8 Out of 10 Cats host Jimmy Carr has opened up about how he hasn't spoken to his dad, Patrick James 'Jim' Carr for the past 21 years.
Despite there being 'sadness' there, Jimmy said that he wants the best for his father but 'can't' have a close relationship with him.
He went on to say there's no 'bitterness' or 'anger' there but when his mum died in 2001, he lost his dad as well.
Even though he lost his mum, Nora Mary, 20 years ago he said that he already had enough mother and father figures in his life as well.
Jimmy starred on the Parenting Hell podcast, hosted by Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe where he said: "It’s not a secret, I haven’t seen my dad in 21 years and you know the line, 'My mother’s dead and my father’s dead to me' – which sounds very cold, until you meet the guy.
"It’s a weird thing where I’m acutely aware that things don’t always work out… I’m aware that sometimes it goes the other way and that could be terrible and there’s no bitterness and there’s no anger there.
"I want the best, I just can’t have that guy in my life. There’s a bit of sadness there and you worry, 'Could something go wrong with my kid?' You want to prevent that, but it’s hard. I think it’s about being a father and being that figure for him but not in any way controlling."
The 49-year-old confirmed back in September that his wife Karoline Copping had given birth to their first child in 2019, a son named Rockefeller.
Jimmy had been seen pushing a pram back in March 2020 but didn't reveal he was now a dad until his performance at the O2 Academy, Brixton this September.
He joked: "I had to tell my little boy he's adopted. I mean, he isn't, but the look on his face. I said: 'No, no, no, you were adopted, the new family is picking you up tomorrow'.
"We're having a gender-reveal party for our kid but we're going to wait until he's 21 just to be sure. With some babies you can't tell, is it a boy or an ugly girl."
As he spoke to the Radio Times, Jimmy said that fatherhood hadn't yet changed his style of comedy.
He said: "It could be a bit of a gear shift, because of the kind of comedy I do. But so far, I’m still telling the same jokes, I’ve got the same sense of humour.
"We’ll see, because I’m sure I’m going to be writing a lot of material about him. In fact, I think he might be tax-deductible."
The comic often jokes about the time when he was accused of being involved with an alleged tax avoidance scheme back in 2012.
But at the time Jimmy posted a statement to Twitter where he admitted he had made a 'terrible mistake'.
