BBC One Show star Roman Kemp revealed on a podcast with Tom Grennan that his dad thinks of his wife, son and daughter as his best friends
Roman Kemp says his former Spandau Ballet star dad Martin is ‘Billy No Mates’.
One Show presenter and former I’m A Celeb star Roman was discussing friendships when he revealed he was shocked to hear his dad, 63 – married to Pepsi and Shirlie singer Shirlie Holliman – only really saw his close family as friends.
Chatting to music star Tom Grennan, Roman, who has a sister Harley, 35, said: “Take my dad for instance. My dad doesn’t have any friends. I’ve asked my dad this question, I said ‘Who’s your best mate?’ Do you know what his answer is? ‘You’. “I said ‘Who’s your other best mate?’
“(He said) ‘Mum, ‘Who’s your other best mate?’ (He replied) ‘Harley’.”
Grennan told Roman, 32, on their ‘You About?’ podcast his dad was similar.
He replied: “That’s what I think when you get to an age. I speak to my dad and he says exactly the same thing and having a family and all that kind of stuff – your family become your unit, your team, and the people that you go ‘these people here are the people that love me for me, not my money, not for the world that we live in, but just for the pure heart of who I am and what I am’.”
Roman and his dad have undertaken a number of projects together including Celebrity Gogglebox and father-and-son podcast FFS, My Dad Is Martin Kemp.
On an episode earlier this year, Martin revealed he would prefer Roman to make the call on withdrawing end-of-life care over his older sister Harley Moon.
Martin dropped the bombshell, saying he’d want it that way “because you’re a man” and that Roman, 32, can “block things out more easily” than Harley Moon, 35.
Responding to the challenge that his decision seemed quite sexist, Martin clarified: “It’s not whether you’re a man or a woman. It’s who you are as a personality.”
Martin conceded that although it sounds difficult in theory, “when it comes to pulling the plug on someone… giving the doctor the wink and saying’ that’s enough’, you’ll know”.
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