Michael Parkinson’s son says famous dad's far from how he appears on TV ‘Rough edges’

“I didn’t want to end up… I pulled out at the right time and I must say that when I pulled out, I had in mind people I knew who had become tragically involved with the booze.

“The killer, as far as I was concerned, psychiatrists can make of this what they want, but I might remember it as being the thing that stopped me, was Mary my wife.”

Michael and Mary married back in 1959 after meeting in Yorkshire.

They have three children, Andrew, Nicholas and Michael Jr, who were born in 1960, 1964, and August 1967 respectively, along with eight grandchildren. 

source: express.co.uk