Stephen Fry has dismissed suggestions that he could be starting a family.

It was reported that the QI host had hinted that “the patter of tiny feet” may be on the agenda following his wedding to Elliott Spencer.

When asked about fatherhood, he intimated in an interview with The Sun that a family could be the subject of a future autobiography, saying: “Well that is peeping into Volume Two. Volume One, the marriage is still … I hope it will never close, but in Volume Two the little family, the patter of tiny feet. Come back to me on that one.”

But now Stephen, 57, has sought to damp down the speculation with a post on Twitter.

The star broke the news of his marriage by posting a picture for his 8.5 million Twitter followers earlier this month, showing him and his 27-year-old husband signing a register.

He also posted a picture of the happy couple cutting their wedding cake.

In The Sun, he revealed a little more about the ceremony itself, saying his first dance was to a song by American composer Cole Porter.

“We did have a first dance but anybody who has seen me dance would not call it a dance. It was a shuffle,” he said.

“I wanted to choose a tune written by Al Jolson. It is the only great tune he wrote as far as I know. It’s called Oh How We Danced On The Night That We Were Married. But I could not get it on my iPhone or my Android so we had Cole Porter instead.”