Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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funny, let’s use him’. Every show needs to have one or two good Harry Redknapp stories to keep people laughing.”
But who is the funniest Redknapp?
“Oh, I’m definitely funnier than Jamie,” replies Harry.
“Yes, it’s him without question, I’ll give him that,” retorts Jamie, 46.
“But I was the better footballer.”
Harry played for clubs such as Bournemouth and West Ham before managing the likes of the Hammers, Portsmouth and Spurs, who he guided to the Champions League in 2010.
Son Jamie spent 11 years at Liverpool before joining Spurs and Southampton, and was capped 17 times for England.
The family includes Chelsea manager Frank Lampard, son of the late twin sister of Harry’s wife Sandra, making him Harry’s nephew.
But football fans mourned after the largerthan-life manager, who was nearly made England boss, finally announced his retirement after leaving Birmingham City in 2017.
Then a year later, Harry took part in ITV’S I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here and ended up enthralling viewers – and being crowned King of the Jungle.
Since then he has been in demand, with several TV programmes and his own touring stand-up show, where he tells tales from his life.
Jamie said he was thrilled tha people have got to see the rea minute Harry.
He says: “I remember finding out that he was going to the jungle on the front page of the Daily Mirror! I told him, ‘Dad, you can’t do that,’ and he said, ‘No, I’m doing it, I think it will be a laugh’. I asked him if he knew what he will have to do and he said, ‘No, but it doesn’t matter, I’ll be all right’.
“The whole thing was very emotional. I’m not massively int reality shows but it was really nice fo me and the kids to watch him.
“The key to those shows is to b yourself and not try to be funny. “There were times when he clearl found it hard but he genuinely cam across as my dad, the person I know But Harry insists he had no inten kick-starting a new TV career and th he would get back to being retired w got home. He says: “I really just t