‘nothing can prepare you’

The 5 Live DJ on the joys of fatherhood, the downside of modelling — and crying on air

The Derry Girls star and his mum embark on the ultimate adventure… More famous faces pair up with their nearest and dearest in a new series of Celebrity Race Across the World, the star version of the

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As he gets ready to welcome his first child at just 21, Freddy Brazier tells Closer how he feels about fatherhood – and his plans to honour his late mum

SARAH DITUM

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,