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Gino D’Acampo has revealed he blames David Beckham for working fathers being expected to spend time with their kids – saying he would never do Lego, watch a children’s film, or do colouring and crafts with his boys and daughter.
The TV chef, 46, who has sons Luciano, 20, Rocco, 16, and a daughter, Mia, nine, with his wife Jessica, said the idea of being the cool dad for your children, and the thought of doing child activities with them, was all ‘cr*p’.
He said: ‘I don’t have those kind of regrets that fathers or mums have because they work and they don’t spend enough time (with their children).
Honest: Gino D’Acampo has revealed he blames David Beckham for working fathers being expected to spend time with their kids
‘I come from a generation where I used to see my dad in the evening Monday to Saturday, when we had dinner at the table, for about an hour. And then I used to see him on Sunday for a couple of hours. He used to take us to the park or something like that.
‘I don’t buy into this thing where I have to feel that I have to do things, or society makes me feel that I have to do things all the time with kids.
‘I think it’s insane when I see a lot of working mums and working dads, they’re kind of suffering because they wanted to spend more time with the kids, but probably not because they want to but because they feel they have to.
‘I blame David Beckham – not literally – because before David Beckham dads they used to go to work and they used to see the kids in the evening, then he came around, or people like him, and we started to have social media, so everybody started to see what other celebrities (were doing).
Family: David is father to Brooklyn, 23, Romeo, 20, Cruz, 17, and Harper, 11, with his wife Victoria Beckham
‘They used to take their kids everywhere, they used to take the kids to school, they used to take the kids to work – it was like “that f**k’s ruined my life that man, now I have to do the same”.
‘We all felt we had to keep up with this cool parenting where you’re doing things.
‘Dads taking their kids to school? I never remember seeing any dads when I was a boy going to school.
‘This idea of the cool dad and the cool mum is cr*p. Why would you feel guilty?’
He added on the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast: ‘I don’t want to say I don’t like children, because it’s not true. I don’t like the children when they’re children.
‘I love my girl Mia, she’s my princess, but if she says to me “Would you like to do Lego with me for half an hour?” the answer is no.
Family: The TV chef, 46, who has sons Luciano, 20, Rocco, 16, and a daughter, Mia, nine, said the idea of being the cool dad for your children, and the thought of doing child activities with them, was all ‘cr*p’
‘ “Would you like to watch again Frozen II for an hour and 20 minutes?” No.
‘And I don’t feel that I have to just because she’s my princess. If I say to her “Let’s go shopping”, that’s what I do.
‘I don’t want to do children things – colouring, all that cr*p, glittering, not interested, never been interested, never, ever, ever.
‘Cooking yes, that’s probably the only thing I would say “Come on, one of you give me a hand”.
‘I don’t have patience for kids. For me they can come to me and start to talk to me sensibly after about 13 – they need to be teenagers. I’m more present now for my boys than I was before.’
He added if Mia asks to watch Frozen, he would say: ‘Why don’t we watch a David Attenborough documentary or Only Fools and Horses.’
Gino said: ‘I blame David Beckham – not literally – because before David Beckham dads they used to go to work and they used to see the kids in the evening, then he came around, or people like him, and we started to have social media’
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