Stars mark Father’s Day
SIR Paul McCartney was among the celebrities marking Father’s Day by releasing personal photos yesterday.
The former Beatle, 78, dug into his archives to pay a touching tribute to his late father, Jim.
He posted a previously unpublished black and white snap on social media of himself having dinner with his beloved father in the 1970s. It shows a young and bearded Sir Paul smiling broadly as his dapper father tucks into a plate of food beside him.
‘Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there!’ Sir Paul captioned the image, which he posted on his Twitter and Instagram account to the delight of his fans. ‘Your dad looks so perfect,’ wrote one follower. ‘Happy Father’s Day to you both,’ wrote another, while a third added: ‘What a great man your dad was. Let’s thank him for forming a universe- class musician and person.’
Sir Paul’s father, who died in 1976, was close to the Beatle and his musician brother Mike McCartney, who performed as Mike McGear with The Scaffold, encouraging both to get into music from a young age.
The McCartney family lived in a council house, but once Sir Paul hit the big time, he bought his father a house in Heswall, Cheshire.
Fellow rocker and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards also paid tribute to his late father, Bert. He posted a black and white image of the pair taken in a garden in 1997. Bert died in 2002.
TV presenter Davina McCall shared a picture of her hugging her father Andrew McCall, who has Alzheimer’s. She wrote on Instagram: ‘Alzheimer’s can’t dampen your amazing positivity. I love you with all my heart...’
Fellow TV presenter and Great British Bake Off champion Nadiya Hussain also posted about her father, joking that he ‘drives me up the wall, literally up the sides, on to the ceiling, back round the other side and to the floor’.
And BBC newsreader Huw Edwards put out a picture of him as a boy with his late father Hywel.