Why Sir David Frost’s son is SO incensed by Covid crackdown

While still in his 20s, he suffered the loss both of his father — broadcasting legend Sir David Frost, who succumbed to a heart aneurysm in 2013 — and his eldest brother Miles just two years later, aged only 31, to an undiagnosed heart condition.

But it is precisely that double hammer blow which has persuaded George Frost to decry what he describes as the ‘ridiculous’ handling of the coronavirus outbreak and, in particular, the new ban on meetings of more than six people.

‘it’s the biggest knee-jerk reaction — so much more than the symptoms have merited,’ George tells me. he points out that the Covid19

death rate is extremely low — comparable, in fact, to the 12 people under the age of 35 who die each week from undetected heart problems. ‘Are we banning sport among that age group? Of course we aren’t!’ fumes George.

As founder of rum brand The Duppy Share, George says that, working in the hospitality industry, he constantly hears of those now despairing of the future, with more and more of them seeking help from the industry charity. ‘They are contacting it with terrible mental health problems. Whether they’ve been furloughed or not, they’ve lost their core reason to be — and for what? The Government-led reaction to this will be looked back on with shame and incredulity.’

George, 33, hopes to marry magician Katherine Mills before Christmas — but only if his older brother Wilf, who works in America, can make it home.

Wilf’s return, adds George, would be the perfect Christmas present for his ‘incredibly stoic’ mother lady Carina Frost, daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk.

‘She’s lost her son and her husband. it is utterly insane she can no longer have friends over.’