incident.
Ryan is a regular performer on Netflix, having filmed stand-up specials In Trouble and Glitter Room and
appeared alongside Jimmy Carr in The Fix.
Katharine Ryan explains how she fell into comedy after working in Hooters
She also teamed up with Carr for a reboot of Your Face or Mine? on Comedy Central.
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