Actor’s fury as family is seen as ‘not sexy enough’
the far more interesting story. What do I know of life? I’m not driving stacker trucks all day at Colgate-Palmolive and then going to Bulmers and driving stacker trucks there all night.
“I’m not cleaning floors in a launderette like Mum. And yet how often is the story of the working class ever told on TV? I don’t mean the dross that is soaps. The answer is less and less. Working-class stories don’t fit in boxsets. They don’t fit the business model of selling to global TV.
“And yet they are the lives that talk to me, define me. They are the lives I find endlessly fascinating.” It comes after the actor said he felt “bitter and betrayed” by the BBC over the way he left the role of Doctor Who, which had plunged him “down a well”.
, 54, says he worries about being mistaken for his baby son’s grandfather.
The MasterChef favourite became a dad for the third time when he and his wife Anne-Marie, who is 22 years younger, welcomed young Sid in May.
He reckons other parents at the school gates could easily take him for Grandpa.
Speaking at the Childline Ball, he says: “I do look old enough (to be his grandad).” He jokingly adds: “I might be old enough to be my wife’s grandfather.”