Their Life Stories interview was incredibly emotional.
programme in 2019 and in his dressing room before the chat he told him he would ‘never’ make him cry.
‘Given that 45 years had elapsed since then, I mistakenly assumed Parky wouldn’t still feel overly emotional about the loss of his dad, and I think he assumed that too,’ he continued in his piece forRecalling the conversation with Sir Michael, he added: ‘We were both very wrong. “I’d never seen anybody I loved die and I saw my dad die,” he recalled. “You could see him withering away. For a man as vigorous as he was, it was like watching leaves fall from a tree.
Piers then remembered the moment he saw the TV veteran break down ‘uncontrollably’, noting that filming had to be halted so he could ‘compose himself’. Piers thinks Sir Michael’s interview was one of the ‘most surprising and emotional’ episodes of the show
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