“Parky” was Britain’s most successful chat show host who interviewed the world’s most famous faces including actors, musicians, sportspeople, royalty and politicians.
Sir Michael Parkinson was Britain’s most successful chat show host who, over 800 episodes of his eponymous TV program, interviewed the world’s most famous faces including actors, musicians, sportspeople, royalty and politicians.An interview with the bluff, affable Yorkshireman, known affectionately to millions as Parky, was never boring.
In 2011, Parkinson became the first non-Australian to deliver the Australia Day address at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney, using the press conference afterwards to indicate his support for Australia becoming a republic, stating: “Why should Australia not be a republic? It’s its own country, its own man. I find it, in a sense, incomprehensible that it’s not that now.”
It was Jack – a miner who endured backbreaking conditions in the Grimethorpe Colliery and later died of lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust – who gave Michael his lifelong love of sport, particularly cricket.
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