The star said that even though Caroline wasn’t immediately taken with him, he was instantly smitten, saying: ‘I knew. In March 2017, he joked to Radio 4’s Desert Island discs that his girlfriend’s first impression of him was ‘one-note comedian with the eyes of a sex offender’. The pair had not previously spoken about whether they would have children together. The comedian has been in a relationship with Channel 5 commissioning editor Karoline since 2001 after meeting her at an audition. There’s nothing really to say, it got weird and it got to be where that wasn’t a good person to have in my life.

It was fairly ugly when he just sort of went. ” My Dad’s gone, haven’t seen him in fifteen years perhaps. died and then it all just turned, they were already split up.

You kind of go ‘he was fine then and he’s not now, that’s OK’. ‘It’s a slightly weird one, the disconnect, you try to think of them as separate people. He went on: ‘I had a relationship with him growing up, it was not terrible. He turned up and was there and then just disappeared. ‘I don’t think he knew what to say, a lot of time had passed. Save up to 70 off top designer fragrance brands when you shop at Perfumania. He was at the end of the line but just kind of looked at me. Jimmy later spoke about the ambush reunion in 2016, saying: ‘There was a signing after the show, and people getting photos or selfies. The next concert he tried to attend, he was turned away by management. Jim revealed that in a bid to see his son he was forced to go to his concerts and eventually to meet and greet where Jimmy gave him a cursory greeting in 2015. There’s no bitterness and there’s no anger there ‘ Jimmy said of his father: ‘It’s a weird thing where I’m acutely aware that things don’t always work out. Jimmy even claimed I was trying to damage his career. ‘In sworn statements, Jimmy and Colin claimed I harassed them by sending them abusive emails and letters. The family even entered into a legal battle, which Jim spoke of in the interview, saying: ‘Together with his older brother Colin – with whom my relationship had never really recovered since my marriage had broken down – he chose to accuse me of harassing the family, launching a legal case against me. Such is Jimmy’s hostility towards me that I have even been banned from watching him perform. ‘The loss forms the backdrop to my daily life and remains a pain I cannot eradicate. ‘I am not ashamed to say that on occasion the depth of my estrangement from Jimmy – and from my two other sons Colin and Patrick, who have also cast me out of their lives – has brought me to tears … He said: ‘It’s not a secret, I haven’t seen my dad in 21 years and you know the line,’ My mother’s dead and my father’s dead to me ‘- which sounds very cold, until you meet the guy’

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