Michael Jr, known as Mike, worked alongside his father in the entertainment industry.
Over his career, he became a familiar face on both the BBC and ITV for his intimate celebrity interviews, most notably on the BBC show Parkinson, andNow his son Michael Parkinson Jr, 56 – known as Mike – has revealed what his dad was like at home, away from the studio and his celebrity guests.The pair together on GMB in November 2019 As well as revealing hisand that the family didn’t want to ‘step on the toes’ of the public’s grief over the past few weeks, he also praised his mother.
Mike discussed his father’s relationship with his own father, a miner, and how the two only saw each other when the young Sir Michael was playing in a cricket match or football match, agreeing that their connection was ‘old-fashioned’. He then revealed that his own relationship with this father wasn’t ‘consciously different’, because of that.‘I can’t sit here and start saying he was the father of the year because he wasn’t the father of the year – but not in a bad way,’ Mike told hosts Richard Madeley and Kate Garraway.
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