Editing Russell Coutts (section)

== Personal life ==
Coutts has been married twice and has four children.<ref name=":0" /> His son, Grayson, was previously in a relationship with journalist [[David Farrier]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10822916|title=David Farrier in same-sex relationship|date=28 July 2012|publisher=|via=www.nzherald.co.nz}}</ref>

In 2021, Coutts criticised the New Zealand government's response to [[COVID-19]] and suggested that the government was acting like a dictatorship by establishing vaccine mandates and enforcing managed isolation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Covid 19 Delta outbreak: Sir Russell Coutts accuses Government of 'dictatorship' in social media post |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/covid-19-delta-outbreak-sir-russell-coutts-accuses-government-of-dictatorship-in-social-media-post/UC7WOEFFRHR36TSDXJQ4PXX4C4/ |access-date=27 October 2021 |website=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |language=en-NZ}}</ref> In 2022, he announced that he would be attending the [[2022 Wellington protest|anti-mandate protest]] in [[Wellington]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 February 2022 |title=Sir Russell Coutts to join Parliament protest heading into eleventh day |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/127799136/sir-russell-coutts-to-join-parliament-protest-heading-into-eleventh-day |access-date=17 February 2022 |website=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |language=en}}</ref>