Dad sellotaped me to my nappy! New father Jack Whitehall reveals his hilarious parenting trials... as his own dad tells why he sent him to boarding school at nine

Dad sellotaped me to my nappy! New father Jack Whitehall reveals his hilarious parenting trials...

as his own dad tells why he sent him to boarding school at nine By Kathryn Knight For Weekend Magazine Published: 11:52, 30 August 2024 | Updated: 11:56, 30 August 2024 e-mail 1 View comments Given some of Michael Whitehall’s parenting strategies, he’s unlikely to be asked to offer tips to a guidebook any time soon. ‘Didn’t you Sellotape me into a nappy once?’ his son, the comedian Jack, asks him. Michael did indeed – more than once in fact – and he’s completely unrepentant about it.

‘It was only because of what was going on down there,’ he insists. ‘Your explosive nappies were unbelievable.’ ‘Incidentally, the Sellotape method is the same one I use on Michael now – just over his mouth,’ interjects Jack, who always refers to his dad by his name.

‘It’s very effective.’ Anyone who’s watched the hit Netflix series Travels With My Father will recognise this affectionately teasing dynamic between Whitehalls Senior and Junior. Over the course of five seasons the pair have travelled the world together, encountering situations in turn funny and awkward and ribbing each other along the way.

The final series, broadcast three years ago, saw them on home turf, and who knows, there may yet be more to come. Anyone who’s watched the hit Netflix series Travels With My Father will recognise this affectionately teasing dynamic between Whitehalls Senior and .